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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.

ReactOS 0.2 RC 1 Released

Submitted by Michael Zandstra 2004-01-17 ReactOS 14 Comments

ReactOS 0.2 RC1 has been released. The 0.2 release has the goal of booting into a functional Explorer.exe - replacing the default of a text command line interface. The final release should be on the 25th of January. The release features more additions and fixes than the ability to boot into explorer. For a complete listing, view the release changelog.

Microsoft UK Developer Briefing Report Part 1

Submitted by Dev Sibwarra 2004-01-17 Microsoft No Comments

OSFocus.net have just posted an report from last month's Microsoft UK Platform Developer Briefing, which took place on the 12th of December 2003. The report outlines the events of the day, and also introduces some of the features of Microsoft Longhorn and its associated technologies.

Learning Cocoa: Repurposing Variables

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-17 General Development 14 Comments

Here is the sixth lesson in MacDevCenter's ongoing Cocoa tutorial series.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 1 Released

Submitted by lday 2004-01-16 Red Hat 20 Comments

Red Hat announced the release of Update 1 for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 OS family, including:

Review: NBOR’s Dyoun & Blackspace Interesting But Not Complete

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-16 Graphics 46 Comments

Yesterday we reported on NBOR's Blackspace/Dyoun followed Assosiated Press' reports. Blackspace is a new way of doing things in computing. The free NBOR player was made available for download last night and it included a number of pre-recorded demos of what Blackspace can do. Based on these demos, here is what we think about the product.

yellowTAB Announces Zeta 1.0-RC2 Officially

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-16 Zeta 30 Comments

Today yellowTAB announced that Zeta RC2 has gone to press and will be entering retail channels within the next couple of weeks. This new release candidate incorporates hundreds of changes and bugfixes since the RC1 including many submissions from users. A few days ago a misunderstanding aroused among the Zeta customers and YellowTAB regarding the free availability of RC2 or not. RC2 is just RC1 with Service Packs 2 and 3 applied. Current customers will receive the ServicePack 3 download for free. They will also have the option of getting an RC2 CD at an upgrade price.

Spawn of Debian Face Off: MEPIS Linux

Submitted by AnyOnePerson 2004-01-16 Linux 11 Comments

This is a second article in a series of reviews from newsforge comparing MEPIS and Lindows.

Debian-Installer Beta 2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-16 Debian 38 Comments

Joey Hess has announced the availability of the second beta release of debian-installer. Highlights include better support for PowerPC & IA64 ports, more translations and support for USB devices.

Sam Gentile: .NET Rocks!

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-16 .NET 28 Comments

Carl and Mark have a chat with Sam Gentile about sci-fi authors, COM Interop's problems, Extreme Programming, dual programming, unit testing, Sam's thoughts on the state of the .NET Framework, Groove, the cross-platform potential of the .NET Framework, the CLI, Rotor and Mono.

Mozilla 1.6 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-16 Mozilla, Gecko 74 Comments

Mozilla 1.6 is now released with many bug fixes and new features. Release Notes here.

WinFS: Schemas and Extensibility

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-16 General Development 9 Comments

This MSDN episode covers the thinking behind the designs of the Windows Schemas and how you can extend the schemas that ship with Windows, create your own schemas, and extend WinFS. Media Player for Win & Mac or the win32_codecs package under Linux/Unix are required to view the video.

SkyOS.org Posts Mpeg Videos

Submitted by Robert and Hexydes 2004-01-16 SkyOS 70 Comments

After popular request, the SkyOS folks put up two mpeg videos showing the v5 of the OS.

Throw That GUI Out the Door: Console Applications That Shine

Guest post by Scott Rippee 2004-01-15 Office 96 Comments

As I have recently discovered, with the right applications, ditching the GUI and using the console exclusively can be a pleasure. By knowing which console applications will suit your needs the best you can achieve efficiency in a console environment that rivals that of a GUI. With well designed ncurses interfaces many console applications are extremely usable and working in a console environment can not only free up precious resources it can also provide several other benefits that will be discussed later in this article.

Introduction to segusoLand

Submitted by Manish Bansal 2004-01-15 Graphics 66 Comments

"segusoLand is a program for GNU/linux that enables users to specify actions in a very uniform and intuitive way. Some people would call segusoLand a "desktop environment", some a "file manager", some a "start menu"... it is difficult to classify it because it is quite innovative. The big innovation of segusoLand is called "intelligent option narrowing". You won't find it anywhere else" says its author Maurizio Colucci. Check the application here and some screenshots here. Make sure you read the other pages too as they provide a lot of information as to what segusoLand really is and what it does.

Torvalds: Linux Breaks Desktop Barrier in 2004

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-15 Linux 65 Comments

This year will see Linux finally crack the lucrative desktop market as more commercial software vendors tool up and cash in on the operating system and kernel developers improve graphical interface integration says cult hero and Linux founder Linus Torvalds. Computerworld's Rodney Gedda cornered the penguin power supremo at the Linux.Conf.au in Adelaide.

NBOR Probes Blackspace With Innovation

Submitted by Huan Xiong 2004-01-15 Graphics 32 Comments

A few hundred thousand lines of computer code could revolutionise the way people interact with computers, say its unlikely inventor and his backers. Denny Jaeger, a musician and composer who spent the past decade developing the software, will unveil it January 15, when people will be able to download a scaled-down version for free. The public can then decide whether Jaeger is a trailblazing whiz - or a grandiose flop.

Microsoft’s Windows Services for UNIX Now Available Free of Charge

Submitted by Roberto J. Dohnert 2004-01-15 Unix 38 Comments

Latest version of Microsoft's Windows UNIX interoperability product offers customers enhanced performance and new functionality that extends investments in UNIX-based systems; SFU 3.5 is finalist in LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. Download for free from here.