Linus announces Linux 3.0. Attachmate maintains commitment to SUSE Linux. And more.
# Linus Torvalds announced the release candidate of Linux 3.0.
# Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn maintained that the company is committed to SUSE Linux.
# OpenX raised $20m series D funding.
# Cloudera proposed Flume as an Apache incubator project.
# Isidorey unveiled CloudSandra: a NoSQL database-as-a-service based on Apache Cassandra.
# Wayne Beaton …
[Read more]Paranoid Android. Canonical and Gnome. A new OSI. And more.
Paranoid Android
If you are interested in the potential violation of the GPL by
the Android kernel you have probably already immersed yourself in
the numerous blog posts published on the topic. If not, start
with Sean Hogle’s analysis or Bradley M Kuhn’s overview of the original allegations and work
backwards from there, not forgetting a detour for the obligatory Microsoft connection. Linus
Torvalds said
claim “seems totally bogus”. In the meantime, Microsoft …
Ken Jacobs departs Oracle. Linus loves his Nexus One. And more.
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# As Matt Asay noted, Ken Jacobs’ departure from Oracle is a significant loss for MySQL.
# Linus Toravlds gave the Nexus One his personal thumbs-up.
# Glyn Moody outlined the H.264 video standards debate.
# Oracle job cuts affect GNOME accessibility work but, as Joe Brockmeier pointed out, the blame lies with everyone.
# SourceForge project administrators …
[Read more]Oracle is keeping MySQL. Yahoo is selling Zimbra. Linus is feeling bloated. And more.
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# Larry Ellison reportedly said Oracle has no intention of spinning off MySQL.
# Yahoo is trying to sell Zimbra, according to All Things D.
# Linus Torvalds said Linux is “bloated and huge”.
# GroundWork Open Source released GroundWork Monitor 6.0.
# Zend launched Simple API for Cloud Application …
[Read more]i was going to write some reactions to an observation that postgresql has no bug tracker and its discussion last week, but lost the spark and abandoned the post after a few days. but today i ran across a quote from linus torvalds that neatly sums up my thoughts:
We’ve always had some pending/unresolved issues, and I think that as our tracking gets better, there’s likely to be more of them. A number of bug-reports are either hard to reproduce (often including from the reporter) or end up without updates etc.
before there was a bug tracking system for mysql, there was a claim that all bugs were fixed in each release (or documented), and there has been a lot of pain in seeing how well that sort of claim stacks up against a actual …
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