Endgadget is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to pay another $100 Million dollars to Novell to keep Suse available on Hyper-V. This relationship was one of the open questions after the purchase of Novell by Attachmate. While there is little noise about Hyper-V in the Tech Media we are happy to see Microsoft continue to thaw it’s attitude about Linux and Open Source.
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Episode 46 – Life in the Mainstream
Running Time: 22:47
1) Introduction
Joe and Brian Talk about stuff
2) News
When Foss Became Mainstream – North Bridge Venture Partners released a report last week on their survey of FOSS and it’s growth for 2011. The full survey report is here.
Where is the new Novell going? Novell is now a three headed monster. Some people got displaced and Mono is no longer a focus area. Suse’s Headquarters is back in Germany.
What’s the top Open Source License?
3) Conclusion
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What’s in a name?
Andreas Jaeger Program Manager for openSuSE at Novell and the team he works with think that maybe it’s time for a change. They have come up with a list of eight variants on the numbering part of their naming for future releases. They want people’s input so here is your chance. The possiblity of going Octal left me with a smile on my face. In reality they should probably adopt a date driven versioning like Ubuntu, Mandriva and Fedora. Check out the post and the explanations of how they came up with the list. Then let them know what you think.
Novell and Attachmate deal delayed until April…
Novell has filled an update to it’s SEC fillings stating that the DOJ has requested more documentation about the Patent Portfolio that will be sold to CPTN. CPTN is a weird mix of companies including most notably Apple and Microsoft. The DOJ is trying to determine if there is anything they should be investigating about this part of the deal. Guess we in the Tech community weren’t the only ones thinking it was strange. Hopefully we will here from the DOJ about what, if anything, they find.
Application Installers Unite…..
According to this article we found, meetings are starting to happen and people are trying to move towards a common Application Installer. So their could be the end of the “My package manager is better than yours is” debates? Well it’s a bit early to tell but it does sound like the big distros are talking about settling on a common package format. If they do go forward with this we can only hope that it’s adoption moves faster than LSB(Linux Standards Base). It would definitely go a long way to help adoption of Linux as a platform. For instance, only seeing one line on download pages like Windows and Mac have would help newbies or people thinking about trying linux be less afraid. When you can create app stores that only have to carry one type of package they become a lot easier to create. We here at linuxinstall.net hope that every linux install will get easier over time.
What do you think? What problems will one package format have? What hidden benefits are there? What hidden problems?
Episode 37 – Top things that happened in 2010
1) Introduction
2) This is a running list of things to consider for the top news of 2010
Big Purchases in 2010:
Novell get’s purchased – the patents that went to Microsoft
Oracle buying Sun
Palm get’s bought by HP
Changes in the world of Open Source:
Google World:
Android shoots for world domination – Or at least Mobile Platform domination
Google TV announced and delivered
Chrome OS Pilot Program announced Beta’s of Chrome OS on VM’s
Ubuntu abandons Xorg and Gnome for Wayland and Unity
Mandrivia struggling/passing away…
Tablet Market exploded with the introduction of IPad and Galaxy Tablet
3) Conclusion
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OpenSuSe kicks it up a notch….
LinuxJournal.com has a nice recap of all of the moving and shaking over at the OpenSuSe Project even with all the changes happening at Novell. The team has been busy but as a comment from OpenSuse Board Member, Bryen M Yunashko, stated these things have been in the works for a while. None the less the timing couldn’t be better. The release of the overhauled OpenFate feature tracking system seems to be the biggest win for the team. The release of 11.4 and a new option to run a rolling update looks like the biggest win for users of the cutting edge distro. Check out the article for more details.
Episode 36 – Novell is finally bought and other news…
Running Time: 43:19
1) Introduction
2) News
3) Conclusion
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Baracus…Novell’s latest Open Source Tool…
Novell announced this week that it’s bringing out a new Provisioning tool. The tool named Baracus is supposedly able to provision servers with all your favorite flavors of linux both Deb and RPM based. It works with bear metal and the top Virutalization products. The current release runs on either SLES or OpenSuse. It is also currently only capable of being run from the command line. Coming in Mid-Jan of 2011 is a REST interface which will probably mean a bunch of web interfaces by the end of next year. The other significant part to this is that they are using Postgres for the database and claim that it will be nearly a black box. I do have to wonder what this means for ZenWorks? It may explain why Open Suse seems to have abandon Zenworks.
Is Novell selling itself or just Suse Linux?
Will VMWare buy just Suse Linux or will they buy all of Novell? There is a lot of speculation that seems to be pointing towards a buy of just SuSe Linux. But if they do that we want to know what’s left? So for just a little bit more why not buy it all. That’s why I think buying the whole company makes more sense. Novell owns one of the few pure closed source LDAP Servers left. That means that for companies concerned with Open Source what should be a profitable product line for Novell or who ever buys them. Novell has always had smart people and is always a leader where technologies are concerned. The marriage of Novell and VMWare makes a lot of sense. Both companies would benifit and VMWare can afford to make the deal.
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A decenting opinion from Infoworld
General reports of the events from the Inquirer, Computer World, and Barrons
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