While covering TechEd 2003 for us last week, Chad Myers managed to
sit down and interview
Eric Gunnerson, a Program Manager in the Visual C# .NET group at Microsoft. In the interview, Eric discusses the future of C#, other languages, and more.
Quark finally made available for pre-ordering their long-awaited
QuarkXPress 6 after 2 years of porting it to Mac OS X.
Our Take: The big surprise for me personally was when earlier today I
browsed the comments at VersionTracker, the premier OSX software repository. The vast majority of these users seems to have already switched to
Adobe InDesign. $200 bucks cheaper too.
Some people have noticed that on OSNews feature articles, in addition to the normally-formatted green links on the page, there are also double-underlined black-green links, that link to offers from sponsors, like free .NET tutorials or a whitepaper on Intel Centrino. If you haven't seen these, it's probably due to the fact that it only works on IE for Windows. If you're using Linux, Mac, Mozilla, or another browser/platform you may never see it. Those who have seen it: don't worry. There's no strange spyware installed on your machine. "Read more" for more details.
Intel on Monday
quietly marked the 25-year anniversary of x86, the basic architecture underlying the chips that power most of today's PCs. Elsewhere, rivals Sun and Intel on Monday
announced a deal set to ensure that their mobile products will work better together over the next few years.
The Debian GNU/FreeBSD port has recently made
significant progress using the GNU C library as a base instead of FreeBSD's libc. This project tries to port the Debian system, which is based on GNU, on top of the FreeBSD OS.
This
detailed 101-page how-to article provides the necessary background and procedures to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming console into a Linux-based software router with firewalling and virtual private networking capabilities.
On March 7th 2003, the SCO Group
filed a lawsuit against IBM for misappropriation of tradesecrets and contractual agreements. The scope of SCOs complaint is that IBM introduced parts of Unix System V and Project Monterey into the Linux kernel. Project Monterey was a effort to port IBM's AIX 5L onto the Intel Itanium platform, IBM withdrew from that project for reasons unknown according to the press, I believe that it was because the Itanium is a bomb.
Sun's new products apparently are paying off. Thanks to the V120, V1280, and V880, Sun is selling more UNIX servers than its competitors. Sun's UNIX servers account for 52% of the shipments for the first quarter of 2003 in the worldwide market place.
Press release.
MadPenguin
published a review with screenshots of the newly released SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0.
MagneticSystems
posted a review and benchmark article of Pegasos and MorphOS.
eWEEK is reporting that Apple is nearing the release of a new Power Mac known internally as Q37, which will include the new chip. However, Q37 will ship before Apple rolls out a 64-bit version of Panther in September. Instead, the new Power Macs will ship with a special Jaguar build train code-named Smeagol. Smeagol will run on the new chip but won't take advantage of many of its key features, limiting initial performance gains.
Linux Live CD's are very popular these days, especially since the inception of Knoppix. Live CD's are very useful as a plug and play Linux systems for schools who want to use Linux beside their normal operating system, but Live CD's are also useful for demo-ing Linux or to try if Linux works well on some machine. Another advantage of Live CD's is that it is more difficult to break things, after rebooting the Live CD you will have a completely fresh system.
Submitted by parano1dx
2003-06-09
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is now
available. Release notes for all five architectures,
here.
This entire article is written as a proposal to a coprporation for a new, very unique computing system. Please offer criticism and suggestions to improve the system, and tell me whether you think it could work. What exactly is the "Edge Computing System" And more importantly, why would I want to go to the trouble of developing it? The Edge Computing System is just that, an entire system, not just a new type of computer or new software suite. The Edge is the means by which you can have your personal computer with you at all times.
Submitted by Kim Pedersen
2003-06-09
Java
NetBeans have today released their 3.5 IDE. A nice environment to develop e.g. Java or C++ in.
Submitted by Frank
2003-06-09
Linux
When debugging kernel problems, being able to trace the kernel execution and examine its memory and data structures is very useful. The built-in kernel debugger in Linux, KDB, provides this facility. In
this article you'll learn how to use the features provided by KDB and how to install and set up KDB on a Linux machine.
Today marks the release of SuSE's new
Linux Desktop for Enterprises. The theory behind this product is that it provides (in press release-speak), "a user-friendly, flexible, SuSE maintained desktop built for large IT infrastructures, software development and high performance computing environments." Sounds great, but what does that mean?
Read Roblimo's article at NewsForge.
Submitted by Redson
2003-06-09
Gnome
Ximian has released their long awaited Ximian Desktop 2, their popular Gnome-based desktop, and Evolution, their popular email client and calendar program. They can be found on the main
Ftp server. You can also check
their mirrors. OSNews featured
an interview with Nat Friedman of Ximian recently.
TuxReports
features an introduction to Red Hat Linux 9 with screenshots. Elsewhere, Slashdot readers
discuss the Linux experience on an Acer TabletPC.
Owen Taylor announced the bug fixed releases of
Glib 2.2.2 and
Pango 1.2.3.
UPDATE: GTK+ 2.2.2 also
released.
