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Ok, also Apple does believes in PowerPC no more. It seems that the future will be Intel-Based (ooooh my good!?!? what a joke? O_o), but the world is wide and the Tecnologies are much too much. IBM and Sun, in similary way, are opening our tecnology (PowerPC and lastest Ultra Sparc, respectivelly) to the comunity (in particular, to Universitary comunity) to create (they hope) a large comunity of developer that are interest in study and development of this, in any case, big and powerfull platform (IMHO). ...

Hi. Finally, I take a lot of time to make my personal pages. I insert the “right things” in the pages WORKS (my occupations, my works and my experiences), and OUTPUTS (my universitary and personal projects).

Syllable is a reliable and easy-to-use GPLed operating system for the home and small office user http://www.syllable.org/ This Operating System birth with the SOHO in mind: all the Graphics System (the X server, for the *nix-lover) is built-in the Kernel. It’s a good idea to test it… if I had enough time.

It’s, IMHO, the project that can give to Gentoo the right “power” and “motivation” to become the BEST source-based distribution in the world (is it not already? ;)). The installer looks really coerent with the “manual-old-style” Gentoo Installation and offers an on-line help to guide the user through the (beautiful) installation process. There is a graphical partitioning tool and … some other interesting features. Good luck Gentoo. Link. -EDIT- Thanks to KillinMilk for the “errata-corrige”.

Interessante digressione di OSBlog su un problema PESANTEMENTE SENTITO da me (come altri miei colleghi) dell’uso SBAGLIATO, INDISCRIMINATO E SENZA MOTIVO di software a pagamento nei centri di ricerca e nelle università (soprattutto dove si potrebbe evitare, anche e soprattutto per motivi didattici). Dal mio punto di vista, sono diversi anni che suggerisco (ormai sempre con meno vigore… gli ignoranti restino ignoranti) nel mio ambiente universitario l’uso di software opensource lì dove se ne trarrebbe SOLO vantaggio. Leggasi vantaggi economici, vantaggi didattici (usare un sistema unix accresce e di molto le proprie conoscenze informatiche), vantaggi “amministrativi” (l’Università, la mia facoltà potrebbe tranquillamente scegliere 3/4 ragazzi in gamba per gestirsi sito web e tanti servizi ad esso correlati… invece si affida ad aziende che si fanno pagare contratti milionari per fare cose che dei bravi studenti (magari sotto la guida di un buon docente) potrebbero TRANQUILLAMENTE fare da soli). ...

… but continue to do the thing that Google make in the BEST WAY: http://www.google.com/musicsearch. This is the new service that the big G offers: centralization of Music search, getting data from stores like iTunes Music Store MSN Music CD Universe Real Rhapsody and some others. Offers Album indicization (obviously) and other amazing services like lyrics. I hope Google offers APIs (really? I’m sure he will do!): in a little amount of time some applications will use the informations stored in this Services to increase our beautiness :D (examples? some OpenSource application can retrieve Lyrics from the Google “auto-magically”!). ...

Eclipse.org has a new amazing skin: http://www.eclipse.org/. Here is the homepage of the Phoenix Project.

GOOGLE API’s comment (italian). About that on the Google blog. The Official Guide.

You don’t have to have a Linux certification to get a job working with Linux, but it can’t hurt. Simply working on Linux is easy. Join a Linux community like The Debian Project, Red Hat’s Fedora, Novell’s OpenSUSE, or half-a-hundred projects and go for it. Of course, you won’t get paid, and 95 percent of the work on Linux projects is programming. So, if you want a salary, and your skills lie in system administration or network management, it behooves you to look into Linux certifications. … ...

Interesting article of Dion Hinchcliffe about the best Web 2.0 application of the year. … So in spirit of the holidays, here is a list of some of the best Web 2.0 software that I’ve come across so far. You may have heard of some of these, but hopefully you’ll find a few nice new Christmas presents under your Web 2.0 tree. … The article.