Posts Tagged ‘sun’

VirtualBox 2.0 released

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Sun has released a major update to it’s open source virtualization software, VirtualBox.  VirtualBox 2.0 brings with it such new features as:

  • 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
  • New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
  • The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
  • New-version notifier
  • Guest property information interface
  • Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
  • New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
  • Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
  • Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
  • Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
  • Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
  • Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
  • Support for VHD disk images

VirtualBox [via Information Week]

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Sun: We screwed up on open source

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

In an interview with Builder AU Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phipps admits that they “screwed up” with open source in 2001/2002.

“All [open source developers] can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite frank with you, we screwed up. We alienated a large group of open source developers by the attitudes we had of the community back then,” said Phipps.

Phipps says that Sun has since tried to remedy the situation with the “open sourcing Solaris, Java, the application server Glassfish, NetBeans and the rest of the portfolio.”

See Builder AU for a video of the interview.

Builder AU [via Slashdot]

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Sun: Java to be free later this year

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

According to Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems’ Chief Open Source Officer, told ZDNet Asia that that the entirety of Java will be available later this year.

Following the announcement of Sun’s plans to make Java free and open under the General Public License (GPL) at JavaOne 2006, there have been a few struggles on the path to open source. At the time of the OpenJDK release in May last year, around five percent of the code–the portion not owned by Sun–was still closed.

Phipps says Java is expected to be completely free within the coming few months.

“I’m expecting that certainly by the end of this year and hopefully sooner we’ll have all of the source code for Java under the GPL”, he said.

ZDNet Asia

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Edit Wikis With OpenOffice.org

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Sun Wiki PublisherHaving trouble remembering wiki-markup?  Well, here to help you is the Sun Wiki Publisher extension for OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite.  The extension allows you to use all of OpenOffice’s formatting tools (bold, italic, tables etc.) and simply upload the page with “Send – MediaWiki server”.

The extension works with any MediaWiki (e.g. Wikipedia) based wiki and requires StarOffice 8 (Update 10 or higher) or OpenOffice.org (2.4 or higher).

[Sun Wiki Publisher via Lifehacker via Linux.com]

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