eMbedded VC++ 4.0 SP3 merges the functionality of eMbedded VC++ 4.0 SP1 and eMbedded VC++ 4.0 SP2 and enables development using a single development machine to target Windows CE 4.0, 4.10 or 4.20 Platforms. eVC4 SP3 installation includes previously released QFEs for eMbedded VC++ 4.0. After you install this, you might also wanna get the Pocket PC 2003 emulator and the Smartphone emulator which run on top of eMbedded VC++ 4.0.

"Putting together a Linux distribution gets a lot more complicated when stacks of requirements start arriving from hardware vendors and other partners. Throughout this article, the focus is on how the release was put together. This article primarily discusses the development of the kernel used in Enterprise Linux v. 3. The kernel is only a fraction of an overall distribution, the portion that controls the underlying hardware and system resources." Read the rest at LinuxJournal.

A basic understanding of Stop errors and their underlying causes improves your ability to locate and understand technical information or perform diagnostic procedures on Windows Server 2003.

XFce 4.0.4 is a maintenance release. Download locations can be found on this page, and the changelog is available here.

Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

I've made a document based on an idea I had that might be good for some desktop innovation too. I've made some diagrams and screenshots to illustrate it, have a look here.

In an industry first, Silicon Graphics today announced the worldwide availability of SGI Altix systems running up to 256 Intel Itanium 2 processors within a single instance of the Linux operating system. The record-breaking accomplishment is the end result of an international Altix beta program originally targeted to achieve just half the scalability of today's 256-processor milestone.

froglogic today announced the availability of a technology preview of Squish 1.1, the new version of the automated GUI testing framework for Qt applications. Check in for the rest of the press release.

Can you write Java code that compiles across several platforms but still performs as fast as native code? This is a problem that has vexed Java developers, particularly when it comes to applications with complex UIs. This article proposes an interesting solution to this problem. You'll learn how to use JNI to access SLIK, a cross-platform C API that offers native performance on both Windows and UNIX. The JNI APIs demonstrated in this article will help you write skinned GUIs that run under both Linux and Windows with no code changes.

Trolltech was very kind to send us over a copy of the recently released "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" book, part of "Bruce Perens' Open Source Series". The book weighs in at about 400 pages and comes with a CD-ROM loaded with software not found elsewhere freely.

eWEEK Labs drills down into the Linux core and finds improved scalability and performance while also gives a spin to Fedora Core 2.

Owen Taylor released development versions of GLib-2.3.6, Pango-1.3.6 and GTK+-2.3.6. Also, there was a GTK+-2.4.0 schedule change, while Owen posted a summary of a GTK+ team meeting regarding 2.4.

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. Announcement, changelog, Info, download.

David Dawes seems a little suspicious of the underwhelming support for XFree86 by Linux distributors: "I have heard privately that some vendors were planning to move to an X.Org release even before this licence issue came up. That probably makes business sense for the vendors given that X.Org is a vendor-oriented organization sponsored by hardware and software companies, while XFree86 is an independent group of volunteer developers. I suspect that the licence issue may have affected the timing, but not the end result", he concluded.