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One year again today, July 28th, is the annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. And one year again Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! I am open to receive any kind of gifts.
This week Sun announces the availability of the latest update of the Solaris 10 Operating System.
The enhancements include the so called Zettabyte File System (ZFS), PostgreSQL, networking improvements, predictive self healing, faster reboot and many more. The announcement and what’s new links.
The OpenBSD project is requesting help to surpass its financial difficulties. As you probably know, the development team of OpenBSD is also in charge of the development of OpenSSH. Could these economic problems put in danger the continuity of OpenSSH, an essential tool for Sysadmins like you? While all this happens, the big companies (Cisco, IBM, RedHat, etc etc etc) that take advantage of the work done in OpenSSH for free are in silence. And what about you? What will you do without OpenSSH?
System Administrator Appreciation Day – A special day, once a year, to acknowledge the worthiness and appreciation of the person occupying the role, especially as it is often this person who really keeps the wheels of your company turning… source.
From The Register…
The European Parliament has voted by a massive majority to reject the software patents directive, formally known as the Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. The vote to scrap the bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions.
You can read the entire article in The Register‘s website. More information from BBC News.
As noepatents.eu.org says…
The Software Patents Directive, as approved by the European Council of Ministers, would codify US-style Software Patents in the European Union.
If that happens, software developers will no longer own what they write and can be sued for selling or distributing their own software.
If you don't inform your parliament, mega-corporations are doing the job for you: "The European Parliament is filled with lobbyists of Microsoft, Eicta, CompTIA and so on. There are 30 to 40 lobbyists permanently roaming the halls." (in Eweek, 21 June).
What can you do?
Sun Microsystems announced that the source code for Solaris 10 will be available as Open Source. From their website:
January 25, 2005 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that the source code for Solaris 10 - the most advanced operating system in the industry - will be made available under the OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). The company has established a community Web site at opensolaris.org. Buildable source code for Solaris will be available at this site in the second quarter of 2005.
More info can be found in the press release and in opensolaris.org.
On the other hand Gentoo announced plans to add OpenSolaris support to Portage, being Portaris project a key component.
It’s here! SysAdmin appreciation day! Friday July 30th 2004!
Take a look at this site.
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