"Analysts at International Data Corporation (IDC) posted a press
release Wednesday highlighting the rapid decline of IBM's AIX and
P-Series hardware. Along side the drop in proprietary Unix systems is
an associated rise in sales of X86 servers running Linux. IBM has
clearly identified this as a long term trend, investing $1 billion
dollars in Linux development on Power systems. With the reported 20%
drop in sales, the writing my finally be on the wall for AIX."
-- source: http://ostatic.com/blog/proprietary-unix-continues-to-fall
Did a syadmin course back at uni using AIX (yes, it was way back in
the late 90s). The IBM guy running parts of the course mentioned how
they'd be investing lots of money in Linux over the next few years. I
wonder whether they were already developing an exit strategy back
then.
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"In 2002, the first FLOSS survey was launched. With over 2500
participants, it was the first large survey of Free/Libre/Open Source
developers around the world. This survey had major impact in the
community, academia and politics. 10 years later we would like to
replicate the survey in order to see how the community has changed."
-- source: http://floss2013.libresoft.es/
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Awards 2013 found that GNOME 3 was
the Best "Worst" Linux/Open Source Idea to come down the pike. Of
course the other categories may be of interest as well. These include
Best Distribution, Best Linux Tablet, and Best Linux Server Vendor."
-- source: http://ostatic.com/blog/gnome-3-worst-linux-idea-yet
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
'Clement Lefebvre, founder of Mint, today announced the releases of
Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon and MATE editions. In separate announcements
Lefebvre said, "Linux Mint 16 is the result of 6 months of incremental
development on top of stable and reliable technologies. This new
release comes with updated software and brings refinements and new
features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use."
* The boot and login sequence no longer scan your system for btrfs partitions.
* The MDM display manager no longer listens or communicates over the network.
* The Update Manager is now started with a delay to make it faster for
the session to load.
* The Software Manager features significant speed improvements.
* The Linux Mint 16 ISO images are easier on the system and faster to
decompress during the live session.
* Safer kernel updates.
* Faster boot sequence and faster login.
* Better EFI support.
* Better support for Steam and added to repositories
* Better colors in terminal
* Better help support.'
-- source: http://ostatic.com/blog/linux-mint-16-released
Just started downloading the MATE version...
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
