The BBC's Click Online show this weekend carried a report on Apple's forthcoming OS, Tiger. The report focuses on Apple's move to introduce personal search technology in the release, called Spotlight. On other televised news, YellowTAB is now selling computers with Zeta in them, via the RTL TV Shop.

Nearly three years have passed since Microsoft Corp. released the last full version of Windows, the Redmond company's most important and profitable product. But when Bill Gates takes the stage tomorrow morning at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, he won't be launching a new generation of the flagship operating system. He'll be looking to stir up some new interest in the existing one.

It seems that the gnu-Darwin project announced release candidate 2 of 1.1 version of its distribution.

WindowSizer, the tiling window manager for Microsoft Windows, now allows you to create multiple tiled layouts and switch among them. Think of it as "Alt-Tabbing" through groups of windows at a time. The just released 1.4 version also has a command to quickly tile the last two, three, or four windows you were working with. Use WindowSizer through its right-click menu or keyboard shortcuts.

KDE developer Zack Rusin announced in his blog he just committed the QT Mozilla code. To start testing it, all you need to do is checkout mozilla, configure with --enable-default-toolkit=qt, and launch make.

Using a stolen password, Mallory managed to log into an important server running Linux. The account was a very limited account, but Mallory knew how to cause trouble with it. Mallory installed and ran a trivial program with very odd behavior. Learn what a race condition is and why it can cause security problems.

A new release candidate RC4 of NetBSD 2.0 has been tagged. The changes since RC3 include fixes for IP Filter (concerning IPv6 and better backwards compatibility with existing configurations), checksum processing for bridge interfaces, support for the Adaptec AAR 2810SA raid controller, linux compatibility and changes to the pagedaemon in order to improve performance under heavy disk load.

The company leading the AmigaOS4 project has announced the immediate availability for download of the first Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release update for registered Amiga OS 4.0 users. For an impression with regard to AmigaOS4's current state of development, within this recent show report there are links to some earlier demonstration videos.

Apple's server and storage offerings are helping the company overcome its reputation as the high-priced computing option.

This is a message from Patrick Volkerding in regards to his thoughts on Gnome and Slackware. It was originally posted on the Dropline Gnome Forum. Editor's note: Pat has made similar comments to me as well regarding Gnome's bugs and maintainance problems.

This bug-fixing version of GTK+ 2.4.11 fixes a number of bugs mostly in the file selector area. GLib 2.4.7 was also released.

Having prepared the FreeBSD 5.2 Netboot server, we can begin to configure our diskless workstations. Let's prepare the kernel and add it to the two-part filesystem (accessible for reading only and accessible for reading and writing) and finally create rc-scripts.

The 90 day evaluation JDS for Solaris 9 x86 can be downloaded (registration required).

When experienced Java developers hear about Groovy, their first reaction is often, "Oh, no, not another scripting language for Java." Ian Darwin had the same reaction, until he took a good look at Groovy. Elsewhere, metaprogramming with and without J2SE 5.0.