Sayamindu Dasgupta put up a preview (mirror) of the upcoming Gnome 2.5.

ROCK is a Distribution Build Kit. You can configure your personal build of ROCK and easily build your own distribution. Features of ROCK Linux v2.0 are build dependency auto-detection, a new binary package format, "smart optimizations", the ability to be build on a cluster and many more. ROCK Linux comes along with over 1000 package descriptions ready for compilation. Currently supported platforms include x86, AMD64, PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC as well as SPARC64.

SwingWT uses Eclipse's SWT to offer native host-widgets for Java applications. Screenshot.

This article introduces the Runtime Spy, one of Core Tools available from Eclipse.org. The Runtime Spy is a perspective and set of views specifically designed to help you find and diagnose plug-in startup performance problems. It's considered one of best tools for understanding and diagnosing startup performance problems related to plug-in activation.

The new Linux kernel includes support for and improvements in many areas of networking: from tunneling and better file security to encryption and privacy protection. This article covers how these improvements affect users even as they make Linux more secure and more enterprise-ready.

This guide is aimed at CVS users who want to know more about the new features in Subversion, but it is also useful for someone familiar with source control systems who wants to find out what Subversion offers. Mike Mason is talking about the philosophy and design behind Subversion, how it improves upon CVS, and how to get started using it.

2004 is indeed the 20th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh computer, but the history of this computer is actually a little older than this. Joining Berkeley Groks is Jef Raskin (JR) who started the Apple Macintosh project. Frank Ling talks to him about how the project got started, his perspectives on current operating systems, and his current work.

This article explores the concept of commodification in a historical context while also seeking to discover lessons that might be applied to contemporary open source business efforts. I also wrote a similar editorial a few weeks ago.

This page describes the installation steps Tips4Free did with the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community Edition 3-CD set. It includes many screenshots of the installation procedure.

Morphos-news.de reports that MorphOS 1.4.2 is now available. To get it login to the beta2ftp server and download the boot.img to update your MorphOS 1.4.1 installation.

A helpful beginner's guide to managing BSD filesystems. The author outlines what filesystems are, the format of /etc/fstab including some of the more commonly-used options, mounting media such as CDs, and using df to monitor partition space.

FlexBeta has a quick look at the recent Longhorn Build 4053 with screenshots.

Microsoft confirmed on Friday that it is looking to update its server operating system before the release of next major version of Windows but offered few details on what the new software release will contain.

If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying "stamps" for e-mail (paid in cpu cycles that we rent to others).