SkyOS Video: IndexFeeder in Action

  Submitted by Kelly Rush SkyOS 33 Comments
There is a new video of the SkyOS IndexFeeder available on the SkyOS website, which consists of two parts that show how to perform queries for file meta data and file content using the viewer, and how the Open/Save dialog makes use of the IndexFeeder in order to find documents very quickly, regardless of where they are stored.
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GnomeFiles.org One Year Old

GTK+ 45 Comments
GnomeFiles.org, the software repository for applications using the multi-platform toolkit GTK+, is now one year old. During that time 840 applications were posted and 240,000+ file downloads occured. The site now enjoys about 20,000 pageviews daily on average (which was our initial goal). A few more statistics for the curious: 69% of GnomeFiles' visitors are using Linux and it was a surprise for us that only 1.2% are using a *BSD. Regarding browsers, Firefox dominates with 71% while Gnome's Epiphany scores a 5% with IE barely at 6%. We would like to thank our loyal GnomeFiles visitors for their support. Please leave a comment if you would like to see a new feature on GnomeFiles.org.
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Gentoo Founder Joins Microsoft

  Submitted by Varg Vikernes Gentoo 97 Comments
The founder and chief architect of the popular Linux distribution Gentoo Daniel Robbins, has taken up a job at Microsoft. He describes his new job as "helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects". While in the midst of hastily packing to move to Redmond, Robbins nonetheless managed to find the time to finalize the transfer of Gentoo's intellectual property (essentially copyrights on ebuilds and other software as well as soon-to-be trademarked Gentoo logos) to the not-for-profit Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
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AmigaAnywhere: Now Available with all U3 Powered USB Smart Drives

  Submitted by Ray A. Akey Amiga & AROS 28 Comments
Consumers will be able to play graphically rich, high-performance Amiga content on U3 powered USB smart drives. AmigaAnywhere is the digital environment that enables and simplifies access to the same applications from a variety of devices. Amiga lets consumers enjoy rich-media content featuring extraordinary audio-visual quality, high-speed interactive gaming, education and entertainment, all playing on a diverse universe of devices. Click here to read the full article.
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Interview: IBM Turns to Open Source Development

  Submitted by Nate IBM 18 Comments
Is open source changing the way that software is made? It is at IBM. BetaNews sat down with Doug Heintzman, IBM Software Group's VP of Strategy and Technology, to discuss the adoption of a hybrid development model called Community Source that combines the best elements of the open source model with decades of IBM programming practice - avoiding a top down approach that IBM says could make Microsoft's Longhorn obsolete upon arrival.
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Fedora Core 4 has been released

  Submitted by Rahul Sundaram Fedora Core 99 Comments
Fedora Core 4 sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community (soon to be Fedora Foundation) has been released with a number of new features including GNOME 2.10, KDE 3.4, Openoffice.org 2.0 (pre release with enhancements), Evince document viewer, , Xen, GFS, GCC 4.0, Enhancements in SELinux, support for the PPC architecture, Free Java stack (using GCJ) including Eclipse and Apache Jakarta among others. Download and install your brand new Fedora.
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Nokia develops a new browser for Series 60 using KHTML

Wireless 17 Comments
A key component of this development has been Nokia's cooperation with Apple, as the Series 60 browser will use the same open source components, WebCore and JavaScriptCore, that Apple uses in its popular Safari Internet browser. Based on KHTML and KJS from KDE's "Konqueror" open source project, this software has enabled Safari to achieve industry-leading features and performance. Nokia intends to continue its collaboration with Apple and actively participate in the open source community to further develop and enhance these components, contributing Nokia's expertise in mobility.
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NetBSD Project Requests Donations For New Hardware

NetBSD 50 Comments
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote to the NetBSD-Advocacy Mailing List: "There are many upgrades we'd like to make to the NetBSD project infrastructure, but which we cannot make because, to be blunt, our project is poor. Not poor in innovation nor poor in developer resources nor poor in features -- poor in cold, hard cash, the kind we need in order to buy hardware that would let us better serve our users."
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Performance analysis on Linux

Linux 21 Comments
Performance analysis and bottleneck determination in Linux is not rocket science. It requires some basic knowledge of the hardware and kernel architecture and the use of some standard tools. Using a hands-on approach they’ll walk readers through the different subsystems and the key indicators, to understand which component constitutes the current bottleneck of a system.
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