I’ve reinstalled my PC. Down to four partitions – the Acer recovery partition (the BIOS insists on it, won’t boot otherwise), 32GB for / (ext4), 4GB of swap and the rest for /home. Yep, no Windows. Except I now have two Windows installs… (more…)
What on earth is wrong with the corporate world? People are buying other companies they should stay away from, believe me. Take Oracle and Sun. Oracle bought Sun to get their hands on Java, and to turn themselves into an IBM-style one stop shop. Fail. James Gosling has left, many of the key Sun Players have left, and all they’ve got left is some blue colours and some open source software. And Oracle really don’t understand open source. If they did, they wouldn’t be charging for the OpenOffice plugin…
And there’s more. Hp wants to buy Palm. (more…)