Bare Feats has some interesting benchmarks to show: Fastest G5 so far to the fastest G4 MP. G5 is much faster on memory operations, but not all operations are faster than the G4. Bare Feats says that until developers optimize their code for the G5, users won't see G5 being speedier than G4 on all tests. Same thing happens with all new CPUs though, including the P4s which included a new instruction set and developers had to compile for it in order to take advantage of what it really had to offer.

"If SCO has its way, the Linux community will suffer a setback, but longer term will prevail. A good way to avoid the SCO scenario is for the open source community to take more responsibility for ensuring that its code doesn't violate established patents and copyrights. In an interview with News.com, Linux founder Linus Torvalds said it's not the responsibility of engineers to look up patent information. He's right, but someone other than the engineering crew supporting the open source community will need to provide some oversight. It's part of the maturing of Linux and open source: We have our copyright and patent lawyers, they have theirs." Read Farber's editorial at ZDNet.

"Let's get over Linus Torvalds' old "world domination" goal (which was a joke), stop gnashing our teeth over The Evils of Microsoft, and think rationally about what percentage of the world's desktops we really need to switch to Linux. I figure 10% would be a minimum, and 20% would be more than enough. Enough for what? For everything we really want." Read the editorial at NewsForge by Roblimo.

In an interview with eWEEK, Sun CEO Scott McNealy sounds off on the SCO-Linux dispute, Unix and his company's future. Also, here is a review of the Sun Fire x86 Server: The high-performance v65x edges similar x86 machines in price, eWeek says.

Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 beta, codenamed "Severn", was released today. Read more for a quick commentary and six screenshots of the release.

Havoc Pennington outlined recently the steps required to bring the freedesktop.org effort --to unite the specs/protocols of the X11-based DEs for better interoperability-- closer to its goal. Read more of the discussion in their list. On other X11 news, XFCE 4.0-RC2 was released for testing. UPDATE: Here is a screenshot of XFCE 4-RC2 running on Red Hat Linux "Severn" beta.

John "Hannibal" Stokes has interviewed Pete Sandon, the PowerPC 970's main designer, and David Edelsohn, a compiler writer from IBM, and clarified several points about the 970 regarding group formation, vector issue queues and performance, and more.

Although the C language has been around for close to 30 years, its appeal has not yet worn off. It continues to attract a large number of people who must develop new skills for writing new applications, or for porting or maintaining existing applications. This article has been written with the needs of the developer in mind, and offers suggestions that may help them in their job.

With 35 years of success under its belt, Intel needs to figure out how to diversify & create new markets.

The company, whose software lets an Intel server run several operating systems simultaneously, releases new software that supports a much wider variety of computers.

As reported at the Mac news site Macminute: "Apple captured 2.3 percent of the worldwide market share in the second quarter of 2003, down from 2.7 percent a year ago, but slightly up from the 2 percent it had in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC."

DistroWatch published the release notes of Red Hat Linux "Severn" 9.0.93. The beta is scheduled to be released early this week, so make sure you keep checking the FTP mirrors of Red Hat. "Don't expect too much new, however, as the beta release appears to be more of a consolidation release of Red Hat Linux 9, rather than a release full of cutting edge features" DistroWatch notes. We also spotted Severn's ability to get into graphics mode just right after the kernel is loaded. Update: The RHL site is up.

Explore all the possibilities for your installation of Windows Server 2003. You will get all of the helpful tips you need to complete a successful installation or upgrade.

Todd Verling says that binaries for JDK 1.2.2 and 1.3.1 for NetBSD are now available. You'll find binary packages from pkgsrc-wip, as well as Sun-style JDK images, including standalone JRE and debug JDK symbols. Another relevant story about it, here.