Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 3.4.1. Mark explains, "there are no new features in this release, but there are a lot of improvements for various languages and architectures."
Given the number of reviews floating around detailing people's first experiences with every Linux distro under the sun, I thought it might be entertaining to take a light-hearted look at my early experiences with my first Mac.
The code for release candidate 2 finally looks like a real release candidate. And sure enough, it will help you big-time with security. But what sorts of headaches will the eventual final version mean for IT shops? InformationWeek takes it piece by piece.
Linux is not after Microsoft. Linux is chasing Unix out of the enterprise server scene. Why not Microsoft? Well, its because Microsoft apparently has not completely succeeded in the data center league.
Libranet is a debian based distribution and is a progeny of Libra Computer Systems Ltd. The platypus has written a review of the free trial of libranet 2.8.1 at his site.
Brad Abrams describes the System namespace, which is the root of all namespaces in the .NET Framework, containing all other namespaces as subordinates. Elsewhere, in another chapter, Dan Kent picks apart the code of the online community application seeing how it works.
The choice of software to run our computers can get awfully depressing. On one hand, there's Windows XP expensive and woefully insecure, but it works on almost every machine out there. On the other, there's Mac OS X -- far more secure, but also expensive and restricted to Apple's own computers.
Some people prefer the convenience of pre-compiled binaries in the form of RPMs or other such installer methods. But this can be a false economy, especially with programs that are used frequently: precompiled binaries will never run as quickly as those compiled with the right optimizations for your own machine. If you use a distributed compiler, you get the best of both worlds: fast compile and faster apps. This article shows you the benifits of using distcc, a distributed C compiler based on gcc, that gives you significant productivity gains.
Sun Microsystems is grappling with applying an open-source philosophy to its Java software as the company weighs risks and benefits over whether it should jump in further or not. But some experts are suggesting a middle ground.
Rael Dornfest, co-author of Mac OS X Panther Hacks, has selected these three hacks from the book for your sampling pleasure. The first two detail how to find anyone in your Address Book who has an Amazon Wish List, and how to build a GUI to your Unix scripts with a bit of Perl/Python; the third is fun.
After a number of requests from the community, Bash and Coreutils have been ported to SkyOS. With GCC and Make already ported, it will now be much easier to port/compile Unix-compatible applications. In other news, SkyOS 5.0 beta 7 will be available to beta testers on Monday, and will feature, among other things, multi-user support. Elsewhere, Syllable just got a Voodoo3/4/5 driver.
This article covers Win32 API mapping, particularly process, thread, and shared memory services to Linux on POWER. The article can help you decide which of the mapping services best fits your needs. The author takes you through the APIs mapping he faced while porting a Win32 C/C++ application.
Apple says the client and server versions of Mac OS X "Tiger" sport powerful changes under the hood, but there are also noticeable improvements to the interface. Here's a slideshow showing some features.
It may sound idiotically simple, but according to technology's leading seer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, searching for information -- not sorting it -- is the wave of the future.
What is FreeSBIE? Simply: It's a live system on compact disk (CD), or an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any installation process, without any hard disk. It's based on the FreeBSD operating system. Here's how to build a cluster using it.
