Modern operating systems give you the possibility to encrypt filesystems. Or virtual filesystem as the loopback ones. This article discuss two ways of getting an encrypted loopback on linux.
In this screenshot you can see an updated /lib folder serving BeOS. In the folder, every library present, with the exception of libbe, libroot (and libGL which it comes from the MESA project) are Haiku libs. Hopefully, soon Haiku will be able to replace and extend on the original BeOS. On related news, IsComputerOn is now the distributors of YellowTAB's Zeta in North America.
In this interview, Chris Schlaeger, Vice President R&D for SUSE/Novell and long time KDE contributer, talks about Novells desktop plans, OpenOffice.org Integration, Groupwise support in KDE's instant messanger Kopete, the Kontact groupware client as well as the integration of the Gecko rendering engine into Konqueror. He also shares interesting opinions and ideas for the future of KDE.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Many things have changed since 1.0. The R language has acquired namespaces, exception handling constructs, formal methods and classes, much improved garbage collection, generalized I/O via connection objects, and considerable improvements in the graphics area. The user workspace has been reorganized, and so has the set of packages that ship with R. Several "recommended packages" deemed indispensable in a statistical system are bundled.
The current implementation of generics in .NET 2.0 does a very good job to make typed collections faster and more easy to use. But as many people have noticed, it leaves much to be desired when you want to do calculations with generic types.
Novell has claimed that its forthcoming SuSE Linux Professional 9.2 distribution will appeal to "Linux newcomers" as well as technical enthusiasts. Also, Novell's Nat Friedman, vice-president of its desktop technology group, said open source vendors work off a modular, flexible development model that allows them to deliver new features to customers more regularly than Microsoft. Novell has also said Microsoft's Longhorn delay will give it more time to push iFolder, which, like WinFS, stores data in a user's real file system and tracks metadata in a separate location.
The past few years have been a roller coaster ride for Paris-based Mandrakesoft, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2003, emerged in March 2004 with a nine-month plan to repay its creditors, thanks in part to the company's first profitable quarter in the Q4 2003. Read the interview here. Elsewhere, a new version of the Mandrakelinux live CD, "Move", has been released.
Whatever pleasantries once existed between Sun and Red Hat have vanished. This won't come as a shock to many of you. The companies have been jawing in the press for some time. The extent, however, of Sun's loathing for Red Hat is more profound than many imagine, with Sun's CEO Scott McNealy largely confirming a shared attack with Microsoft against the Linux vendor.
Turbolinux today announced the anticipated release of Turbolinux 10 Server (10S). Turbolinux 10S significantly expands on the high performance capabilities of its first-generation predecessor, Turbolinux 8 Server, released in October of 2002.
The first bootable release of McOS Re 0.4.1 is available. McOS Re is a project dedicated to the re-creation of the Traditional Mac OS. The first goal is to be source- and binary-compatible with native PowerPC code for Mac OS.
We're a small, Open Source software vendor that's been offering a variant of an Open Source CRM since 2000. We have some large corporate clients with significant installations and hundreds and hundreds of users with smaller ones. Our product is called
Centric CRM though until recently it was known as Dark Horse CRM.
This article discusses a topic that is often discussed among Java developers, and raised as a problem with Java's license by GPL advocates. What would happen to Java if Sun were to go out of business or be aquired by another company? Unfortunately, the article really doesn't give any answers. It only raises more questions and leaves room for lots of discussion.
Microsoft is developing versions of Windows with only a subset of its code base, designed for specific server tasks. The intention is to reduce maintenance costs and create products that are less vulnerable to attack, and so tackle head-on the threat posed by Linux.
PatchBurn is a tool to patch existing CD/DVD-drivers (under Mac-OS X 10.2.x) or to generate and install new device profiles (under Mac-OS 10.3.x and later). It allows many, otherwise unsupported burners to be used directly with Mac OS X, iTunes and DiscBurner. It has given life to my (otherwise unsupported) external SONY DVD-/+RW drive and so it comes recommended. PatchBurn is harmless, as all it does is create a new description profile for the drive so OSX knows how to deal with it.
GNU/Linux, and all other operating systems, are based around a kernel which controls hardware access and maximizes CPU and RAM efficiency by controlling when and how much programs get to use. The difference between Linux and most other operating systems (closed source ones at least BSD and other open source OS's you can do this with) is that you can compile the kernel to meet your needs.
Here you can find a show report of last weekend's multi-platform 'Fun of Computing 2004' event which was held in Ilmenau, Germany. The highlight was a demonstration of AmigaOS4. These presentation sheets from a French Amiga event which was held one week prior to this event, shows the current development status of AmigaOS4.
