In the latest Michael's Minute, Lindows, Inc. frontman Michael Robertson has announced that LindowsOS will be renamed to most effectively combat the "onslaught" of Microsoft lawsuits. This topic has been heavily debated on this website in the past. The new name will be announced on April 14th.
Linux kernel 2.6 introduces improved IO scheduling that can increase speed -- "sometimes by 1,000 percent or more, often by 2x" -- for standard desktop workloads, and by as much as 15 percent on many database workloads, according to Andrew Morton of Open Source Development Labs. This increased speed is accomplished by minimizing the disk head movement during concurrent reads, says Yahoo!News.
Dan Gillmor says: "It looks like I'm going to have to reconsider something I'd been taking for granted -- that Linux on the desktop, and especially the laptop, was a non-starter in the operating systems race. While I wasn't paying sufficient attention, the proverbial tortoise has been playing some serious catch-up."Read the rest at SiliconValley.com.
froglogic today announced the availability of Squish 1.1, the new version of the automated GUI testing framework for Qt applications.The main new features of Squish 1.1 are:
The interview was conducted by e-mail. Questions by Tim Mullins, answers from Zackary Deems and Bernhard Rosenkraenzer who are two of the head developers of Ark Linux.
Microsoft will continue the trend of integrating managed code support in major product releases—first with SQL Server 2005 and later in the Windows Longhorn operating system.
What is Enterprise Linux? Who has it? What does it cost? Are there any viable free alternatives? These are all questions that this article will address and try to answer.
Despite having pockets of communities spread across the country, open source software (OSS) has no future in the country's budding software development business, according to a software development expert.
For the past week we hosted a competition for a free Xandros Business Desktop 2.0 box. Our winner is Tony Bourke and his original article "FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64".
Microsoft can expect thousands of extra technical support calls after the release of its security update for Windows XP this summer, according to security analysts.
The EU commission's decision about Microsoft rose some heated discussion on nearly every part of it. Let's take an accurate look at it and discuss the hows and
whys of the act that is going probably to change Europe's technological assets in the near future.
Apple says it is seeing a large number of UNIX, Java and Open Source developers migrating to Mac OS X. "Over the last three years, people who have experience in those areas are showing a great interest in our OS," Apple VP of Worldwide Developer Relations Ron Okamoto told internetnews.com.
Mandrakesoft proved to judges in the Parisian version of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy court earlier this week it had a viable business plan and exit strategy. Now all that remains is for the popular Linux distributor to follow through on its promise.
Here is an introduction to the style of Objective-C Cocoa and some reasons why the author at Kuro5hin hopes more programming will be done in this style in the future.
There is so much controversy surrounding the Open Source General Public License (GPL) - especially with regard to the SCO v IBM case - that it makes a sense to review the simple basic legal points involved, writes Bloor Research president Robin Bloor.
Christian Limpach imported a new port into the NetBSD source tree: NetBSD/xen. Xen is is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software. See here for more details on Xen or join the port-xen mailing list.
