"Mac OS X Server "Tiger" features Xgrid, iChat and Blog server", "Apple seeds Safari 1.3 DP1, Java 1.5 DP to developers", "An inside look at Safari 1.3 Developer Preview", "Apple Remote Desktop 2 based on open source VNC goes cross-platform", "Apple Readies Search Technology For Macs", "Apple Putting More Focus on Simplifying Searching" and "Apple releasing new search-enhanced system".

A Task Force Team of KDE and Knoppix hackers and enthusiasts created "just in time" for LinuxTag 2004 two programs which harvested an overwhelming response from visitors: FreeNX Server and kNX Client. Although not yet officially released, several presentations showed a well working preview of the KDE version for the speed boosting NX Terminal Server technology. The software will be available soon at Kalyxo.org. Read more here.

Sun finally released a preview of Project Looking Glass. Sources are of course included, and it's GPL-ed. Project Looking Glass is/should_be a revolutionary new aproach to the way we interact with the applications, the biggest change to GUI in 20 years. I wonder if 21" is enough, cause having 20 windows folded like the ones in the screen-shots should be a bit troublesome at 'only' 1600x1200.

Let me make it clear. I'm not a fan of Apple. I think that their products are overhyped, overpriced and underperforming. If you're looking for a fair unbiased opinion, you're looking in the wrong place. You've been warned. So, I was at Steve Jobs' 2004 WWDC keynote yesterday, attempting to take pictures for OSNews (an amazingly hard task, by the way, which really explained why people pay big bucks for big lenses equipped with image stabilizers). UPDATE: Stop reading right there, I have rewritten & updated the article here.

The FreeDOS Project turns 10 years old today! PD-DOS was announced to the world on June 28, 1994. The PD-DOS project was later renamed to the FreeDOS Project. More here.

Well, Apple's done it again. They've seen a really cool (but simple) idea implemented in a third party shareware app and they've *ahem* been inspired by it to create some new functionality in the new version of Mac OS. This year's victim: Konfabulator. A short article at Mac Critic outlines the other "inspiration."

Here is a lenghty but in-depth look at what it takes to customize the Windows GUI.

Seth Nickell put together a PDF file on the Storage concept and he also commented on his blog on it.

This article describes Performance Inspector, which contains a suite of performance tools for Linux. The author describes how to download and install the required software and tools, and how to collect performance data. She also provides details on how to use the five basic tools, which you can use to analyze performance of your C/C++ and Java apps, as well as performance of your system as a whole.

DistroWatch includes a quick how-to on how to update your Slackware 10 to use a newer kernel.

The GNOME 2.6.2 Desktop and Developer Platform has been released: this point release from the stable branch of the GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform contains a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the previously released 2.6.1 version.

Sun is putting into the hands of the open-source community Project Looking Glass, its next-generation, 3-D Linux desktop system that has been receiving rave reviews.

New embedded device software fuels innovation with expanded feature set and additional source code access, Microsoft said. Elsewhere, you can see a Windows CE Feature-By-Feature comparison.

Most enablement efforts, for existing code using batch-oriented grid infrastructure software, are similar. There's a pattern you can follow. You can use this pattern to achieve the first three strategies of grid adoption.