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As some readers have commented I can be a little out of touch sometimes - and so it's not terribly surprising that a buzzie I thought I saw for the first time in this Sun blog by Yuan Lin turns out to have been ...

Btrfs has received much of the limelight on Linux when talking about file-systems since it promises to compete with Sun's ZFS file-system and introduce several features not found in the commonly-used EXT3 and EXT4 file-systems.

However, work on other Linux file-systems hasn't halted.

I ve thought about linking to all this people writing articles about "What Sun should do now?". But at the end most of this articles are written with no background knowledge or with an hidden agenda.

Tim Bray has posted a thought-provoking What Sun Should Do . It's good to see that he picks up on two of the reasons why I would still pay more for a Linux server or hosting plan than for Solaris: the Solaris ...

I prepared a documentation about this for a company and I thought I might as well post it here (modified a bit).

I had to make sure the setup worked from scratch so I tested it using Sun’s VirtualBox

Sun was quick to deny published reports today that it plans to open source Java in the next few months.

Today I hold a tech-talk about netbeans & unix-center . this is my photoes about this activity : Posted at 02:46a OEa S a a aeoeS 27, 2008 by Yuan Fang in Sun e e o:

Sun is claiming big performance gains from 'optimising' hardware for open source products. Is this the start of a trend?

Picking up from Tim's post , since he has comments disabled: Solaris : I know that Sun is deeply emotionally invested in Solaris, and that they can point to technical superiority on several levels.

Linux Loop: "For several weeks now I have been testing an early copy of StarOffice 9, Sun’s commercial alternative of OpenOffice.org.

Finally, today, I can tell you about it."