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IST Launches Motif to Java Migration Solution

Submitted by Neil Smyth 2003-04-01 Java 15 Comments

IST announced the launch of its Motif to Java Migration Solution, a complete solution for the rapid and automated conversion of legacy C/C++ X/Motif based applications to the Java Platform.

Sun Looking to AMD for 64-Bit while their Linux Desktop is on Track

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Oracle and SUN 16 Comments

Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its private-label version of Linux for servers, but the company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop system that should hit the market this summer, the company said. However, eWeek says that Sun has no plans to support Linux or Solaris on Intel Corp. Itanium systems, but the company is evaluating AMD's upcoming Opteron processors, Sun officials said on Monday.

REXX-based OS Successor to OS/2?

Submitted by Ulrich Moeller 2003-04-01 OS/2 21 Comments

A volunteer group of OS/2 developers has announced REXX/OS, a successor to the OS/2 OS based entirely on the interpreted REXX language that so many considered one of OS/2's best features...

Today on NewMobileComputing

David Adams 2003-04-01 Wireless 10 Comments

Over at our sister site, NewMobileComputing today: Microsoft's inclusion of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in an XP patch, small motherboards for mobile devices, Biofuel cells that could replace batteries, and an exciting announcement from Apple: the iPad! Visit NewMobileComputing for more details.

Interview with Miguel de Icaza

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Original OSNews Interviews 54 Comments

Miguel de Icaza of Ximian tells all about Mono, .NET and dotGNU, Gnome and its relationship to KDE, and much more.

Eyetech’s AmigaOne speech from AmiGBG 2003

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-04-01 Amiga & AROS 21 Comments

Media files and a transcript of Alan Redhouse's AmiGBG speech are now available for download. The speech was held at a Swedish Amiga show last Saturday and includes information on plans for a MicroATX version of the AmigaOne-XE board, to be targeted mainly at server farms and a SE-lite version targeted at embedded uses.

Domain Authentication Sets Xandros Desktop Apart

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Oracle and SUN 25 Comments

In part one in a series of chats with key members of the Xandros team, DesktopLinux.com gives you an insider's view of the Xandros project philosophy and architecture. Oleg Noskov, Xandros software development manager, talks about domain authentication -- one of the essential keys to integrating with, and eventually migrating from, existing Windows networking infrastructures.

Microsoft’s Challenge Lies Beyond the Desktop

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Microsoft 19 Comments

Microsoft is getting serious about management software. That's either terrific news or a real cause for concern, depending on who you are. On other MS news, three-fourths of computer software security experts at major companies surveyed by Forrester Research Inc. do not think Microsoft Corp.'s products are secure, the technology research company said on Monday.

And Yet Another Review of Mandrake Linux 9.1

Submitted by John Gowin 2003-04-01 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 29 Comments

And one more Mandrake Linux 9.1 review. This time is at LinuxOrbit.

Mini Review of Slackware Linux 9.0

Guest post by Marc A. Mironescu 2003-03-31 Slackware, Slax 38 Comments

Slackware is the oldest surviving Linux distribution out there. For those who believe that Slackware was the first Linux distribution I have news, because SLS was before Slackware, but that is another story. It is the most *NIX like distribution and has borrowed many of the things we can find in BSD *NIX. Here is a mini-review of their latest release, 9.0.

Red Hat Linux 9 Officially Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-31 Red Hat 58 Comments

DistroWatch has the details of the official release: The press release has all the details with links to further information, such as features and benefits, product description of the Personal and Professional editions, technical details and the package list. Red Hat Linux 9 is available for immediate download to paid subscribers to Red Hat Network (US$60 per year). It will be released to FTP servers on 7 April. Update: Release notes on the newly created "Shrike" mailing list. New Nvidia drivers here. Update 2: How to add the Java plugin on RH 9.

SuSE Linux 8.2: Evolutionary, but not Revolutionary

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-31 SuSE, openSUSE 79 Comments

What a big month this was with many Linux releases (and not just Linux ones). The third most popular Linux distribution (along with Debian), after Red Hat and Mandrake, is SuSE. While the company is more successful in Europe, with their 8.1 release a few months ago they were able to broaden their user base worldwide even more. The new version, 8.2, is coming out in about a week from now, but OSNews had early access to it so we were able to evaluate it. Read more for our experiences with SuSE Linux 8.2 and check out a few screenshots too.

J2EE, C# and Object Oriented Programming

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-31 General Development 1 Comment

Three new interesting InformIT developer articles posted: "J2EE Performance Tuning, Part 2" (Part I here ), "C# Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern" (Part 4) and "Object-Oriented Frameworks for Network Programming".

GPL or as I Think of it: General Park License

Guest post by Vincent Mortellaro 2003-03-30 Open Source 56 Comments

The GPL is a wonderful license for community works, for the basic reason that it starts out with the premise that the point is the source code. The program, someone is trying to make. Not the programmer, not the programmer's company, or the programmer's pay check. What it basically says is that there is no way for one to act as a stop-gap to the flow of code development and the organic way that code tends to build upon itself.

Operating System Software Review Guide Lines

Guest post by Bret Cline 2003-03-30 Office 24 Comments

Recently, some sharp criticism has been displayed against the OS reviews posted on OSNews by third parties. In an effort to make the reviews more substantial, I have put together some guidelines in addition to the generic guidelines OSNews already provides for the readers who want to have their voices heard on this site.

Amiga Gamecards Available at Mainstream Shops

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-03-30 Amiga & AROS 14 Comments

After much delay, the first 2 Amiga Gamecards (offering 4 games each) are currently selling at CompUSA stores. This was shared in latest of the weekly held AmigaWorld Q&A sessions with Amiga's CTO. Some of the most notable games were written by the AmigaDE/AmigaOS software development house Zeoneo Limited.

ReactOS 0.1.1 Released

Guest post by Mike Bouma 2003-03-30 ReactOS 12 Comments

Jason Filby has notified us: "ReactOS 0.1.1 is out, and features much improved windowing and GDI abilities; WineMine can be played to a limited extend and the MS VGA and VMWare VGA drivers can be used. There is also better disk drive detection and support as well as registry, IO and console improvements. The usetup installer has also progressed well." For more infomation and screenshots, turn to the ReactOS website.

YARMDK 9.1 (Yet Another Review of Mandrake Linux 9.1)

Guest post by Christopher Hickman 2003-03-30 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 66 Comments

Some of the people complained about the two previous posted reviews being incoherant and you said "write your own", so I thought I would throw my two cents in...

Page Clustering, Booting Linux On A 64GB x86

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-30 Linux 16 Comments

William Lee Irwin III recently announced on the lkml that he'd successfully gotten Linux running on a 64GB x86 server. His posts included two different boot message logs, one without his page clustering patch, and one with. In the latter case, his patch overcomes the 1GB mem_map virtual space limitation imposed by x86 32-bit servers, without which the kernel over-runs allowable memory space. Read the report at KernelTrap.

Get to Know the “Other” Linux Distributions

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-30 Linux 53 Comments

Yes, we all know the "big three" (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) commercial distros, we also know the next big bunch of respected traditional/geek distros (Debian and Slackware and some might add Gentoo too in this list), and we know the "other big three" in the desktop Linux area (Lindows, Xandros, Lycoris). However, not everyone knows what is available besides this "threshold". Here is a list of Linux distros that worth knowing about and to keep an eye on!