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Java 2 for NetBSD/i386 Binaries Available

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-21 NetBSD 4 Comments

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.

Q&A with Amiga CTO – Session 15

Mike Bouma 2003-07-20 Amiga & AROS 34 Comments

Fleecy Moss has answered 10 new Amiga community questions addressing various topics at the AmigaWorld.net portal. Amiga Inc also opened a new community exchange homepage. Here people can contribute various software and art of which some will be selected by the community to be included on the AmigaOS4 CD.

SkyEye-v0.3.0 Released

Submitted by chenyu 2003-07-20 Hardware 6 Comments

SkyEye is an ARM simulator. Now the newest Skyeye Ver 0.3.0 Beta was released. It can simuate these ARM based CPUs & boards:StrongARM SA1100/SA1110, Atmel AT91, Cirrus Logic EP7312. uC/OS-ii(ucos-ii), uClinux 2.4.x, armlinux 2.4.x OSes can run on skyeye.

Linux Ranks No2 on Microsoft Risk List; Munich Linux to Run VMWare

Submitted by N. James & D. Gojsevic 2003-07-20 Rumors 70 Comments

In a teleconference to go over the Redmond, Wash.-based developer's fourth quarter and fiscal 2003 results on Thursday, CFO John Connors detailed the five biggest risks to his company's business. "The general economic environment is risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is risk No. 2." Elsewhere, Gartner says that 80% of the Linux desktops to be deployed in Munich, will be also running VMWare and Windows because of some applications.

Red Hat to Abandon Retail Channel

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-19 Red Hat 58 Comments

Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday. The company's next major release, codenamed "Cambridge," will not be provided in boxed, retail form, according to company communications with employees and developers, which have been made available to Linux and Main.

SCO Readies new Linux Licensing Program

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-19 SCO 106 Comments

The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation. The program will be announced "within the next month or so," according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, but on Monday the company will announce what he calls a "precursor" to this program in a press conference with SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride and SCO's high-profile attorney David Boies, of the firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

Judge OKs $1.1 Billion Microsoft deal

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-19 Legal 26 Comments

A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows.

IBM’s New G5 Microchip Plant Not Measuring Up

Guest post by MacWorld UK 2003-07-18 IBM 133 Comments

IBM's new $3 billion microprocessor factory in New York – where G5 processors are reportedly manufactured – is losing money, the company announced this week. Reuters reports that production problems are affecting the plant.

‘Choice in Linux distros healthy’ says Torvalds; More Linux News

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-18 Linux 65 Comments

One question on everybody’s mind when they are thinking about Linux and how it will fit into the enterprise mould is that of whether the number of known distributions — believed to have reached approximately 130 — is helping or hurting Linux. This week at "CA World" in Las Vegas, a handful of the Linux world’s most influential activists gave their viewpoints on that issue. Elsewhere, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the refusal of Linux resellers to indemnify customers is bound to weigh on the minds of CIOs implementing open-source software. "Who's liable for Linux?" Editorial at ZDNet.

Free Download: Libranet 2.7 Classic Edition

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-18 Debian 22 Comments

As reported at DistroWatch: A demo version of Libranet GNU/Linux 2.7 Classic edition has been released as a free download. This is a single CD variant of Libranet 2.7, which was originally released in September 2002 and which is meant to be a way to try out Libranet without any financial commitment.

The Essence of OpenBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-18 OpenBSD 31 Comments

A thousand open source projects quietly produce excellent code under the radar. What goes on in these projects? How do new people join? What motivation is there? Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin interview several core OpenBSD developers.

SuSE 8.2: More Desktop Progress

Submitted by Timothy R. Butler 2003-07-18 SuSE, openSUSE 8 Comments

Today OfB.biz put the microscope on the successor to the spring Penguin Shootout award's winner on their website, -- SuSE Linux 8.1. Read more at OfB.biz

Why Switch to Mac; Few Customers Switching from Windows

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-18 Apple 191 Comments

It has been a year, and the masses aren't switching to Macs. New ads haven't helped Apple gain market share, Mercury News report. "I can think of the following reasons why this is so" Steve Anglin, a consulting editor, expert witness, and writer specializing in Java and Web services, is presenting.

New SONY CLIE PEG-UX50 Sports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Camera, Hi-Res

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-18 Wireless 17 Comments

Sony Japan has uncovered the CLIE PEG-UX50 - the first Palm OS 5.2 device to support both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth out of the box, also packing a landscape display (480x320) and a digital camera. Check the report and 4 images at Infosync. Web browser used is NetFront 3.0 (specially supported by OSNews).

Review of SCRIBUS 1.0 – a Free DTP for UNIX

Guest post by Roberto J. Dohnert 2003-07-17 Office 67 Comments

On July 15, 2003 the Scribus project had a milestone release. They released Scribus 1.0. I have used Scribus both personally and professionally since the early development times. 8.0 was when I first used it. 1.0 came with so many bug fixes and has become so refined I decided to do a review of it.

Torvalds: Integrity Of Linux Intellectual Property Is Well Documented

Submitted by Nicholas James 2003-07-17 Linux 105 Comments

Linux creator Linus Torvalds defended the integrity of Linux intellectual property in an interview with CRN Editor Heather Clancy and Editor/News Steven Burke at the CA World conference. Torvalds--who recently left Transmeta to work on Linux full-time at the Open Source Development Lab--talks about Read Copy Update code, copyright protection and SCO during the half-hour interview. Elsewhere, IT-Director has an article titled "Linux To Become A De Facto Standard".

Leostream Keeps VM Systems in Check

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-17 Windows 1 Comment

Large enterprises that plan to use virtualization software to consolidate server capital and lower operating expenses have a powerful management ally in the latest edition of Leostream Inc.'s Leostream Virtual Machine Controller. eWEEK Labs' tests show Leostream VMC Version 2.0, which was released this month, can provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use management solution for handling day-to-day operations and provisioning Windows-based virtual machines.

Microsoft Making Java Noise

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-17 Java 28 Comments

Microsoft Corp. has been busy on the Java front recently, with the release of a new version of its Java conversion tool and enhancements to its Java development environment. Microsoft Tuesday announced Version 2.0 of its Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA). The JLCA is based on ArtinSoft Inc.'s migration technology for converting Java code to Visual C# .Net code.

Happy 10th Birthday to all Slackware Fans

Guest post by Delian Krustev 2003-07-17 Slackware, Slax 33 Comments

One of the oldest GNU/Linux distibutions, Slackware, is ten years away from it's v1.00. You could read the announcement here. Slackware has proven to be one of the most stable distros in these 10 years. It has clean design, and by rule avoids unnecessary changes to the prepackaged software. It's package management is elegant and fault tolerant. Slackware is also known to be the closest cousin to UNIX from all the Linuxes. We wish bright future and tons of new users to Slack!

yellowTab Goes KHTML

Submitted by Prognathous 2003-07-17 Zeta 85 Comments

As seen on the yellowTab website: "JavaScriptCore and WebCore are two technologies, ported from Apple's work on KHTML (the engine from Konqueror, a "modern Net+" for Linux's KDE), by YellowTab. These components will allow both developers and users to take advantage of the latest technology available, in their everyday Zeta usage." The article can be found here.