Apple’s Halo Stays on Despite Switch to Intel
Industry watchers have noticed a "halo" surrounding Apple's iPod: The popular music player is helping to bring new users to the company's Macintosh line of computers. However, could the uncertainty surrounding the Mac's upcoming switch from PowerPC to Intel processors take the shine off that halo?
A Prerelease Tour of GNOME 2.12
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GNOME 2.12 will be released to the world on September 7th, 2005, culminating 6 months of very exciting work by members of the project. A number of exciting technologies come together in GNOME 2.12 that will set the standard for free software desktops to come. Here is a sample of some of the outstanding work that has gone into GNOME thanks to its many contributors.
IBM Wakes Up to Hidden AS/400 Treasure Trove
Big Blue has realised that a product that long disappeared from its catalogue is a rave from the grave that still has life in it yet. You would probably be surprised to learn just how many AS/400s are still about, and how many COBOL programmers for that matter.
Apple Begins Widespread Testing of Mac OS X 10.4.3
Apple Computer this week began asking its developers to test and report back to the company on the first external pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.4.3, a forthcoming maintenance release to the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system.
Ati, nVidia Release Beta Drivers for Vista
Both nVidia (also nForce) and Ati have released beta versions of their driver packages for Windows Vista, both client and server editions. ActiveWin also has a list of drivers included in Vista beta 1.
ADHOC 2005 Papers Publicly Available
The first technical papers have been made publicly available from the ADHOC (The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference) website. It includes, but is not limited to: "Cross-Platform Approaches from a Macintosh Perspective", "Hacking the Mac OS X Kernel for Unsupported Machines", "Program Analysis and Verification on Mac OS X".
Cisco Curbs Security Researcher
A security expert has agreed never to repeat what he knows about various flaws in Software from networking giant Cisco.
Power Collections for .NET Released
Peter Golde, one of the original designers of the C# language, has been working recently on Power Collections for .NET, which is now released. According to the web site Power Collections is a "Community Project to Develop the Best Public License Collection Classes for .NET"
Onebase DevelopGo 1.0 Released
The Onebase Linux Project is pleased to announce the availability of a "Live Development Platform" for programmers. It comes with wide language support, offline developer docs and large collection of popular editors and tools.
Zeta 1.0 Live CD Available
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YellowTAB released a Zeta 1.0 LiveCD and they are charging just 10 Euros for it. If you return it you get a 5 Euro discount toward the normal CD version of 1.0.
CodeWarrior to Cease Development on OS X
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According to an announcement posted on the Carbon developer's mailing list, Metrowerks announced at AdHoc that the forthcoming release of CodeWarrior 10 will be the last for OS X. This isn't surprising given that Apple is transitioning to Intel chips and Metrowerks has exited the Intel market, but it's still the end of an era. CodeWarrior literally saved Apple's bacon during the transition to PowerPC in the early 1990s by shipping the first working set of developer tools for the new platform. And since then CodeWarrior has been the main toolkit for commercial development on the Mac (especially pre-XCode).
Novell Files Countersuit Against SCO
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Today, Novell has answered SCO's complaint alledging Novell slandered SCO's ownership of the Unix copyrights. Novell claims that SCO approached Novell in 2003 to try and pursuade them to go along with the Linux Licensing Scheme. When Novell refused, SCO attempted to talk Novell into transfering the Unix Copyrights to SCO, which Novell also refused to do. Novell has also filed four counterclaims against SCO, one of them being Slander of Title (for SCO slandering Novell's ownership of the Unix Copyrights).
Leo Laporte: The PC and Open Source Will Outlive Windows
Mad Penguin has published an excellent interview with Techmeister Leo Laporte. It's a two page review in which Leo discusses the possibility of a UNIX owned future. The interview starts here.
Linspire Five-O Review
If you are looking for a desktop Linux with all the ease and user-friendliness of OS X, Linspire Five-O is a great option. It may not be the best for advanced users, but home and SOHO users will be happy with its performance, support, and great looks, the review says.
Open Chips Take Aim at Hardware World
The same principals that brought the Linux operating system to the computer world are helping to propagate a new generation of computer hardware. Numerous processor designs are now being made open for anyone to modify and use. Examples are organizations such as Power.org, OpenCores.org and SPARC International.
Zeta 1.0 Review
"This review will not try to cater to users new to the BeOS world, but will focus on what has changed since my review of ZETA RC1 and what remains to be done for future releases."
Kubuntu with KDE 3.4.2, Koffice 1.4.1 Released
Following the release of KDE 3.4.2 yesterday, the Kubuntu team is proud to announce a new Kubuntu livecd with KDE 3.4.2 and the also recently released Koffice 1.4.1.
XP Starter Edition Sales figures Released
Microsoft said it has sold 100 000 copies of its Windows XP Starter Edition, the first indication of the popularity of the low-cost operating system.