New OpenTracker File Manager Feature: What’s Your Opinion?

  Submitted by DaaT Haiku 40 Comments
IsComputerOn reports that Axel Dörfler, OpenTracker's maintainer, would like everyone's opinion on a new feature he is working on: If, let's say, you have folder A and folder B, both showing (their contents) in Tracker windows. You want to create a link (or move, or copy) folder A to folder B, you right-click and drag the little icon (screenshot) into folder B, no need to go to the parent folder of A and then drag it.
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The Linux Platform and Modern GUI-based Operating Systems

Graphics 47 Comments
" I am talking about the architecture, problems that can not be solved without incompatibilities or at least a lot of work. A ‘modern GUI-based OS’ is, for me, a OS that does not require a user to know or use a command line tool, even for rare system-administration tasks. That does not mean that it should be impossible to work with the command line and a text editor, but the command line must not be the only way to do an administration task." Read the article at KDEdevelopers.org.
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Mac OS X: User Friendlier Security for Unix

macOS 24 Comments
"One of the problems of computer security in practice is providing an easy mechanism for the user of a system to take advantage of the security features present in an operating system. A system may have significant security features, but absent an interface that allows the user to easily make use of those features the effective security of the system may be low." Read the PDF paper here. Elsewhere, BBC writes about Panther: "Apple, fed up with playing second string to Windows, has been taking its operating system from strength to strength."
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Qt/Mac Development Needs You

Qt 49 Comments
The Dot reports that while Qt/Mac has been GPLed since Apple's World Wide Developer Conference 2003, which let everybody think that KOffice and the whole KDE stuff would quickly become native Aqua applications. However, the KDE on Darwin project is not really active and needs more developers.
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FreeBSD: High-performance Computing Cluster; SNMP and RRDTool

  Submitted by Pete & Avleen Vig FreeBSD 10 Comments
This is an interesting article on how a 300 node cluster was built, using FreeBSD. A nice bonus with the article is that it has a list of major vendor that work with FreeBSD. Elsewhere, if you ever wanted to graph your network traffic, disk usage, system load, or anything else about your network, servers or workstations, then RRDTool is your best friend and SNMP is it's very sexy spouse. Between the two you can collect data on almost element in your network, either local or remote, and graph it almost any way you want. Read the paper here.
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