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[About Christmas]… Please take the time to rest when the work is done. Remember, the difference between humans and computers is that our uptime is a function of our downtime. President and CEO of Sun Microsystems

The information comes directly form Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems CEO. I hope am sure [en:Steve_Jobs|Steve] will not be angry for this: the WWDCis the next week… and [en:Jonathan_Schwartz|Schwartz] has revealed one of the BIGGEST FEATURES!!! Anyway, GREAT NEWS! Leopard is gonna be the BEST [en:Operating_System|OS] for Desktops in the World. Source: TUAW and Mac Rumors. Edit: Thanks alhandra for the hint about “hungry” and “angry” :P .

On http://get.opensolaris.org/ you can book a free OpenSolaris Starter Kit. It’s a good occasion to try the features of this SUPER-[en:Operating_System|OS] and familiarize with it. It’s free! Inside you’ll find tutorials, documentation, and two DVDs filled with useful software. Get started using OpenSolaris technology — right on your laptop or home PC. This kit will help you learn about the OpenSolaris source code and the community. On the DVDs, you’ll find: ...

After the coronation as the best (imho ;) ) file-system for *nix systems, BitUbique post an howto defragment an XFS partition. Simplest and fastest way? sudo xfs_fsr -v /dev/hda1

Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don’t go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces. This project has Sun behind itself: on Downloadblog there is a post dedicated to a Videocast of Sun Developers about Dojo and Java Studio Creator. The “packages” organization of Dojo is very similar to Java Library: much coherent and clean. ...

Official NetBeans 5.0RC1 page. Source, alessiopaolucci.com. Here are some of the cool features in this release: Developing NetBeans Modules Matisse GUI Builder Servers Web Frameworks Web Services Editor Enhancements Code Completion Refactoring Version Control Debugging Other Usability Improvements New NetBeans Add-on Packs Personally, I prefer Eclipse much too much. But, also Eclipse would make a Matisse-like GUI editor… 😢

Via OSSBlog.

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). ...