Apple Computer plans to continue rapidly bringing out new versions of Mac OS X, but it won't continue at quite the pace it's maintained in recent years. Also, Apple Computer got hit by a double whammy this week when a security researcher publicized a pair of flaws in Mac OS X that when used together could let attackers place a malicious program on a Mac and then run the file, News.com reports.

Well, I can say it truly is a miracle. I never thought I would be able to install Mac OS X 10.3 on my supposedly "inferior" x86-based AMD machine. Well, for most of you mac-zealots, you were wrong. It actually does. And I've got the proof right here!

The European Council on Tuesday approved controversial changes to the European Union's Software Patents Directive that will pave the way for widespread patenting of software in Europe.

Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows Server division, in an interview last week discussed the road map for future operating system releases, the competitive threat posed by Linux and the promise of 64-bit computing. Part 1 of the interview is here.

Businesses, not hobbyists, are the main contributors to embedded Linux, yet open source participation is growing as companies discover the benefits of shared development. This is one of several key findings from a survey of embedded Linux developers conducted jointly by MIT and the University of Munich.

Many readers wrote in to tell us that Red Hat's Fedora Core 2 has been released. The torrents are available here, or it can be downloaded from a mirror.

Peter Loforte, general manager of the Tablet PC team, shows us what is cool about the upcoming Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 software update (code-named "Lone Star.") This is a free update and will automatically come with the upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2.

ARM Ltd. will unveil a unique multi-processor core technology, capable running Linux SMP, at this week's Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif. The "synthesizable multiprocessor" core -- a first for ARM -- is the result of a partnership with NEC Electronics announced last October, and is based on ARM's ARMv6 architecture. ARM's new "MPCore" multiprocessor core can be configured to contain between one and four processors delivering up to 2600 Dhrystone MIPS of aggregate performance, based on clock rates between 335 and 550 MHz.

The world has changed due to the humble (and sometimes not so humble) creations in the past. It can be argued that NCSA Mosaic changed the world. Some would argue that it was actually Netscape, but whatever the actual case may be, the web browser has in some way changed the way we look at electronic information.

"I want to approach this review a little different then most. There are already a number of very detailed and technically oriented reviews done by others on many Linux Desktop Operating Systems, and SuSE has been well documented by the Jem Report, OSNews, ProLinux, Sydney Morning Herald, Mad Penguin, Linux.com just to name a few. I will just give a personal view of my observations and differences in how they compare to some of the other Linux Desktop Operating Systems I have installed and used." Read the rest of the review here.

"Opennet, the master distributor for Red Hat Linux in the region, has announced the availability of the new Red Hat Desktop, for the Middle East market. The Red Hat Desktop includes the core Linux operating system, open source business applications including an e-mail client, browser and a full-fledged office suite. “The Red Hat Desktop will be made available in configurations which include either Red Hat Network Proxy or Satellite Servers,” says Tewfik Zitouni, managing director, Opennet. A proxy or satellite Server deployment enables several clients to be deployed and managed simultaneously and promises to simplify the ongoing security and management of systems." Read the report here.

Apple has found its best success in the consumer marketplace. But with a stable of enterprise-ready products, how can it penetrate this tough market?

Arnold Robbins discusses dynamically allocated memory, focusing exclusively on the user-level view of the process and its memory.

When Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson looked in the mirror, perhaps he saw Lewis Carroll. Carroll's genius was his ability to peer through the looking glass into the magical land called Wonderland. After a brief prelude, which spartanly demonstrates how to create a COM+ serviced component, Paul Kimmel shows you how to peer through the looking glass and debug .NET code that's hosted by another application.