August 8th, 2007
Podcast: Apple's new stuff, dissing OpenSolaris, tech shakedowns and more...
This week on the Dan & David Show we talk about Apple’s new iMacs and software applications. They are not going to shake up the business world. I thought Steve Jobs would announce some applications, beyond a gallery for photos and video, for the Web. It was not to be. For Steve Jobs, the Web doesn’t pass his threshold as a platform for rich applications…yet.
We also discuss some of the news from LinuxWorld. Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton was not complementary toward the Sun-derived OpenSolaris. “It’s a great shame that OpenSolaris still exists. They should have killed it,” Morton said. Cool OpenSolaris features like ZFS or DTrace won’t be introduced into the Linux kernel because Sun hasn’t adopted the GPL, Morton said.
We riff on Google’s new effort to ask people who are in news stories to email comments about the story to Google, and if approved will be associated with the articles. David explains his newest video show, Tech Shakedown, which deals with the strange behaviors, such as Vista forcing and unwanted system reboot. We also speculate about Facebook behind the firewall.
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Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
