Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Sep 2010 21:15 UTC, submitted by Gregory Plummer
"So what is the state of the Hurd? Is it vaporware, like Duke Nukem Forever? Fortunately not: the code exists, there is still work going on (for instance as part of Google Summer of Code), and there are even some relatively functional Hurd distributions. Let's look first at the code and the current architecture, and then at the Hurd distributions."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 11:29 UTC
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
Linked by David Adams on 05/16/13 4:23 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/02/13 15:28 UTC
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.More Features »
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Well, OpenStep {OS, not specification}, but essentially correct. NextStep's API was not OPENSTEP {Specification, not OS} compliant. The API in OpenStep 4.x is what Cocoa is based on/morphed from.
True.
Yes! Which was the project a few Be Engineers were working on before they joined Be Inc. There was Blue too, apparently.
Technically, Taligent was what Pink became after Apple lost direction and took the "partnership" route. I have no idea if they shared a line of code, but I don't think Pink was an actual OS at the point they changed direction.
What you have COMPLETELY missed is Copland. This was what was to be Mac OS 8 and what was actually released Mac OS 8 ended up raping to steal a lot of the "new" features. I used to have a copy of Copland, but I never got it running because it required a serial debugger and I couldn't be arsed to mess about with it.
Wrong. Wronger that a wrong turn in wrongton. Rhapsody *IS* Mac OS X. Rhapsody is Apples's "first go" at making OpenStep in to a Mac alike OS. The entire system is pure STEP, it just has the Workspace manager with an Apple style menu and platinum style Icons. In Fact, Mac OS X Server 1.x looks exactly like Rhapsody, and the initial developer released of OS X have a very similar "Finder" to Rhapsody. It wasn't till 3rd or 4th Developer Release that it started to look OS X-ish, and not till the Public Beta that it really was OS X as we know it.
The Windows NT Kernel has been altered to varying degrees (sometimes beyond recognition) on a number of occasions.
1) NT 3.x > NT 4
2) XP > Vista/7
3) Server 2008
4) Longhorn (aborted)
5) Windows Mobile
NT 3.5 did not integrate the GDI. How much of a rewrite do you think it took to put the user land GDI functionality in to the NT4 kernel? It was not "trivial".
As to that last statement - it's debatable. I'd say, Windows 7 is the most happy I've been about Windows since Windows 2000 (which I used for about 6 years.) XP just seemed like tweaks over 2000 for the most part (yeah, super over generalisation, but let me have that one please :-)