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SCO Revenue Takes a Tumble

Submitted by Tim H. of Rack64 2004-06-10 SCO 38 Comments

The SCO Group reported lackluster second-quarter results on Thursday, with revenue falling across its three divisions and its loss from operations widening and McBride blames IBM, Novell to SCO's fiscal woes. In the meantime, the Sun Vs SCO soap opera has started (here too).

Linux: Not for Everyone

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-10 Linux 77 Comments

"I am not hearing of many wholesale swaps from Windows to Linux," says Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group. "A company has to have a self-sufficient, experienced I.T. staff that can write custom applications, and be willing to risk not having an indemnification policy."

The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat

Guest post by Bob Marr 2004-06-10 Linux 484 Comments

Consider these memory requirements for Fedora Core 2, as specified by Red Hat: Minimum for graphical: 192MB and Recommended for graphical: 256MB Does that sound any alarm bells with you? 192MB minimum? I've been running Linux for five years (and am a huge supporter), and have plenty of experience with Windows, Mac OS X and others. And those numbers are shocking -- severely so. No other general-purpose OS in existence has such high requirements. Linux is getting very fat.

Eclipse 3.0-RC1 Available for Download

Submitted by Jeffrey Bacon 2004-06-10 General Development 26 Comments

Though not mentioned on the main Eclipse website yet, Eclipse 3.0RC1 is available for download on their main download site.

Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-10 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 19 Comments

Mandrakesoft has released the AMD64 edition of Mandrakelinux 10.0: "Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for AMD64 combines the strengths of the 10.0 distribution with the latest technology of AMD Athlon64 and AMD Opteron processors. 10.0 Official for AMD64 is based on the PowerPack 10.0 with significant performance enhancements in all of the applications."

Overview of MSBuild, Part 2: From the Task Author’s Perspective

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-10 General Development 3 Comments

This second of a three-part article series explains how to write, install, and debug your own tasks to enhance what is possible to build with MSBuild.

Mandrake 10: A Long Time User’s Experiences

Guest post by David Donley 2004-06-09 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 56 Comments

I have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.

Jobs: Apple Developed, But Did Not Ship Apple PDA

Submitted by RajanR 2004-06-09 Apple 47 Comments

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.

New G5s Announced; No 3GHz or G5 Laptops/iMacs ‘Any Time Soon’

Submitted by Karl 2004-06-09 Apple 100 Comments

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.

AmigaOS 4.0 Status Report

Mike Bouma 2004-06-09 Amiga & AROS 26 Comments

Core AmigaOS 4.0 developer Hans-Jörg Frieden has written a status report with regard to the current state of AmigaOS. Various advances have been made since the Developer Pre-release version of AOS4 was completed. Meanwhile AmigaWorld.net has launched a new File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting Amiga OS4 files and related resources.

KDE 3.2.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-09 KDE 13 Comments

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 Debuts Open Circulation Edition

Submitted by Jason Prince 2004-06-09 Oracle and SUN 31 Comments

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.

Get SciTech SNAP Graphics PE for Linux Free

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-09 Linux 23 Comments

SciTech Software, Inc. today announced the official release of the world's first web-based, graphics-driver build system with support for Windows, Linux, OS/2 and more. With SciTech’s exclusive online build system users can now easily configure, build and install certified SciTech SNAP Graphics drivers on their home machines, for non-commercial use free of charge.

Moving from Debian To SuSE Linux and Back Again

Guest post by Leo Spalteholz 2004-06-09 SuSE, openSUSE 147 Comments

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.

Sun Solaris 10 Preview Page Posted

Submitted by Superurbi 2004-06-09 Solaris 34 Comments

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

New Apple re-designed displays include 30-inch; Goodbye ADC

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-09 Apple 44 Comments

Apple is on the verge of announcing a new, totally re-designed family of three flat-panel displays with the addition of a 30-inch HD-ready model (2560x1600 resolution), claims ThinkSecret. In what appears to be a major change in direction for Apple, the displays will exclusively use a digital visual interface (DVI) connector and will not come with Apple's proprietary Apple Display Connector (ADC).

IsComputerOn Previews Zeta 1.0-RC3

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-09 Zeta 32 Comments

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.

Four out of four experts agree: Linux lowers TCO

Submitted by Josh 2004-06-08 Linux 59 Comments

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.

Preview of Windows XP Service Pack 2

Guest post by Roberto J. Dohnert 2004-06-08 Windows 56 Comments

My normal policy is not to review beta releases of any software. But because Windows XP SP2 is so important I decided to break away from the norm. Readers should be aware that a release candidate is not a final release and this in should no way be construed as a review of the final product.

Sun Opens JDesktop Integration Components

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-08 Oracle and SUN 23 Comments

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.