Sascha "SieGeL" Pfalz has written a small review about his first experiences with the Developer Pre-Release version of AmigaOS4. For help and advice by developers and beta-testers AmigaworldNET has set up a new IRC channel. Some first customized screenshots by an user: Screenshot 1 Screenshot2

Fedora Core 2 is a good general-purpose Linux distribution, but it lacks support, says eWEEK Labs. Update: Here's another Fedora review, but it's in Czech.

Learn how to engage the MPSS feature of the Solaris 9 Operating System and how to analyze the performance effect. Elsewhere, this first of a two-part series about planning and implementing Sun Fire 15K/12K server Dynamic Reconfiguration provides an introduction to Sun Fire 15K/12K server DR and details the planning phase.

yellowTAB is currently revamping the media services in Zeta by adding new native CODECs to the Media Kit, and developing a brand new native media player application, code named Champion. This will add native support for common media formats that cannot be currently played in the BeOS platform, as well as high-performance video streaming capabilities to Zeta. Also, TuneTracker will include Zeta in its CD from now on. Elsewhere, a USB mass storage driver for BeOS 5 was released.

A patent expert has attacked the Open Source Community's latest initiative to document the provenance of code contributed to the Linux kernel so that proving its origins will be quicker and easier in the face of litigation. The Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.0 asserts that the developer submitting the code which it covers has either written or modified that code according to their rights to do so, or it is being submitted, unchanged, on behalf of someone else who asserts these rights.

Example: You have the Linux 2.4.26 kernel source. Fact: You want to install the newest 2.4.xx kernel. Problem: You have GCC-3.4.0 installed. Solution: Temporarily install GCC-3.3.3. Here's where relink comes in!

That's what Bill Joy, Silicon Valley legend, says that markets need to do, but don't (free reg. req.).

Arvind Narayanan wrote an essay outlining three proposals for simplifying GNOME file management.

This document aims to explain the feasibility of image processing using GTK. The document scratches the surface when it comes to explaining the nook & corner of Image processing theory. It shows examples of pixel based filters and convolution filters. Developers are asked to rewrite the doc to GTK#.

Opera Software released a new version of Opera browser which brings a security fix and in addition:

LinuxGazette .net and .com have a few interesting articles to share with us: "A Bare-Bones Guide to Firewalls", "Firewalling with netfilter/iptables", "Experiments with Kernel 2.6 on a Hyperthreaded Pentium 4" and "Timers in Linux". At O'Reilly you can find "Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting".

IRIX 6.5.24 has been released and is shipping with all new systems from SGI worldwide manufacturing centers. The IRIX 6.5.24 release continues the focus on stability, reliability, security and compatibility required in the IRIX 6.5.xx quarterly release process.

This was a letter I recently wrote to Sun's head of global communications, Russ Castronovo, after reading his interview with Chuck Talk on orangecrate.com, and then reading the ongoing pro-/anti-Mono arguments over at PlanetGnome. Now that Sun seems to be on the brink of making the decision to open-source Java (or not to), I thought it would be an appropriate time to take action.

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