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Mono Beta 1 Released

Submitted by Hacktisvmo 2004-05-05 Mono 41 Comments

Mono Beta 1 has been unleashed onto the public. This is the first of two planned public betas before Mono 1.0 rolls out the door. The public betas are approaching an offical "production quality" state, and by 1.0 should be stable enough for corporate and coder consumption everywhere. This version includes a GAC (global assembly cache) implementation.

Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005; Speech Transcripts

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-05 Windows 29 Comments

Microsoft has recommitted to releasing Longhorn, its next-generation Windows client and server, into beta testing in 2005 even though its chairman acknowledged that security concerns threaten his dream of enabling seamless connectivity and Web services. Here is the transcript of Gates' speech yesterday and here is Jim Allchin's. Also, Microsoft combined the Windows CE, Windows Mobile departments.

The Challenge Apple Faces in Enterprise Computing

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-05 Apple 50 Comments

Today, MacOS X has made Apple the world's largest Unix workstation manufacturer while Microsoft advertises (but can't yet deliver) a reinvented Pick OS for the Internet age. As someone like Dave Barry might say, you couldn't make this stuff up on a bet.

Wave Goodbye to the Old User Interface; Windows Forms 2.0 Preview

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-05 General Development 20 Comments

This article discusses a "Minority Report"-alike user interface developed at Microsoft (video here). In the meantime, Windows Forms 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (both codenamed "Whidbey") are the next release of Microsoft’s smart client platform and tools.

Linux in “battle of the century,” MontaVista CEO says

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Linux 37 Comments

This interview with MontaVista CEO and embedded pioneer Jim Ready explains why Ready is preparing his small, privately held company for the "battle of the century."

OpenTracker Compiles and Links on BlueEyedOS

Submitted by jeanmarc 2004-05-04 Haiku 10 Comments

BlueEyedOS reports that after a few weeks of hard work, compilation and linking of OpenTracker is now complete, and seems almost ready to make it work properly. In the meantime, OpenBeOS gets some ethernet drivers and the ability to run BeOS-native command line apps.

Making the Switch from ‘the Blue’ to ‘the Green’

Guest post by Paul Pianta 2004-05-04 KDE 56 Comments

This article aims to provide an insight into some aspects of KDE usability as seen by a long term Gnome user making the switch, as well as provide a mini-review of SUSE LIVE CD 9.1 - including the obligatory screenshot of course!

Sun Java Desktop System Release 2 Nears

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Oracle and SUN 19 Comments

From Slashdot: Sun is putting out Java Desktop System Release 2. Some overview information is in this article while more technical information about the new management solutions are in this one.

Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 28 Comments

Mandrakesoft today announced the availability of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for the AMD64 platform (Athlon64 and Opteron). Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 delivers all the features and robustness of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official to the 64-bit platform from AMD, with an average performance gain of 20% compared to the IA32 version. Read more for the rest of the PR:

Longhorn, Whidbey, Media Center Snag Prime Billing at WinHEC

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Windows 12 Comments

In their keynotes at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, Jim Allchin and Bill Gates plan to stress the value of melding hardware and software innovation, as well as demonstrating what some of Microsoft's new technologies can do. In the meantime, Bill Gates confirms that there will be no AMD Windows 64 until Q4, but he calls for 64-bit software support.

The Next NetWare: Not Your Dad’s NetWare

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Novell and Ximian 18 Comments

"At one time, NetWare was the network operating system for the PC world. In particular, there are still companies that depend upon its bread and butter networking on lovingly maintained NetWare 3.1x and 4.x set-ups. And why shouldn't they? It's been long acknowledged that for fundamental print and file services along with rock-solid stability, you couldn't beat NetWare." Read the rest of the article here.

Linux: Random File I/O Regressions In 2.6

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Linux 43 Comments

A recent discussion on the lkml looked into a reproducable random file I/O regression in 2.6 compared to the 2.4 kernel. Alexey Kopytov posted the benchmark results, attempting to simulate the workload of a database under intensive load. The tests were tried with all I/O schedulers, including the anticipatory, deadline and CFQ, and in all cases 2.4 outperformed 2.6. Read the report at KernelTrap.

Will Open Source Close Your Exit?

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Open Source 3 Comments

Concerns about open source use can fuel internal naysayers at the acquiror who favor an internal solution over acquisition, says LinuxInsider. Embedded open source software may raise questions about maintaining segregation of the acquired code after the acquisition or potential costs to replace portions of the acquired code base.

coLinux: Linux for Windows Without Rebooting

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Linux 4 Comments

LinuxDevCenter takes a peek at the coLinux runtime engine, running under Windows.

KOffice 1.3.1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Office 11 Comments

The KOffice team is proud to announce the first bugfix version in KOffice 1.3 series.

Jobs to Preview Mac OS X Tiger at WWDC

Submitted by Claudio 2004-05-04 macOS 154 Comments

As reported at MacCentral, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will preview Mac OS X 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in his keynote speech at the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this June. More details on Apple's website.

Red Hat Announces New Corporate Desktop OS

Submitted by Scott Robinson 2004-05-04 Red Hat 36 Comments

"In a sign that demand is growing for alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, Red Hat Inc. will release a version of the Linux operating system and other programs tailored for desktop computers in corporations, universities and government agencies." The AP story is here, Red Hat's site here. It is available for purchase only in bulk volumes or as part of an RHEL "pack". Also, Red Hat's road map leads to SE Linux.

Is Microsoft A Slowpoke?

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-04 Microsoft 68 Comments

Microsoft's big new product is way overdue, according to Times. And Linux is challenging Windows' desktop dominance. What will it take to get the software titan moving again?

Knoppix 3.4 Released

Submitted by Anonymous :) 2004-05-04 Linux 42 Comments

Knoppix, the most popular LiveCD linux distribution (a complete linux distribution that boots off a CD-Rom) version 3.4 is out. New features include Kernel 2.6 (default is still 2.4), KDE 3.2.2, OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 and Gimp 2.0. Complete changelog, torrent.

FreeBSD 4.10-RC2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-03 FreeBSD 27 Comments

FreeBSD 4.10-RC2 is available for download. There are only a few changes since RC1, but it does include the release package set, so feel free to test things like KDE and Gnome. Due to some late issues that are cropping up, it will probably be an RC3 before the final release.