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The Most Popular Operating System in the World

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 OS News 13 Comments

ITRON, the first in a series of open-source specifications for the TRON architecture, answered a pressing need for Japan's electronics firms, which traditionally have written their own software for embedded systems. Read the article at LinuxInsider.

Arch Linux: A Better Distribution

Guest post by Ben Mazer 2003-10-15 Linux 44 Comments

A few months ago I was a Slackware Junkie. I loved it, and laughed at those who used 'more automatic' distributions (ok, I didn't actually laugh). Then Arch Linux 0.5 came out and I was very intrigued by it. I was getting tired of having to compile updated packages myself.

Microsoft Adds New Flavors of Server OS

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 Windows 1 Comment

Microsoft said Wednesday that it has made available a test version of its Windows Server 2003 operating system that runs on 64-bit chips from AMD.

Bill Gates: ‘Longhorn is Going to be Late’

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 Windows 69 Comments

Bill Gates yesterday confirmed that there is no official release date yet for the next version of Windows, named Longhorn. "Longhorn could be 2005 or 2006," Gates told a small group of journalists yesterday at the TechNet/MSDN seminar in The Hague. "This release is going to be driven by technology, not by a release date. Which probably means it is going to be late." In the meantime, tThe second Windows XP service pack will include a number of changes designed to allay security fears.

New NetBSD Core Team Announced

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 NetBSD 5 Comments

NetBSD's Alistair Crooks announced the appointment of a new NetBSD core team.

A Bevy of Browser Releases

Adam Scheinberg 2003-10-15 Mozilla, Gecko 56 Comments

Many users submitted the news of the myriad Mozilla releases, including Mozilla 1.5, Firebird 0.7, and Thunderbird 0.3. In other news, Opera 7.21 for Windows, Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD was released this week as well. Update: Epiphany 1.0.3 is out too.

Poll: Vote for your Favorite Tech “Icon”

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 Rumors 145 Comments

Well, you know... little girls & boys admire athletes, singers, actors... We, OS geeks, tend to respect and admire engineers (for the most part). Come in and vote for your favorite tech icon, let us see who is the "big tech star" these days!

Linus Torvalds: Leader of the Free World

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 Linux 32 Comments

How Linus Torvalds became benevolent dictator of Planet Linux, the biggest collaborative project in history. Read the 6-page article at Wired.

Sun: ‘Microprocessors are Dead’

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 Oracle and SUN 49 Comments

Today's microprocessors will become extinct by the end of the decade, to be replaced by computers built onto a single chip, Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos said Tuesday.

Fedora Test-3 Screenshots

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-14 Fedora Core 44 Comments

Here are some shots of Fedora Test 3 which was released yesterday.

KDE 3.1 Packages Available for AIX

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-14 KDE 5 Comments

George Staikos ported the latest stable KDE version, 3.1.x, to IBM AIX.

The Resurrection of SimplyGNUstep

Guest post by Chad Hardin 2003-10-14 OpenStep, GNUstep 43 Comments

The SimplyGNUstep project was started a little over two years ago. It's goal was to create a pure GNUstep based user oriented desktop operating system. It used the Linux kernel and the standard GNU software, but it was not like any other standard Linux distribution.

Mandrake Linux 9.2 (FiveStar) Hits The Street

Submitted by Anders Jensen 2003-10-14 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 61 Comments

Mandrake Linux, has just hit the street in an all new version 9.2 (codename: FiveStar). This new version is based on Linux version 2.4.22 (an optional Linux 2.6.0pre is also available and included), XFree86 4.3, binaries built upon GCC 3.3.1, Apache 2.0.43, KDE 3.1.3, Gnome 2.4.0, OpenOffice 1.1 and more.

Microsoft Unpacks Details of Longhorn Storage

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-14 Windows 49 Comments

The Longhorn edition of Microsoft's Windows OS is at least two years away--but the company is revealing some details on how it intends to create a smooth transition from today's Windows PCs.

Athlon 64 vs. Apple G5 Systems: Not Even Close

Submitted by Prognathous 2003-10-14 Benchmarks 75 Comments

"Apple Power Macs did well on Photoshop, but the 64-bit AMD-based systems won handily on most tests", says PCWorld.

Linux’s Hit Men

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-14 Open Source 91 Comments

In the world of "free" open source software, there is no greater villain than SCO, owner of the Unix operating system. But the spread of Linux could be hurt by another group--and ironically, it's the free-software proponents themselves, Forbes says.

Meet the hardest working objects in JSP technology

Submitted by Irish 2003-10-14 Java 5 Comments

This article delves into the many uses of JSP implicit objects. Follow along as it introduces the nine implicit objects, explains the purpose (and multiple purposes) of each one, and closes with a list of best practices for using these handy little workers in your JSP programming efforts. Additionally, Eclipse project released Eclipse 3.0 M4 recently.

Call For Contributions: Update

David Adams 2003-10-14 OS News 18 Comments

Earlier in the month we made a call for contributions, and we had an overwhelming response. Hopefully we'll be seeing some new articles from OSNews readers in the near future. I'd like to announce that we've set up a mailing list for those readers who might be interested in contributing articles and reviews. I'd also like to make a public apology to those people who I mistakenly added to the list. "Read more" for details.

Apple Moves to Support DVD+RW Format on Panther

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-14 macOS 36 Comments

After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system.

Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-14 General Development 28 Comments

Bjarne Stroustrup talks with Bill Venners about the perils of staying too low level and venturing too object-oriented in C++ programming style. Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++.