Intel Corporation is introducing an enhanced technology to provide mobile handset users with a better multimedia experience, including clearer graphics, faster video, and improved power efficiency.

BartPE is a tool for making a bootable LiveCD out of your Windows 2000/XP/2003 CD. The bootable LiveCD, BartPE creates, will give you a complete Win32 evironment, support for networking, FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support and the Windows GUI (800x600). You can check out the screenshots or download it here.

Sun is gunning for some of Linux's rising popularity in the enterprise with the newest release of its Unix derivative, Solaris (screenshots). In this Clear Choice Test, they found that Solaris 10 has been torn from its SPARC-only roots now runs very quickly and very easily on generic 32-bit x86 Intel- and 64-bit Advanced Micro Devices-based servers. It also has new security features and supports a range of Linux applications. And it's free.

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC.

Before you write off pure open source licensing, ask yourself the following questions: How important is it that my company's modifications to open source code remain private? What does my company gain from the expense of keeping them that way? And finally, what might my company gain from the alternative?

This article introduces CMT technology, such as chip multi-processing and simultaneous multi-threading, from a software developer's perspective.

The U.S. government will not get a head start on other Windows users when it comes to Microsoft security updates, the company said Friday in response to news report that suggested otherwise.

The guys at LugRadio have released Season 2 Episode 11. In this episode they interview Aaron Seigo, KDE developer, he talks about what KDE's up to and dispels some myths about the desktop environment.

You know how it is in the Windows platform: the majority of its popular media players use confusing custom UIs & widgets and so they feel heavy. Enter MusikCube: a no-nonsense clean interface app that simply delivers the music without the extra cruft. The application supports CD ripping & tag editing but it could do with some clean up on its song contextual menu. It is released under the BSD license.

This chapter will help you, the algorithm designer, to leave the parallel algorithm design abstract enough to support portability while ensuring that it can eventually be implemented effectively for the parallel systems on which it will be executed.

Following the recent complaints regarding the lack of proper market research in the F/OSS world, KDE users suggested paying money through Bugzilla to see their features/bugfixes done, a proposal that was denied by the core KDE developers. The lengthy discussion comes down to SuSE's Waldo Bastian reply which illustrates once more the developer-centric nature of F/OSS (in contrast to the more user-centric nature of commercial products): "KDE will be able to sustain itself just fine without users, while it will not last a single day without developers. So when it comes to choosing between scaring away developers and scaring away users, the choice is rather easy actually." (2nd reply)

Special Note: My article the other day that seemed to have created a huge controversy, was not about implementing every damn thing people wanted, but only implement things that are really needed by the majority and only when these things are not coming in contrast with the general direction of the project. For example, if someone was asking Gnome to implement a "KDE-alike control panel", that should be rejected because that design is not Gnome's way. But when someone says "make Shift+Delete to delete a file on Nautilus automatically", that's a legitimate feature request to be taken under consideration, and many users would expect it to be there already (that's not my feature request btw).

It's about market research, it's about putting together things that really need to get done (that's feedback filtered by a special team, not by the developers who are already under a lot of pressure). That's what market research is about. It's not about listen to every single idiot out there and his little or big feature request. So, don't take my article out of context and don't make it about myself or specific feature requests, because it is not so. It is about evolving a project to become better by taking in some well-structured user feedback in it. That's all.

Some companies surveyed recently said they have examined the prospect of moving to desktop Linux to assist in their contract negotiations with Microsoft Corp. Others are trying Linux in kiosks or for limited-function desktop systems.

Microsoft is commencing a campaign to bring some major changes to U.S. patent system.

"Built on a Debian Linux core, Linspire is designed for simplicity of use, and it delivers this in spades. Linspire eliminates the need for me to be technically proficient in the nuances of Linux to successfully operate and enjoy the OS." Read the article at NewsForge.