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Jef Raskin talks to the Guardian’s Jason Walsh

Submitted by Anonymous 2004-10-21 Apple 74 Comments

Jef Raskin was one of the creators of the Mac and invented the click-and-drag interface. Click for his interview.

Xandros Desktop OS Version 3 Beta Rolling Out

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-20 Oracle and SUN 16 Comments

Xandros today announced its beta test program for the forthcoming version 3.0 of the award-winning Xandros Desktop Operating System (OS). Novice to expert users interested in beta testing the latest enhancements to Xandros desktop technology are invited to apply at the Xandros web site.

Updated AmigaOS4 SDK Available

Mike Bouma 2004-10-20 Amiga & AROS 4 Comments

Closely following the update for the AmigaOS4 Pre-release, the updated Software Dev Kit (SDK) is now also available. Meanwhile some first people have been able to buy Mini-ITX MicroA1-C boards and last weekend at a British Amiga Party one was even raffled amongst its visitors. Also some first photographs of the Micro AmigaOne Industrial motherboard (aka u-A1-I) have been revealed at the party.

What to select for Servers: Windows 2003 or UNIX?

Guest post by Alejandro Tamayo Castillo 2004-10-20 Rumors 118 Comments

In this article I will analyze the features and costs to select which is the best operating system for servers as well as the services that each one of them brings to us.

Announcing Ubuntu 4.10

Submitted by Alan Moser 2004-10-20 Ubuntu 72 Comments

The warm-hearted Warthogs of the Warty Team are proud to present the very first release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a new Linux distribution that brings together the extraordinary breadth of Debian with a fast and easy install, regular releases (every six months), a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of security and technical support. Update: A selection of screenshots from the final version.

FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 Released

Submitted by Joel Dahl 2004-10-20 FreeBSD 27 Comments

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC1. This will likely be the only Release Candidate before the final release of 5.3.

FBI supplier readies secure Linux

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-20 Linux 14 Comments

Trusted Computer Solutions is branching out from its Solaris roots with a secure version of Linux, due out in spring 2005.

Doing the GNUstep two-step

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-20 OpenStep, GNUstep 24 Comments

GNUstep LiveCD is an implementation of NeXT Computer's OpenStep programming environment on a Morphix bootable CD base. The CD is currently at version 0.5, and its pre-release status shows. GNUstep LiveCD is buggy and ineffective as a development environment, and isn't yet ready for use in the real world, says NewsForge.

Ballmer: We need a $100 PC

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-20 Microsoft 74 Comments

What's one of Steve Ballmer's biggest headaches? It's not Linux or security breaches. It's piracy, the Microsoft CEO said Wednesday.

An Ocean and Synth look at JDK 5.0

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-20 Java 8 Comments

Now that Tiger is an official release, it's time to explore even more exciting differences between the 1.4 version of the Java 2 Standard Edition platform and 5.0 of the Java 2 Development Kit. In this installment of Taming Tiger, UI expert John Zukowski explores the newly available Ocean and Synth look and feels. Now, even non-programmers can develop custom look and feels without writing code or having the benefit of a good eye!

Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 2.2 released

Submitted by Ralf S. Engelschall 2004-10-20 In the News 2 Comments

The OpenPKG project released version 2.2 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software packaging facility. OpenPKG 2.2 consists of 528 selected (from a pool of 800) packages, all carefully packaged for easy deployment on 18 different Unix platforms. Focusing on portability and isolation, OpenPKG 2.2 places greater emphasis on reducing underlying Unix system requirements.

Increase stability and responsiveness by short-circuiting code

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-20 Java 3 Comments

Keep your Web applications running when tasks lock up. High volume Web sites often require asynchronous or threaded operations to achieve target performance criteria. While threads in Web containers are considered bad practice, the alternative is for developers to make blocking calls to code they cannot control. It becomes important that dependencies of this nature fail-fast. This developerWorks article covers a homegrown short-circuit pattern that ensures threaded execution and completion of a process in a fixed window of time.

More info on Mac OS X Tiger

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-20 macOS 37 Comments

Here's an article titled 'Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview'. It builds on the information presented on the Mac OS X Tiger Sneak Preview Site on apple.com and adds information that will be of interest to developers. Elsewhere, AppleInsider has new juicy details based on newer builds of Tiger.

This article provides a tour through some Mono programs, along with details about how you can start experimenting with them yourself. Not all of the programs featured here are finished products, but they're all exciting and show off interesting aspects of Mono. Even more Mono applications can be found at GnomeFiles.org: We should add to the list the excellent PolarViewer and SportTracker (they go together), and of course, GCursor#, CSBoard, Galaxium Messenger, SkyNET and GLyrics among others like Bless, fewnn, GFax, WoodPusher, CDCollect and Kurush.

Memory management PDF paper

Eugenia Loli 2004-10-19 General Development 5 Comments

Here's a quick introduction to protected mode memory management for IA32.