From NMC: Speaking from the Wall Street Journal's D: "All Things Digital" conference last monday in Carlsbad, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a number of interesting statements. Most notably, Jobs confirmed that Apple had designed its own PDA device, but canned the project just prior to bringing it to market. Jobs also hinted that the company is not working on a hybrid PDA/phone device.

Apple announced three new dual-CPU Power Mac G5 configurations, with the fastest model topping out at 2.5GHz using liquid-cooling. The new high-end systems miss the 3GHz mark that Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company would achieve at last year's WWDC, but Tom Boger, Apple's Director of Power Mac Product Marketing said it came down to a technology challenge that was bigger than they expected. Boger also said today that users shouldn't expect to see a PowerBook G5 before the end of the year because of the challenges of putting the G5 in a small enclosure, and also hinted difficulties to put it on an iMac. Also, Apple discontinued the remaining G4 Power Macs while released iTunes 4.6.

On June 9th 2004, the KDE Project released KDE 3.2.3. Read the detailed KDE 3.2.3 change log. For packages, please visit the KDE 3.2.3 info page and browse the KDE 3.2 Requirements list.

Xandros has just announced the release of an Open Circulation Edition of the Xandros Desktop OS, which comes with features like the ability to dual-boot with Windows XP, the Opera browser and email package, and access to Xandros Networks. To accompany this exciting release, DesktopOS.com has published an exclusive interview with Rick Berenstein, Xandros Chairman & CTO, Ming Poon, the VP for Software Development, and Stephen Harris, Director of Marketing & PR.

I'm sure everyone is sick of reading reviews of Suse 9.1 by now but perhaps this one is a little different. This is not an ordinary review in the sense that I don't provide lots of colourful screenshots, or ramble on endlessly about the included software versions and other trivial things. Written from the point of view of a Debian user trying to switch to an "easier" distribution, I concentrated on how Suse stacks up compared to some of the traditional Debian strengths.

The Solaris 10 OE, the upcoming release is being described at Sun's Solaris web site.

ICO published a preview over the RC3 of Zeta 1.0, expected later this year. Among the clean ups, updated apps & drivers and bug fixes there is a new preference applet holder. YellowTAB re-created an embeddable preference framework, inspired by the one created in 2000 by Be (and more specifically by my husband, JBQ ;) and was destined to be part of the never-released next BeOS.

Can a company count on Linux to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an enterprise system? Reaction to this question from CIOs and IT managers usually goes something like this.

Sun has released the JDIC/JDesktop Integration Components API via the LGPL. The idea is to create a Java API that allows Java applications to better integrate with a modern desktop. It allows apps to embed a web browser component, access/launch desktop applications and associate filetypes.

After you have installed FC2, here's how to enrich it with more applications like Flash, Java and mp3.

This tutorial will walk the reader through setting up Minix 2.0.4 on Windows XP via Bochs 2.1.1. These are the latest versions of Minix, Bochs and Windows XP as of May of 2004. In this era of Linux and Windows domination of the OS scene, it is important to remember that there are alternatives. Hence, this article will also serve as an introduction to one such alternative, Minix, which has a very rich heritage, indeed.

Serenity Systems International (SSI) has announced an open (public) beta program for its Serenity Virtual Station (SVISTA) product, a virtual machine application for Intel based PCs. The software being tested runs on Linux, MS Windows, and IBM's OS/2. A FreeBSD version is planned for later this year.

This downloadable file will update the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 module of your existing Microsoft Windows CE .NET 4.1 Platform Builder installation to the 1.0 SP2 version of the .NET CF.

Microsoft put up a site asking for feedback about Win2k3. All feedback submitted will be sent to the Windows Server Development Team for review and analysis. Your ideas can impact Windows Server in many ways, and might even be incorporated into new Service Packs, Feature Packs etc.