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New Music Download Service From Apple

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Apple 77 Comments

MacMinute and Maccentral have live coverage on the Apple online music initiative. Macslash also reports: "Steve Jobs announced a new music download service from Apple to go along with the new iPod and the updated version of iTunes. The music service offers a song catalog of over 200,000 songs from the top 5 record labels. It will allow unlimited burning to CDs, and will play on up to 3 Macs. There's a catch with the burning, though. It will require you to change a playlist after 10 burns in order to burn again. Online 30-second previews are available for each song, as is cover art. The service will include artists not available in other online catalogs."

A Look at SuSE 8.2 Professional

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 SuSE, openSUSE 9 Comments

"The installation of a new distribution from SuSE has for several years here been a battle between two conflicting issues: the install has a better than even chance of not going smoothly, but once the ordeal is survived it is quickly forgotten in the face of an excellent system. That was exactly the case here with SuSE 8.2 Professional." Read the review at LinuxAndMain.

NewOS to be Ported on Pegasos

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Morphos 39 Comments

Nicholas Blachford from Genesi (also ex-Amiga, ex-BeOS developer) sent us in an announcement regarding the new Pegasos machines, the BeOS connection and the availability of NewOS for Pegasos.

Unix will Reign over Windows for Years

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Unix 23 Comments

Analyst firm IDC believes Unix will remain the first choice for mission critical applications for at least another three years.

BeGeistert 010 A Great Success; Interview With Frans Van Nispen

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Haiku 4 Comments

BeGeistert 010, the place for BeOS developers to meet up, is now over and BeOSJournal features a round up of the event, plus an interview with Sequel OS' Frans Van Nispen.

Interview with KDE’s Matthias Ettrich

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 KDE 4 Comments

Matthias Ettrich is the creator of the KDE desktop environment. At LinuxJournal, Aleksey Dolya interviews Matthias about the process of creating KDE and what he's up to these days.

Rational Digs Up Gems

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 IBM No Comments

Following the merger, Rational Chief Scientist Grady Booch was assigned to serve as liaison between Rational and IBM Research. So far, he's identified nearly 300 projects that the company thinks will fit Rational tools.

Sun’s Vikas Deolaliker Reflects on Opteron/Win2k3 Launches

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Original OSNews Interviews 32 Comments

Today, we feature a mini Q&A with Vikas Deolaliker, Group Product Manager of the Competitive Strategy Group at Sun Microsystems. We discuss a number of issues that arise on Sun's stategy in light of the recent releases of the AMD Opteron and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. We also get a taste of Sun's position on the limited hardware support of Sun Solaris 9 on x86.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Review

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 General Development 14 Comments

ActiveWin features a review of Visual Studio .NET 2003 development suite. They cover feature-set, usage, installation, pricing and what's still missing.

Red Hat Network’s low-cost upgrade to Red Hat Linux 9

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Red Hat 20 Comments

Joe Barr decided to put his Red Hat Network subscription to greater use. He normally uses RHN to run up2date at least weekly so he can keep up with the latest security fixes and updates. This week, he decided to download the iso images of 'shrike' (Red Hat's code-word for its new release) and upgrade his desktop from Red Hat Linux 8 to Red Hat Linux 9.

Tim Sweeney 64-bit Interview

Submitted by Sagres 2003-04-27 Games 16 Comments

Epic's Tim Sweeney has been advocating AMD's 64-bit platform since its official unveiling at Comdex last November. With this in mind, Firingsquad decided to ask Tim about Epic's 64-bit UT2K3 port, Epic's 64-bit plans for their next generation Unreal engine, and his thoughts on the Opteron architecture.

Online Music Service Signals New Direction for Apple Computer

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-27 Apple 23 Comments

Jobs has a new direction. While the 48-year-old chief executive's roots are in the arcane programming codes of Silicon Valley, Jobs is today increasingly fashioning himself as a digital entertainment impresario. Over the past two years, he has turned Apple into a producer of entertainment technology for digital photos, movies and music, culminating in Monday's unveiling of the online music service. Read the news here, here, here or here. "Faster Than the Speed of Software: The record labels have a new idea for selling music online. The only catch: This time, they are ahead of the technology needed for it to happen" Los Angeles Times report.

Building Web Services with C# and DB2

Submitted by Frank 2003-04-27 Databases 8 Comments

This tutorial demonstrates the techniques needed to build a Web service in C# that accesses an IBM DB2 Universal Database using the DB2 managed data provider.

Microsoft Research Focusing on Search Interfaces

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-27 Graphics 40 Comments

Found a couple interesting links over at NooFace, a site dedicated to user interfaces. First, Microsoft Research is plugging away at one of the growing dilemmas in computing: so much data, so little time. XTend is a next generation product which uses a powerful Relational File System to deliver the world's first "Save With" oriented interface. And speaking of Knowledge Management (where XTend can be useful), you can read this recent interview over at TheIdeaBasket with the CEO of YellowPen, Inc.

IntelliJ IDEA 3.0.4 for Java Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-27 Java 13 Comments

IntelliJ IDEA is a Java IDE packed with leading-edge development features which include: industry setting refactoring support, intelligent code editing assistance, a wide range of J2EE development features for rapid web-application and other enterprise development, a powerful Code Inspection tool, integrated CVS, VSS and StarTeam support, an Open API for third-party plug-in support, and a mountain of other productivity features that make Java development a pleasure. Version 3.0.4 was released recently for Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris/Unix and Linux.

Sanos: A Core For Java-Based Appliances

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-27 Java 7 Comments

Slashdot reports on Sanos: "Sanos is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 OS kernel for jbox appliances. A jbox is a JavaOS server appliance running on standard PC hardware. This enables you to run Java server applications without the need to install a traditional host operating system like Windows or Linux."

XPde 0.3.5 Released; InterfaceWM, XFCE and XWin.org News

Submitted by Joseph Childrose 2003-04-27 Xfce 23 Comments

XPde 0.3.5 has been released, which according to the site is a major upgrade to the XPde desktop environment and window manager. We reported on the (Pascal-written) XPde before (shots). On other X11 news, InterfaceWM 0.2.4 was recently released, XFCE 4 is getting closer to release (screenshots and one more), while the XWin.org team had another conference call last week.

64-bit Solaris for Opteron is Coming

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-26 Solaris 17 Comments

Sun is attacking the low end x86-based server market with force, as it has announcements around both AMD's Opteron processor and Intel's Xeon processor on the way, executives told TheRegister.

Mac OS X 10.2.6 Tweak on Tap

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-26 macOS 12 Comments

Apple is preparing another free update to Mac OS X 10.2, sources said. The company this week provided developers with the first pre-release seed of Mac OS X 10.2.6, labeled build 6L51. According to the seed's release notes. 10.2.6 will improve graphics and OpenGL, as well as OS X's Address Book application. Additionally, the update will provide greater compatibility with PC cards and USB hubs.

Longhorn M5 4015 and Mac OS X Panther 10.3 Screenshots

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-26 Graphics 67 Comments

Unfortunately, these days people seem to not be able to keep... any 'secret'. Longhorn 4015 has leaked and Neowin has aquired some tailor-made screenshots showing off a few of the new features taking shape in what is becoming known as Milestone 5. Also, Apple-X.net claims to have the first leaked screenshots of of MacOSX Panther 10.3, clearly showing the "piles". UPDATE: Gsurface writes: "A quick look at what's new in the new 4015 build. To my surprise, it was actually an upgrade rather than the full version. Luckily, I still had my Longhorn 4008 installed on my D:\ drive. Continue to read with tons of screenshots here."