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Code Skipper Qt Community Resource Site Launches

Submitted by Alexander Atamas 2005-08-03 Qt 7 Comments

"The Code Skipper, a new free Qt community resource site has been founded to provide our community of developers with a place to meet. This is a site where tutorials and articles that can be found on a range of Qt related subjects. Skipper also contains a lot of code that can be easily integrated into your applications. Learn Qt tricks from there and share your own ideas."

Submitted by sonic1001 2005-08-03 SuSE, openSUSE 115 Comments

Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company. Following in the footsteps of Red Hat Inc. with its successful Fedora Project Linux distribution, Novell Inc. will be opening up its Linux development efforts with OpenSuSE, sources said.

Mozilla Plans Faster Growth for Its Browser

Thom Holwerda 2005-08-03 Mozilla, Gecko 41 Comments

The Mozilla Foundation, developer of the Firefox Web browser, plans to announce Wednesday that it has created a for-profit subsidiary to pursue wider potential for the software.

Slackware 10.2 Beta Around the Corner

Thom Holwerda 2005-08-03 Slackware, Slax 38 Comments

Patrick Volkerding, Slackware's maintainer, announced that Slackware 10.2 is going into beta: "I think it's time to consider this to be mostly frozen and concentrate on beta testing in preparation for the Slackware 10.2 release, so there won't be too many more upgrades and additions."

Submitted by icheyne 2005-08-03 Linux 3 Comments

Andrew Morton is the lead maintainer for the Linux public production kernel. In this 90-minute podcast he describes the Linux kernel development process and compares open-source and commercial processes and motivations.

Easy J2EE Enterprise Service Bus Connectivity

Submitted by anonymous 2005-08-03 Java 4 Comments

Why go through the hassle of figuring out how to integrate and connect J2EE components to add Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) connectivity when someone else has done the work for you? This article shows you how to build ESB connectivity and to use a model-driven approach to develop service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions.

IronPython 0.9

Thom Holwerda 2005-08-03 .NET 30 Comments

IronPython is the codename for an alpha release of the Python programming language for the .NET platform. It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers.

Motorola e398: The MTV Phone

Eugenia Loli 2005-08-02 Wireless 32 Comments

You thought you'd seen it all, but no. Here's the MTV phone: the Motorola e398 ("as seen on MTV" says the sticker on the box). This is a GSM music and video playback phone that was originally targetted at the T-Mobile lineup in Europe but is now sold in the US through Geeks.com. We take a quick look of what to expect of this good-looking device.

DesktopBSD: Following PC-BSD’s Footsteps?

Submitted by anonymous 2005-08-02 BSD & Darwin 91 Comments

It seems that PC-BSD has set a trend. "DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users. DesktopBSD combines the stability of FreeBSD, the usability and functionality of KDE and the simplicity of specially developed software to provide a system that's easy to use and install." How this new BSD distribution stacks up against PC-BSD remains to be seen.

Submitted by ahmetaa 2005-08-02 Java 19 Comments

Popular Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA's 5.0 version is released by JetBrains. Some of the new features: advanced Css, Html, XHtml, Javascript and JSP support, Integrated Subversion-Perforce support, J2ME developement and a lot of editor-coding related enhancements. IDEA is a commercial product, however they provide free licenses to active Open Source projects.

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0

Eugenia Loli 2005-08-02 IBM 14 Comments

Optimized for IBM WebSphere software, and supporting multi-vendor runtime environments, IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software is powered by the Eclipse open source platform so developers can adapt and extend their development environment to match their needs and increase their productivity.

Authentication Auditing in Windows 2000

Submitted by esther schindler 2005-08-02 Windows 8 Comments

Authentication auditing is an essential part of protecting Windows computers from intrusion. The big problem in Windows auditing is trying to understand what's going on, without drowning in a flood of irrelevant or useless information. If you let it do so, Windows 2000 will bury you in event notifications. Figuring out what's going on from those notifications can be a real chore. In this Informit.com article, Rick Cook provides specific suggestions to start making your auditing process more informative.

An Introduction to KiXtart

Submitted by esther schindler 2005-08-02 General Development 8 Comments

A Windows domain administrator needs to accomplish quite a bit in a given day: map user shares at login, run hardware and software audits; install the new corporate wallpaper (or other such important software). And do it all transparently to the users. Simple, right? It is, if you use a secret weapon: a login script. In this DevSource article, Lynn Greiner demonstrates how the free language, KiXtart, can help you get the job done.

Hacking Mac OS X Tiger’s Video Desktop

Submitted by Jeremy Atkinson 2005-08-02 macOS 7 Comments

ExtremeTech is running a how-to on hacking OSX Tiger. The article shows how Video Desktop works and how you can display a video camera's output in a view using QuickTime's Sequence Grabbers.

Novell Lays Claim to SCO’s IP License Revenue

Submitted by Rob 2005-08-02 Novell and Ximian 16 Comments

Novell has filed its response to SCO Group slander of title case against it, making the same claim against the Unix vendor and adding that it believes it is entitled to 95% of SCO's intellectual property licensing revenue. This legal filing is the latest twist in the long-running argument between SCO and Novell over which company holds the copyrights to the UnixWare operating system and Unix System V code base, and could have a financial impact on SCO's other legal claims.

Apple’s Move to PowerPC

Submitted by Saad 2005-08-02 Apple 13 Comments

Apple's transition to the PowerPC processor, which began publicly in 1994, began in an IBM lab in the mid seventies. Read about Apple's move to RISC at Low End Mac.

Apple’s New Mouse

Submitted by meianoite 2005-08-02 Apple 152 Comments

In a move sure to spark tons of heated "toldja so" debates, Apple has released a new mouse, Yahoo reports. Aptly named Mighty Mouse, it got a touch-sensitive top shell which works like left/right buttons, a pair of force-sensing side buttons, and a 360-degree scroll button which doubles as the third button.

Linux Trademark Enforced Down Under

Submitted by Georgina 2005-08-02 Linux 18 Comments

A lawyer acting for Linus Torvalds has contacted Linux vendors in Australia and asked them to sign a legal document relinquishing any legal claim to the word "Linux" and demanding they purchase a licence for its use from the Torvalds-created Linux Mark Institute, which administers the Linux trademark. The effort is part of an 18-month struggle to get 'Linux' registered as an Australian trademark.

Poll: Your Thoughts on Macs and DRM

Eugenia Loli 2005-08-02 Apple 173 Comments

So, how does the news of Apple and DRM change, or not change, your purchasing habits regarding x86 Macs? Let us know by participating in our following poll:

Review: SCO OpenServer 6

Eugenia Loli 2005-08-01 SCO 58 Comments

The SCO Group's OpenServer 6 inherits a new kernel from its UnixWare sibling that significantly boosts the product's scalability. Although SCO seems like an unlikely outlet for open-source software, the company has extended OpenServer with updated versions of Samba, Perl, PHP and other key components, and it has given this operating system a more modern interface option.