Submitted by Luca Botti
2005-03-16
KDE
Updated Announcement: We kind of jumped the gun this morning, but it looks like KDE 3.4 will be made available today. Keep an eye on
kde.org.
Updated Update:
It's official.
As most OSNews readers know, I got into a spat with the Gnome developers last week, which culminated in my publishing of an angry editorial, which sparked a firestorm of controversy. On one hand, the controversy was positive, because it introduced a lot of people to the fact that many people believe that Gnome developers have not had an effective channel to receive and interpret feedback from users. But on the other hand, the controversy had the negative effect of inflaming passions, putting everyone's guard up, and perhaps even widening the gulf between those who love Gnome but want a voice in its future, and those who hold its future in their hands. This effect was unintentional, and I would like to apologize for any damage I might have done to the project.
The first beta of IE 7.0 isn't expected for a few more months. But information on Microsoft's security, standards and interface plans
are trickling out now.
Submitted by Aaron Benedict
2005-03-15
Apple
According to AppleInsider Apple
is working on a two button mouse to further assist people switching from Windows.
Sun Microsystems
plans to simplify its Java license for commercial software companies.
A decade ago, Bill Gates and other executives at Microsoft decided that traditional packaged software was dead--all software
would eventually be delivered via the Internet.
QNX Software Systems Co.
unveiled a new source-code product that will shorten the development cycle and increase design flexibility for developers using the QNX Neutrino RTOS.
Fedora Core 4 Test 1 is now available, more info
here.
Microsoft
has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows.
The PostgreSQL database project has recently released Version 8.0, which was received with quite some fanfare, mostly due to its first-ever Windows port. Mad Penguin
talked with Josh Berkus, one of the core team members, to find out how 8.0 has fared since its official release on January 17, 2005.
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
Submitted by Fagomeno Skatomilo
2005-03-15
Apple
Nicholas Ciarelli is an excellent journalist.
Too bad. The poor kid's liable to be bankrupt before he's old enough to buy beer. All because he's very good at what he does; and because he does it on the Net.
Latest statistics for the Web server market
show that Fedora, Red Hat's free Linux operating system, is growing in popularity. But the picture isn't quite so rosy for its enterprise offering.
Workload management is critically important for an on-demand business.
IBM LoadLeveler is a job-management system that allows users to run more jobs in less time by matching the jobs' processing needs with the available resources. Maintaining maximum system uptime of the job management system is increasingly important.
Intel Corporation
is introducing an enhanced technology to provide mobile handset users with a better multimedia experience, including clearer graphics, faster video, and improved power efficiency.
BartPE is a tool for making a bootable LiveCD out of your Windows 2000/XP/2003 CD. The bootable LiveCD, BartPE creates, will give you a complete Win32 evironment, support for networking, FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support and the Windows GUI (800x600). You can check out the
screenshots or download it
here.
On Friday the 11th of March I went to
CeBIT 2005, the world's largest hi-tech fair held annually in Hannover, Germany. The fair covers everything from the Digital World and is expected to receive around half a million visitors this year. After an overview this report mainly highlights yellowTAB's presence and their new Zeta operating system.
Sun is gunning for some of Linux's rising popularity in the enterprise with the newest release of its Unix derivative, Solaris (
screenshots). In this Clear Choice Test,
they found that Solaris 10 has been torn from its SPARC-only roots now runs very quickly and very easily on generic 32-bit x86 Intel- and 64-bit Advanced Micro Devices-based servers. It also has new security features and supports a range of Linux applications. And it's free.
The entire realm of open-source software could get
a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC.
CeBIT: The word in Hannover is that some German government agencies
have switched their allegiance away from SuSE Linux, because following Novell's takeover it is no longer a German company.
