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Performance Monitoring and Tuning

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-20 Hardware 8 Comments

How do you get mainframe performance on an embedded budget? Just learn the secrets of the mainframe gurus and apply them in your own designs. Architectural decisions define the ultimate feasible performance of any product. This article covers features that can help you improve your system's performance.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 delayed until July

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-20 Office 72 Comments

According to this Linuxworld article, OpenOffice.org 2.0 will be delayed until at least June or July because of the level of feedback received on the beta. The project's other significant problem, according to developers at this year's OpenOffice.org conference in Canberra, Australia, is the shortage of developers not tied to Sun.

Syllable 0.5.6 Released

Submitted by Thom Holwerda 2005-04-19 Syllable, AtheOS 33 Comments

Expert Zone reports: "Syllable 0.5.6 has been released. "The full changelog can be found below, but the major highlights of this release are improved Audio/Video support, support for CD writing with Cdrtools 2.1, enhanced POSIX compliance, a large list of kernel enhancements including basic ACPI support and a major new version of the GNU C library."

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Writing really small TCP/IP stacks

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 Internet 11 Comments

Adam Dunkels, author of Contiki and the uIP embedded TCP/IP stack, held a talk at NUCCC 2005 this weekend about writing really small TCP/IP stacks and making them withstand slashdottings. Adam's various TCP/IP stacks have been both slashdotted and osnewsed several times. Nice quote from the talk: "Great hacks are the diamonds of computer science: 'Useless', yet priceless!".

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Linux in Government: Linux Desktop Reviews, Part 6 – Ubuntu

Submitted by Tom Adelstein 2005-04-19 Ubuntu 45 Comments

This article in Linux Journal focuses on Ubuntu and positions it as an enterprise player. Will English speaking North Americans accept it as a viable product? Certainly, it has appealed to the emerging world's economies and in short order - less than one year.

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The argument against software patents

Guest post by Christian Schaller 2005-04-19 Legal 63 Comments

We today face the risk of software patents being approved in the EU because not enough parliamentary members will be showing up to vote. Due to this it is important for those of us who oppose software patents to make sure EU parliament members see the damage software patents cause, so they realize it is important to be there to vote providing the needed absolute majority. But sending out a clear message is also important for the process of patent reform in the US and other places who have fallen into the trap of introducing them.

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KDevelop vs. Microsoft Visual Studio .Net

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 Rumors 93 Comments

"Over the past few years, Linux has been hitting Windows hard in different places and, blow by blow, won points against the OS behemoth. Good application software is an important selling point for any operating system, and good development tools are crucial to those writing application software. The leading desktop operating system, Microsoft Windows, has a strong integrated development environment (IDE) in Visual Studio .Net, while the upstart Linux platform's KDE environment has KDevelop. Let's pitch them against each other and see which ends up the last IDE standing." Read more here.

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Microsoft more open about Longhorn features

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 Windows 41 Comments

Longhorn will be easier to use, more secure, and less costly to manage, execs insist. Also, Microsoft previews Longhorn search: Virtual folders, stacking and a List Pane.

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OS X update brews Java storm

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 macOS 53 Comments

Apple has been criticised for letting an 'egregious error' in the way the latest version of its OS handles Java slip through its testing process. More info here.

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Microsoft stripping Windows for thin clients

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 Windows 20 Comments

Microsoft is readying two stripped-down versions of Windows for thin client computers. The idea is that people will use the new versions to resurrect older PCs, according to reports.

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CentOS 4 Offers Strong RHEL Alternative

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 Linux 72 Comments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 was released on February 14th, CentOS issued its cloned version two weeks later on March 2nd. Read the review here.

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The GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform 2.10.1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 Gnome 58 Comments

The first point release for the stable 2.10.x series of the GNOME Desktop & Dev Platform is out. This is the first in a series of stable releases containing bugfixes, translation updates & other improvements.

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FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Released

Submitted by Indigo2 2005-04-19 FreeBSD 28 Comments

The third release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available for testing. Also, due to one major issue that crops up on large (4-processor) systems under heavy load that is still being debugged there will be at least one more RC added to the schedule. Timing for the extra RC and the new Release date have not been set yet.

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OpenZaurus 3.5.3 Now Available

Submitted by crond 2005-04-18 Wireless 15 Comments

OpenZaurus 3.5.3 is now available with the latest versions of GPE and Opie.

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Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 is out

Submitted by Thomas Magnum 2005-04-18 General Development 22 Comments

A developer's blog about it here says that MSDN subscribers can download now and you can order free copies of it here with free shipping for US/Canadian residents.

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Opera 8 released

Submitted by Wondercool 2005-04-18 Opera 91 Comments

Opera 8 Final is now released, check the forum post here.

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A Chat with PostgreSQL

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-18 Databases 16 Comments

The PostgreSQL project has been steadily clawing its way up the ladder in mindwidth since its inception almost ten years ago. Many say they've changed from MySQL to PostgreSQL and never looked back. OSDir recently had a chance to chat with a few of the project's dedicated developers.

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Solaris runs Linux applications easily

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-18 Solaris 59 Comments

A new feature of the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System lets you run Linux applications, unchanged, on their own or side by side with Solaris applications.

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Dual-core desktops hit the market

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-18 Intel 41 Comments

PC makers rolled out their first dual-core processor desktop PCs on Monday as expected--and they aren't cheap.

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Microsoft to launch the biggest marketing campaign ever

Submitted by Michael S 2005-04-18 Windows 66 Comments

Even if the Windows XP is already a three years old OS, Microsoft decided that it is time to try convincing the users that Windows XP is a product like no other.

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