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Android vs. LiMo: What's the Difference? 2008-05-18 00:46:00 With LiMo’s recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Google’s competing product, Android. Both are open-source Linux-based platforms, and both are aiming to rock the handset market sometime in the next year or so. LiMo is Linux-based. Android is Linux-based. But they’re far from the same. Below, I’ll try to explain some of the key differences without going too heavy on the tech jargon. (Fiiine. It gets a bit heavy for a paragraph or two. But I’ll avoid it where possible.) 1) Backers/Funding LiMo: The LiMo platform is backed by the LiMo Foundation, which was founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, and Vodafone, and has since added 34 other members to the list. In membership fees alone ($400k a year for each of the 9 “Core” members, and $40k a year for each of the 25 “Associate” members) , the foundation has raised at least 4.6 million before a ...

Novell Readies Silverlight Clone for Linux 2008-05-17 01:05:00 A year after the introduction of Microsoft's Silverlight cross-platform, cross-browser media plug-in and streaming technology, Novell has released a Linux version for testing. Dubbed Moonlight, announcement of the test code came through a blog post by Miguel de Icaza, vice president of platform development at Novell and leader of the project. "Today we are making the first public release of Moonlight, supporting the Silverlight 1.0 profile for Linux," de Icaza said in his post on Tuesday. Silverlight is Microsoft's competitor to other cross-platform media streaming products, particularly Adobe's Flash technology. Moonlight is a Linux version of Silverlight. According to a statement on Novell's site, the goals of the project are "to run Silverlight applications on Linux, to provide a Linux SDK to build Silverlight applications, and to reuse the Silverlight engine [Novell] has built for desktop applications.However, the test code isn't for everyone just yet, even among the more tech ...

OpenSolaris Indiana 2008.05 Released 2008-05-05 22:16:00 OpenSolaris, the operating system created by Sun Microsystems, has finally reached its first stable release, 2008.05. I think this is one of the most awaited operating systems by developers, sysadmins and users who are interested in developing and improving operating systems. OpenSolaris 2008.05 comes packed with features that you will surely like if you fit in the above categories. A brand new Image Packaging System (IPS), ZFS as the default filesystem, and DTrace enabled packages so you can keep an eye on everything and squeeze the juice out of your system. The powerful bash shell is one of the GNU utilities that made their way into OpenSolaris 2008.05, and many other tools from the GNU world. The single LiveCD install image will allow you to take a look at the complete operating system in a matter of seconds. If you like what you see, then you can install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on your computer. IPS, the new package management system, will allow everyone to install packag ...