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Microsoft’s EU Punishment First of Many

Guest post by Gianluca Casu 2004-04-05 Legal 67 Comments

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 Sees Shift in Developer Profiles

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 Apple 77 Comments

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 Is Out of Court, But Is It Out of Trouble?

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 17 Comments

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.

Introduction to Cocoa with Objective-C

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 General Development 32 Comments

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.

General Public License – a Summary Guide

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 Open Source 10 Comments

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.

Of course it runs NetBSD: NetBSD/xen

Submitted by Jan Schaumann 2004-04-05 NetBSD 5 Comments

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.

O’Reilly Network: Java, Python on Panther, Managed .NET Code

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 General Development 5 Comments

The O'Reilly Network has put online a few interesting development articles with subjects of Java & Lisp, Python on OSX and managed C++ on .NET.

Linux on the Playstation and the GameCube

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 Linux 23 Comments

LinuxDevCenter takes a look at the Sony PlayStation 2 and add-ons that make it into a Linux computer. Elsewhere, the effort to port Linux to the GameCube -- a longtime goal for many hackers -- finally came to fruition in December 2003 at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany. Read about it at the LinuxDevCenter.

ExtremeTech: Audio and Video Codec Shootout

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 Multimedia, AV 28 Comments

After their recent video codec shootout article ExtremeTech now offers an audio codec one. Find out which technologies are the best for each job.

POWER to the people: A history of chipmaking at IBM

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 IBM 29 Comments

In the last decade alone, IBM scientists have announced one semiconductor breakthrough after another:

Solaris Operating System Availability Features

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 Solaris 1 Comment

This paper provides detailed discussion regarding the algorithm, implementation, kernel tunables, and messages you are likely to see on a system running the appropriate kernel updates.

Why SCO Thinks It Can Win

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 SCO 61 Comments

In many pro-Linux circles, it's a given that The SCO Group Inc. can't possibly win in court. Obviously, SCO disagrees.

Write a Development Article, Win a Free ‘Aspire Swatter 2004’ Copy

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-05 Gifts, Contests 16 Comments

Are you a Java or a .NET/Mono/Portable.NET developer? Then you might be interested in this competition that could help you win a prize that's worth over $3000 US.

Linux on Desktop Gaining in OS Race

Submitted by danjr 2004-04-04 Linux 54 Comments

Dan Gilmor writes for the Mercury News: "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. One reason I'm rethinking this long-held conviction is in my lap. I'm writing this column on a nearly 4-year-old IBM ThinkPad, a computer that was a marvel of technology in its time but is now fairly old stuff. Linux has rejuvenated this machine."

Syllable Port of Io Language; New Drivers

Submitted by Pablo M 2004-04-04 Syllable, AtheOS 17 Comments

The Io Language, has been ported to Syllable by Kas de Vos. Here is a screenshot.

Behind The Scenes at the Embedded Systems Conference

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-04 In the News No Comments

Curt Brune writes: "Inside are the gems I discovered at this year's Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, including current directions in embedded Linux development, progressive silicon art, robots for science and entertainment, public transportation and the relentless drive of the economy."

Introduction to the Zero Install System

Submitted by Tom 2004-04-04 General Development 23 Comments

The Zero Install system makes software installation not merely easy, but unnecessary. Users run their applications directly from the Internet from the software author's pages. Caching makes this as fast as running a normal application after the first time, and allows off-line use.

Custom Widgets Using PyQt

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-04 General Development 19 Comments

This tutorial will show you how to create custom widgets using PyQt.

Linux Kernel 2.6.5 Released

Submitted by Bryan Sappington 2004-04-04 Linux 30 Comments

Linux kernel 2.6.5 has been released. Get it from a mirror or read the changelog.

Mono C# Compiler gets CLS Support, Basic Runtime Too

Eugenia Loli 2004-04-04 Mono 13 Comments

Now the C# compiler will properly flag errors in CLS-compliance while it gets Basic support. Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding support to the C# Mono compiler to support the various checks required by the Common Language Specification (CLS).