Today yellowTAB announced that a service pack for Zeta Neo should be out sime time around the end of the month. Besides fixing unnamed bugs, this pack is also reported to improve PPP performance for both dial-up and xDSL users.
The renewed eXpert Zone features an interview with Vanders, the main developer of the AtheOS fork Syllable. He speaks of Syllable's origins, it's future, it's applications and more.
The company is Silicon Graphics Incorporated, or SGI, which once was famous for its high-powered graphics and 3-D workstations but has fallen on hard times of late. SGI now focuses on supercomputers, but there's a tiny coterie of fans dedicated to keeping the company's aging but high-powered workstations alive. On a similar note, the every-three-months maintaince release of Irix is 3 months late.
Something as simple as incrementing an integer can fail in a concurrent environment. This article illustrates the failure scenario and introduces the PowerPC's coping mechanism: atomic instructions. Learn how to close the Window of Death with these assembly-level instructions to update memory correctly, even in the face of concurrency.
Novell hacker Jan Holesovsky has announced a build of OpenOffice.org that has both KDE and GNOME support. When launched within KDE, KDE support is activated, similarly when launched within GNOME, GNOME support is activated. Jan's next project will be to plan for OOo 2.0.
The Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) is a rather new security interoperability standard within the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Caleb Sima, SPI Dynamics CTO, talks to Help Net Security about this interesting web application security topic.
Although the C language has been around for close to 30 years, its appeal has not yet worn off. It continues to attract a large number of people who must develop new skills for writing new applications, or for porting or maintaining existing applications.
Paul Thurrott makes claims, based on "internal documentation," that Longhorn Beta 1 will be released on February 16th 2005. However, NeoWin says that it won't be released before May 2005.
Open for Business has an interesting and comprehensive interview with KDE core developer and multimedia guru Scott Wheeler of JuK and TagLib fame. He outlines the future of KDE's multimedia efforts. Looks like things move away from aRts as sound server and multimedia framework to a very open minded best-of-breed strategy for KDE 4.0, with GStreamer being preferred at the moment.
We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
A source close to Microsoft today sent documentation about an Update Rollup for Windows 2000 that the software giant will release in 2005 in lieu of a Service Pack 5 (SP5). Also, Microsoft has announced what it hopes will be a new attack on piracy - the Redmond-based giant has decided to give away free software to those who bought machines with fake copies pre-installed.
Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 may be powerful enough to power a data grid, but for real market growth, Sun is looking inward to the embedded space. Despite the hoopla at this month's announcement party to launch Solaris 10, the focus for the operating system has been outside the usual realm of server rooms and desktops. Solaris Express 11/04 will be build 72 and should be available on or around November 30. The big thing for this one is... 64 bit Solaris on AMD.''
AROS Max is a pre-configured live bootable CD image, made to show off the best that AROS has to offer. It requires an AROS capable PC, your mileage may vary. Download from here.
Novell consultant Adrian Malagui explains step-by-step how to apply restrictive policies to Novell Linux Desktop 9, manage Linux users from eDirectory, authenticate through LDAP and store users data and profiles on a central server. See the full PDF article here.
