The Pegasos user group had a look at the developer pre-release version of AmigaOS4.

This article gives an overview of Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft's version control technology, and provides a look at where this technology is headed in the future.

From the PearPC site: "The most important change of this release is certainly that network now also works with Windows as host. Since we now have conditional redraw code, you can take a smaller redraw interval without dramatic speed decrease. With this release, you can switch the screen resolution (i.e. the size of the window) at runtime via the video.x driver. Note that there are some small config file changes, so please update your config file from the shipped ppccfg.example."

Sun's Java Desktop has been something of a surprise hit, both for Sun and the Linux desktop arena. With major deals such as 200 million seats sold into China already brokered, it is already proving itself a successful alternative to Windows. With a recent refresh, in the form of JDS2, and much enthusiasm for the three-dimensional Looking Glass desktop, it seemed a good time to get to the bottom of Sun's desktop strategy. PCPro managed to grab a few minutes with Peder Ulander, Senior Director, Marketing Desktop Solutions, Sun Microsystems.

Among the products SCO announced were version 7.1.4 of its UnixWare software, accompanied by new editions for small businesses and for embedded devices such as slot machines; updates to calendar and e-mail server software; authentication software to ease login troubles in mixed Unix-Windows environments; and an OpenServer overhaul called Legend, based on the UnixWare kernel.

There are times when a directory needs watched.  For reasons of its own, a program may need to know when a file is deleted, updated or renamed.  If .NET is involved, this is a trivial task.  Create an instance of the FileSystemWatcher; set some properties, and the task is completed.  If a non .NET solution is required (and regardless of the hype, some people haven’t embraced .NET in all of its glory.), the ReadDirectoryChangesW function must be used, however the documentation for ReadDirectoryChangesW is sketchy at best.

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has been released. Release and download infromation can be obtained here. Major changes include a new extension manager, a new theme manager, improved tools for migrating from IE as well as various performance and stability enhancements. A review can be found here.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday released the Release Candidate for its Virtual Server 2005 software and announced that the product would ship by the end of the year in two versions: an Enterprise Edition and a Standard Edition. While the features remain the same across the two product versions, the Standard Edition will support up to four CPUs while the Enterprise Edition will support up to 32 physical CPUs.

Here is a comparison of a C and Java speech librarywhere the Java version is 2-3 times faster, with server VM configuration. And here are some more C++ and java comparisons, with various algorithms. Elsewhere, Java 1.5 is 20% faster than C says JavaLobby. And some of our tests.

After a (somewhat) long discussion in the FreeBSD 'current@' and 'hackers@' mailing lists concerning the status of KSE in -CURRENT, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have decided to drop tier-ness of the alpha port to Tier-2 before 5.3 hits the road. This means, among other things, that 4-STABLE will be the last FreeBSD -STABLE branch for the alpha platform.

An Internet security firm claims to have found the first worm in the wild for Symbian OS, and it spreads via Bluetooth.

"While we can only speculate about Sun's motivations, it is fair to point out that emulation is a sign of respect. We emulate mentors, teachers or role models. Imitation, on the other hand, is a sign of flattery. We imitate rivals or competitors. Perhaps, in the long run, this distinction will provide all the insight we need into Sun's decision." Read the editorial at LinuxInsider.

"Ever seen some Linux application and thought: "the source is available, why can't we have that on RISC OS?" And indeed, because of the efforts that have been made on the GCC port for RISC OS and its C library, Unixlib, this is possible for a large number of Unix applications." Read the article at Drobe.

DotGNU has been ported to SkyOS. With help from the developers of DotGNU, the CLI is now available for SkyOS. Compilers, runtimes, and various tools are already fully-functional. Launching C# programs compiled in SkyOS, Windows, or Linux works. DotGNU will be tightly integrated into the system. In progress now: porting of all remaining classes of the mscorlib.