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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on POWER

David Adams 2004-12-14 SuSE, openSUSE No Comments

IBM and Novell have teamed together to provide Independent Software Vendors and Linux developers with the opportunity to try out SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) for IBM POWER, including 90 days of online updates. You can request a free evaluation kit.

GnomeMeeting 1.2 Released

Submitted by John 2004-12-13 Gnome 25 Comments

GnomeMeeting, the VoIP and IP telephony application for Linux systems, just released version 1.2. It will be the last release to support only H.323, as next release will also support SIP. The new version sports integration with Novell Evolution 2.00, PC-To-Phone calls with no additional hardware and free codecs, and Rendez-Vous support. See http://www.gnomemeeting.org for more info.

Xfce 4.2RC2 Available

Submitted by Benedikt Meurer 2004-12-13 Xfce 26 Comments

The Xfce project finally finished the second release candidate for the upcoming Xfce Desktop Environment 4.2. This second release candidate is expected to be the last release candidate before the final release, which is planned to happen in about 2 or 3 weeks. This RC2 includes several bugfixes, esp. the window manager has seen quite a few important fixes, and it is the first release in the 4.2 branch that builds and runs on Solaris out of the box. As usual, prebuilt packages for several plattforms are already available (as a highlight: Debian/amd64 packages) and the graphical installers have been update to 4.2RC2. Please check the Xfce website for further details.

Adaptive and Behavioral Approach to New Threats

Submitted by LogError 2004-12-13 Privacy, Security 9 Comments

To really understand what is going on in your network, you must do more than deploy security devices, you must also monitor your security situation on a constant basis. Intrusion detection monitoring is a major trend in the security industry.

Top 10 Software Innovations of 2004

Submitted by Frank Rizzo 2004-12-13 In the News 57 Comments

The year is almost over, now it's time to tally up the best and most ground-breaking software innovations of 2004. Here is a Top 10 list to that effect.

Review: Xandros Desktop 3 Deluxe

Adam Scheinberg 2004-12-13 Linux 63 Comments

There's always a lot of excitement when a major Linux distribution has a new release - there's the clamour for the release notes and changelog, as well as the insatiable urge for screenshots and the search for the torrent for the ISOs. The release of Xandros Desktop 3.0 last week was no exception, with OS fanatics everywhere curious just what was in store. Read on for details.

iMac G5 Preliminary Support in Linux Kernel

Submitted by Sibel 2004-12-12 Linux 132 Comments

I was happy as an iMac G5 owner, now I am a happy Linux user again: good news is coming from the growing linux-on-mac community.

Windows Server “R2” Beta

David Adams 2004-12-12 Windows 3 Comments

From Microsoft Watch: Microsoft quietly delivered a first private beta release of Windows Server "R2" to the first of about 1,000 testers on Wednesday, company officials confirmed Friday. Meanwhile, Microsoft is soliciting a wider pool of beta testers for a second R2 beta, which it is planning to deliver in the second quarter of 2005...

Tiger Technical Overview available on the Chinese ADC

Submitted by Guido 2004-12-12 macOS 9 Comments

A "Tiger Technology Overview" has been made publicly available on the Chinese ADC (PDF link): it presents some new features which have not yet been published on the public area of the main Apple Developer Connection site.

LSE/OS A new nanokernel

Submitted by EPITA System Laboratory 2004-12-12 OS News 35 Comments

A new kernel for an OS caled LSE/OS was developed by a french research laboratory: Epita System Laboratory. This laboratory is specialized in low-level system programming.For more than one year this laboratory has been developing an extremely stable nanokernel with specific features that place it in a very special class of systems. Read on for more. Update: English version here.

Syllable 0.5.5 is now available

Guest post by jeanmarc 2004-12-11 Syllable, AtheOS 55 Comments

Syllable 0.5.5 is now available. This release includes new and updated drivers and a large number of long overdue kernel enhancements. The full changelog is here, and it can be downloaded from Sourceforge.

Getting KDE to run in Cygwin

Adam Scheinberg 2004-12-11 KDE 35 Comments

Patrick Weber writes "The tutorials on the KDE-Cygwin site are very vague and they dont even have one for beginners. So I went out on my own and wrote my own tutorial. This is for anyone (even the people that have no idea what they are doing). I hope that this article is a help to everyone."

DragonFlyBSD: Scheduler Revision Plans

Submitted by Nix_User 2004-12-11 BSD & Darwin 35 Comments

As seen on kerneltrap.org: "In response to a question raised on the dragonfly-kernel mailing-list, Matt Dillon gives an overview of plans to revise the DragonFly userland scheduler, the second of two schedulers that Dragonfly currently utilizes in a layered fashion. Matt explains, 'There are actually two schedulers.. there's the LWKT scheduler, which is as close to perfect as its possible to be, and there is the userland scheduler, which is the one that needs work.'"

AROS-Max On Windows

Submitted by Ola Jensen 2004-12-11 Amiga & AROS 30 Comments

Nicholas Otley has built a QEMU hosted version of AROS Max for MS Windows. It's easy to use, just run the self extracting archive and double-click the winaros.bat file to run AROS-Max in a window. Get the file here or visit the Aros-Exec message board.

Zeta Neo Service Pack released

Submitted by jeanmarc 2004-12-11 Zeta 44 Comments

yellowTAB announced the immediate availability of the long awaited Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Zeta Neo. This service pack addresses bugs reported in previous versions of Zeta, and offers users the opportunity to enjoy the improvements done to the operating system as development keeps moving towards a Zeta 1.0 release.

NetBSD: Ideas on Audio Framework and Hardware Mixing

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-11 NetBSD 3 Comments

Tamura Kent formally unveils his plans to add new functionality to NetBSD's audio framework (audio(9) and audio(4)) - specifically, the addition of an audio converter pipeline and in-kernel mixing. These additions along with audio device cloning would make it possible to natively support hardware mixing without the use of a software based soundserver.

VMWare Workstation 5.0 Beta Review

Submitted by Gsurface 2004-12-11 OS News 17 Comments

Flexbeta has got a review of VMWare Workstation 5.0. This new beta includes many nice features such as the ability to capture movies, and support for 64Bit hardware.

Editorial: The Penguin, The Palm, and the PDA

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-11 Wireless 17 Comments

The potential synergy between the GNU/Linux OS and the Palm platform is huge, but so are the potential pitfalls. Larry Garfield looks at both the pros and cons of the Next Next Palm OS.

Teeny module runs new “.NET Embedded” software stack

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-11 .NET 12 Comments

A small startup in Microsoft's backyard is poised to begin shipping a tiny, 32-pin chip-like computer module that runs ".NET Embedded," a new Microsoft embedded software platform developed for use in watches and other "smart personal objects." The module, developed by startup .netcpu Corp., incorporates portions of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) hardware and software.

Stealth Desktop Part IV: Removable Drives and Scanners

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-11 Hardware 19 Comments

This time Eduardo turns to issues more related to hardware. First we'll see how to enable removable drives in a Slack installation, with especial attention to floppies; and then Eduardo will examine how to setup new hardware, using a scanner as an example, since its setup was tricky. Read the whole adventure at OfB.biz. My Take: Honestly, I hope someone could come up with an administrative GUI for DevFS & uDev so users can set permissions on device nodes without having their heads explode.