Miracle-driver from Panasonic does the unthinkable, The Inquirer says: there are USB drivers for DOS.

MacNet2 holds a full preview article of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and screenshots here.

A group of Xbox security researchers say they've found a way to run the open-source operating system on the game console without using a so-called mod chip.

The release of the beta version of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5 (J2SE 1.5) is just around the corner. A recent session at the 2003 JavaOne Conference provides a roadmap.

If you are a driver/system developer and need the entire set of symbols for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000, then you can download a symbol package and install it on your computer. The symbol download packages are listed by CPU type (x86 and Itanium) and build type.

A new release of the Mono runtime and SDK is available for UNIX and Windows. Packages for various distributions are also available from our download page. Many new things have been improved, implemented, fixed, and tuned from the last release. The team at Ximian has been working on three areas to pass the tests provided by the SourceGear team. Elsewhere, dotGNU has made big progress.

Many would argue that market share is not the same as user base. But it doesn't ultimately matter. What really matters is to have as many users as possible, so it will attract more developers and create an actual "market" around the platform. Less users, less money flowing, less third party development, which ultimately leads to the death of a platform. I was reading today this and this editorials, even journalists now buy the "cheap PCs with Linux" deal. Apple has to wake up before is too late and should offer a cheap solution. Apple should learn from NeXT's mistakes, not duplicate them. Update: Look inside for one more idea by some of our readers.

"And if you were just shopping around, just considering Linux and hadn't looked at a BSD, you may want to reconsider and do some comparing between the systems. You might find that a BSD will be a better fit." Read the editorial at eWEEK.

A short, illustrated comparison of mounting partitions in OS X, BeOS, WinXP and Linux.

For those still using Windows NT 4.0, the time is near for Microsoft to bury the hatchet. Late June marks the end for telephone support for the 7 year old operating system. Microsoft has kept NT on tap by releasing several patches and fixes, but after Microsoft drops support for NT, customer's only option is to help themselves using the online KnowledgeBase.

Regarding the latest on Apple's side: The Guardian has an article, "a look inside Apple's new push for speed" Sanluisobispo says, "G5 breaks Apple's speed limit" Sunspot says. Elsewhere, Apple has quietly posted the winners of the Eighth Annual Apple Design Awards, which "honored developers for the creation of outstanding Macintosh-compatible software products." Also, this document is a high-level summary of the salient features to keep in mind while (re)targetting your programs to run on the G5.

SilliconValley has an article about LindowsOS 4 while PCPRO says that "LindowsOS 4.0 'takes the pain out of Linux'".

Zach Welch annouced a fork of Gentoo Linux in a message to the gentoo-dev mailing list. His reasoning can be found here, FAQ here, while Drobbins replies and announces top-level management restructure.

Have you ever been frustrated by the presence of the various progress bars on your otherwise beautiful desktop? As it happens there are many tasks that take more than a couple of seconds to complete even on a fast computer, regardless of the platform used.