A Belgian developer has ported parts of the OpenBeOS/BeOS toolkit and API to Windows. This is not the first time something like this is being done, but possibly it is the most advanced of the efforts. This is also similar to what the B.E.O.S. team does, trying to port the BeOS API to Linux. Update: Xentronix project leader seems to have stop developing BeOS apps and the Sequel OS, citting personal reasons.

LinMagau.org features an interesting interview with George Staikos, of KDE fame.

The 90th issue of Linux Gazette is out and it includes articles like "Software development for a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux PDA", "The CUPS printing system" and "Programming with User Mode Linux".

Symbian Ltd announced the launch of the latest version of Symbian OS. Symbian OS is licensed by the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. The new version is sporting enhanced networking capabilities, support for Java MIDP 2.0, a multimedia framework and new language variants.

Red Hat announced the availability of our AMD64 technology preview. This preview is for those who are interested in early access to a Red Hat distribution for the AMD64 platform.

"Free software is ego-propelled. People don't get paid, they get famous. Yet we as a community do far too little to prominently credit the names of the authors. I propose we change that by adopting a few simple practices." Read the editorial at NewsForge by Hans Reiser. In Greece, we have a saying: "Many hated money, but no one hated glory..."

Microsoft is touting Windows Server 2003 as an operating system capable of pushing aside Unix and mainframes. But most customers will be upgrading from Windows NT 4--and at a slow pace, analysts say at News.com.

Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday.

The L4Ka team is pleased to announce the first release of the L4Ka::Pistachio microkernel. L4Ka::Pistachio is the latest L4 microkernel developed by the System Architecture Group at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in collaboration with the DISY group at the University of New South Wales, Australia. It is the first available kernel implementation of the L4 Version 4 kernel API.

This article over at IBM, provides information VFS. A virtual filesystem (VFS) is an abstraction with surprisingly productive uses.

BSDForums reports that the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has posted the schedule for the Release of FreeBSD 5.1 late spring. FreeBSD roadmap, posted earlier at BSDForums.org, outlines the future of FreeBSD-5 stable releases, specifically 5.1 and 5.2. Also, Maksim Yevmenkin has announced another set of updates to Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD. He has made many code fixes, added new firmware driver support for Broadcom BCM2033 based devices, updated man pages and more. The Bluetooth stack is developed only for the 5-CURRENT branch. OSNews featured an in-depth interview with the FreeBSD Core team a few days ago discussing the 5.x branch among other topics.

The verbal punches tossed in the clash between Java and .NET may never end -- but for now it seems that the app servers supporting these software environments both have a place. Evidence suggests that most large companies will support both Java and .NET. The 'battle,' in reality, falls short of the hype. The scene is almost like that in a heavyweight prizefight, where the weigh-in holds more terror than the fight itself. Read the rest of the article at ADTMag.

Big Blue denies SCO Group's allegations that it misappropriated Unix trade secrets, but it isn't giving hints about what its eventual strategy will be for battling the lawsuit.

The Debian-based Libranet 2.8 is finaly released. Order & download, read the feature-set or an intro.