Zimbra Rocks
[Personal Updates]
Graduation Weekend! The Wife is graduating from medical school this weekend. Next weekend we are moving to Latrobe. In about a month the Wife will be starting residency. In two months we are expecting our first child…a lot going on!
[Work Updates]
After we move I will be staying with the same company and working from home; primarily focusing on development. I think it will be a good move but with the kid on the way I am a little nervous.
As I mentioned in an eariler post we have been looking at several different email servers. As of Monday we officially switched the entire office over to the Zimbra mail/collaboration server. So far it has been great and have had no major interruptions, in fact it is already working significantly better than the old system.
Since I will be leaving the office we recently hired someone to take my place. We ended up having the opportunity to hire the maintainer of FeatherWeight Linux. He has a lot of experience with UNIX and Linux systems and has been working in the past supporting Sun systems running Solaris and Red Hat. He has a lot of expertise and will be a fantasic addition to our IT staff.
Another member of the IT staff upgraded his computer from SuSE 10.0 to SuSE 10.1. The upgrade actually went very smoothly. We also spent a lunch break setting up Xgl…which was pretty sweet and runs like a champ on his desktop…but now he just screws around with it too much.
[Other Tech News]
Over the last weekend I installed SuSE 10.1 and have mixed emotions about it. Some of my minor gripes with it are: setting the default panel to the bottom of the screen and locking it there (you need to use gconf-editor to move it!), removing the virutal workspaces, and it doesn’t appear to have shipped with the *awesome* deskbar-applet. I will probably comment in a future post on my pet peeves with Novel/SuSE. Lets just say for now, Ubuntu is still my preferred desktop system.
I am also on the ODSL desktop architects mailing list and discovered a rather interesting (scary/disgusting) Chinese Linux distribution, Co-Create. It’s a heavily modifed version of Red Hat/Fedora with a super-heavily modified version of Gnome. They intention is to make it look and feel exactly like Windows XP!!! (very disgusting!) If you search my site you can find out how much I dislike Linux distro’s making Linux == Windows. [Some of my screenshots here]
In other great news, Sun is finally changing the licsense of Java so that Linux distributions can package it. It looks like Ubuntu at least has already done so but unfortunately I just read a blog from someone at Red Hat/Fedora that stated that they will not ship it. Of course Sun is also saying they are working on open sourcing Java, hopefully sooner than later.
Enomalism has recently made a very early beta availble for download. Enomalism is (or is going to be) a web based management console for XEN. I have been closely watching this project since it was announced. I just downloaded it but haven’t had a chance to install it yet.
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