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DesktopLinux reports that Robert Love has resigned as chief architect of Novell's Linux desktop efforts. "Before serving as Novell's Linux desktop architect, Love worked -- and still does -- as a Linux kernel and GNOME developer. He also worked with MontaVista, the well-known embedded Linux company. While working for MontaVista, Love spearheaded the project of improving Linux's real-time capabilities via a "preemptible kernel patch" that is now a standard feature in the mainstream kernel." Robert Love will be working at Google's Open Source Program Office.

eWeek takes a look at what Ian Murdock is doing at Sun. "What's a Linux guy doing at Sun? That's the question Ian Murdock, chief open source platform strategist at Sun Microsystems Inc., posed in a session he chaired at Sun's CommunityOne Day on May 7 prior to the opening of the JavaOne conference. "Why am I here? 'What's a Linux guy doing at Sun? Have you changed sides?'" Murdock said people constantly ask him. "No, that's not how I look at it.""