Microsoft acknowledged today its investigation into the illegal use of an activation key generator for enterprise software including Windows Server 2003.

Eclipse is one powerful IDE. I've been using it for a few weeks and in this article, I will be reviewing a few of the features that make it such a wonderful tool.

K. Brown pulled together a number of examples where fully trusted code can skirt around CLR security features, starting each with a question that seems to have an obvious answer.

Maynard Kuona takes a look on Gnome 2.6-pre and discovers a whole new world of new features and well-crafted interfaces built-in on every Gnome-bundled application.

Alan Fisher has written a review for YellowTAB's Zeta Service Pack 3. Alan is laying out both the good and the bad points he experienced by using it.

Joe Beda, development lead on the Avalon team at Microsoft, discusses whether Avalon will be the technology that Microsoft uses to replace the Web.

YellowTAB has updated their screenshots with new shots from the upcoming Zeta 1.0, while IsComputerOn reports about the YTAB plans to attend the BeGeistert 12 gathering.

OS2 World reports that Serenity Systems published the document "eComStation Roadmap", announcing eComStation 1.2, which should be available by the second quarter of 2004.

Vector Linux has always interested me because of its purpose and origin: a simplified distribution from a Slackware base. Last month Vector's developers announced the first release candidate for Vector Linux 4.0 SOHO edition and here is the review.

Jan Schaumann announced today that, in order to provide a summary of the most important changes over the last few months, the NetBSD Foundation has decided to follow the example of other projects of releasing official status reports on a regular basis. The first quarterly status report, covering the activities within the NetBSD Project during the first three months of 2004 is now available online.

The new Linux 2.6 kernel offers many improvements over the 2.4 version. One area of technical advancement is in the kernel networking options. Although there are enhancements in most of the files associated with the networking options, this article focuses on major feature improvements and additions that affect entire sections rather than on specific files.

CinePaint is taking a new direction to migrate away from GTK+ to FLTK and this has lit up a new discussion about GTK+ 2.x's speed problems on both Windows and Unix. The CinePaint project cited other reasons as well, like the non-elegance of the API, the bloated source that makes it difficult to debug it and thread-safe reasons.

What is a distribution and how does it differ from the distribution next door? Do they provide a different-enough experience to the user who is in search of a capable desktop?

Terra Soft Solutions completed the first Yellow Dog Linux developers summit, resulting in a two-year Yellow Dog Linux roadmap for PowerPC. With the next release of Yellow Dog Linux Terra Soft will offer 32-bit and 64-bit products built upon Red Hat's RPM-based Fedora.