The BeO5Max project has just released their first beta of BeOS 5 PE Max Edition V3. Currently the ISO comes in multiple .rar files but a single .zip is expected today. Because of the nature of the BFS filesystem, BeO5Max has a non-standard way of burning ISOs, so make sure you read here & here.

That's what Bill Joy, Silicon Valley legend, says that markets need to do, but don't (free reg. req.).

There is a new version of the GNUstep LIVE CD, version 0.5. All GNUstep was software updated, and alot new GNUstep software added. New game: Supertux. Debian GNU/Hurd K6 mini iso included. LaTeX, TeXmacs, Emacs added. TV software. Web browsers are dillo and links2. QTParted.

This document aims to explain the feasibility of image processing using GTK. The document scratches the surface when it comes to explaining the nook & corner of Image processing theory. It shows examples of pixel based filters and convolution filters. Developers are asked to rewrite the doc to GTK#.

The software maker's decision to extend support for many of its products reflects a new reality: Customers are increasingly reluctant to update major software components every few years just to keep up with Microsoft's shipment schedules.

LinuxGazette .net and .com have a few interesting articles to share with us: "A Bare-Bones Guide to Firewalls", "Firewalling with netfilter/iptables", "Experiments with Kernel 2.6 on a Hyperthreaded Pentium 4" and "Timers in Linux". At O'Reilly you can find "Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting".

A review of VMWare 4.5 appeared at Hernan Di Pietro's HDP Tools Site including a test of VMWare 4.5 running Windows Server 2003.

This was a letter I recently wrote to Sun's head of global communications, Russ Castronovo, after reading his interview with Chuck Talk on orangecrate.com, and then reading the ongoing pro-/anti-Mono arguments over at PlanetGnome. Now that Sun seems to be on the brink of making the decision to open-source Java (or not to), I thought it would be an appropriate time to take action.

Here’s a billion-dollar question: Why are Windows users besieged by security exploits, but Mac users are not? John Gruber is discussing why this happens and ultimately concludes that it doesn't matter why, what it matters is that you can't argue with facts.

GTK+ and GLib 2.4.2 are released. This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with 2.4.0. There are a considerable number of fixes in this release, especially in the areas of GtkFileChooser, GtkComboBox and GtkEntryCompletion. Also, a problem on Solaris has been fixed.

Desktop/LX 1.4 (formerly known as Update 4) is coming in July. It features an updated desktop powered by KDE 3.2.2 and its newer kernel supports even more hardware.

Contrary to published reports, Sun has not made a decision as to whether or not to release its Java platform under an open source software license, company executives said Friday.

PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some. Depending on how you count, it was early 1994 when the first BeOS version left the Be, Inc. offices and headed toward Be's "partners" and "developers". It was 1994 when the word started to spread around among geeks about this "new and exciting" OS and soon, external devs got access to it.

In what could be a sign of things to come, Microsoft Corp. is offering a small sweetener to its Software Assurance licensing program. From this week the company will allow servers used for disaster recovery to carry copies of its Windows server software at no extra cost. Update: Elsewhere, IBM this week relaxed stringent requirements for running the highest-end version of its Windows server software, effectively lowering the overall price 30 percent in some cases and potentially expanding the pool of interested customers.