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Slap the Credits everywhere!

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 Open Source 26 Comments

"Free software is ego-propelled. People don't get paid, they get famous. Yet we as a community do far too little to prominently credit the names of the authors. I propose we change that by adopting a few simple practices." Read the editorial at NewsForge by Hans Reiser. In Greece, we have a saying: "Many hated money, but no one hated glory..."

Microsoft to Get Technical on Longhorn, ‘Palladium’

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 Microsoft 10 Comments

Microsoft will demonstrate its much debated Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security initiative for the first time next week at an event in New Orleans, and will also provide further details on its plans for managing IT systems. Read the details at InfoWorld.

Analysts: Slow Road to New Windows

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 Windows 8 Comments

Microsoft is touting Windows Server 2003 as an operating system capable of pushing aside Unix and mainframes. But most customers will be upgrading from Windows NT 4--and at a slow pace, analysts say at News.com.

SCO Claims Code Violations in Linux

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 SCO 30 Comments

Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday.

Amiga, Inc. in Trouble?

Submitted by RobertDupuy 2003-05-02 Amiga & AROS 66 Comments

In a posting at ANN.lu, ex-Amiga, Inc. employee Bolton Peck breaks his silence. He reports about his time at Amiga Inc., the court trial against his former employer and informs us who is the real CEO of Amiga. Moreover, Bolton gives a general overview into what has happened behind the scenes during the past 3 years. Where does this situation leave the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 remains to be seen. Update: AmigaWorld.net has a thread about the situation as well.

L4Ka::Pistachio version 0.1

Submitted by Espen Skoglund 2003-05-02 OS News 8 Comments

The L4Ka team is pleased to announce the first release of the L4Ka::Pistachio microkernel. L4Ka::Pistachio is the latest L4 microkernel developed by the System Architecture Group at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in collaboration with the DISY group at the University of New South Wales, Australia. It is the first available kernel implementation of the L4 Version 4 kernel API.

Server Clinic: Put Virtual Filesystems to Work

Submitted by Frank 2003-05-02 General Development 1 Comment

This article over at IBM, provides information VFS. A virtual filesystem (VFS) is an abstraction with surprisingly productive uses.

AmigaInput – The new Gaming-API for AmigaOS

Mike Bouma 2003-05-02 Amiga & AROS 38 Comments

Amiga has released a new article, this time regarding AmigaOS4's new Gaming-API written by Steffen Haeuser. If you are interested to ask Hyperion and Amiga employees questions then note that some of them frequently participate at AmigaWorld's forums or chatroom.

FreeBSD 5.1 Release Schedule; Bluetooth Stack Update

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 FreeBSD 20 Comments

BSDForums reports that the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has posted the schedule for the Release of FreeBSD 5.1 late spring. FreeBSD roadmap, posted earlier at BSDForums.org, outlines the future of FreeBSD-5 stable releases, specifically 5.1 and 5.2. Also, Maksim Yevmenkin has announced another set of updates to Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD. He has made many code fixes, added new firmware driver support for Broadcom BCM2033 based devices, updated man pages and more. The Bluetooth stack is developed only for the 5-CURRENT branch. OSNews featured an in-depth interview with the FreeBSD Core team a few days ago discussing the 5.x branch among other topics.

J2EE and .NET Servers Weigh In

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 Rumors 19 Comments

The verbal punches tossed in the clash between Java and .NET may never end -- but for now it seems that the app servers supporting these software environments both have a place. Evidence suggests that most large companies will support both Java and .NET. The 'battle,' in reality, falls short of the hype. The scene is almost like that in a heavyweight prizefight, where the weigh-in holds more terror than the fight itself. Read the rest of the article at ADTMag.

Linux Luminaries Join Government Effort

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-02 Open Source 3 Comments

The leaders of several major open-source projects have joined George Washington University's Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute. Read the report at BusinessWeek.

IBM Denies Charges of Unix theft

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-01 Legal 59 Comments

Big Blue denies SCO Group's allegations that it misappropriated Unix trade secrets, but it isn't giving hints about what its eventual strategy will be for battling the lawsuit.

Libranet 2.8 Released

Submitted by XYZ 2003-05-01 Debian 58 Comments

The Debian-based Libranet 2.8 is finaly released. Order & download, read the feature-set or an intro.

SuSE Linux 8.2 Approaches Computing Nirvana

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-01 SuSE, openSUSE 40 Comments

"There's a lot to like in SuSE's latest edition, 8.2, and little to complain about. There are security enhancements and graphics tweaks partly due to KDE 3.1, and major administration bonuses in YaST-2. It's clear that SuSE has worked hard to accommodate the corporate desktop market as well as the home user since edition 8.1, which we did not recommend." Read the review at The Register.

OpenBSD 3.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-01 OpenBSD 35 Comments

OpenBSD 3.3 is out and more secure than ever. Get it while it's hot. Store, changelog.

DirectFBGL Goes DRI

Submitted by Anonymous 2003-05-01 3D 50 Comments

Now it is possible to have hardware accelerated OpenGL with DirectFB.

Windows Server 2003: Incompatible, Fast & Confusing

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-30 Windows 110 Comments

"Is Server 2003 fast? Yes, it's easily outdistances anything that Microsoft has ever shown us before. And, yes, it's faster than Linux. It is stable? Based on about two weeks of testing with the final release, I would say that it's also the most stable Microsoft operating system I've ever seen. But then again, I'm not asking it to do much besides basic file/print. The functionality servers that any business needs are largely not there. Ironically, this reminds me of the old claim against Linux that it didn't have any applications. That was never true of Linux, but it is true of Server 2003." Read the article at Practical-Tech by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

What’s 64-bit Computing to Linux?

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-30 Linux 20 Comments

Unlike most areas of the technology business, 64-bit computing has somehow remained immune to the forces of commodity competition. Read the article at News.com by SuSE's CEO.

Yellow Dog Linux v3.0 Ships

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-30 Linux 25 Comments

Yellow Dog Linux version 3.0 for PPC is now shipping worldwide. Read more for the announcement.

WineX 3.0 Reviewed; Lycoris GamePak Released

Submitted by John Gowin 2003-04-30 Games 13 Comments

This time around, Transgaming WineX 3.0 has some new tools as well as improvements in the number of games supported and gaming speeds. In this article, LinuxOrbit is going to take a look at the new features of WineX 3.0, with a focus on their new GUI installer called Point2Play.