PalmSource in a last attempt to reverse problems of the last year, they are going to focus 100% on Linux-Based PalmOS for SmartPhones instead of focusing on Cobalt.
On Friday, Microsoft and IBM said they had settled many of the outstanding antitrust issues between the two companies raised during the United States Department of Justice vs. Microsoft antitrust case during the mid-1990s.
The KDE Project and Google announce the 24 KDE projects selected for the "Summer of Code" project. The lucky students and the KDE e.V. will receive a total of $120,000 if they can complete their projects in the allotted two months.
The JNode team is proud to announce the release of the version 0.2.1 of the JNode.org operating system.This release focused on improving the GUI handling and reducing the memory usage. Download here.
Colony CD 2 is ready. This is the second in a series of milestone CD
images that will be released throughout the Breezy development cycle, as
images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or
installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Breezy. You
can download it here.
We are pleased to announce a new developer snapshot of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath, essential libraries for java, is a project to create free core class libraries for use with runtimes, compilers and tools for the java programming language.
Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community for appearing to misrepresent what open source is. In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he spoke about how free price is the most important feature of free and open source software.
Scientists at Hewlett-Packard said that they had developed a new strategy for designing a quantum computer composed of switches of light beams that could be vastly more powerful than today's digital electronic computers, which are constructed from transistors.
TuxTops reviews Fedora Core 4; the user has some requirements regarding his operating system and some of these requirements are met by FC4 and some are not. The article makes mention of bugs, problems but also some good new features like the boot speed-up and the ease of use provided by the Red Hat preference panels.
Is Linux really more secure than Windows? Linux book author Peter Harrison believes the answer is largely a matter of perspective. Click here to read the complete column at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com. In addition, here is a writeup of p0f, a passive fingerprinting tool.
Apple Computer Inc.'s worries about watts are unfounded, according to IBM. The company could build PowerPC chips that satisfy the needs of the entire range of Apple's product lines, including portables such as the PowerBook, said Rod Adkins, vice president of development for IBM's Systems and Technology Group.
Following seven months of "technical preview," Opera Software announced today that its mobile Web browser officially supports Windows Mobile smartphones. This new version supports "all major web standards," including CSS2, DOM 2, and JavaScript, and also includes Opera's latest Small-Screen Rendering engine.
Sun on tuesday released its first Java platform that offers real-time capabilities. The platform, Java Real-Time System 1.0, implements the Real-time Specification for Java (RTSJ), a blueprint for how Java can be extended to support real-time application programming.
Even as Microsoft's low-cost version of Windows reaches more corners of the globe, some analysts are wondering whether it is hitting the mark. Especially the fact that this version can only open three windows at a time, amazes analysts. Elsewhere, MS has quietly released its Desktop Search APIs.
Following yesterday's article, in what will become a long string of articles on this subject, Tom Adelstein has uncovered a plethora of new information on the trail between Microsoft and government officials.
Lismore Software Systems announced today the release and immediate availability of an updated version of Guest PC 1.5. Guest PC is an x86 emulator for the Mac.
If you've heard about Linux and feel like giving it a go or if you want to try Linux but you're too afraid it'll shew up your computer, this article is for you. Read it, feel free to take what you need and ignore the rest. This is not a tutorial, it's a README-FIRST-like article. It should help you to take that first dive.
