Pocket C# is port of C# compiler from DotGNU project to Windows CE. DotGNU contains open-source runtime, compiler and tools creating a free cross-platform .NET environment.
Working largely on their own time, Linux devotees apply their collaborative model for creating software, known as open source, to attack SCO and its case. Dozens of online detectives comb corporate documents, analyze legal filings and publish everything they can find about the company, its finances, management and connections to Microsoft.
In a move that could ultimatety deal a heavy blow to Microsoft's intellectual property rights, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine patent the company holds on the FAT (file allocation table) file system, a format used for the interchange of media between computers and digital devices.
Linux.com has published a review of Red Hat Desktop, Red Hat's new RHEL3-based corporate desktop product. It's a lot like Red Hat 9 was, except not available as a standalone product anymore. The software that comprises it is a little old, as well, but at least everything seems to work, says J. Matzan.
"Major corporations like Boeing, Lockheed and Motorola were InterBase users, so we've got the track record," Helen Borrie told LinuxInsider. "It's very satisfying to learn of yet another big corporation or enterprise product that has switched to Firebird, and, as the word gets out, it happens more often."
From Slashdot: How do you exchange a file with a colleague or a photograph with a family member? Chances are that you cut the desired element and paste it into your e-mail program to send it. Now, imagine yourself in a meeting, picking a file on your PDA with a digital pen and using the same pen to drop it on your friend's laptop screen.
Although Microsoft has refused to confirm the many reports that say so, it appears the company is working on a version of its Windows Server platform specifically tailored for the high performance computing market... That Microsoft would branch off from Windows 2003 Server to create an HPC Edition makes perfect sense for a number of reasons.
"Mono currently doesn't have an impact on most of my clients," said Thomas Murphy, VP of research services for Meta Group. "Use of Linux in the enterprise is growing, but most people are using it for Java and if they are comfortable with .Net they generally are comfortable with Windows," he told LinuxInsider.
Scott Mitchell looks at the benefits of and confusion around View State in Microsoft ASP.NET. In addition, he shows you how you can interpret (and protect) the data stored in View State.
Ever since Microsoft started publicly outing Linux with their "Get the Facts" campaign, I have seen numerous articles and studies about the TCO (total cost of ownership) of both products in a head to head manner. However, I have yet to see one article discuss the TCO for home users and small businesses. I have thought long and crunched many numbers to devise a conclusion to this years old debate and I think the results are obvious... Windows is way more expensive than Linux.
Versions up to and including 1.0.4 have a potential denial of service and heap overflow issue related to the parsing of strings in the 'svn://' family of access protocols. This affects only sites running svnserve. It does not affect 'http://' access; repositories served only by Apache/mod_dav_svn do not have this vulnerability. This release fixes this issue.
The SCO Group reported lackluster second-quarter results on Thursday, with revenue falling across its three divisions and its loss from operations widening and McBride blames IBM, Novell to SCO's fiscal woes. In the meantime, the Sun Vs SCO soap opera has started (here too).
"I am not hearing of many wholesale swaps from Windows to Linux," says Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group. "A company has to have a self-sufficient, experienced I.T. staff that can write custom applications, and be willing to risk not having an indemnification policy."
Consider these memory requirements for Fedora Core 2, as specified by Red Hat: Minimum for graphical: 192MB and Recommended for graphical: 256MB Does that sound any alarm bells with you? 192MB minimum? I've been running Linux for five years (and am a huge supporter), and have plenty of experience with Windows, Mac OS X and others. And those numbers are shocking -- severely so. No other general-purpose OS in existence has such high requirements. Linux is getting very fat.
Mandrakesoft has released the AMD64 edition of Mandrakelinux 10.0: "Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for AMD64 combines the strengths of the 10.0 distribution with the latest technology of AMD Athlon64 and AMD Opteron processors. 10.0 Official for AMD64 is based on the PowerPack 10.0 with significant performance enhancements in all of the applications."
I have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.
From NMC: Speaking from the Wall Street Journal's D: "All Things Digital" conference last monday in Carlsbad, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a number of interesting statements. Most notably, Jobs confirmed that Apple had designed its own PDA device, but canned the project just prior to bringing it to market. Jobs also hinted that the company is not working on a hybrid PDA/phone device.
