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NetBSD Non-executable Mappings Update

Submitted by Daniel de Kok 2004-05-21 NetBSD 19 Comments

During the last few months Chuck Silvers has refined the support for non-executable mappings on NetBSD. Non-executable mappings make parts of the stack and heap non-executable when they are marked writable. This makes exploiting potential buffer overflows harder.

First Look: Java Desktop System 2

Submitted by Jem Matzan 2004-05-21 Oracle and SUN 52 Comments

Linux.com has a review of Sun's second release of their GNU/Linux-based Java Desktop System.

GNU: The New World Order

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-21 Open Source 45 Comments

An article on GNU/OSS, and how it integrates with the current IT situation. GNU: The New World Order.

Macromedia Developer Tools for Linux

Submitted by Marten Klencke 2004-05-21 Linux 30 Comments

News.com is carrying an article that seems to have gone by unnoticed. Macromedia is looking into releasing Linux versions of their development tools. This will immediately make Flash development accessible. Future products will enable Linux users to program using next generation Macromedia technologies such as MXML.

Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 1 Released

Submitted by adel 2004-05-21 Mozilla, Gecko 58 Comments

Mozilla.org today released the latest milestone of the Mozilla Suite and platform, 1.8 Alpha 1. This release is the first step towards a new milestone plan, outlined below. New in this release is a basic FTP upload UI, better Linux mouse support, and a number of other features. A more complete change log is also available. Builds are starting to become available on the FTP servers currently.

Open Source Suppliers and Demand

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-21 Open Source 29 Comments

This is part 4 in a four-part series of articles that is roughly a response to "The Magic Cauldron," the seminal work on open source economics written by Eric Raymond. This installment discusses some of Raymond's proposals relating to the manner in which developers will earn money in an OSS economy.

Sun Java Desktop System Review

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-21 Oracle and SUN 28 Comments

Sun's aim was to produce a viable alternative to Microsoft's pervasive Windows and Office products. And you know what, it very nearly succeeded, says PCPro on their review.

Get GCJ Up and Running on Mac OS X

Guest post by John Gabriele 2004-05-21 Java 32 Comments

Here is a step-by-step tutorial on getting GCJ working on Mac OS X. It's aimed at Java devs on OS X who probably don't have any experience with configuring and building GCC.

PearPC 0.1.2 Released

Submitted by Roosevelt 2004-05-21 OS News 18 Comments

PearPC 0.1.2 was released. Among other things it fixes a bug in the program that crashes MacOS if left idle. OSNews' article with screenshots is here.

Suse Linux 9.1 Professional Desktop Review

Submitted by Gsurface 2004-05-21 SuSE, openSUSE 28 Comments

This review takes us through a tour of what is new in SUSE Linux 9.1. The article goes into the Yast control center as well as both desktop environments, KDE and GNOME also pointing out a few problems or inconviniences.

Interview with Microsoft’s Bob Muglia Regarding Longhorn

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-21 Windows 14 Comments

Muglia, a 16-year veteran of Microsoft, is tasked with building Longhorn Server, likely the most complex operating system ever designed. What's more, Muglia must keep a long train of updates and service packs for older versions of Windows rolling off the production line. He sat down with CNET News.com to talk about Longhorn, the evolving Linux threat and how Microsoft builds Windows.

[Semi-Humor] Mono is not a Monolog: The Battle Continues

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-21 Mono 85 Comments

The tomato war between Red Hat, Novell and the developer Gnome community about Mono and its legal safety continued today. Novell's Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza replied to yesterday's editorial by Red Hat's Seth Nickell. Later, Red Hat's Havoc Pennington replied to Nat and Gnome's Andrew Sobala also threw a few (metallic) cents too. For future episodes, bookmark PlanetGnome (unverified rumors circulating on IRC claim that eggs might be used next if there is no sign of their lawyers meeting with Microsoft to try to give an end to the saga). In any case, you don't want to miss this.

Oracle joins Microsoft developer program

Submitted by lshurtl1 2004-05-21 Databases 6 Comments

Microsoft and Oracle announced on Thursday that they will take steps to provide greater integration between the popular database and the MS development suite. This will take place in the form of a free download later this year for Visual Studio .Net

CRUX 2.0 Released

Submitted by dahl 2004-05-21 Linux 14 Comments

Version 2 of CRUX, the lightweight keeping-it-simple Linux distribution, has been released ISO image. It's based on the 2.6 kernel, Glibc 2.33 with NPTL, GCC 3.3.3 and X.org's X11 6.7.0. Changelog.

Interview with Everaldo and Jimmac

Guest post by Metin Amiroff 2004-05-20 Original OSNews Interviews 23 Comments

Today we interview two of the most popular artists in Linux world of art. Everaldo Coelho from KDE and Jakub Steiner (Jimmac) from the GNOME camp. Currently Everaldo works for Lindows inc. and Jakub works for Novell inc. They were very kind to answer our questions related with the art in Linux, its future and much more.

Fedora Core 2 Review

Submitted by Nat Kerbler 2004-05-20 Fedora Core 55 Comments

Linuxlookup.com staff member Rich Hughes posted his thoughts on the latest Fedora release with this Core 2 Review (mirror due to Slashdotting and mirror2). "Fedora Core 2 is the newest release from The Distro Formerly Known As RedHat. Updates include the 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2, Gnome 2.6, X.org replacing Xfree86 and numerous package updates. Having played around with SuSE 9.1, Arch .6 and Slackware 9 with the 2.6 kernel, I was interested in seeing how the Fedora team did with this release."

Sun reveals availability of new Solaris OS

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-20 Solaris 24 Comments

Sun announced the availability of its new Operating System, branded Solaris on a range of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-based systems. The Solaris OS will now run on a variety of servers, workstations, notebooks and "other products," which Sun is hoping will let it extend its reach, and find its way into the OS market.

Microsoft Aims To Make Windows PKI, RMS Certificates Interoperable

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-20 Windows 5 Comments

As Microsoft works to get the Windows client and server security packs out the door, it's also pushing the software's existing authentication and access control facilities--namely, public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital rights management services (RMS)--to get customers to batten down the hatches.

OS/2 to Linux: Memory management, IPC, and file handling

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-20 OS/2 9 Comments

Linux is evolving as the predominant operating system of the new millennium, and legacy operating systems such as OS/2 are being gradually phased out. This series of articles helps the developers involved in the tedious process of migrating/porting the OS/2 system drivers and applications to Linux. In this second of three installments, the authors focus on managing pipes, memory, and files.

Is Torvalds really the father of Linux?

Submitted by Yves R. Crevecoeur 2004-05-20 Linux 58 Comments

It's hard to imagine that Linus Torvalds could have launched Linux without directly using earlier OS work, according to a report that has become controversial even before its scheduled publication Thursday.