Libranet Restructuring

  Submitted by Innova Debian 48 Comments
"As many of our customers know, Libranet is a small company pioneered by the vision of Jon Danzig. The recent passing of Jon Danzig has necessitated changes to the way Libranet runs and does business. Libranet will be undergoing a period of restructuring during which we will not be be taking new orders. Libranet will continue to provide support for our existing customers, and the Libranet forum will remain open."
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The BeBox’ 10th Anniversary

Haiku 42 Comments
"After feverishly working throughout 1995, it was finally decided that the results of 5 years of low profile work were ready for a public launch. When one considers that little over a year earlier, Be's entire hardware platform had been made redundant by the demise of the AT&T Hobbit processors, this was a remarkable achievement." Ten years ago, the legendary BeBox computer was introduced by Be,Inc at Agenda '95. Joseph Palmer has put up a gallery of photos of the event.
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released

  Submitted by Anton Paulic Mozilla, Gecko 33 Comments
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. Also known as the 1.8 Beta 5 milestone, this is the last beta release of the next major Firefox update and is aimed at testers, extension/theme authors and Web developers. The final release of Firefox 1.5, which will be widely promoted to end-users, is scheduled for later this year.
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Announcing Dogtail: a GUI Automation and Test Framework

  Submitted by David Malcolm Gnome 31 Comments
"A crack team of QA and desktop specialists working at Red Hat is pleased to announce the public release of Dogtail. Dogtail is a GUI test automation framework written in Python that uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. Dogtail scripts are written in Python and executed like any other Python program."
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Slew of Windows Patches Coming; XP SP3, Anti-Spyware

Windows 41 Comments
As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release eight security alerts for flaws in the Windows operating system. They also plan to release by year's end an initial test version of a new product to protect business desktops, laptops and file servers against malicious code attacks. "Unofficial" preview of XP SP3 pack includes log-on improvements and network fixes for Windows XP PCs. Elsewhere, on Wednesday, Neil Barrett was named trustee in the European Commission's antitrust case against Microsoft.
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Hacking OpenSUSE

  Submitted by Valour SuSE, openSUSE 60 Comments
When you're done installing OpenSUSE 10.0, your desktop system is not complete. You still need support for Java programs, MP3 audio files, and browser plugins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Video. You may also want to add support for playing DVD videos on your computer. Here's how to effectively make the open source version of OpenSUSE 10.0 into SUSE Linux 10.0.
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Microsoft May Become ‘Major Opponent of Patents’

Microsoft 24 Comments
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, said that although Microsoft is seen as being very pro-patent at the moment, if every other software maker enforced its patents in the same way then Microsoft would find it very difficult and expensive to do business. "I think in ten years you will see Microsoft become a major opponent of patents and we will see very large software vendors turn around their position on patents," Shuttleworth said.
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Java Object Serialization for Ajax

Java 3 Comments
If you're doing Java Web development using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, then delivering data from the server to the client is probably your top concern. This article focuses on what matters most for many Java Web developers, producing data for the client, and walks you through five approaches to Java object serialization. It will give you all the information you need to choose the data format and technology best suited to your application.
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