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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
"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.
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.
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.
Novell, the recent purchasers of Ximian, have announced that they may cease development of their incredible NetWare NOS. Update 01:41 EST: Maybe not. Seems they are not ceasing as much as moving to more of a "maintenance mode."
Kees writes: "Amiga.org interviewed Carl Sassenrath.Carl Sassenrath is best known for his original design and implementation of the Amiga Multitasking Operating System released in 1985.Check it our here". Mr Sassenrath is also the Founder, CTO and Chairman of REBOL Technologies, a company which created the cross-platform REBOL messaging language and REBOL Internet Operating System.
KernelTrap has an interesting article about a recent benchmark conducted to compare five journaling filesystems available with the current 2.6.0-test2 Linux development kernel. The tests were conducted with a very simple shell script, mainly timing how long it takes to copy, tar, and remove directories. Looks like reiser4 is the fastest filesystem at the expense of consuming much more CPU, with ext3 trailing a ways behind.
Apple provided testers and developers with a new pre-release seed of Mac OS X 10.3, code-named Panther. The company also seeded a new Jaguar build, Version 10.2.7. Apple also seeded build 7B20 of Mac OS X Server 10.3 to developers. The new build of Panther Server was posted as two installation CDs. Microsoft has started the next big Visual Studio release "Whidbey" Alpha program that's expected to ship in 2004.
"This week, however, Linux was also awarded with CC security certification, and as one might expect, this announcement greeted with cheers from the open source community. There's just one catch: Linux got a lower security rating than Windows 2000 did last year." Read it at WinInformant. Update: The WinInformant article is a little slanted in its reporting, since the ratings discussed have little to do with how secure either OS is in real-world use. Keep in mind that to achieve the higher rating, the computer is not allowed to be connected to any network, since network-connected computers are inherently vulnerable. A CNN article shoots a little straighter on the subject. The certification is not a contest to see which is more secure, simply a test to see if the OS matches a certain objective set of criteria. You have to severely cripple a modern OS to make it meet government high security certification.
Microsoft has laid plans for a server version of Longhorn, the next release of Windows. But it remains unclear what the software will include and when it will debut.
