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David Berlind from ZDNet has written some great coverage of the LinuxWorld 2004 Conference and Expo.

You can read his two-part report here and here.

As we (should) all know by now, Sun is jumping into the Linux arena with it's own branded Linux distribution: the Sun Java Desktop System 2003. Despite the horribly misleading name, the "Java" Desktop System is actually a re-branded SuSE distro.

Mad Penguin gives us a fairly thorough overview of the new OS. To sum up, he gives it a 2 out of 5, with this quote included in the closing comments:

To be completely honest with you (and this is not meant to disrespect Sun), I would not deploy this OS in any situation (other than maybe the most basic user) at this time due to these and a few other concerns I have. It is not ready for the desktop, though I see potential for it in the future if Sun continues its push for the desktop.

Read the full review here.

John C. Dvorak has written a pretty blunt but thoughtful article about IBM missing a huge opportunity by not releasing it's own Linux OS. And who stands to benefit from this mistake? Why, Microsoft, of course! As Dvorak points out, you think they would've learned their lesson by now.

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Sorry for the lack of updates over the last couple of months. Things have been crazy at work, plus I've been out of town for a while. Will try to add some new stuff soon...

In the meantime, I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope all of you had a relaxing Christmas (well, as much as that's possible), and your year is already off to a great start.