The SCO Group dismissed a leaked memo that connected Microsoft to $86 million in investments in the company, saying the author of the e-mail misunderstood the venture deal.
A few months ago, I briefly tried SpeedDownload but I didn't evaluate it in-depth. I realized recently that the time had come to spend more time with it and write a review. SpeedDownload2 is a download manager for Mac OS X. In an older review at SpyMac, they called YazSoft's SpeedDownload2 a "wonder of development." Were they right?
Mandrake Community 10.0 was released today. The public ISOs aren't available for download yet, but club members can download it, or you can pre-order the DVD.
Lindows.com is continuing its experiment of offering software via peer-to-peer networks. The company said Thursday that it is set to distribute its LindowsOS through P2P networks for $25, half the normal price, from its web site. However, OSNews readers will be able to get the OS for free via BitTorrent if they follow this link (thanks to Lindows.com for the kind offer to our readers)!
The NetBSD Project announced Monday that release 1.6.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. NewsForge interviewed Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Core Group and asked him about the NetBSD project in general, the long awaiting release 2.0, and a lot of technical and organizational issues.
Apple Computer Inc.'s chief financial officer Fred Anderson and corporate controller Peter Oppenheimer spoke at Morgan Stanley & Co.'s conference March 1. The wide-ranging 40-minute discussion covers a range of topics, with a particular focus on iPods, Apple notebooks, the creative professionals market, and retail. And the discussion confirms Apple's aggressive plans.
I purchased my first Apple Mac in October 2003, having been a Windows user for many years. It was a new iBook G4. I previously wrote an account of my early experience with this machine along with some of the problems that I encountered. A common criticism that I faced at the time was that I had written the article too early.
Registered Palm Developers can now sample the new Eclipse-based Palm Developer Suite. The new suite, which is free, is a very impressive set of tightly integrated build tools covering a range of Palm OS technologies including Cobalt (OS 6). The suite (240 MB) includes gcc arm and 680x0 compilers, dialogue editors, application templates, full debuggers, class and project navigators, and more.
"Microsoft's XAML has a lot of people worried. Its advantage is to bring the ease of web page authoring and scripting into writing .NET application user interfaces. This makes immense sense. We have a desperate need for decent user interfaces, and the place where a large body of UI designers and programmers live and work at the moment is in web pages."Read the opinion of Gnome's Edd Dumbill and a reply from Miguel deIcaza.
yellowTAB announced that they will be attending the CeBIT in Hannover this year while they have scheduled another TV appearence. In the meantime, FreeNet.de reviews Zeta (in German).
Ted Neward (DevelopMentor, TheServerSide.Net) and Bruce Tate (Bitter Java) talk about the relationship between Java and .NET, underscoring the issues with interop between the two platforms. Presentations are played using the Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Hidden deep within the KDE desktop lies a powerful set of scripting technologies that can allow the power user to automate many tasks. In this article, the author introduces us to these technologies and explains how they can be used to the fullest.
Recently lots of Longhorn News has been arising. An article at ADT Magazine discusses the possible release date of Longhorn, which could be anywhere from 2006 to 2008, as well as the management of code in the upcoming operating system.
The idea behind Mandrake Move is simple, you have a bootable CD with Mandrake Move on and a USB flash drive to store your data then you can use any PC at your disposal to do your work. Its a nice idea but as I found out it doesn't always work how you expected. Read More.
If it's AI and robots you wanted from this series then this one is for you. Artificial Intelligence exists today, when this and other technologies merge the result will be more like Science Fiction than any PC. The technology will be fantastic, the possibilities endless. Get it wrong, the consequences dire.
"When asked about Fedora, I’ve always offered the same response – it’s meant for those who want to stay on the bleeding edge of Linux development. I feel that Fedora is more a change of concept and mindset for Red Hat users and developers rather than being merely a Linux distribution."Read the review at Star-TechCentral.
"There's another schism going on in the Linux world. Just in case you've been under a rock in the last few months the XFree86 team has changed their license. There's an uproar from several of the largest Linux distributions where they're refusing include XFree86 4.4 in their new releases. This is bad news for a few but also in the middle of this conflict begs the question. What are the alternatives?"Read the editorial at Linux.Warcy.com.
Steve Capps, co-designer of the Finder and much of the Mac's graphical user interface (as well as one of the folks behind the Newton OS), doesn't find much to excite him about either the Mac or Windows user interfaces these days.
