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Fujitsu and Red Hat Form Joint Development Organization for Linux

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-18 Red Hat 4 Comments

Fujitsu Limited and Red Hat today announced that, as a part of their global partnership in providing Linux-based solutions, engineers from the two companies have started to work together located on-site at a Red Hat office in Boston, Massachusetts, USA (where Red Hat's desktop unit has now moved too, closer to Novell's desktop unit, aka Ximian). The new organization will develop Linux features focusing on enterprise customer needs and will assert Fujitsu's support operations in Japan and worldwide.

Linux 2.6.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-18 Linux 115 Comments

Top programmers hope to release on Wednesday a major update to Linux, version 2.6.0, a change that's expected to help carry the open-source operating system into new markets. Linux 2.6 might get released tonight, C|Net says. UPDATE: The kernel 2.6.0 is out. Get it while it's hot. Changelog here.

Mac OS X 10.3.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-18 macOS 32 Comments

The 10.3.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-18 Linux 16 Comments

Distrowatch reports that White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 (WBEL) was born from the ashes of Red Hat Linux, to fill the gap between Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is meant to remain close enough to the original RHEL to share its errata, SRPMS, binary modules, and 3rd party packages.

First Impressions on Xandros 2.0 Standard Edition

Guest post by Mike Johnston 2003-12-17 Oracle and SUN 128 Comments

I first tried Xandros when they released version 1.1. Being quite skeptical, I was unsure what to expect from this spawn of Corel Linux. I must admit in general, I was impressed. So needless to say, I was curious as to whether they managed to improve upon this distinct distribution and cater to the many requests they received about various improvements. Update: Another screenshot, Mozilla on Xandros.

Kernel Hacker Robert Love Joins Ximian

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 Novell and Ximian 10 Comments

Robert Love, kernel hacker well known for his preemptive patch, has now joined the ranks of Ximian. In a nutshell, he told us that he is going to be working on kernel and system-level projects to improve the Linux desktop experience. Better hardware management/integration/naming/hotplugging, a kernel event system, and desktop/laptop performance tuning are immediate goals. Robert recently released a book, "Linux Kernel Development" which we reviewed.

SkyOS 5 Beta Testing Cycle is Open

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 SkyOS 20 Comments

SkyOS announced that they are taking pre-orders for people interested in joining their new beta program for SkyOS 5. This program will allow you to receive a copy of SkyOS 5.0 beta before it is released to the public. The cost to join the beta program is $30, and by joining you will receive these benefits.

Build a supercomputer with FreeBSD

Submitted by Pete 2003-12-17 FreeBSD 6 Comments

Matt Olander, CTO of Offmyserver and Brooks Davis, FreeBSD cluster engineer, demonstrate how computers can be used to create a giant supercomputer.

The Independent Qt Tutorial

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 Qt 9 Comments

The Independent Qt Tutorial is an on-line book aiming to cover most topics involved in the process of developing professional quality Qt applications.

Many Systems on a PowerBook

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 OS News 19 Comments

This guy managed to squeeze 55 OSes running on his Powerbook.

Linux Developers Spar Over Enterprise Desktop Plans

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 Linux 29 Comments

Debian and KDE developers have announced an ambitious initiative to provide an enterprise Linux desktop operating system based on the KDE interface. Perens, an important open-source community leader, though, sees this move as pulling effort away from his similar GNOME-based plan, UserLinux.

IBM proclaims Java server Heal-Thyself

Submitted by Shelli 2003-12-17 Java 13 Comments

The Model for Self-Managing Java Servers free download is intended to be a working model of a non-stopping, Java-based server. The server has the self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection of an autonomic computing, self-managed server. This paper provides further information about Autonomic computing systems capable of managing themselves in today's environment.

Adding OpenBSD System Calls; Diving into GCC: OpenBSD & m88k

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 OpenBSD 3 Comments

This article is a quick example of how to add a system call to OpenBSD. The following description is based on OpenBSD 3.4-beta on i386 machine architecture. Also, it is assumed that readers are familiar with building the OpenBSD kernel.

Elementary Computer Graphics: Drawing with Pixels

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 General Development 13 Comments

If you have a promising young programmer in the family, you might want to take advantage of the extra time together during the holidays to teach a little programming. Michael Norton wrote this tutorial for his fourth grade son, and offers it to Mac DevCenter readers and their children. In just seven easy lessons your child can program a fun drawing program ... and I'm sure that will be just the beginning.

Application Interoperability: Microsoft .NET and J2EE

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 .NET 4 Comments

This article on Microsoft .NET and J2EE presents interoperability best practices, and illustrates these approaches with a functional sample application. It shows how to link Microsoft .NET and J2EE, using Web services, runtime bridges, and asynchronous techniques.

XP Service Pack 2: Last Stop Till Longhorn

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 Windows 59 Comments

Microsoft Corp. executives have kicked off the campaign for the company's next big Windows push: Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). In a Webcast Tuesday morning, Microsoft Security Business Unit Vice President Mike Nash said to expect the service pack —a major release—to enhance security in four ways. It will remedy open ports, malicious e-mail attachments, malicious Web content and buffer overrun attacks, Nash said.

Cocoatech Releases Path Finder 3.1; Apple Updates G5 Firmware

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-17 Apple 9 Comments

MacMinute reports that Cocoatech today released Path Finder 3.1 (our review), an update to its Mac OS X file browser and integrated file utility. Version 3.1 extends and improves Mac OS 10.3 Panther integration, adds some new tools, and improves existing features, preferences, and performance. This is a free upgrade for existing Path Finder 3.0 users. On other Mac releases Apple updated its Apple Remote Desktop and released a new firmware for the G5 machines.

Linux on the Opteron, Part II

Guest post by Robert Minvielle 2003-12-16 Linux 37 Comments

This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.

LindowsOS 4.5 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-16 Linspire 36 Comments

Lindows.com Inc. announced today the immediate availability of LindowsOS 4.5. LindowsOS 4.5 delivers remote desktop sharing, integrated search features, and translation tools that place six different languages. LindowsOS 4.5 now comes SIP-ready with easy-to-use software, any computer with a microphone and speakers running LindowsOS 4.5 (free upgrade from 4.0) can make free worldwide calls.

Fedora Core 2 Schedule Posted

Submitted by Miki 2003-12-16 Fedora Core 41 Comments

Red Hat has an 'aggressive' schedule for Fedora Core 2. Red Hat considers two items absolutely "stop-ship" — that is, they will slip the release if necessary to include them. These two items are the 2.6 Linux kernel and SELinux functionality integrated into the distribution.