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LinuxWorld: Novell’s debutante ball

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-19 Novell and Ximian 11 Comments

New partnerships with server makers Dell and Egenera will be among the displays of Novell's newly bought Linux status at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo beginning Wednesday. Novell on Jan. 21 will ship its exteNd 5 suite for development of service-oriented Web applications, featuring boosts in security, productivity and Linux platform support.

The .NET System Namespace

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-19 .NET 16 Comments

The System namespace holds classes for simple common tasks, and a large number of sub-namespaces for slightly less common (but still important) tasks, including string manipulation, IO, and threading. Learn how .NET handles namespaces -- and how they can make your life easier.

MandrakeMove First Impressions: The Human Interface

Guest post by Daniel Allen 2004-01-18 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 41 Comments

I want to start off by saying that MandrakeMove is an incredible distribution and I am going to focus on some rather particular points in this review. My hope is to make the community aware of some of the outstanding issues with running MandrakeMove and not to discredit the countless hours Mandrake employees spent on making such a polished product. We all want Linux to succeed and that can only be accomplished by continuing to test, report and ask why or why not? The lifecycle of linux is like an organism, it has to keep breathing to stay alive.

Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.1 to 5.2

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 FreeBSD 25 Comments

Here is a quick guide for upgrading your FreeBSD 5.1 to the newly released 5.2.

PCMagazine Reviews Server OSes

Submitted by Peter Colijn 2004-01-18 Rumors 67 Comments

PC Magazine has a review of several Server OSes targetted at the SMB market, ranging from MS Windows SBS 2003, to Novell, to SuSE Linux 9.0. Windows Server 2003 wins the editor's choice.

Linus Torvalds: Linux Desktop in 5 to 10 Years

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Linux 59 Comments

Linux creator Linus Torvalds spoke to Australian IT during his visit to Adelaide this week for Linux.conf.au, his second after attending last year's conference in Perth. Linus now says that while Linux is well deep into the server space and market, the home desktop will take 5 to 10 years to be equally competitive with other solutions.

Retro Reading: How the Macintosh computer grew

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Apple 15 Comments

(Note: First published in the Mercury News in January, 1984): "When Apple Computer Inc. rolls out its Macintosh computer on Jan. 24, the company's self-proclaimed ``pirates'' will have delivered their treasure. Since 1981, when Macintosh took form in an internal memo, Apple founder Steve Jobs, now 28, has led a maverick clan of programmers and designers on a mission to prove that the success of the Apple II was not a fluke."

Can a Geek Love Xandros?

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Oracle and SUN 44 Comments

Some of the more experienced among the readers can surely configure CUPS with Samba by editing configuration files with closed eyes. This kind of exercise is useful and fun the first few times, but it can quickly become a mundane task if it has to repeated often. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a distribution that could do it near-automatically? In other words, wouldn't it be nice if we just used Xandros? And despite our natural resistance to use GUI for any kind of configuration, could we still love Xandros? Robert Storey investigates.

Microsoft Research Looks to Extend C#

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 General Development 6 Comments

There are a few pieces of information on Xen floating around the Web. Some characterize Xen as "the hypothetical extension of C#." Others describe Xen as an amalgamation of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR), XML and SQL programming language.

Light On Longhorn: Avalon, WinFS, Indigo

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Windows 22 Comments

MSDN posted three articles describing the new features found on Longhorn and the next VisualStudio.

Getting and installing NetBSD-current

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 NetBSD 13 Comments

The BSD family of Unix-like operating systems evolved from the last release of 4.4BSD, released by the University of California some years ago. This article discusses why you might want to run the -current branch of NetBSD, how you would go about it, and a bit of what could go wrong.

Sun to Windows-certify x86 hardware

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Oracle and SUN 42 Comments

In an apparent softening of its antipathy toward Microsoft, Sun plans to begin certifying its hardware to run the Windows operating system, a Sun executive said on Thursday.

HP-UX Vulnerability Updates Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Unix 1 Comment

HP has issued patches for HP-UX. These fixes are for an old vulnerability, which potentially can cause DoS and the for dtterm.

Almost by stealth, the Linux desktop is here

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Linux 199 Comments

"One of my dirty little secrets is that I have never successfully installed Linux on anything. I've tried many times over the years, because I bought into the idea that it could revitalize old computers. I'd cobble together a 486 processor, some no-name disk controller, a clonky old hard disk, a VGA card from the Boer War, and off we'd go. My Linux experience terminated shortly thereafter with an incomprehensible error message concerning IRQ 9, lost interrupts or goblins in the bidirectional bus buffers." Read the commentary at ZDNews.

Garbee says Debian has a place in society

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Debian 1 Comment

"Governments in countries without strong IT infrastructure or skills are utilising free and open source software as part of a comprehensive plan to "boot strap" the populace into technology, a leading Linux representative has claimed. Speaking at the Linux.conf.au event in Adelaide on Friday, former Debian Project Leader and Hewlett-Packard Linux CTO Bdale Garbee said for the cost of paying a foreign software company to provide a software solution, governments in countries such as Spain and Brazil are in favour of developing their own localised software with free and open source code." Read the rest of the article at LinuxWorld.au.

64-bit Processors Scream, but Software Still a Whisper

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Hardware 19 Comments

Both Apple and Advanced Micro Devices are producing 64-bit processors for consumer PCs. Apple put its new PowerPC G5 chips into its latest line of Macintosh desktops, and AMD has several flavors of its Athlon 64 processor, which is found in computers from various manufacturers. Read the rest of the article at Houston Chronicle.

Sun Problems Remain Despite Gains-Analyst

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Oracle and SUN 11 Comments

Will a rising tide of technology spending raise all boats? Sun Microsystems Inc.'s quarterly results underscored a growing consensus that a recovery in technology spending is underway. But analysts on Friday questioned whether the network computer maker will lag in the good times as it has in the bad.

Embedded Systems: Linux TV

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-18 Linux 2 Comments

The world's top electronics makers are rallying around an OS--and it's not Windows, but Linux.

ArtWork Source Code Troubles KDE’s 3.2 Release

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-17 KDE 115 Comments

In the dawn of the news that well known artist Everaldo, of CrystalSVG fame, now works for Lindows.com, a long discussion has started on kde-core-devel because Everaldo hasn't released the source code of some of the SVG icons that was supposed to be shipped with KDE 3.2. Update: Lindows.com's Kevin Carmony (President & COO) responds.

Show and Tell for Microsoft

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-17 Microsoft 17 Comments

Microsoft is considering an expansion of a program that would allow companies to see the source code underlying its Office software and other applications. Elsewhere, the U.S. Justice Department on Friday expressed concern that Microsoft has not completely lived up to its agreement to disclose Windows communications protocols, as required by a 2002 antitrust agreement.