Apple reported its quarterly profit had more than doubled on strong sales of its iPod digital music player & laptops, and said revenue and earnings for the current quarter would top Wall Street estimates.
This is Marcel Gagné's third book with Addison-Wesley following, Linux System Administration: A User's Guide and Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!. Marcel is also the well-respected author of Linux Journal's, Cooking with Linux. The author has written this excellent book with near-perfect timing.
Ubuntu Linux is a new Debian-based distro sponsored by Canonical Ltd. NewsForge spent a week using Ubuntu and came away impressed, despite some of its obvious teething pains. Update: A release candidate of Ubuntu Linux 4.10 is now available.
Virtual PC is a powerful software virtualization solution that allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously on one workstation, providing a safety net to maintain compatibility with legacy applications while you migrate to a new operating system. It also saves reconfiguration time, so your support, development, and training staff can work more efficiently. This is a 45-day time-out, full version of the Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 product. No serial number is required.
This guide describes in detail the installation process for a dual boot computer with Debian GNU/ Linux as well as some configuration guidelines. As an addition this guide has a section for bio-informatics tools installation.
Apple and PC users alike criticised Motorola when the G4 CPUs failed to keep pace with the aggressive clock speed ramping of processors from AMD and Intel. The newly announced 8641D with dual cores, dual DDR-II memory controllers and more is set to change all that.
Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz is in Sydney to meet with government and corporate clients. His outspoken, maverick views frequently put him at odds with his competitors as Computerworld's Rodney Gedda discovered in an interview yesterday.
"A headline like that is bound to draw the ire of the Macintosh faithful. After all, since Microsoft, which can marshal its forces and target competitors at will with lethal precision, hasn’t finished-off Apple after all these years (and I’m not saying that this was necessarily a Redmond goal), how on earth can an operating system like Linux spell trouble for Apple?"Read the comentary at ZDNet by David Berlind.
MontaVista, a Californian start-up has proposed a hard real-time response system for Linux, but the proposal has already been rubbished by Linus Torvalds.
Sun Microsystems has taken the wraps off a new version of its Java Desktop System (JDS) running on its Solaris OS. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker, which made its JDS Release 2 software available this past weekend, said it has now ported the desktop environment to Solaris running Intel and AMD x86-based servers and workstations.
I love Skype. The concept is nothing new, it is an Internet Telephony application: years have passed with people talking to each other for free over the Internet, and it has always been considered cool. However traditional telephones are on everyone's desk today as they were three decades ago, despite that most of these desks now feature PCs connected with fat pipes to the Web.
KDE 3.3.1 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and greatly enhanced support for existing translations and new translations.
Maui, Hawaii-based MXS announced Tuesday the release of Cherry OS, an emulator that lets PCs run Mac OS X. The virtual machine emulated by Cherry OS sports full network capabilities and has complete access to the host computer's hardware resources -- hard drive, CPU, RAM, FireWire, USB, PCI, PCMCIA bus, Ethernet networking and modem. It purportedly runs at about 80 percent of the performance of the host CPU, according to the developer.
CEO Steve Jobs says among other practices, it's "saying no to 1,000 things" so as to concentrate on the "really important" creations. Elsewhere, a forthcoming update to Apple's Mac OS X 10.3 Panther operating system nears release as the company provides documentation of its feature set.
Bill Gates unveils plans to make Media Center software the centerpiece of the digital home. Brand-name PC makers debut a host of new PCs that feature Microsoft's Media Center 2005 software.
On Tuesday, Novell Inc. announced that it will use its patent portfolio to protect its open-source software offerings. In a policy statement, Novell said it will utilize its patent portfolio to defend against potential intellectual property attacks on its open-source products.
Microsoft on Tuesday published 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 new flaws that affect the company's products.
Mandrake Community Edition is the bleeding edge of the Mandrake development cycle. This is the release where the good folks over at Mandrake put the final test on new features and squash all the bugs they can before the final release. The ISOs are available through MandrakeClub for download before anyone else gets to see it. So is it worth your hard-earned cash to join the club? Is 10.1 going to be worth the upgrade? Find out in this review, fresh off the presses at LinuxForumsDOTorg. OSDir is also featuring a slideshow of Mandrake 10.1 screenshots.
With Microsoft Corp.'s recent announcements that it will separate WinFS from the next major release of Windows and the release of Visual Studio 2005, not due for another six months, developers are looking to third-party vendors for certain functionality support now.
"My conclusion is this, for a SOHO Business system that wants to get more useable life out of their computer systems I cannot think of a better Linux system out there."Read the review at DesktopOS.
