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Apple ‘Spoken Interface’ Technology Coming

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-17 macOS 19 Comments

At the 19th annual Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, which is taking place this week in Los Angeles, Apple announced "Spoken Interface," an upcoming Mac OS X feature that allows those with visual and learning disabilities to use a Mac through speech, audible cues and keyboard navigation. Read more at MacMinute.

Fedora: Road To The Desktop

Submitted by Gsurface 2004-03-17 Fedora Core 32 Comments

This article is intended on helping those that are interested in either switching to Linux or are curious as to what Linux has to offer. Flexbeta tries to cover the basic components of a desktop and how Fedora can perform these basic tasks.

Microsoft Aims to Double Windows Language Versions

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-17 Windows 31 Comments

Microsoft launched on Tuesday a program to create versions of Windows and its other programs in little spoken languages such as Amharic, Catalan, Gujarati and Welsh to spread its software to all corners of the globe. The Local Language Program aims to double the 40 languages now available on Microsoft's personal computer software with help from local governments.

Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review

Guest post by Marcus Thiesen 2004-03-17 Debian 29 Comments

Debian Installer Beta 3 was released two days ago and I wrote a small review concerning the installation part. The new debian installer is good way to set up your favorite distribution. Nontheless there are a few usability things and I thought that it might be a good idea to write a walkthrough from another point of view: Bob "average" User. Read more .

QNX Delivers First Embedded IDE with Integrated Code Coverage Tool

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-17 QNX 6 Comments

QNX Software Systems today announced that the QNX Momentics development suite Professional edition v6.3 will include a new, fully integrated code coverage tool.

Opera 7.5 Preview 3 for Mac Released

Submitted by Ron 2004-03-17 Opera 25 Comments

Opera has released their browser for Mac based on the 7.x codebase. Changelog and a screenshot.

GTK 2.4.0 released

Submitted by Razvan Corneliu VILT 2004-03-16 GTK+ 18 Comments

Pango, Glib & GTK 2.4.0 have been released. The announces with a changelog are here, here and here.

Opinion: Web Server OS Changes?

Guest post by Tim H. 2004-03-16 Internet 48 Comments

What is the current status of operating systems as far as web hosting goes? Here is a quick run down:

yellowTAB announces ServicePack 3 for Zeta RC1

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-16 Zeta 10 Comments

yellowTAB is pleased to inform its customers that ServicePack 3 for Zeta RC1 is now available for download for registered customers.

Sun Reluctant to Make Java Open Source

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-16 Java 53 Comments

Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said. Our Take: Funny, last night I tried to install the Symbian SDK and it bailed out because it wanted me to have Java 1.3.1 while I had Java 1.4.1. Talk about "incompatibilities"...

Gentoo 2004.0 Graphical Installer Based on Anaconda Available

Submitted by JoMomma 2004-03-16 Gentoo 41 Comments

Victor Padra from Venezuela ported Red Hat's Anaconda GUI installer on top of Gentoo 2004.0.

Xandros Gets Down to Business

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-16 Oracle and SUN 1 Comment

"Today, Xandros has released their latest operating system, the Xandros Desktop OS – Business Edition. Though this release doesn't really differ much from their previous Deluxe 2.0 product, I felt that the features introduced by this version were significant enough to warrant a few words on this new product." Read the review at MadPenguin.

Microsoft Details Enterprise Software Management Initiative

Submitted by Tudy Parghel 2004-03-16 Microsoft 7 Comments

Microsoft Corp. executives on Tuesday spent a lot of time talking up the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which is the company's vision and technology roadmap for reducing the cost of managing and securing enterprise systems. Elsewhere, Microsoft exec says that open source model endangers the software economy.

Lindows: Microsoft’s Latest Demand Impossible

Submitted by Tudy Parghel 2004-03-16 Linspire 35 Comments

"These are the family jewels," says University of San Francisco law professor and trademark expert Tom McCarthy. "The Windows trademark is so important I don't doubt that Bill Gates is going to hand the legal department a blank check to fight this on all fronts." Read the story at NewsFactor and at TheRegister.

Amiga, Inc. Shifts Focus to AmigaDE; Sells Amiga OS

Submitted by Jonas Gustavsson 2004-03-16 Amiga & AROS 77 Comments

Amiga, Inc. announced today that it has sold the Amiga Operating System to KMOS, Inc, allowing Amiga, Inc to focus on the growing mobile market. On April 23, 2003 Amiga entered into an Agreement with Itec LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc. for the transfer and sale of all of Amiga's right, title, source code, and all versions, from the "Classic Amiga Operating System" through AmigaOS 4.0 and all subsequent versions to KMOS, Inc. The PR gives no explanation about the exact future of Amiga OS 4.

Mac OS X 10.3.3 and Server Update Released

Submitted by Cyrune 2004-03-15 macOS 46 Comments

Apple released MacOSX 10.3.3 via the Software Update pref. panel. More info & changelog here.

Review: Xandros Business Edition 2.0

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-15 Oracle and SUN 30 Comments

Xandros is preparing to release the business edition of their popular Linux desktop distribution. Here's what we found out so far about this new product.

The “Avalon” Input System

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-15 Windows 19 Comments

The presentation subsystem in "Longhorn" (code-named "Avalon") provides powerful new APIs for input. This article gives an overview of these APIs: What services are provided to applications, the architecture of the input system, and how new input devices can be supported.

Darl McBride-Dan Farber ZDNet Interview

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-15 Legal 24 Comments

Here is the transcript of the Dan Farber interview with Darl McBride at the Sand Hill Group's Software 2004 conference in San Francisco, which Groklaw has been given permission to transcribe.

Koming Back to KDE: What’s New in KDE 3.2?

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-15 KDE 71 Comments

KDE has come a long way in usability, stability, compatibility, and features since I first used it. The latest release of the KDE, 3.2.1, was released March 9. But for this review, LinuxPlanet initially looked at KDE 3.2, which shows that Linux is increasingly competitive on the desktop.