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Product review: Fedora Linux Core II

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-06 Fedora Core 27 Comments

Despite its description as a technology proving ground, Fedora II provides Linux users with a good Linux desktop experience. For veteran Linux users, Fedora II will provide you with the productivity tools you need and the latest stable open-source technology. You can even use the Red Hat up-to-date service for free to keep your desktop current. Read Tom Adelstein's product review of Fedora Linux Core II.

SkyOS Gets Deeper into GTK+; SkyNews Monthly July Available

Submitted by Thom Holwerda 2004-08-06 SkyOS 51 Comments

SkyOS now has more GTK+ applications to enrich its application base: Gaim and Sylpheed-Claws being the latest ports. The project also made available a beta for their upcoming Software Store. Elsewhere, the SkyOS Monthly newsletter has been released with articles about SkyFS/BeFS and the chances of SkyOS succeeding as a business.

A Review of Yoper Linux V2

Guest post by Tarun Agnani 2004-08-05 Linux 39 Comments

Yoper Linux V2 was released a few weeks ago (July 13, 2004). After reading the release announcement on Yoper's website, I decided I had to try it. Yoper claims that version V2 "is the fastest Out-of-the-Box Linux system in the World".

Networking Security Concepts

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-05 Internet 11 Comments

This article covers some of the main components and techniques for securing your corporate network. Before you select which component(s) you need for your security model, decide how you want to lay it out, what protocols to use, and what hardware/software combinations are within your budget's grasp.

The Event Completion Framework for the Solaris Operating System

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-05 Solaris 6 Comments

Within the Solaris 10 OS, the event completion framework focuses on providing a scalable, performant & extendable framework that can incorporate new object & event types as they appear within the system.

SGI Irix 6.5.25 Released

Submitted by Robert Blake 2004-08-05 SGI and IRIX 2 Comments

SGI has released IRIX 6.5.25 to individuals/companies with a support contract, 6.5.22m overlays are avaliable to all supportfolio members. In a few days the release notes will appear here.

Sun responds to Microsoft on WSTest

Submitted by jayson knight 2004-08-05 Benchmarks 13 Comments

On June 23, 2004, Sun published a whitepaper showcasing superior JavaTM 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) web services performance when compared to Microsoft's .NET. Microsoft published a response on July 14th refuting claims and stating that in their tests .NET performance was higher than Java Web Services. More here and a reply from Microsoft here.

OpenBSD: Adding SGI O2 Architecture Support

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-05 OpenBSD 4 Comments

OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt recently announced that support for the SGI O2 architecture was soon going to be imported, primarily in an effort to hunt down and fix bugs in the OpenBSD codebase.

Refactoring C# Code Using Visual Studio 2005; .Net 2.0 Changelog

Submitted by Wyatt Preul 2004-08-05 .NET 2 Comments

This article examines the role of code refactoring, and the refactoring techniques supported by Visual Studio 2005. Elsewhere, view the latest changes that are going to be a part of .Net.

Highlights from Apple’s quarterly SEC filing

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-05 Apple 5 Comments

Apple filed its quarterly report (SEC form 10-Q) with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. In the filing, which is available as a 86-page PDF document, Apple discloses several details on net and unit sales, its retail stores, education sales, lawsuits and more.

Debian Sarge Release update

Eugenia Loli 2004-08-05 Debian 28 Comments

Steve Langasek of Debian is introducing the release schedule for a new Debian release.

History of the PowerPC architecture

Submitted by Ulrich Hobelmann 2004-08-05 IBM 7 Comments

Ars Technica has an article on the beginning of the PowerPC era with the usual coverage on CPU internals and the involvement of Apple.

The decline and fall of the Wintel empire

Submitted by Jason Knight 2004-08-05 Microsoft 16 Comments

Waking up rich and confused. That's how one analyst explained the recurring product delays at Microsoft, and the principle can describe similar problems at chip giant Intel. Instead of waking up sick and washed out, employees at these companies are seemingly dawdling a bit because of past successes and a hazy outlook, says C|NET News.

Collaboration in a secure development process, part 1

Submitted by LogError 2004-08-05 Privacy, Security No Comments

This paper discusses the collaboration between security and development in the enterprise software development lifecycle.

The Problem with .NET Generics

Guest post by Rüdiger Klaehn 2004-08-05 .NET 47 Comments

One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.