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Longhorn Following Unix On Security?

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 Windows 83 Comments

Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president, has said Longhorn would accord end-users certain rights and privileges apparently ending the concept that everyone using their PC is also the PC's administrator. Update: More on new Longhorn features here.

People Behind KDE: Antonio Larrosa

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 KDE 15 Comments

The People Behind KDE interviews are back with a new series. First in the hot seat is aKademy organiser Antonio Larrosa. The People Behind KDE interviews take a look at the human side of KDE development by asking the important questions to our team of coders, artists, translators and everyone else who helps KDE.

New .mobi Suffix Points To Wireless Web Sites

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 Wireless 25 Comments

Consumers will soon be able to recognize Web sites specially designed for use by mobile phones by the new .mobi suffix, which will be introduced alongside the popular .com and other top-level domain names. Update: Opinion of a mobile phone web browser engineer on this (& ex-Be kernel engineer).

Eclipse-Based Workplace Designer Pre-Release

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-11 Java 1 Comment

Workplace Designer is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment that gives you an easy way to use document-oriented programming without requiring a comprehensive knowledge of Java. Workplace Designer pre-release supports several database platforms, including IBM Cloudscape, DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. For more in-depth information, take a look at this introduction to Workplace Designer article.

Guest post by kvaruni 2005-07-11 Linux 226 Comments

The true reason for this article is to point out some sensitive points and to start a discussion. Hopefully, this discussion will produce some useful outcome and if some people in the Linux community are willing to listen to them, I would already be very enthusiastic. Let's start, shall we?

SVG Support Added To Apple Safari’s WebCore

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-11 Internet 19 Comments

Over the last few months Eric Seidel ported KDE's new DOM architecture "KDOM" as well as their Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) implementation "KSVG2" and render tree library "KCanvas" to WebCore. Safari has now integrated these changes into the WebCore cvs tree to allow the investigation of further integration of SVG support into Safari.

Microsoft Learns To Live With Open Source

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 Open Source 19 Comments

Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering. One important note: Walker's product is open-source.

Ballmer: MS Wants Bigger Piece Of Software Pie

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 Microsoft 13 Comments

Microsoft may love its partners. But that isn't stopping the company from continuing to encroach on areas that have traditionally been its partners' turf. Ballmer warned the company's channel partners that Microsoft has its sights set on some markets that partners have had to themselves until now. Elsewhere, MS countered claims it gave preferential treatment to adware maker Claria.

Sun Eyes Tighter IBM Relationship

2005-07-11 Oracle and SUN 10 Comments

Now that IBM has finally agreed to support Solaris on the x86 hardware platform, Sun executives are hoping that this may be the catalyst for a range of other agreements. Top of the list is having IBM become the first top-tier OEM for Solaris, but IBM officials are pouring cold water on the idea.

Visit With Bernd Korz At yellowTAB

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 Zeta 11 Comments

During the trip that BeBug made to yT's headquarters in Mannheim, they also had a talk with CEO Bernd Korz. They discussed marketing, future releases and much more.

TheOpenCD 3.0 Released

Submitted by Henrik Nilsen Omma 2005-07-11 Open Source 9 Comments

TheOpenCD team is pleased to announce the release of TheOpenCD 3.0, now featuring a live CD based on Ubuntu. TheOpenCD traditionally provides a handy collection of quality FOSS applications for Windows, professionally presented in an elegant CD browser.

How Packages Are Added To The Debian Archive

Submitted by Steve Kemp 2005-07-11 Debian 3 Comments

There's an interesting explaination of the process which Debian goes through to add packages to it's distribution over at Debian Administration website. Most of this is familiar to developers of the distribution, but users might appreciate seeing how it works behind the scenes.

Use J2SE 5.0 Features On Older JVMs

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-11 Java 1 Comment

Can't move to JDK 5.0? Many of the J2SE 5.0 language features would be just as useful for older JVMs, but the compiler that implements these features generates code that requires JDK 5.0 or later. Fortunately, there's an open source project that bridges the gap between J2SE 5.0 and older JVMs -- Retroweaver.

Longhorn Beta 1, IE7 Screenshots

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 Windows 86 Comments

Various sources are posting screenshots of the upcoming beta release of Longhorn, Microsoft's succesor to Windows XP. IE7 shots are also included. Due to the Slashdot-effect, mirrors are already available. Original source | mirror 1 | mirror 2. My take: Too much transparency.

Inside The Big Switch

Submitted by Mark Fuller 2005-07-11 Apple 38 Comments

If you've been following the Apple-to-Intel transition, you're going to want to read this whole article. Why? Because I'm going to do something that I almost never do: spill insider information from unnamed sources that I can confirm are in a position to know the score.

Open Source OS/2 Petition

Submitted by OS2World News Master 2005-07-11 OS/2 32 Comments

Many OS/2-eCS users knows that we are currently requesting signatures to ask IBM to open source OS/2 (or at least the OS/2 components that are possible to be opened). We are getting close to send the petition, so if you haven't sign yet, go ahead!

Power Architecture Headlines

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-11 IBM 2 Comments

New, super-concentrated format for all the PowerPC news that's fit to print. This issue: Supercomputing, Power.org, Apple, Cell, and more. In events: no-fee Web-based education: WebSeries webcasts and developerWorks tutorials, introducing "Solaris to Linux Migration," and more.

The Process Model of Linux Application Development

Eugenia Loli 2005-07-11 Linux 10 Comments

One of Unix's hallmarks is its process model. It is the key to understanding access rights, the relationships among open files, signals, job control, and most other low-level topics in this book. Linux adopted most of Unix's process model and added new ideas of its own to allow a truly lightweight threads implementation. Find out about the Linux process model in this sample chapter.

C++ in 2005

Eugenia Loli 2005-07-11 General Development 29 Comments

In the Japanese edition of his latest book, Bjarne Stroustrup added an extended essay, reflecting on C++ use over the last decade, and presenting plausible directions for the next revision of the C++ standard. Download the PDF to see what he has to say.

Apple Drops The Cocoa-Java Bridge

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-10 Apple 61 Comments

In the latest update to the technical documentation available from ADC, Apple has published this note: "Features added to Cocoa in Mac OS X versions later than 10.4 will not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface. Therefore, you should develop Cocoa applications using Objective-C to take advantage of existing and upcoming Cocoa features".