The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
This is in addition to support for Redhat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Dell Ups Wattage of LAMP
“On Monday, Dell announced that it is moving forward with enterprise-level support, not just for Linux, but also for two more key elements of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl) stack: MySQL and JBoss.“
BetaNews | Macromedia Updates Suite of Products
“Macromedia on Monday announced an updated version of its suite of multimedia creation tools — dubbed Studio 8 — heralding the first overhaul of its product line in two years. The suite includes its Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, as well as the Contribute and FlashPaper products.“
Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
“Bart’s PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800×600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!“
IBM joins podcast craze with audio think-pieces – Yahoo! News
“The world’s largest computer company said on Friday it plans to introduce a series of occasional podcasts on its investor relations site as part of a broader effort to communicate directly to its investors and the wider public about hot topics.
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Sources: Novell Plans to Open SuSE Linux Pro to Community
“Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next week’s LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company.”
So the Mozilla Foundation passes control of development over to a for-profit subsidiary, citing financial and tax reasons. Sounds a bit odd. I work for a non-profit and we would never turn development over to a for-profit, at least not directly. We would setup a for-profit subsidiary and license it the code to exploit commercially outside of the range of our non-profit charter. I’m thinking these boys either got bad advice or they aren’t explaining it very well. Either way, we’ll certainly be hearing more about this.
InformationWeek > Open Source, Mozilla > Mozilla Creates For-Profit Unit, But Insists It’s Not ‘Selling Out’ > August 3, 2005
“The Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday launched a for-profit subsidiary that will take over the development of the popular Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client, but assured its supporters in the open-source development community that it wasn’t “selling out.”“