Building simple cHTML sites for the less-capable Phone/PDA/textmode browsers seems to be my passion lately, and so I thought I share some statistics with you. As you might know, the new OSNews "mobile" pages went live last weekend and we got some preliminary results:

Continuing with the Linux on the AMD64 series of articles, this installment is to be a summary of two new distributions, and the changes that have been made to Gentoo since the last installment. Here I review the installation of TurboLinux 8 (both with and without the update CD), the installation of Fedora Core for x86_64, and more news on Gentoo for the AMD64.

Do you still use the old Microsoft Windows 3.1(1 for Workgroups)? It still holds some value for some people, but the old Program Manager isn't all that great for today's standards, says ABZone. That's why Calmira exists, it's a shell for Windows 3.1 that gives you a Windows 95 look-and-feel. Calmira XP goes a step further; it has a Windows XP interface for Windows 3.11.

What is FreeSBIE? It is a live system on CD, or an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any installation process, without any hard disk. It's based on the FreeBSD OS.

In an effort to attract more contributors, programmers or not, the Quality Team was lauched today. Read the announcement at The Dot, and an opinion piece on the benefits of the new project is at Newsforge.

NetBSD 1.6.2 has been released, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.2 release announcement.

Are you developing in Java, ANSI C++, Visual C++6, CORBA, IDL, MIDL, or XML, Or are you a .NET developer using Visual C#, Visual Basic, NET, ASP, .NET, or evaluating the .NET platform? Either way with the new PowerPack you’ll get a robust collection of resources that will enable you to evaluate IBM software development tools designed to help you with your specific developer needs. Go here and pick the resources you want and get it mailed to you at no cost.

This article discusses the Swing concept of a pluggable look and feel and offers some thoughts on how to use it in a way that is both convenient for the programmer and desirable for the user experience.

Today we feature a mini but interesting interview with Xandros executives, Dr. Frederick H. Berenstein (Chairman & CTO) and Ming Poon (VP of Software Development). Read on for more.

The SCO Group Inc. was granted leave last week to amend its case against IBM Corp. Trade secret claims have been dropped, and replaced with copyright infringement claims, Blake Stowell, SCO's corporate communications manager said Monday.

"My shift in focus was further solidified by my first user experiences with BeOS following my installation of R5 PE on a Windows box. What I had read was true! I was captivated, completely enamored. But I was also suddenly deeply remorseful." What kind of person falls in love with BeOS for the first time in these "late" BeOS days? Read the editorial at BeOSJournal.

With a strategy dubbed Linux-on-Power, Big Blue is pairing its Power platform and Linux as a way to expand its reach into 64-bit computing.

Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and SGI MIPS architectures.

Microsoft is readying updates to its programming tools that will be released in tandem with Windows XP Service Pack 2, a security-oriented release of Windows due later this year. Elsewhere, ActiveWin published a preview of the SP2 for XP.