The latest Haiku newsletter has arrived, if it seems like it's been forever since the last Haiku newsletter, that's because it really has - this is the first newsletter to be put out since OpenBeOS officially became Haiku.

Win4Lin has added a low-cost version of Win4Lin to their offerings. The "Win4Lin Home" version is targeted at home users, and costs $29.95. Read the full press release for more information.

systrace is an OpenBSD tool that allows administrators to monitor, intercept, and restrict system calls. Find out how to get started using systrace in this chapter from 'Secure Architectures with OpenBSD'.

Refactoring software by hand can be a real pain. So why not just automate the process? In this chapter, Joshua Kerievsky explains the whys and hows of refactoring, and why you shouldn't trust that automated refactoring program.

This chapter provides you with the opportunity to flex your C++ muscles by critiquing a piece of code. Can you find a better way to optimize this code for idiomatic usage? Find out in this challenge from Herb Sutter.

Howl is a cross platform implementation of the Zeroconf zero configuration networking standard. It includes daemons and a client side SDK for registering, browsing, and resolving network services, and assigning link local IP addresses without a DHCP server. On Windows 2000/XP, it includes a sidebar in Internet Explorer that allows users to browse zeroconf-enabled Web and FTP servers. This release fixes a broken Makefile.am and a compilation error on FreeBSD. Elsewhere, Apple has recently released Technology Preview 3 of Rendezvous for Windows.

Firefox lead engineer turned Google developer, Ben Goodger, announced on his Web log late this week that version 1.1 of Firefox will be delayed.

A Russian security company claims it found a way to beat a security measure in Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update aimed at securing customers' PCs.

A senior Microsoft executive, speaking exclusively to vnunet.com, has dismissed Linux's reputation as a secure platform as a "myth", claiming that the open source development process creates fundamental security problems.

In reporting its second-quarter financial results Thursday, Microsoft said revenue at its Server and Tools division, which caters to business customers, grew 18 percent, year over year. Licenses sales of Windows server, which competes head-to-head with open-source software Linux and other server operating systems, grew 17 percent, year over year.

This flash demo shows how to create a GUI application with GNUstep.

Back in the golden days of NeXT, Steve Jobs himself decided to do a demo video (mirror, mirror), about 30 minutes long, where he demonstrates the applications, networking abilities and development tools in NeXTSTEP 3.0.

New reviews of Xandros Desktop 3 have been published by Linux Weekly News and LinuxPlanet.

Novell's ambitious strategy for Linux has led some customers to worry that the networking company may withdraw support for some of its legacy applications.