Learn how to develop USB drivers using this sample chapter (PDF).

Microsoft engineers are investigating a pair of highly critical Windows product flaws reported by private security research outfit eEye Digital Security.

Protothreads are an extremely lightweight, stackless type of threads written in portable C code. Protothreads provide blocked waiting and sequential code execution on top of event-driven systems, without the overhead of full multithreading or per-thread stacks. They are designed for severely memory constrained systems, has a very low RAM overhead, and can be used with or without an underlying OS. New in version 1.1 is the PT_YIELD() operation that allows a protothread to yield the CPU.

Mono 1.1.6 was released, release notes here.

One of the highlights of Joe Barr's trip to Salt lake City last month for BrainShare 2005 was the opportunity to interview Miguel de Icaza, a mercurial star of the free software movement who has been responsible for hugely successful projects and also founded his own company with Nat Friedman that was later acquired by Novell.

This is a bug fix release of Ark Linux 2005.1 and here is a mini-report on Ark.

At Mike Zintel's blog there is some fresh information about the past, present and future of the .NET Compact Framework and additionally some benchmarks on its speed.

According to AppleInsider, build 8A428 has been declared gold master.

I read a lot of reviews comparing GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows, and inevitably the topic of installing software comes up. Most reviews indicate that installing software in Windows is much easier than that of the desktop GNU/Linux world. I decided to do my own comparison based on my desktop usage to see the difference. The following are my results. Those of you that come from the Windows world may be a tad bit surprised at the ease in which software can be installed.

RMS kindly agreed to be interviewed again by OFB's Timothy R. Butler on what he is up to, where the Foundation's popular GPL license is heading and his perspective concerning various changes in the GNU/Linux community since his last interview here.

Linspire (formerly known as LindowsOS) has consistently made an attractive, easy-to-install and easy-to-use GNU/Linux distribution. Read the review at NewsForge.

Intel and AMD have taken very different approaches towards achieving the next level of performance with their CPUs. In Part I TomsHardware explores the companies' plans for their upcoming multicore lines, the pros and cons of hyperthreading, and its relevance to multicore processing.

Microsoft has wrapped up development on the first major update to its Windows Server 2003 operating system and released it for download, the company said Wednesday.

Here is another review of Linspire 5 with some useful details in it.