Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like
In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of Linux’s success. Sun has been trying for years to restore the luster of Solaris, but that since has faced a strong challenge chiefly from Linux. Sun wants to embrace some Linux elements so “we make Solaris a better Linux than Linux,” said Ian Murdock, Sun’s chief operating systems officer, quoting Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, whose latest start-up, Ning, uses Solaris. But it’s a tricky balance to adopt elements of Linux while preserving Solaris technology and advantages such as the promise of backward compatibility. “As we make Solaris more familiar to Linux users, we don’t [want to] lose what makes it more compelling and competitive.”
reports Slashdot
Oracle, IBM, NEC Team for Linux Push in Japan
Major IT companies including Oracle, IBM and NEC are allying to sell hardware running Linux OSes in Japan, according to published reports. The undertaking aims to respond to procurement guidelines drawn by the country’s Communications Ministry in March that call for the government to use the open source Linux operating systems starting this summer. Read more
Novell Linux coder heads to Google
Robert Love, a high-profile Linux kernel programmer and chief architect of Novell’s Linux Desktop project, has left the company for Google.
Love announced his departure from Novell on Friday via his blog, then followed up likewise Monday with news of his new employer. Love said he’ll join Google’s Open Source Program Office after a few weeks off finishing a new book to be published by O’Reilly and Associates: Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library.
Love’s departure takes place a few months after another high-profile open source programmer, Jeremy Allison, also left Novell for Google.
Allison blamed Novell’s patent pact with Microsoft as a reason for his departure, but Love apparently doesn’t fit into the same category. “The Microsoft/Novell agreement was not the motivation behind my departure,” Love said in a posting on the Slashdot “news for nerds” site.
Google also employs Andrew Morton, another top Linux programmer.
via - CNet News
Comcast picks Zimbra for online e-mail
CNet reports:
Broadband and cable TV company Comcast has hired open-source software company Zimbra to power a service called SmartZone that provides subscribers with e-mail and other online services.
Zimbra’s software provides a Web-based interface for e-mail, calendars, contact lists and instant messaging. SmartZone, geared for “triple play” customers who pay Comcast for TV, Internet and phone communications services, is scheduled to start arriving later this year, Comcast said in a statement.
Also involved in the deal are contact-organizing company Plaxo, which is set to supply software that permits subscribers to synchronize and manage their address books, and Hewlett-Packard, which plans to build and operate Comcast’s service.
Hello, my new name is Pidgin!
Following a legal settlement with AOL, Gaim has been renamed Pidgin and its 2.0.0 release is now available.
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.
Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
It’s a very good alternative to people who are using Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Gtalk, ICQ and other chatting softwares like Jabber. Instead of having multiple messenger softwares installed, this time you can have only one software to use it all of it! You can be more organized and have less headache.
So chatters! It’s a must have application for you!
Web: http://pidgin.im
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