Making its first foray into the handheld market, Olympus has launched the R1000, a rugged handheld capable of running both Windows- and Linux-based operating system. Adhering to IP54 Category II specifications on dust and water splash resistance, the new ruggedized handheld is targeted towards the enterprise.

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

"A worm that takes advantage of administrators' poor password choices has started spreading among database systems." Read more at ZDNet.

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

This new version of F-Script provides Cocoa developers on Mac OS X with improved object introspection and scripting tools. In particular, developers having access to pre-versions of the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", will find a powerful set of graphical tools to access and manipulate the new CoreData technology introduced by Apple in Tiger. See the release notes for F-Script.

Can there ever be too much choice? Is that a bad thing? Well, to me in recent months it feels that way as I seem to have installed more Linux distributions than you can shake a stick at! Serial installers are a common phenomenon within the Linux community, but I say to you all, alas, I am cured!!! So, what makes Arch Linux all that? Well read on...

Trolltech has announced the release of Qt 3.3.4 which is a maintenance release including many bug fixes and optimizations. The final Qt 4.0 release is now anticipated for late second quarter of 2005 with two interim beta versions to be released in March and May.

Sun has a whitepaper from Seal Rock Research comparing Solaris to Linux for Enterprise Level deployment.

After playing around with my brand new infrared v90 modem for my PDAs (expect a review soon), it got me thinking...

ExtremeTech's own (and OSNews reader) Jim Lynch is a long-standing Linux and occasional Windows user. He recently got a Mac for the first time, a G5. Did he like it, will he stay to the new platform?

Microsoft has confirmed that they will no longer issue security updates for Windows 2000. In addition, standard support for Windows 2000 is currently scheduled to end in June.

To really take advantage of the best tools in computing requires that you become quite comfortable with using the command line interface (CLI). In general, nearly every task -- aside from graphical work itself -- can be accomplished from the CLI. Once the user becomes more adept at CLI work, these non-graphical tasks can be done more quickly, with more fine-grained control, and with less demand on computer resources. Find out more, in Ed Hurst's article.

After reading this article, you should be able to effectively develop Apache Derby applications using the various Eclipse-based tools available for Derby. Quickly learn how to develop an Apache Derby application on the Eclipse IDE using several tools, plus a walkthrough that shows you how to use them.

eXpert Zone reports: "Straight from haiku-announce: "I've been thinking a lot lately, and I decided that I'm going through with finishing the USB stack (even though I don't really like it). For my reasons of the delay, and what I'm doing about it, check my blog, I've just written a long post on the subject." A first milestone release is in the near future."