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OSX: Maintenance Tips; Scripting; Rendezvous Picture Transfer

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-23 macOS 9 Comments

Get at MacDevCenter some maintanance tips for OSX. Mac OS X As an administrator, when you think of automating tasks, you naturally think of scripting. James Reynolds shows you how to apply a variety of scripting languages to automate your workflow on Mac OS X. Elsewhere, you can show others on a Rendezvous network pictures directly from your camera using the new Image Capture app in Panther.

A Look at the Eclipse IDE

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-23 General Development 34 Comments

Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment that has gained considerable popularity in 2003. Philippe Mougin provides an introduction plus some expert opinions from the last ECOOP conference. In related news, Eclipse 3.0 M5 was released recently.

GNOME Bounty Hunt; Nat Friedman’s Summit Slides Show Future

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-22 Gnome 42 Comments

The GNOME Foundation announced the launch of the first-ever open source desktop integration bounty hunt. The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience. The contest consists of a number of small, concrete projects, each of which has a cash bounty associated with it. Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect a prize. Also of great interest are Nat's slides shown at the Gnome Summit in NY showing a bright future for Gnome and the Unix/Linux desktop.

Open Source Desktop Technology Road Map

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-22 Wayland 28 Comments

"This document attempts to give a sketch of the names and relationships of these technologies and projects, and a glimpse into their status and development. Some technologies have never proved themselves, and/or have been rendered obsolete by later development and are available primarily for legacy code. This document attempts to clarify much of this natural evolution and market selection." Read the X roadmap from Jim Gettys and await a long and interesting interview with freedesktop.org members on Monday, here, at OSNews.

Eager for Panther? There’s Reason to Pause

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-22 macOS 19 Comments

Here is a Mac OS X Panther 10.3 review at NWSource.

Gates Tops Generosity List

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-22 In the News 74 Comments

Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are the most generous charitable donors in America, Business Week magazine said this week, as the couple gave away or pledged a staggering $23 billion -- more than half of their net worth.

eComStation 1.1 from a user’s view, Part 1 and 2

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-22 OS/2 29 Comments

OS/2-eZine online magazine posted the first and second parts of its review of eComStation 1.1. More interesting eCS and OS/2 material on its back issues.

Debian: Attack Didn’t Harm Source Code

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-22 Debian 33 Comments

Despite a cracker incursion into Debian Project servers this week, representatives of the Debian Linux distribution said the open-source code behind it remains untouched.

An Approach to Solving the “Device Driver Crisis”

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-21 General Development 47 Comments

This whitepaper published at LinuxDevices describes an approach to solving the "device driver crisis" that plagues both the embedded and non-embedded computer system markets. SciTech, the developer of the "System Neutral Access Protocol" device driver architecture ("SNAP"), says the SNAP approach to device driver development is radically different from traditional methods, and can drastically reduce the complexity of OS- and processor architecture-related device driver support.

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds to Slashdot Readers

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-21 Red Hat 59 Comments

Red Hat's Matthew Szulik responds to the questions posed by Slashdot readers in an interesting Q&A.

RISC OS 4.02 Boot Patch Issued

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-21 RISC OS 7 Comments

RISCOS Ltd., the developers of RISC OS, have this week released a freely available patch for RISC OS 4 and users are recommended to install it. According to RISCOS Ltd., the patch corrects a "long standing" bug in the !Boot sequence that affects the recently released Toolbox upgrade. In addition to this, it also corrects a fault that prevents RISC OS 4.02 users from easily switching to a softloading Select version of RISC OS. More RISC OS news at Drobe and IconBar.

Apple Posts OS X Server Admin Tools 10.3 as Stand Alone Archive

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-21 macOS 17 Comments

The Server Administration Software contains administration software and tools that you can install on a computer other than your server. The following tools will be installed into Applications/Server folder with the exception of QuickTime Broadcaster: Server Admin, Workgroup Manager, Server Monitor, Network Image Utility, Server Assistant, and QuickTime Broadcaster.

SCO Says It Will Go After Novell-SuSE

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-21 SCO 82 Comments

SCO could get an injunction that would prevent Utah neighbor Novell from shipping Linux, but it won't try to derail the planned Novell-SUSE merger--at least not legally, an SCO spokesman confirmed. Elsewhere, Ransom Love shared his Linux views in a discussion with CNET News.com.

Igor Searches for Programming Errors

Submitted by Thomas Bonk 2003-11-21 General Development 14 Comments

Prof. Andreas Zeller from the Saarland University, Germany, announced his Tool Igor: "Your program does not work? The 'AskIgor' Web service automatically finds out why. Researchers of Saarland University, Germany, have started a Web service that automatically finds out the causes for program failures – automatically, quickly, and for free. At www.AskIgor.org, programmers may submit buggy Linux programs; Diagnosis tools for Java and Windows programs are underway." Read more here.

Interview with Alan Redhouse of Eyetech

Mike Bouma 2003-11-21 Amiga & AROS 24 Comments

AmigaWorld has interviewed Alan Redhouse, the managing director of the Eyetech Group, regarding the AmigaOne motherboards. Alan is trying to push AmigaOS4, LinuxPPC and the AmigaOne boards into new markets. For instance earlier this year he did presentations in Taipei and Beijing.

GTK# 0.14, wx.NET 0.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-21 Mono 27 Comments

The release 0.14 of Gtk# is a minor bugfix release to support an imminent Mono 0.29 release. wx.NET is a set of .NET bindings for the wxWindows cross-platform toolkit and the 0.3 version brings new features.

Q&A with Sun’s Product Team on Java Desktop System

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-21 Original OSNews Interviews 79 Comments

OSNews sent over to Sun Microsystems ten questions for a Q&A session with Sun's product team working on Java Desktop System. Read more for the full Q&A.

Fedora Core Reviews, Rants

Submitted by Jim Lynch 2003-11-21 Red Hat 55 Comments

"A reasonably good start for a very promising Linux distro. Tinkerers should give it a shot. Those wanting a bug-free experience should skip this version and wait for the next release" says ZDNet's Jim Lynch (our review is here). "Red Hat's Desktop Linux Isn't Going Away" says eWEEK too, while a Linux developer and user wrote an Open Letter towards Red Hat.

Thomas Bushnell Leaves HURD

Submitted by peter may 2003-11-20 OS News 62 Comments

"Richard Stallman is pushing an anti-free license for documentation. By that, I mean, a license for documentation which, if it were used for software, would unquestionably be understood as unfree" Thomas Bushnell said and got "dismissed" by RMS from the HURD project.

ReactOS 0.1.5 released

Submitted by Jason Filby 2003-11-20 ReactOS 17 Comments

ReactOS 0.1.5 has been released, featuring many improvements and fixes. The new release includes lots of work on the graphical DLLs, as well as all round work on the system. French and German keyboard layouts are now also available.