Movable Type, the most popular installable platform written in perl has decided to go open source. Wordpress stole most of the popularity and fame because it is open sourced and has a huge community behind it. Movable Type has also decided to enjoy the benifits of open sourced software and announced the open source project along with the launch of the MT 4 Beta.
Movable Type Open Source, or MTOS, is the open source project that will consist of a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0, to be released in Q3 2007, and resources for the already large community of Movable Type developers, hosted at www.movabletype.org/opensource. Also the website states that they wouldn’t be abandoning the commericial licensed version of the software.
It is good to see a solid blogging platform come out into the public with the source code. You can download the beta version of MT4 to try the new features. The website says that it is easy to install and get started, which was a problem with the previous versions.
I received my XPS with Ubuntu today. The first thing I will say is that when the Fedex guy delivered it he asked if Dell was having some kind of liquidation sale because he has delivered more Dells today than ever before. He told me that he had already delivered five and there were eleven more on the truck. (Just throwing that out there.)
This is my 300th post(it took so long to reach here) and it matches with the release of Fedora 7. For those linux users who started with Ubuntu, Fedora is a RedHat sponsored community project to develop a great GNU/Linux distribution - which will be used for developing the enterprise version of RedHat Linux.
Fedora is a nice distro and I used to use it some 4 years ago before I switched over to the debian way of package management. But Fedora too made its own package management (maybe in FC4?) called yum.
Even though there are people out there who say that Fedora has become the next Slackware, Fedora too has its own fan following - so is Slackware. It is a nice distro to use for the average linux user, even though I doubt whether it would be so easy to use as Mandriva or SuSE.
The Ubuntu team has announced that there would be a Ubuntu Mobile edition in October for the 7.10 release. They would be working with Intel, which recently announced a low-power processor and chipset architecture for full Internet use.
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn which will be released soon this month (19 Apr) can be ordered through Ubuntu’s ShipIt. Feisty has been getting good reviews and has various features which make moving from Windows to GNU/Linux.
The built-in migration assistant can move data from your old OS to Ubuntu - with support for multiple users too. There are also new games like sudoku and chess. Also if you try to play any multimedia file which requires codecs to be downloaded, Ubuntu does this automatically for you. It also has better networking for wired and wireless access, kernel with VMI enabled - which means better paravirtualization, better artwork and one-click activation of desktop effects.
Gaim project, the famous open source instant messenger is now renamed to Pidgin IM. This is because of a lengthy and secret legal process with AOL. This legal problem prevented any code release except betas. Now Gaim will be called as Pidgin IM and the official website is Pidgin.im and the development is moved to developer.pidgin.im.
We have seen many “Get a mac” spoofs and those were mostly done by people on youtube. But imagine Novell doing two such ads. Linux is a hot chick in these ads. Nice.
Here is a quick roundup of interesting news during the blog downtime.
After I installed enlightenment, I bought a new NVidia FX 5200 and installed beryl on my ubuntu. It is really cool. After working in beryl it is difficult to work in a 2D desktop environment like metacity or windows. Will write a guide to installing beryl soon
Google’s Summer of Code is up and they are inviting projects from students. This time they plan to take about 800 students and the deadline for the applications is 24 march. As I was busy with my final year project, I still haven’t written the application. Got to go write it now.
Movable Type, the most popular installable platform written in perl has decided to go open source. Wordpress stole most of the popularity and fame because it is open sourced and has a huge community behind it. Movable Type has also decided to enjoy the benifits of open sourced software and announced the open source project along with the launch of the MT 4 Beta.
Dell has started to ship PCs with 
