Portage on Mac OS X

  Submitted by Grimaldy Soto macOS 16 Comments
Almost exactly one year after the idea of porting Portage to MacOS X came up - and the joint Metapkg initiative between Fink, Darwinports and Gentoo took off - a 20-head-strong developer team around Pieter van den Abeele (strategic lead) and Daniel Ostrow (operational) is now ready to release an extraordinary beast into the wild: Gentoo MacOS.
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Why Mono is significant

Mono 108 Comments
Mono, which released version 1.0 last month, is significant in several ways: it offers the potential to unite the open source communities for Windows, Linux, and other platforms; it fulfills the niche for a powerful migration tool; it builds upon existing open source technologies such as Mozilla and Apache; and -- most importantly -- it illustrates the resolve of the open source community to rise to MS' challenge.
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Boot Linux from a FireWire device

  Submitted by ShailDawg Linux 2 Comments
Say you want to use Linux in a dual-boot arrangement, but you don't have any free space on your computer's hard drive. One solution would be to use a "live" Linux distribution such as Knoppix, which can be run directly from CD. This is certainly viable for occasional use, but it has a number of serious drawbacks.
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Companies brace for Microsoft update

Windows 57 Comments
The changes in the way Windows polices itself - particularly the newly strengthened firewall - could cause troubles for applications that are used to working with Windows' old ways. Security experts say it's tough to know how many companies may have to change their products to be compatible. However, to bring good overall security to Windows, these sacrifices needed to be made.
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Whitepaper: “New Directions in RTOS Kernels”

  Submitted by David Kalinsky OS News 15 Comments
This technical overview by veteran real-time lecturer David Kalinsky examines a number of directions in which RTOSs continue to change and mature. Two main directions are alternative task scheduling algorithms, and intertask communication via asynchronous direct message passing. In order to keep at a practical level, the focus is on trends and features that can be expected to appear in RTOSs soon.
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The Avalon Team Introduces 3-D Features; Understanding WinFS

Windows 23 Comments
This column explores the type system used when programming the WinFS platform. The sample download shows you how to work with the WinFS type system using the WinFS API. The WinHEC 2004 build of Avalon contains new features that enable you to easily add three-dimensional (3-D) content to your Avalon applications. This article introduces you to the 3-D functionality currently available and how it may evolve in the future and addresses the differences between Avalon and DirectX and discusses which technology may be best for your application.
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IBM pursues software installation standard

IBM 23 Comments
IBM unveiled technology intended to reduce complexity in software installation and packaging and has submitted it to the W3C for consideration as an industry standard. Dubbed Solution Installation for Autonomic Computing, the technology enables software developers and software vendors to improve the installation and support experience and simplify the software packaging process, according to IBM. Developers would be able to build packaged software for installation on a variety of platforms.
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A New Direction for Java

  Submitted by kaiwai Java 21 Comments
Where exactly is Java technology going? It all depends on which aspect of Java one chooses. No doubt, this open platform presents many opportunities—and a few roadblocks—to IT innovators and customers. Elsewhere, this blog entry discusses the problems that SUN is facing how they should be addressed.
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