Michael Dolan Dot Com

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

10 don’t miss news items

A lot of news items hitting the air:

1) Canonical joined Gnome Foundation’s advisory board.

2) Microsoft Silverlight was recently unveiled… Flash killer? Skeptical. Regardless it promises to mess up with a nice trend having Flash 9 on Linux…

3) Microsoft releases a Windows Media plugin for Firefox (but only for Windows…) See a theme here?

4) Nice interview with Mark Shuttleworth -he seems to be everywhere these days including a press hit for DB2 9 on Ubuntu ;-)

5) Oracle Enterprise Linux has some issues popping up …

6) CentOS 5 for x86 and x86_64 released. It’s funny, I think Oracle’s announcement did more to put CentOS on the map… people who never knew of CentOS before suddenly recognize them (and some even pronounce it correctly)

7) Ubuntu Live registration is now open

8) Microsoft sends the black suits into Florida to kill ODF - black helicopters rumored to follow….

9) SFLC says every copy of Microsoft Windows includes a $21.50 “patent tax” that goes towards paying for Microsoft’s litigation bills/penalties. No wonder Ballmer keeps throwing out IP threats - he needs those Linux users to help pay his bills….

10) Asus announced plans for a $199 flash based (SSD) laptop (no, not a typo - that really says $199)

There’s one more news item I wanted to cover… but I do need to get home at some point ;-)