O'Reilly's upcoming Mono: A Developer's Notebook walks you through nearly 50 mini-projects that will introduce you to the most important and compelling aspects of the 1.0 release. This article, which shows you how to install Mono on Windows, how Gtk# works, and how to write a simple Gtk# program, is just the sort of mini-project you'll find in the book.

This bit of interview with DragonflyBSD's core from ONLamp's BSD advocacy page will give you a nice introduction into what is DragonflyBSD, how it evolved from FreeBSD's 4.x series.

The bug-fixed GLib-2.4.4 is now available for download here. UPDATE: And here is GTK+ 2.4.4.

GeekPatrol put together some benchmark results (using XBench) for the last 3 versions of Mac OS X (only read the numbers, the percentages are calculated wrong). Tiger is close to Panther overall, but the final version will probably be faster as it will be further optimized and without debug symbols.

Discussions for the future of XOrg are up at Freedesktop.org.

While iPods sizzle, Macs and laptops are sluggish, says Alex Salkever. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's how to get that computer market share surging.

This article provides an overview of the generics feature in Visual Basic 2005, and explains the basic concepts involved in defining and using generics and their usefulness to the Visual Basic developer.

Collaborating with co-workers in the same office is painful enough, but it's nigh impossible over a network. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have designed a new system that cleverly blends a video-conference feed with a transparent image of a computer desktop into one full-screen window.

Jython is an alternate languages for the Java Runtime Environment. Its an implementation of the popular scripting language Python, but running on a JVM. For Python developers Jython is the best possible entry point to the Java platform; for Java developers it may be the strongest incentive to learn another language. This article introduces Jython and shows you what it can do to enhance your productivity on the Java platform.

The first release candidate shows strong virtual machine management—from Windows 2003 servers.

"Analysis Try to imagine a geeky version of famed salesman Ron Popeil. Keep Popeil's exuberance, keep his pitchman savvy and keep his verbal overflow. Then erase his age, sturdy frame and Ronco Food Dehydrator and replace all this with a young, lanky kernel engineer hawking something called DTrace, and you have Bryan Cantrill." Read the rest at TheRegister.

This article is a quick overview of scheduling in operating systems and presents Bossa, a research project on operating system schedulers and domain-specific languages.

Trolltech has announced the availability of the first Qt 4 Technical Preview. Qt 4, the next major release of the popular cross-platform C++ application framework.

The KOffice team is brings you the second bugfix package that builds upon the successful 1.3 version.