So, which programming language do you prefer? Come in and vote!

Apple resellers are becoming increasingly disgruntled with the product expansion and aggressive pricing of the vendor’s online presence, Apple Store. While a level playing field exists for hardware – allowing resellers to take advantage of face-to-face contact with customers and value-added service levels behind the sale – channel partners are worried about discrepancies appearing in the pricing of some third-party software and peripherals.

The SCO Group soon may open another front in its legal battle against Linux by filing suit against a major hardware manufacturer in North America, a company executive said.

AmigaWorld.net has posted 5 new official AmigaOS4 screenshots. The latest shots show several appearance differences regarding the GUI. Saturday there's an AmigaOS4 on Tour event planned to be held in Augsburg, Germany.

Bill Hayden released version 0.7rc3 of the AtheOS fork, Cosmoe, today. The changes from 0.6 are almost too extensive, since libcosmoe was almost rewritten from scratch based on code from OBOS.

"Technical muscle and a history of innovation made Sun a Silicon Valley standard-bearer. It also blinded famously combative Scott McNealy to the coming Linux wars. Now he's fighting to survive." Read the article at Wired.

Bangkokpost says that the dev tools on Macs are not so great. And there is already a rebuttal article on the subject. Elsewhere, Roz Ho, the general manager of Microsoft's Mac Business Unit, has confirmed that no future versions of Internet Explorer will be released for the Mac. In the meantime, Apple Security Update 2003-06-12 for OS X Server 10.2.6 only is out and available for download.

This release features a new SkyOS installer which makes it possible to install SkyOS to a harddisk partition or boot it directly from the LIVE CD-ROM. Many bugfixes and new applications.

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.