ex tempore

Beeing quiet here, but in the meantime got lots, and lots of stuff done in fl:1-devel, the next iteration of Foresight Linux (you can follow the action live here), . Regarding Linux, NVIDIA released silently today a new *nix driver iteration for Xorg. This new driver is already packaged in rBo, in my dellm90 repository, for use with fl:1-devel – i’ m running it with xgl and compiz, and should be available in the next few hours for users of the fl:desktop – the stable and rock solid Foresight Linux branch. Meanwhile, and since the main feature of this driver is support of Xorg 7.1, we can expect fl:1-devel to jump to te greatest and latest Xorg release over the weekend.

Here we can read a VMware PR stunt, dated August 7, signed by someone posed as a Infoworld editor. Meanwhile, we can read a longish thread, started August 3, in the xen-devel mailing list where, guess what, people from VMware actively intervene, where real progress is beeing made, and consensus are beeing achieved. I realize that to some ‘tabloid’ wannabe reporter the facts may not be as fascinating as the soap opera pictured in the Infoworld article, buth then, in the sake of truth, paint them as what they are – fiction. One last thing – to express perplexity for one of the most dumb lines of attack to xen, used in the article, and previously, by VMware – Microsoft has signed a deal with someone – xensource – who, until now has only published open source, and GPLed, source code, and commits to use open, and well defined APIs, which it does not control, and this is seen as a defeat to… opensource, and xen ?! Really ? We blame Microsoft when they ‘re closed, and we blame them when they embrace open standards, and opensource projects… I can see the point of VMware FUD, it’s business as usual, i can even see the point of Red Hat acrobacies trying to delay the momentum of Xen until they have RHEL 5 out (to slow adoption of SLES basically) but self proclaimed credible tech press jumping in this demagogy bandwagon is too much. By the way – there is a open, and public, roadmap for xen, where is VMware’s one ?

[Adendum - August 11] This report from Information Week sets, and gets, the facts straight.