TuxReports offers a peek at Ximian Desktop 2. I also installed XD2 just a few hours ago on my RHL9. Between 2 rcd random crashes (which brought Red Carpet down too) and 5 unresolved dependancies (metacity-devel, bonobo-devel etc), XD2 managed to install successfully. I only use it for a few hours, but it seems like a nice distribution of Gnome2 with added bonuses. It could have been even better though.

A high-level overview of design changes that were made to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems, why the design changes were made, the implications of the changes, and how to revert to the previous default settings.

"These are syntactically interesting features, not life-changing events. Most programmers who've spent a few years in the industry learn large numbers of languages. C# is just a particularly interesting addition to the pack." Read the article at ZDNet.

The moment of truth is here. Which OS do you mostly use most of your time?

From the June issue of LinuxGazette: how to install and secure Slackware.

Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group, explains that his organization owns the Unix trademark and that SCO Group holds the rights only to the OS source code.

Ximian and SourceGear have announced a partnership which will help SourceGear distribute their applications across platforms. SourceGear will help complete the missing parts in Mono.

TheRegister has an article about persistent storage for computers using magnetic memory. This triggered me to recall Genera, the Symbolics Object Oriented OS, and what an amazing system could be built pulling together an object oriented OS with a persistent storage. Where there was no need for files and pipes and everything could know about everything else. I'm way out of my depth here, but come on someone, build the future!

Apple Computer is being sued by The Open Group, the San Francisco company that claims ownership of the Unix trademark, for using the term Unix in conjunction with its Mac OS X operating system without a license. Apple has countersued, asking a judge to declare that the trademark is invalid, because the term Unix has become generic. This legal battle, though separate from SCO's recent claim that Linux uses copyrighted Unix source code, adds further fire to the debate over the custody of Unix--the 30 plus-year old OS originally developed by AT&T.

Microsoft will debut Pocket PC 2003--code-named Ozone--on June 23, according to sources close to the company. The operating system is not expected to be a major revision of Pocket PC 2002, but it will include new features such as built-in support for wireless technologies Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The OS overhaul will occur in the next version of the operating system, code-named 'Magneto', due out next year. Get more mobile computing news on our sister site, NewMobileComputing.com.

Executives at Sun Microsystems on Tuesday offered a glimpse of its Java roadmap through 2006, when its "Mustang" revision is scheduled to debut. eWEEK has a Java special too. Elsewhere, Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer will be shipping the latest version of Java with their PCs and laptops running Windows and Linux, said Rich Green, vice president of developer platforms at Sun Microsystems. Also, there will be no macros for the Java language, it seems.

Open Amiga is an effort to create a standard for the Amiga that developers and users alike can use in their quest for the perfect Amiga platform.

JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition Version 1.4.1_03 (Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Solaris Operating Environment) released. Check out the release notes and download section.

Michael Phipps of OBOS has posted a status update and response to some community discontent. In his post, he explains why a new name has yet to be announced, why some of the status graphs have gone without being updated, and gives a general idea of what is left to be done.