This article illuminates many reasons why Sun faces an uphill battle in keeping enterprise customers interested in it's operating system, describing a large enterprise customer choosing Linux over Solaris and IBM over Sun.

Microsoft's Security Chief says that Windows is safer than Linux. Mike Nash made the comments while stressing that the company is making progress on security. He compared vulnerabilities in Windows with those in Red Hat or SuSE Linux. Update: Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy for Microsoft in the UK has claimed that 'Linux is not ready for mission critical computing.'

When Microsoft delivers a beta version of Longhorn during the first half of this year, it will include support for "auxiliary displays," company officials said Wednesday at the VSLive conference.

This is a brief introduction to Gnome optimization, both the hows and the whys. Details of individual tools and techniques are left for later articles, but a collection of hints and tricks is provided. Update: GNOME 2.10 Beta 2 is the first pre-release intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release.

These series of articles helps you migrate your Win32 C/C++ applications to Linux on POWER. Win32 C/C++ Apps to Linux Part-1 of this series coveres the Win32 APIs mapping to Linux on POWER regarding the initialization and termination, process, thread, and shared memory services. Win32 C/C++ Apps to Linux Part-2 illustrates how to map Win32 to Linux with respect to mutex application program interfaces (APIs).

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Miray Software announces that the real-time operating system µnOS is available for XScale processors as from now. The porting has been accomplished in collaboration with Technische Universität München (TU). This is an important step for Miray Software on the way to establish µnOS in the field of mobile and power saving embedded systems.

The X.Org Foundation today announced the fourth release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of 2004.

The federal judge overseeing the SCO Group's suit against IBM regarding Unix and Linux has thwarted an IBM attempt to defang SCO's claims, but he also voiced loud skepticism about SCO's case.

USB2 support for RISC OS 5 on the Iyonix is here.

Data alignment is an important issue for all programmers who directly use memory. Data alignment affects how well your software performs, and even if your software runs at all. As this article illustrates, understanding the nature of alignment can also explain some of the "weird" behaviors of some processors.

Novell's Linux Desktop distribution was widely expected last year. When it finally got released in December 2004, it had to compete with Red Hat's own Enterprise Desktop solution and Novell's very own SuSE. So, how does Novell Linux Desktop 9 (NLD) fairs?

This article examines some of the common command differences a Linux user might encounter on a FreeBSD system.

Apple released Mac OS X 10.3.8. Key enhancements include: Improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers; Enhanced file sharing and directory services for mixed Mac and PC networks; Improved compatibility for third party applications and devices.