PalmSource today announced Jean-Louis Gassée has been appointed Chairman of the PalmSource Board of Directors. JLG was the CEO of Be in the '90s and an Apple executive in the '80s.
By all means, Ubuntu Linux and Canonical Ltd. have made a spectacular arrival on the Linux scene lately. The combination is like a dream come true for many, many Linux aficionados: tightly selected bleeding edge packages to focus the distribution on a single CD, corporate backing, 18 month support, that all sounds like a formidable package.
Linux.com reviews Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. It includes many custom performance features that SysAdmins have been hacking in by hand for years, everything is controlled through a GUI, and it supports an amazing array of hardware on three separate platforms.
The most comprehensive study ever undertaken by the mi2g Intelligence Unit over 12 months reveals that the world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD and the Mac OS X based on Darwin. On the same report, Linux doesn't rate as well. Elsewhere, AppleInsider and Gavers posted news about OSX Tiger: Burnable folders, revised Smart Folders.
Linuxlookup.com is reporting on how Transgaming released a time limited demo of its flagship Linux product, Cedega. The Cedega Time Limited Demo will be available only for a two week period, from November 2nd to November 15th and can be downloaded at www.transgaming.com. Cedega allows hundreds of the top triple ‘A’ PC titles to run on the Linux operating system, seamlessly, transparently, and out-of-the-box with equivalent game-play and performance as the original PC version.
Tech writer and developer, Ben Stringer from Builder AU reviews the move from a Linux development environment for Java to one with an Apple PowerMac G5.
Shares of PalmSource, the handheld operating system developer, dipped Monday on an investment bank's report that said key licensee PalmOne will use Microsoft's OS in its Treo line of devices.
Con Kolivas posted a set of patches to the lkml offering a pluggable cpu scheduler framework. The architecture independent framework is designed to allow new schedulers to be added by only touching three files, without adding overhead, and allowing you to compile in only the CPU scheduler(s) you need.
ComputerWorld has an article about OpenVMS which maintains a substantial user base in large organizations, and there's promise of new interest as it moves to 64-bit Itanium.
Recent news has covered the release of many new smart phones. We have the new Treo650, the new Sony P910, the new Audiovox PPC 6000, the new Blackberry 7100, and the new Nokia 6670. Recently, I've been speaking via email almost daily with my AT&T (now Cingular) rep. For some reason, the conversation always steers towards his wanting to push the latest from Nokia, Blackberry, etc.
The next version of Mandrakesoft's Linux distribution comes with Wi-Fi roaming capabilities, Bluetooth support and improved power management for laptop users.
Just a few months ago, it seemed like games on Mac OS X were going great. Battlefield 1942 was out for the Mac, as was Unreal Tournament 2004. There was Homeworld 2, SimCity 4, Myst IV, and Splinter Cell. But the PC gaming industry is now striking back again, with Halo 2*, Counterstrike Source, Half-Life 2, Star Wars Battlefront, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault, Battlefield 2, and many more, says X-Net.
Unicode, or the Universal Character Set (UCS), was developed to end once and for all the problems associated with the abundance of character sets used for writing text in different languages. It is a single character set whose goal is to be a superset of all others used before, and to contain every character used in writing any language (including many dead languages) as well as other symbols used in mathematics and engineering. Any charset can be losslessly converted to Unicode, as we'll see.
Get a comparison of the strengths of the two most common .NET data providers for Oracle, and be prepared to select the right one for your next development project. Elsewhere, Dino Esposito builds an ASP.NET 1.x custom control that mimics the behavior and the programming interface of the ASP.NET 2.0 DetailsView control.
"Wireless access is all the rage. Wireless this, wireless that. Hot spots are turning up everywhere. Many are free. Many have absolutely no security. There are several in my neighborhood. I have no idea who is running them, but at least one is wide open."Read the article at OnLamp. My Take: At my apartment complex there are 3 other wireless networks, except ours. Two of them are open! I even warned one of the guys to secure it, but he doesn't seem to care! Funny how people don't care about data security.
When it comes to digital gadgets, Europeans are not impressed by do-it-all devices that play songs and films, keep track of appointments and play video games, a new survey on Monday said. In a survey of 5,000 consumers from Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Spain and Italy, Jupiter Research found that 27 percent of respondents expressed a preference for a gadget that plays music only while just five percent are interested in buying a device that plays both music and video.
