LinuxFormat Reviews SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro
The LinuxFormat printed magazing reviewed SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro and rated it 9/10 (PDF scan here).
Computer Associates To Make Database Open Source
Computer Associates International made a major commitment to open-source software development on Monday, announcing a plan to make its Ingres database open source and outlining partnerships with other open-source projects like JBoss, Zope and Plone.
Latest MySQL Fails to Quiet Licensing Critics
Open Source database vendor MySQL AB released its latest incremental release last week (version 4.0.20), but according to some in the community, it still doesn't address what some say serious licensing concerns. Its license changed from LGPL to GPL (in order to not allow commercial/closed applications to link with its free version, but to instead push to them buy a license). Unfortunately, this license change comes to conflict with other OSS licenses, like PHP's (and maybe Perl's too).
Experiences with Gentoo, CRUX and Onebase Linux
What do people do these days when they are bored? One of the latest additions to the list of answers seems to be Build a Linux Distribution. Have you checked on Distrowatch lately? They have upwards of 100 distributions listed there. I used to be happy that I had a lot of choices but now I am beginning to get intimidated by the sheer volume of choices. You could play charades with only Linux Distro Names.
Microsoft Creating Windows for Supercomputers
Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold.
Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official Download torrent
MandrakeSoft released the Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official version through BitTorrent.
Linux Contributors Face New Rules
Open Source Development Labs, which promotes adoption of Linux, said Monday it is putting in place a new system to better track and document changes to the operating system's kernel.
Microsoft’s Joe Beda Replies to Questions
Given yesterday's exposure of the Microsoft PPT slides from WinHEC, Joe Beda takes the time to reply to some questions people had in the forums: he discusses about the importance of eye candy, Windows and 64bit, the Longhorn machine requirements and more.
Ballmer touts new developer tools
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a few new developer tools but otherwise played a greatest-hits set before an audience of about 10,000 information technology professionals at the TechEd conference.
OpenBSD Gets USB 2.0 Support
USB 2.0 support on OpenBSD is here, you can try out the latest snapshots for the new code.
Solaris on Intel: Here We Go Again
Linux & Open-Source Center Editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols wishes Sun would either embrace Linux or stop using Solaris on Intel as a pawn against it.
Steve Sakoman will Lead iPod Software Development
ThinkSecret reports some new details about Apple reorganization in two divisions (Macintosh and iPod). Longtime hardware developer Steve Sakoman, a former Palm and Be executive, had rejoined Apple Computer as a vice president and now he will lead iPod software development. Mr Sakoman was involved in the Mac II development and was the main guy behind the creation of the Newton. At Be, he designed the first generation H0bbit-based BeBox (the one that had 5 AT&T chips), back in the early days of Be. He later left and when he came back became Be's CTO and then PalmSource's exec.
Microsoft behind $12 million payment to Opera?
Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software $12.75 million to head off a threatened lawsuit over code that made some Web pages on MSN look bad in certain versions of Opera's Web browser, CNET News.com has learned.
Books: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Second Edition
More than two years ago we reviewed the first edition of the excellent book by Aaron Hillegass, "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X". The second edition has just being released and we will be taking a quick look as to what's new.
MorphOS 1.5 presentation at PUSH
The current version of MorphOS 1.5 has been presented at PUSH. From the slides of a presentation given at the show you can see these improvements. There is also a video (12 MB) available.
.NET Tools for Working with XML
.NET provides a powerful set of classes for working with XML directly. This article provides an overview of the most important of these classes, and some examples of what you can do with them.
Rapid Dialog Design with the Qt C++ GUI Toolkit
If you're tired of creating zillions of dialog boxes needed for your application's UI, try the Qt GUI toolkit! In just a few steps, you can build great-looking dialogs that are automatically resizable, skip from one language to another, and even switch with ease from reading left-to-right to reading right-to-left.
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Platform SDK RC1
This is the Platform SDK for Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 1. Developers can use this to build and test pre-release applications for Windows XP Service pack 2.
The Innovations of Longhorn’s Avalon Graphics Engine
Joe Beda writes that slides from the WinHEC sessions are posted up: Greg Schecter: Avalon Graphics Stack Overview , Joe Beda: Avalon Graphics - 2D, 3D, Imaging and Composition , Kerry Hammil: Graphics on the Windows Desktop , David Brown: Avalon Text . The slides were targeting hardware people. This was really about letting IHVs know what they can do to prepare for what is coming in Longhorn and Avalon.
Power Mac G5 Trails Opteron on Media Benchamrks
"The Power Mac G5 is a formidable machine, representing a giant leap in performance over the G4. But the 64-bit transition so far only represents a small step. Even though there's not much of a benefit from 64-bit computing yet, this marks the beginning of a new era for Apple, where the 64-bit world will enable new capabilities for the content creation community" the reviewer concludes in his benchmark article.