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's easier? To completely move to a FOSS-compliant OS immediately, or to start the transition to FOSS world by using their apps on Windows? Sam Rawlins investigates.

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.

Brendan Eich has written to a newsgroup outlining some of the plans being made to ensure that Mozilla technology remains useful and relevant in the future.

X.Org Foundation today announced their first release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of this year. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11 Release 6.7 (X11R6.7), builds on the work of the X.Org X11R6.6 and XFree86 Project Inc.

Ximian's Robert Love explains by example how Project Utopia will benefit the Linux desktop.

A "Software Update"-alike software, called Renew, automatically fetches information on new versions for third party software you have installed on your Mac.

Microsoft has found another way to leave customers with a foul taste in their mouth and an empty feeling in their pocket: Windows Licensing 6.0.

Speakers and attendees at the open source events of Portland's InnoTech Conference last week concurred that Linux was at home in the enterprise, handling heavier database demands and other workloads and proving itself on a number of platforms.

Donn Denman, who joined the early Mac team at Apple in 1982 with the task of building a BASIC programming language interpreter for the new computer, feels that today's Macs are not all that different from the ones built 20 years ago, but thinks we'll see a lot of changes in the next 20 years. Read the interview at MacMinute.

Ryan McBride works full time on OpenBSD development. His first contribution was adding IPv6 support to PF, OpenBSD's stateful packet filter.

Here's how to use an ADSI-based script to search for domain users; how to use the Hyena utility to quickly find out which user on your network has a particular file open; and how to quickly locate all machines that have automatic logon enabled in their registry.

Four years ago, a new upstart language named C# surprised the development world with its elegance and consistency. In this two-part series, you'll get a first look at three of the four major language refinements in the latest version of C#.

How will the future operating systems look like? How the user interface, the inner workings, the security policies and the networking will interact? In any case, innovation is the key.