Speakers and attendees at the open source events of Portland's InnoTech Conference last week concurred that Linux was at home in the enterprise, handling heavier database demands and other workloads and proving itself on a number of platforms.

Donn Denman, who joined the early Mac team at Apple in 1982 with the task of building a BASIC programming language interpreter for the new computer, feels that today's Macs are not all that different from the ones built 20 years ago, but thinks we'll see a lot of changes in the next 20 years. Read the interview at MacMinute.

Ryan McBride works full time on OpenBSD development. His first contribution was adding IPv6 support to PF, OpenBSD's stateful packet filter.

Here's how to use an ADSI-based script to search for domain users; how to use the Hyena utility to quickly find out which user on your network has a particular file open; and how to quickly locate all machines that have automatic logon enabled in their registry.

Four years ago, a new upstart language named C# surprised the development world with its elegance and consistency. In this two-part series, you'll get a first look at three of the four major language refinements in the latest version of C#.

How will the future operating systems look like? How the user interface, the inner workings, the security policies and the networking will interact? In any case, innovation is the key.

IBM has created a module to handle Java for its mainframes while released a budget mainframe for midsize companies to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its mainframe business.

We've all heard the news: JBoss has received $10 million in funding and now it's time to sit back and mull it over.

Despite a new window into Microsoft's proprietary technology, Sun Microsystems won't stop its call for open standards, executives and analysts say.

As a veteran of Operating System experimentation, I can personally vouch that I have flubbed things up more often than I have gotten it right on the first time.

In the latest Michael's Minute, Lindows, Inc. frontman Michael Robertson has announced that LindowsOS will be renamed to most effectively combat the "onslaught" of Microsoft lawsuits. This topic has been heavily debated on this website in the past. The new name will be announced on April 14th.

Linux kernel 2.6 introduces improved IO scheduling that can increase speed -- "sometimes by 1,000 percent or more, often by 2x" -- for standard desktop workloads, and by as much as 15 percent on many database workloads, according to Andrew Morton of Open Source Development Labs. This increased speed is accomplished by minimizing the disk head movement during concurrent reads, says Yahoo!News.

froglogic today announced the availability of Squish 1.1, the new version of the automated GUI testing framework for Qt applications.The main new features of Squish 1.1 are:

The interview was conducted by e-mail. Questions by Tim Mullins, answers from Zackary Deems and Bernhard Rosenkraenzer who are two of the head developers of Ark Linux.