Basically, the author of cdrecord modified its license to not allow modifications of his code by distros without doing so in cooperation with the author.
Only two days behind schedule, the FreeBSD team released the first in a series of betas leading up to what will (possibly) become the 5.3-STABLE milestone. FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 one can be obtained from here or one of many mirrors. Release notes here.
BurningShadow has released LiveCD4, which is based on LiveCD3, but uses a RAM disk, which makes it more stable and easier to use. Unlike its predecessor, this CD doesn't require floppies or other writable storage to boot. The CD image is available for download here. An installation CD, InstCD1, is also available, with which you can get a system similar to that on LiveCD4 installed permanently.
European marketing director Paul Salazar admits there have been plenty of screw-ups along the way but that Red Hat is now working hard to please the open-source community and investors alike.
An independent researcher warned that an Internet Explorer vulnerability could turn drag-and-drop into drag-and-infect, even on computers updated with Microsoft's latest security patch.
When Lycoris released a new version of its popular Linux operating system, Desktop/LX 1.4, this week, it also debuted a new application integration infrastructure, nicknamed AI2 (A-I-squared).
The new version of open-source database PostgreSQL, which is already in beta, is expected to go into production within three months and will for the first time run natively on Windows.
Collecting debugging information from the Linux™ kernel using printk is a well-known method -- and with Kprobes, it can be done without the need to constantly reboot and rebuild the kernel. Kprobes, in combination with 2.6 kernels, provides a lightweight, non-disruptive, and powerful mechanism to insert printk's dynamically. Logging debug info such as the kernel stack trace, kernel data structures, and registers has never been so easy!
Firefox 1.0 has several new features that will greatly improve the user experience. Marcus wrote about three of them here. Our take: We hope they will support the rdf+xml type too (only rss+xml works atm).
"So, even if it doesn't catch on with your enterprise at large, Mac OS X Server will definitely contribute to the rising swell of Windows-alternative servers, and the open source community can always plunder its best features." says ServerWatch on their review of Panther Server. Elsewhere, ComputerWorld says that Apple Remote Desktop 2 is 'well worth the money'.
In the August 2004 IBM Power Architecture Community Newsletter Genesi's Sven Luther and Bill Buck describe the Avalanche Desktop Reference Management Platform where Genesi is currently working on together with Avalanche.
The first release candidate for the GNU-Darwin Distribution .v 1.1 for PowerPC is now available. Get the installer here. Is is built for Darwin 7.x including Panther. It ships with GNOME 2.6.1, GNUstep, GNUMail, MPlayer etc.
Who said .NET only runs on Windows? Builder AU have published an article to introduce developers to DotGNU and how to get .NET applications running on Linux and other flavours of UNIX.
Xandros recently released version 2.5 of their Linux Desktop OS. This new release is available as 2 different options, the Deluxe Desktop and the Business Desktop. This review will focus on the Business Desktop release.
Release 0.41 of Visopsys is now online at visopsys.org (freshmeat announcement). It is largely a supplemental (and bugfix) release for the recent 0.4 version, but continues where 0.4 left off in terms of improving the overall look and usability, as well as providing a few new user tools to experiment with.
This article guides you through the steps to install IBM DB2 Universal Database Personal Edition V8.1.6, as well as the IBM Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE), with minimal fuss and frustration. Developers who are new to Linux or UNIX-based operating systems will get the most out of this article.
