Yes, Sun is acquiring MySQL for $1 billion. But Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz isn’t done modernizing his company. Not by a long shot. The VAR Guy isn’t ready to predict which company Sun will acquire next, but he has noticed Schwartz getting pretty darn cozy with two fast-growing open source businesses.
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The Journalist Who Came in From the Cold
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The world of technology journalism is a dangerous, seamy place, full of threats and malice. Everywhere you turn, a new danger awaits: a dangling participle, a misquoted subject, and the ever-present threat of your competition.
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Will Ubuntu Become Bigger Than Linux?
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Now don’t get all crazy on me. I’m not insinuating that Ubuntu isn’t Linux nor am I saying it is the only distro out there that is worth a look. With that said, it does seem that Ubuntu is becoming a name that may become as recognizable as Linux it self. This is definitely a good thing for Ubuntu but may end up being a confusing and frustrating issue for Linux users.
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Ubuntu makes it easy for parallel virtualization
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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will announce on Feb. 6 that it's making Parallels Workstation for Linux available to users through the Ubuntu Partner Repository.
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Why people hate Vista
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You rarely hear about a new OS causing people to panic. But IT consultant Scott Pam says that's exactly what his small-business clients are doing when they install Windows Vista on new PCs and run smack into compatibility or usability roadblocks.
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Asus Eee PC Can Run CloudBook gOS
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Yes, we know that the Everex CloudBook subnotebook has been delayed from arriving at the shelves of Walmart, but that doesn't mean that you can't get in on the hot gOS experience right now. As it turns out, it's perfectly possible to grab the gOS from the CloudBook and load it up on the Asus Eee PC, which so happens to be the CloudBook's direct competitor.
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emacs-rails: Google group created
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"The Google Group for discussion of the project is created. http://groups.google.com/group/emacs-on-rails "
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We have submitted AGPL to OSI
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f you follow open source, or at least this blog, you remember the debate around GPL and the ASP loophole. In a nutshell, companies using a trick to avoid returning changes to the code back to the community. The last chapter is that AGPL v3 (the GPL version that fixes the ASP loophole) was finalized in November, and we switched the Funambol project to it.
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Ruby syntax highlighting in emacs
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"Found this awesome link for getting ruby syntax highlighting in emacs and seems to work swell in for Ubuntu 7.10 ..."
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Charged php-mode for Emacs and something more
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"...This is a charged php-mode for Emacs. I mean it's the freshest php-mode with some fixes/updates/improvements which I've written for myself and now I share with you..."
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PostgreSQL 8.3 Released
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"The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of version 8.3 of the high-performance object-relational database management system. This release includes a record number of new and improved features which will greatly enhance PostgreSQL for application designers, database administrators, and users, with more than 280 patches by dozens of PostgreSQL contributors from 18 countries..."
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Will Microsoft kill Linux?
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Will Microsoft kill Linux? No it won't, Linux will kill Linux. Let me tell you a story. It'll start as all good stories do with once upon a time. Mainly because that implies it's make believe and therefore no one will sue me for it. I mean, we all know there wasn't really three bears don't we... You didn't.. Sorry
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What does "open source" mean to you?
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Let's start a conversation. To start things off I asked 1300 people on twitter what "open source" meant to them. Here are a few of the responses
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New Theme for Ubuntu 8.04 Deferred
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The completely new theme for Ubuntu 8.04 has been deferred to the following release. The original plan was to have a fresh theme for every long-term-support release, starting with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Now it has been decided to put off the redesign until Ubuntu 8.10.
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New winetricks: msxml6, riched30
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Dan Kegal sent this to the Wine-Devel mailing list today.
Johan Dahlin sent in a patch to add msxml6, and said "It's enough to make msi2xml.exe to at least start-up (before failing in msi later)."
Tom Wickline some time ago sent in a suggestion for
adding riched30. I didn't know any apps it helped, but apparantly Novell thinks it helps Groupwise a bit.
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