SCO’s Next Target: SGI?

SCO 27 Comments
SCO Group, which has sued IBM for more than $3 billion for allegedly moving Unix code into Linux, may also have Silicon Graphics in its crosshairs. SCO on Friday declined to comment on future legal action, but Chris Sontag, the senior vice president in charge of SCO's effort to derive more revenue from its Unix intellectual property, has said two things that suggest SGI is a likely target. SCO said sometime ago that "their" NUMA code found in Linux, has come from SGI engineers working in the Linux kernel.
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First Look: Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for AMD64

Windows 23 Comments
"While it's common knowledge that Microsoft has been working on Windows XP and Server 2003 for the AMD64 architecture for some-time, little is known about the workings and limitations of this new operating system. We recently got the chance to try out the first publicly released variant of the operating system (Build 3790), and combined with reading through loads of tech docs and talking with folks over at AMD, we've comprised a summary of how we think the OS is shaping up, where it's headed, and we'll try to answer some of the common questions about the OS in general." Read the preview article at the GamePC web site.
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Where Innovation Happens: Storage

Gnome 72 Comments
Storage is an exciting project to replace the traditional filesystem with a new document store, database-based. It is part of a larger design for a new desktop environment, more details on that to come in the future by GNOME's Seth Nickell. The current implementation, built under Gnome for now, offers natural language access, network transparency, and a number of other features. Some additional info is here. Update: Seth is replying at Slashdot about Storage.
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Opinion: Themes Getting Under My Skins

Graphics 54 Comments
Amy Reynolds offers her perspective on the current state of skinning (or thememing as it is also called) one's operating system. As a professional user interface designer, Amy has concerns that the very existance of themes and skins does a dis-service to an operating system or platform. Amy also offers her insight for a hotly debated topic that has been making the rounds on the KDE mailing list which asks, "How configurable should the KDE desktop be?" She characteristically says "I applaud Gnome for having taken the high rode in this case."
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A Beginner’s Guide to Using pyGTK and Glade

GTK+ 10 Comments
The beauty of pyGTK and Glade is they have opened up cross-platform, professional-quality GUI development to those of us who'd rather be doing other things but who still need a GUI on top of it all. Not only does pyGTK allow neophytes to create great GUIs, it also allows professionals to create flexible, dynamic and powerful user interfaces faster than ever before. Read the article at LinuxJournal.
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Editorial on Microsoft: Hated Because It’s Misunderstood

Microsoft 108 Comments
"Prejudices and misconceptions about Microsoft make it hard to evalute the company's merits. The biggest myths about Microsoft are that its desktop products are overpriced, it doesn't respect its customers, and reliability and security are poor. And some think the company is downright evil. In nearly two decades of studying Microsoft, I've been able to dig through the hype that the company generates, as well as the misconceptions its detractors create, to see more of the real company than most of you can ever experience." Read the opinion-piece at InternetWeek, written by Rob Enderle.
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Apple Corporate Briefing: $4.5 Bn in Cash

Apple 28 Comments
Apple CFO Fred Anderson yesterday led a corporate update at the Smith Barney Citigroup Tech Conference. Anderson said that Apple was in an incredibly strong financial position with over $4.5 billion in cash and only $300 million in long-term debt, which is due in February of next year. Apple has managed to survive the downturn by using innovation, he said.
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Platform Play Hits Big Time

Windows 60 Comments
"With each new release of Microsoft’s server operating system, pundits are moved to declare that this one is the first Windows truly suited to the enterprise. And it is especially tempting to hang that tag on Windows Server 2003. Of course the cost, bizarre licensing terms, forced migration, and confusing packaging will turn many companies away. But if a decision could be made on purely technical grounds, Windows Server 2003 would be an unquestionably worthwhile investment." Read the overview at ARNnet.
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Magical All-in-one Operating System

Wireless 30 Comments
A Singapore-based company claims to have created in operating system for mobile devices that can run software created for Windows, Linux, and Palm platforms. Called MXI, the OS "performs a sophisticated form of emulation that enables the non-native program to perform as smoothly and quickly as it would on its native OS." It also includes a server-based component for connected devices that allows the heavy lifting to be performed on the server side. I'll file this in the "I'll belive it when I see it" folder.
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SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux 2.0 now Available

  Submitted by AndrewB General Development 14 Comments
SciTech Software, Inc. today announced that it is has released SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux 2.0 – The Simple Driver Solution. This release is based on SciTech’s SNAP (System Neutral Access Protocol) architecture and targets the Linux enterprise markets with a host of features designed to reduce the total cost of ownership associated with maintaining Linux on corporate enterprises. Read more for the rest of the press release.
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Power Mac G5: Mac OS X Server 10.2.x Not Supported

  Submitted by CooCooCaChoo macOS 37 Comments
The Power Mac G5 computer is not supported for use with any version of Mac OS X Server 10.2, or any earlier version of Mac OS X Server. Mac OS X Server 10.3 will be supported on Power Mac G5 computers, Apple reported. Elsewhere, Unix users will be major beneficiaries of the upcoming 'Panther' version of OS X, Apple Computer told the AUUG conference.
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