The OmniGroup released version 4.5 of their popular browser, OmniWeb, for Mac OS X. This release is the first that is based on WebCore instead of OmniGroup's HTML rendering engine. On other browsing news, Opera had more than 10 million downloads via opera.com, while Epiphany 0.8.2 is released recently.

Mark Mitchell recently announced the release of GCC 3.3.1, including "a very large number of bug-fixes relative to GCC 3.3". Mark goes on to add, "The next release of GCC will be GCC 3.3.2, which will be a bug-fix release."

The Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 includes ASP.NET Mobile Controls that enable developers to easily create mobile Web applications. Developers can write and maintain a single application that targets multiple devices. The Windows 2000 Authorization Manager Runtime is a Windows 2000 Server version of the Windows Server 2003 Authorization Manager role-based access control API. This download contains a setup that will correctly install the DirectX 9.0b documentation for use with the .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Here it is again the monthly AROS news update plus new screenshots.

A small 3rd party software company, Golden Code Development Corp, has ported Java2 1.4.1 to OS/2.

I was watching Giga.de on TV here in Germany this evening and was surprised to see a feature on Pegasos and Morphos (probably to be repeated this weekend). A web article about the feature is available here. I would guess that Giga would be of interest (and probably already well-known) to OSNews readers in Germany. While many of its features are Win- or gaming-oriented, Giga is one of the few TV outlets for features on hardware, overclocking and benchmarking, Linux and, as with the Pegasos article, even more exotic matters.

ZDNet takes a look at Indigo, the next major version of Microsoft's web services platform, which is scheduled to be released concurrently with Longhorn, the next major Windows OS version. Indigo is believed to be aimed directly at enterprise-class web services platforms like the Java 2 Enterprise Edition ones from BEA and IBM.

"Oracle is aggressively adopting Linux both internally and for its products, despite SCO Group's threats earlier this week that it may sue those who don't pay licensing fees to the company. Chuck Rozwat, an Oracle executive VP, says the company has moved its IT infrastructure to Linux, a year after CEO Larry Ellis issued the mandate." Read more at InfomationWeek.

Desktop Evolution launches De-Tablet integrated Lycoris Desktop L/X Tablet Edition with the Toshiba Portege Tablet Platform as a Powerful Linux Tablet. De-Tablet provides a flexible Linux desktop operating system in Lycoris Desktop L/X Tablet Edition on a powerful Toshiba hardware platform. De-Tablet is immediately available for purchase from ThinRetail.com or directly from Desktop Evolution.

Newsforge is carrying a response to the IBM suit from the SCO Group. Our Take: SCO has one valid point: this case may well rest more on defining IP rights in an internet age than anything else. Of course, whose IP remains to be seen.

"A company that specializes in running Linux on Macs said Wednesday that it has landed a deal to supply the U.S. Navy with 260 Apple Xserve servers. Terra Soft Solutions said the machines will be used as part of a sonar imaging system that defense contractor Lockheed Martin is building for the Navy. Rather than using the Mac OS, the Apple servers will run Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux operating system." Read more at CNET News.com

Listen, and you can hear the collective sigh of relief as news comes that IBM has finally countersued The SCO Group. No real news on the details yet. Stay tuned for updates. Update: Lycoris has announced that its Desktop/LX distribution is "immune" from the recent moves by The SCO Group to force Linux users to license its intellectual property. For those who have used Lycoris, the installer comes right out of Caldera's Linux installation code.

Windows 95...in less than 5 MB? It's been done. Based on the work of Richard E. James and redruM69 (who recently boiled down Windows 95 to less than 10 MB, and 5.3MB, respectively), msbetas.net was able to juice it down to just 4.47 MB.

CodeWeavers recently announced the second major update to their powerful Windows-to-Linux software adapter. Read all about it here.