Thank you Canonical!
The new version of Ubuntu was released recently, code named Gutsy Gibbon. I haven’t downloaded the ISO image but have upgraded the previous Ubuntu version. It’s all good. Especially I liked the ability to install LAMP, Mail, DNS servers as a stack. I hope it will make Ubuntu easier to install and easier to get adopted.
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Anyways, I have requested some 7.10 i386 and 7.10 64bit versions from the Shipit, and now I have them in my hands! For which I thank Canonical and the Ubuntu team!
Great job folks!
P.S.
For those who are interested you can download Ubuntu here and you can request free CDs here.
New Instant Messenger from Mozilla
Instantbird is a new project launched by Mozilla Foundation, a foundation behind popular web browser Firefox and E-Mail client Thunderbird.
Instantbird will be based on Mozilla technologies and use Pidgin’s libpurple to deliver you a brand new messenger.
Just like Pidgin(prev. Gaim) Instantbird will support:
- AIM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- ICQ
- MSN
- XMPP
- Yahoo!
I’ve tried Instantbird v.01 myself and I think it’s very light, default installation lets you do text messaging only. But there are plugins and add-ons of course.
Good luck to Mozilla, with the experience of creating state of the art browser and E-Mail client I really hope they will launch a very good messenger!
Yahoo! to acquire Zimbra
I’ve blogged about Zimbra here and here. When I was thinking of migration our Exchange Server it was one of the options, but I didn’t go for it because it had way too many features. Many of them we just wouldn’t use it at all, at least in my previous company.
Ok, so Yahoo! bought Zimbra E-Mail Collaboration Suite for approximately $350 million! You can find more information here, here and here.
I guess, the giants like Yahoo! and Google just buying any good software that’s in the market. The question is, which company will acquire which company? Yahoo! or Google?
Anyways, congrats to Satish Dharmaraj, CEO of Zimbra, he is now officially multi-millionaire(if he wasn’t before)!
Next generation file system for Mac OS from Sun
Jonathan Schwartz recently revealed that his company, Sun, was working on a new file system - ZFS. They made it open source and he said that ZFS will be integrated into Mac OS.
Not only it is made for Mac OS but it’s available for Linux, BSDs, Solaris.
Here’s the extract from their website:
“We’ve rethought everything and rearchitected it,” says Jeff Bonwick, Sun distinguished engineer and chief architect of ZFS. “We’ve thrown away 20 years of old technology that was based on assumptions no longer true today.”
ZFS is supported on both SPARC and x86 platforms. More important, ZFS is endian-neutral. You can easily move disks from a SPARC server to an x86 server. Neither architecture pays a byte-swapping tax due to Sun’s patent-pending “adaptive endian-ness” technology, which is unique to ZFS. And you don’t have to worry about migration. Sun continues to support the UFS file system.
Sun introduced new server Sun Fire X4500,Project Thumper which will be making use of ZFS for their data storage needs.
Asia Pacific 7 in 7 Virtualization Tour
I will be attending Novell’s Virtualization Tour in Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur.
I have been in Novell’s SLES10 launching in Malaysia and I was impressed a lot.
Virtualization is a proven technology that pools and shares resources to reduce costs and optimize utilization, even under changing demands. Forward-looking enterprises are choosing server virtualization as a way to maximize hardware utilization, eliminate server sprawl and dynamically respond to rapidly changing resource and application needs.
Join us for this free seminar and learn how powerful virtualization technology on low-cost Linux servers can help you:
- Freely migrate virtual machines
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