Sun announced yesterday that a native Java version for the AMD 64 bit processor will be available on Linux and Windows platforms, allowing companies to migrate their current Java applications from a 32-bit to 64-bit computing platform.

Amiga Inc has released another 'Club Amiga Monthly' article. This article written by Hans Joerg Frieden, one of the core AmigaOS4 developers, covers the Shared Libraries system for AmigaOS4.

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."

Novell Vice Chairman Chris Stone says the company will keep its flagship operating system in maintenance mode as it gears up for Linux.

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

Back when Lycoris was still Redmond Linux, they licensed their source code off of SCO's Caldera Open Linux. According to Lycoris, that license is going to insulate them and their users from SCO's licensing fee requirements.

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.

When HP World starts in a few days, users can expect to hear about some new server management software that covers Unix, Linux and Windows in one go, and it's called Nimbus.

"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.

PC Magazine has posted a Windows XP guide designed to walk non-experts through some of the alternate settings and add-ons that make XP work better. It has compiled various tips from its past issues into one guide for easy reference. Even Windows power-users may find something of interest.

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.

The operating system company makes a further move into the hardware business, offering Linux on a desktop computer with flat-panel monitor for $449. The computer has a 1.2GHz Duron processor, 256MB of SDRAM and a 20GB hard drive.

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.

Contiki OS, "a highly portable, modern, open source, Internet-enabled operating system and desktop environment for very constrained systems," has been ported to the x86 platform. Previously able to run on only much smaller platforms, such as Atari, Gameboy, and Commodore, this is good news for developers interested in researching the OS.