Mac OS X vs. Windows XP vs. Linux

  Submitted by James Alcasid OS News 112 Comments
PC Buyer's Guide has posted a shootout comparing Max OS X to Windows XP to Linux, comparing basic, factory-included functionality. It includes a huge side-by-side chart. The overview seems to be pretty evenhanded, and isn't too preoccupied with declaring a winner and drawing much of a hard and fast conclusion. The bottom line: OS X is a very usable and elegant OS, XP has a leg up on some functionality (and of course more apps), and Linux is an impressive contender.
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When Windows Goes Wrong

Windows 42 Comments
A recent ZDNet article is written by the erstwhile author of a "troubleshooting Windows" book who is sometimes so stymied by mysterious Windows stability problems that he isn't sure he can write a useful book. The article covers a recent "hangs for no reason" issue that required trial and error and a plethora of included and third party utilities to diagnose and fix.
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A Look At ReactOS

  Submitted by Gsurface ReactOS 24 Comments
For those that have no idea what ReactOS is, Flexbeta took some time and explained it, covered it’s current status and write about where they plan to go. See the full review here.
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Reiser4 Rising

  Submitted by kenny General Development 36 Comments
"Depending on how much you care for writing new versions of old programs, Reiser4 could be either one of the greater boons to software engineers or one of the greater banes. Either way, programming on Linux will likely never be the same. It's not too remote a possibility that other popular platforms will be influenced as well." Read the article at Kuro5hin.
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.NET Framework 1.1: Device Update 3.0; More Windows Downloads

Windows 4 Comments
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.
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Pegasos/Morphos Feature on Giga.de

Morphos 12 Comments
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.
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Next .NET Aims at J2EE’s Turf

.NET 21 Comments
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.
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