An upcoming Microsoft software product for clustered servers won't run on Intel's high-end Itanium 2 chip, according to a report first published on News.com. Instead, it will be optimized for a more mainstream type of server chip from Intel and rival AMD.

The next major release of Debian aims at making installation easier for non-technical users. Debian developers have completely rewritten the Debian installer for the next version of the Linux distribution, code-named Sarge.

A Gartner Research study of July-September sales data found that Microsoft's mobile OS outsold Palm's. During that period, Microsoft's OS accounted for 48.1% of worldwide shipments of PDAs, up from 41.2% the previous year. Palm's share dropped to 29.8% in Q3 2004 from 46.9%. The BlackBerry quadrupled its market share in twelve months to 19.8% from 4.9%.

Security researchers claimed today that millions of Microsoft customers are at risk from 10 serious security vulnerabilities uncovered in Windows XP patched with Service Pack 2.

As part of the development team, we're announcing PVFS2 version 1.0 here in Pittsburgh at the SC2004 conference!

For a few years, I've been working in the real world, I mean the enterprise world, sorry. In every company I've worked for, they offered me the opportunity to learn a lot of new things, or at least that's what they always said in the first meeting before sending me to be just another company programmer. But in fact I've learned some very important things, just not about programming. I had to learn about these things on my own, about the needs of a real company in the real world.

'R2' still has yet to go to beta, but Microsoft is well on its way to finalizing the product due to ship in the latter half of 2005, according to sources.

"With search technology in the spotlight, Apple Computer is making better ways to find desktop files the cornerstone of its next version of the Mac OS X operating system." Read the Article at C|Net.

SWT is an emerging Java GUI toolkit that gives Java developers access to the operating system's native widgets in a cross-platform manner. After using it for several major projects, I have found myself implementing certain tasks repeatedly, so this series of articles endevors to share a few of the insights I have gained to make working with this toolkit more rewarding.

Expose the power of Bash shell, tutorial here.

Progeny Debian 2.0 DE RC1 has been released. Progeny Debian 2.0 DE aims to provide an unmatched 'out of the box' environment for software developers building applications for the Java, Mono/.NET and LAMP platforms.

Terrasoft solution announced today the port on Linux PPC64 of the InfiniBand technology support. This is an important step that will make happy all those institutes working on Apple Xserve clusters and Linux.

Mandrakesoft has just released Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64, a version of its Linux Operating System that runs on AMD x86-64 and Intel EMT architectures.

"When you have to get work done (especially if you're self-employed) it's important to choose the right tools to enhance your productivity. If your work has something to do with a computer, the operating system is especially important. Of all of the OSes that I have used and reviewed over the years -- and I still have all of them available -- I prefer FreeBSD's "new technology release" as my main workstation operating system. Why? Because I can get more work done with it." Read the article at NewsForge.