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Adobe Pares Mac Support

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-07 Apple 81 Comments

Adobe Systems plans to announce new versions of its video-editing software Monday, including a Windows-only application that marks another high-profile defection from Apple Computer's Macintosh operating system, News.com says.

Robotics: Cognitive Machines

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-07 QNX 14 Comments

As seen at NewMobileComputing: Meet Cog, an aluminum robot born in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a compelling experiment in robot cognition. It's tethered to dozens of rack-mounted PCs running QNX, the popular embedded systems OS.

Slackware Package Management, Part I: Anatomy of Slack Packages

Guest post by Daniel de Kok 2003-07-06 Slackware, Slax 66 Comments

If you ask a Slackware fan why she likes Slackware, she will probably mention Slackware package management as one of the features she likes. In what way does the Slackware package system differ from most other package managers? In one word: simplicity. In three articles I am going to cover some important aspects of Slackware package management. In this article I am going to show the anatomy of a Slackware packages. In part 2 and 3 I will cover the package tools and the process of creating a Slackware package.

AmigaOS 4.0 to Support Twenty Languages

Mike Bouma 2003-07-06 Amiga & AROS 23 Comments

AmigaWorld.net's 14th Q&A Session with Fleecy Moss has been posted. In response to one of the ten asked questions Amiga's CTO specified twenty languages which will be supported by AmigaOS4. In addition the Russian localisation is still uncertain, but will likely be ready in time for release as well.

Two Polls: You and Macintoshes

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-06 Apple 187 Comments

The "Rise of the Machines" might be taking the cinemas by storm these days, but the Rise of the Apple lately also is taking the IT industry by storm with the introduction of the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X Panther 10.3 last month. Let's see what the OSNews readers are thinking of the Macs. Come in and vote in our two Mac polls.

Tao Announces Next Generation Multimedia Platform SDK – intent 2

Submitted by Anonymous 2003-07-06 In the News 8 Comments

Tao Group announced major enhancements and additions to its intent technology suite, and the launch of the intent 2 SDK. Technology components include: Qi (Brandable Control Center), iSS (intent Sound System), iVE (intent Visual Environment), Java solutions, and gaming.

Torvalds on SCO Suit, Microsoft and his Exit from Transmeta

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-05 Linux 63 Comments

Linus Torvalds spoke candidly with Mercury News staff writer Dean Takahashi about the lawsuit from SCO Group versus IBM, on Microsoft and open source development. He also shed light on his decision to leave chip maker Transmeta for a Linux corporate software consortium, the OSDL.

Java GNOME Bindings 0.8 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-05 Gnome 20 Comments

Java-GNOME is a set of java bindings for the GNOME and GTK libraries so GNOME applications can be written in Java. The bindings are implemented via a JNI layer that accesses the native libraries. After many months, version 0.8 is released, which adds support for GTK+ 2.x and GNOME 2.x.

Ark Linux 1.0 Alpha 8 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-05 Linux 39 Comments

From DistroWatch: The developers of Ark Linux have reached a new milestone with the release of Ark Linux 1.0-alpha8. The ISO images are available from various FTP mirrors, which are slowly being populated. No release notes or readme files have been published at the time of writing, but the ISO images (only the first image is required for installation) can be downloaded from the mirrors. Ark Linux is a free Linux distribution designed for non-technical users and ease-of-use is its primary objective.

A Handful of BeOS-related News

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-05 Haiku 41 Comments

In the new OpenBeOS newsletter you will find an editorial, one article about Designer Power Tools and the CVS Digest (up to June 29th). BeOSJournal recently spoke with ex-Be engineer Jean-Baptiste Quéru, who even years after leaving Be Inc., still watches the BeOS Community with keen interest. There is a new update to BlueEyedOS, with an updated font rendering system and a new screen shot for all to see. Also, Cosmoe 0.7rc12 is now out, and includes SDL as its graphics library.

Interview with Syllable Project Manager “Vanders”

Submitted by Dev Sibwarra 2003-07-04 Syllable, AtheOS 46 Comments

NeoNerds.net have snagged an interview with the project manager of the Syllable project, Kristian "Vanders" Van Der Vliet. In this interview, NeoNerds reveals the current status of the project, as well as the projected future of Syllable as a desktop and office OS.

Windows Server 2003 SP1 Beta Build 1023 Available to Beta Testers

Submitted by Henry Nazar 2003-07-04 Windows 30 Comments

A new beta SP1 build, 1023, was made available to Microsoft beta testers. Changes include:

Free Download of Icepack Linux 2.75

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-04 Linux 16 Comments

IcePack is the third biggest German Linux distribution after SuSE and Knoppix. DistroWatch informs us that they recently released their commercial edition as a free download, as its developers are currently working on Icepack Linux 3.0. Icepack Linux 2.75 comes on 4 CDs, plus a bonus CD containing plenty of artwork, true type fonts and some commercial applications. Download from either the English, German, French and development web site.

Analysis: Open Source Databases

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-04 Databases 18 Comments

"Many enterprise software users and vendors have made significant commitments to open source technologies. Projects such as the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, and the Perl programming language, have proven themselves as viable alternatives to equivalent commercial offerings. But what about the tools used to hold core information assets? Are open source databases ready for the enterprise?" Read the article at LinuxWorld.au.

Microsoft Defends Security Track Record

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-04 Privacy, Security 26 Comments

Software designed by humans will always have flaws, says Microsoft, but the company argues that its security record is improving. Microsoft has admitted it does not expect to ever release completely secure, flawless code, but denied that its software was any less secure than any other complex code.

Security Hole Discovered in Mac OS X

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-04 Bugs & Viruses 87 Comments

Delfim Machado made public a way of crashing a password-protected screensaver and thus giving full access to the user account that the screensaver was running under. All a user has to do is to keep pressing any key for 5 minutes or so and then pressing Enter. Delfim Machado contacted Apple's Security department with his discovery, but when he didn't hear back, he decided to go public.

Castle Technology Purchases RISC OS

Submitted by Peter Naulls 2003-07-04 RISC OS 20 Comments

Castle Technology, makers of an XScale based desktop machine, announced today they had purchased RISC OS from the previous owners, Pace. RISC OS was initially developed by Acorn, starting in 1988, and has appeared in a large number of Acorn machines, and later on machines by other manufacturers.

wx.NET 0.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-04 General Development 23 Comments

wx.NET is a C# wrapper for wxWindows, providing a portable GUI toolkit for .NET programs. wx.NET can be used with various implementations of the CLI, including .NET, Mono, and DotGNU Portable.NET. Other C# wrappers for popular freely available toolkits are GTK# and QT#. Also, more developers are needed to assist porting Mono or dotGNU to Mac OS X.

SGI Indigo Magic Desktop for Linux Beta 1 Available

Submitted by Gil Bates 2003-07-04 Desktop environments 35 Comments

The first beta of SGI Indigo Magic Desktop has been uploaded and is ready for testing. The IMD project reproduces the 4Dwm desktop, as found on SGI's IRIX operating system, running under Linux.

MorphOS and Pegasos Quickstart Guide, v2.5

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-04 Morphos 11 Comments

The MorphOS/Pegasos Quickstart Guide written by Jürgen Lucas has updated to version 2.5. The guide shows you how to install MorphOS on Pegasos with an empty IDE hard drive. Thanks to Andreas Zierl and Fabrice Lehaut the guide is beside german also available in english and french.