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Let’s sum up and see what were the biggest Linux moves in the year 2007.

• GPLv3
• Asus Eee PC
• OpenMoko
• Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 = lots of fork distros
• GNOME 2.20
• Pidgin 2.0
• KDE 4.0(postponed to Jan 2008)
• Xfce 4.4
• Google Desktop
• Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Mplayer 1.0 RC2
• Adobe Flash Player 9
• OpenOffice.org 2.3
• Linux is preinstalled in Dell, Lenovo and HP PCs
• Wallmart and gOs = Everex

Did I miss anything?

Do you use Mozilla Firefox? Or its variants?

Here’s my firefox plugins, they help me a lot and save lots of time. What are your plugins? Please leave in the comments.

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.

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
• QQ
• 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!

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)!