Apple says the client and server versions of Mac OS X "Tiger" sport powerful changes under the hood, but there are also noticeable improvements to the interface. Here's a slideshow showing some features.
It may sound idiotically simple, but according to technology's leading seer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, searching for information -- not sorting it -- is the wave of the future.
What is FreeSBIE? Simply: It's a live system on compact disk (CD), or an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any installation process, without any hard disk. It's based on the FreeBSD operating system. Here's how to build a cluster using it.
Just some time before Sun Microsoystem launches their greatest Java 5.0 edition, they released maintenance version of their 1.4 line: Java 1.4.2_05. It consists of some bugsfixings listed here.
Here is a nifty comparison of three of the top Linux distro's, Fedora, Mandrake and Suse. The article covers everything from installation and boot times to configuring and software bundling.
While many of our team members are hard at work, coding and working on updating their team pages and adding all of the official site content, there are some other things that need to be done. We are going to need some Newbie Help Files and some "Developer Tutorials to be written in order to fill some large blank spots on our new site. I posted more information in our forums. If you would like to help out with either of these, please see either the Newbie Help Files thread or the Developer Tutorials thread."
Analysis Sun says open sourcing Java code will fragment and devalue the platform. Sun's opponents say that under the current community process development is too slow. They're both right, but the debate, which Scott McNealy regards as synthetic - an issue manufactured by hypocritical competitors - highlights what people really want from a technology. It's an issue that finds Sun on the right side, but failing to convince skeptics. Read the rest of the analysis at TheRegister.
The issue of GNU/Linux as a desktop operating system is hot these days. You can hear here and there about someone switching their proprietary desktops, or considering doing such a thing, to GNU/Linux. Most of these stories refer to some desktop-oriented or mainstream distribution, such as Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora, or SUSE. However, there is one distribution you would seldom hear about and yet, it is uniquely qualified for heavy-duty desktop usage, Slackware.
Sun has brought the debate over who is "more open source" down to the playground level, and both companies could do better at it, eWEEK's Linux & Open Source Editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes.
There's a good tips and tricks article about CodeRuler on developerworks. The game has a simple premise: You are the imperial ruler of your very own medieval kingdom. Your peasants and knights depend on your brilliant strategic thinking, agile adaptability, and superior Java programming skill to survive, increase, and prosper. Your objective as a player is to write Java code that simulates this ruler. CodRuler is a game that helps you build upon your Java programming skills. CodeRuler is free.
I have to admit that I am an Opera fan; I started using it when a friend of mine came with version 6.0 and installed it to me. My first impression was not very good because the screen was crowded with toolbars, icons and things. But I spent a few minutes examining each one and removing all; I like the screen clean, not filled with toolbars and things that waste screen space, after all, 1024 x 768 is not enough.
For those who think that GNOME's aesthetics are less than great, this article might get you to change your mind, especially if you're using mostly GTK-based applications.
Millan has released a LiveCD of GNU/kFreeBSD. You can try it out directly booting the CD. The software can also be very easily installed to harddisk. You can find more about the GNU C Library with FreeBSD kernel here.
Please read the 00README and INSTALL for additional notes. If you have questions, suggestions or any feedback, please direct it to the [email protected] mailing list or through IRC (#gnu-kbsd).
Security and the way windowing is handled remain two of the diminishing differences between Linux and Windows, according to one of the main speakers at Microsoft's developer conference.
As part of its push to boost Java on personal computers, Sun Microsystems has licensed software called Watson that's used to find and present information from the Internet.
