According to the Financial Times, Microsoft will be switching to the PowerPC architecture for its next X-Box. If this is true, it could mean that they are planning on porting parts of windows to PPC as well (such as the elements of DirectX used in the X-Box.

Apple raised the bar Monday for some 175 independent retailers to stay as Specialist dealers and achieve certain discounts on products and equipment. The announcements will make it more difficult for dealers to stay as certified Apple resellers without sacrificing the sale of high-profit, third-party hardware and software and giving up valuable customer contact information Apple could use to entice consumers to buy direct. In the meantime, Apple discusses G5 Powerbook and why it is not its time yet.

The GNU-Darwin Distribution is a free operating system and a popular source of free software for Mac OS X and Darwin-x86 users, but it is also a platform for digital activism. Founded in November of 2000, the Distribution has the stated goal of bringing software freedom to computer users of every stripe, and vigilantly defending digital liberties.

Longhorn is the .NET version of Windows which finalizes the replacement of the WIN32 API with a managed system, as well as a massive rethink as to the way developers write applications for Windows and consumers interact with their computers. Read the article at ZDNews.

This is a review of Suse Linux 9.0 Professional Edition at LinuxElectrons: "This software has a retail list price of $79.95. A Personal Edition is also offered for a retail list price of $39.95. Suse also provides a free, downloadable version via ftp. However, this version only contains i386 rpm's, whereas the pay versions support i586 (Intel Pentium processors and above). AMD processors are also supported as is the Athlon 64 (64 bits)."

This sample chapter discusses the operations that the system must perform from the time you power on the system until you receive a system logon prompt. In addition, it covers the steps required to properly shut down a system.

C# is a flexible programming language with a rich set of data types. In this sample chapter, you'll learn the basics of this .NET-centric language (accompanied by instruction in an open source .NET competitor, Mono), with comparisons to other programming languages you may already be familiar with.

Software is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Charles Simonyi’s solution? Programming tools that are so simple that even laypeople can use them.

Vector Linux is a distribution based on the oldest Linux distribution available today - Slackware. It comes in two flavours - a freely downloadable ISO 'lite' version (which I used for this review) and a Deluxe CD edition which can be ordered from www.vectorlinux.com. The deluxe edition includes extras such as Gnome and KDE, as well as a whole pile of extra software.

The first beta release of KDE 3.2 has just been released. The announcement can be found here and a discussion can be found here. This release features 10,000 closed bugs and 2000 closed wishes. Enjoy.

New Zealand's Yoper Ltd announced the release of version 1.2 of Yoper Ydesktop V1. This release contains a large number of bugfixes and software changes.

Ian Griffiths posted to Longhorn user group detailing some of the kernel improvements that we can be expecting from Longhorn. Longhorn will feature CPU time reservation, and disk access scheduling. These changes are being added mainly for the benefit of the media services. MS wants movies and other media to play without interruptions. Additionally, GotDotNet is featuring a diagram showing how Longhorn is built.

"There are loads of things to consider when buying a PC or a Mac, things like API’s, software and hardware support, networking capabilities, usability and security then you have the major one, the price. You also have to consider that Mac’s are certainly aimed at the consumer market while Windows is aiming for both Consumer and Business users". Read the comparison at ActiveMac.

"Lindows is sleak, flashy, fun, quick, and way easy to use!  If you are a computer user and are looking for an alternative to Windows, or just want to try out a user friendly Linux distro, try out Lindows.  If you are a Linux guru and are happy with your current distro, excellent, that is what make Linux great - variety.  If you are curious, give that 15 day trial period a try." Read the review at NeoLinkComputers.