Anyone can publish a photo or video, even without permission from the photographer or the people involved :-(.

The later announcement of the Novell/Microsoft partnership is another example of the attacks that Red Hat is facing, the previous one was from Oracle.

Red Hat is the current leader in the commercial Linux server market, and Novell is a very distant second. This is just Novell trying to join forces to attack a common enemy. I never trusted them as a real Open Source business, they only bought Suse because their proprietary OS was dying, in order to be able to continue selling their other proprietary offerings. In contrast Red Hat buys closed source applications and make all the changes needed to open source them, for example Fedora/Red Hat Directory Server based on its powerful predecessor, Netscape Directory Server; meanwhile Novell do not open source their core business. Novell buys Ximian for their .Net clone Mono, a dangerous proposition because MS will always be there as the only director of .Net future; Red Hat instead invest in a free Java implementation (GCJ/GNU Classpath). I hadn't bought any Linux product from Novell, and now it seems more improbable.

Finally I don't want to forget to talk about the crazy Oracle idea, do they really think that I will pay for support for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone to someone that has no expertize on OS development, that will give me security updates after Red Hat has done the job (with a delay), and that is not able to implement a decent JEE application server and that their support service recommends temporal hacks and do not solve the real issues on the application server... Yes Suuuuuure.

Update: Red Hat responds

I am using a fully 3D accelerated desktop, easy to activate and deactivate with a simple preferences applet, thanks to AIGLX, Compiz and Fedora Core 6, that, in my opinion, is better integrated than the Xgl X server (using OpenGL APIs) running over the traditional X server solution. The best of this implementation is that a simple Intel integrated video card runs it without any slowdown, there is no need for the expensive video cards required to run the Aero interface on the upcoming Windows Vista, Hasta la Vista... Windows Vista :-P

The last thusrday I was ready to burn the CD images of the recently released Fedora Core 6 (Zod) but my laptop CD/DVD burner was dead. That was an opportunity to test the Lenovo support in order to know if is better or worse than the one that IBM provided. I called the support number in my country and notified them about the problem (my laptop is from the IBM era so it is not Lenovo branded), they checked that the warranty was not expired, and I only needed to give the drive FRU and the support person told me to wait for 5 days for the replacement delivery. I was amazed with that, but it was better, I received the replacement the next day, in less than 24 hours.

Lenovo wins a point for my next laptop purchase decission.

Dirvish package has been approved and is now part of Fedora Extras.