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.

Having written open source software myself, and being a subscriber to mailing lists, etc, there is a realization that the number one thing missing from smaller open source projects is feedback from users.

"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.

The Linux kernel 2.4.21 has seen a number of cleanups, and a patch which increasing performance of the system under heavy disk IO, especially on IDE systems. Changelog here.

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.

ILug-cal features a quick review of Slackware 9.0.

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.

Apple Computer plans to discuss how it will incorporate HyperTransport, a rapid chip-to-chip communications technology, into future computers later this month at its developer conference.

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

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer talks about sharing source code, the threat from Linux and where Microsoft is going.

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.

"Instead of a hot new model, Apple needs a new manufacturing process that will enable it to compete price-wise with Windows. Of course, the G5's release instantly lowers the price on the G4. And those G4 Titaniums are still looking good." Read the editorial at OSOpinion by James Maguire.

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!

Back on June 9 2003, OSNews posted an article by Joshua Boyles entitled "The Edge Computing System". In that article Joshua lays out his vision, "of a new and very unique computing system". In this new article, an attempt will be made to further build on Jonathan's ideas through what can be termed, "Open Peripheral Hardware Connectivity".