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HP Rolls Out New HP-UX for Itanium

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-19 Unix 11 Comments

Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to ship the latest version of its Unix-based HP-UX operating system for Intel's family of Itanium processors. The company also plans to announce commitments from 40 developers to deliver applications for the platform.

Mandrake Linux 9.1 Download Edition Review at LinuxWorld

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-19 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 27 Comments

"Mandrake Linux 9.1 is the first significant update to the popular Linux distribution in some time. New features of the distribution include a revised user interface, tighter integration with Windows and improved networking support." Read the article at LinuxWorld.com.au.

KDE 3.1.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-19 KDE 25 Comments

The KDE Project released maintainance release KDE 3.1.2. Announcement, information, changelog.

Microsoft to License Unix Code

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-19 Microsoft 75 Comments

Microsoft is licensing the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could dramatically impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating systems, News.com says. Update: Please note that Microsoft simply licenses the rights of Unix (the same way as Sun and SGI have done in the past) and does NOT become the owner of Unix IP. SCO remains the owner.

Installing Red Hat Linux 9 (the Manual Way)

Guest post by Maynard Kuona 2003-05-18 Red Hat 16 Comments

This may not be of much use to those of you who dread text based installs, and those in the know, but a bit of useful information I came across when I installed Red Hat Linux 9 recently.

The Top 8 Operating Systems According to Google

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-18 OS News 59 Comments

Google, one of the most visited sites worldwide, posted their OS results for April 2003. In the No1 spot, Windows 98 is steadily losing 1% every month to the always rising Windows XP, while MacOS is down to 3% from the 4% of the previous month. Linux is steady at around 1%. The "Other" OSes are also steady at 4% (note that the "other" section also includes other Microsoft OSes, like Windows ME).

Amiga OS4 on Tour

Mike Bouma 2003-05-18 Amiga & AROS 43 Comments

Amiga OS4 will finally be presented to the general public and the first OS4 events are sheduled for June. Also Fleecy answered 10 more community questions for his 10th weekly Q&A.

FreeBSD: Todo Lists for 5.1 and 5.2

Submitted by CooCooCaChoo 2003-05-18 FreeBSD 8 Comments

"Robert Watson has started the automatic posting of open issues for the upcoming 5.1 and 5.2 releases. The list for 5.1 is automatically posted to -current every other day, with the most up-to-date version found here. The list is divided into the following four sections: "Must Resolve Issues", "Desired Features", "Documentation items that must be resolved", and "Areas requiring immediate testing". Read it at KernelTrap.

New Qt 3.2b Increases Support for Indic Languages

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-18 Qt 27 Comments

The new Qt upgrade, 3.2beta features hundreds of enhancements and features that enable developers to build multiplatform applications. New features include:

OpenBSD Hackathon c2k3 Continues in Success

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-18 OpenBSD 10 Comments

The OpenBSD project is having currently its Hackathon event (despite their financial sponsor backing down last month), where all the developers are getting together to code for almost two weeks. Usually, that's the month of the year with the most CVS commits and the biggest advancements that are happening to the OS. Canada's tech media are reporting the event with more info.

A New Distro in Town: Gentoo Emerges Victorious

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-17 Gentoo 44 Comments

"The 'meta-distro' Gentoo makes it possible to compile and configure everything on your system exactly the way you like, providing you with more structure and tools to ease the process and automate updates. Do I still like Debian? I absolutely love it. But until further notice, Gentoo is now my flavor of Linux." Read the review at LinuxWorld.

BeFree 0.1.0 Released

Submitted by Pier Luigi Fiorini 2003-05-17 Haiku 66 Comments

The first version of BeFree is released today. It is a GPL/LGPL graphical system that doesn't rely on X11 and is developed under FreeBSD 5.x (should also work on Linux). It is a BeOS 5 API clone (and not a Be OS clone) but the source compatibility will be probably broken in the future, the developer says. The release notes are here.

Gentoo Technologies Forms Gentoo Games

Submitted by a reader 2003-05-17 Gentoo 31 Comments

Gentoo Technologies founded a new company, Gentoo Games, which is set to release numerous gaming titles on self-booting CDs, fully configured to work on i686s+ with the latest Geforce and Radeon (8500+) graphics boards. First title to come out is America's Army. Another similar distro is Morphix.

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Released

Submitted by Ian D 2003-05-17 Mozilla, Gecko 74 Comments

Mozilla.org has finally released version 0.6 of Firebird, the project formerly known as Phoenix. Version 0.6 includes a new theme as well as a host of new features. It can be downloaded from here.

What If SCO Is Right?

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-17 SCO 73 Comments

"Almost no one knows what's really going on. Very few people know what's in both Linux and Unix source code, and most of them aren't talking, and the ones who are talking aren't providing specifics. Some Linux advocates say that SCO is somehow being unfair in not disclosing its evidence now, but if SCO is indeed the wronged party then they have no obligation to do any favors to the people who wronged them. So what happens if SCO is right?" Read the article at Internet Week.

Node Monitoring in BeOS/OpenBeOS

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-16 Haiku 73 Comments

This document describes the feature of the BeOS kernel to monitor nodes. First, there is an explanation of what kind of functionality OpenBeOS have to reproduce (along with the higher level API), then the author (Axel Dörfler) presents the implementation in OpenBeOS.

The Future of 3D Graphics

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-16 3D 36 Comments

At last week's WinHEC show, Nvidia Chief Scientist David Kirk pontificated on where 3D graphics rendering is going over the next decade. What can you expect? Photorealistic rendering and cinematic realism, of course. Bottom line -- it's not about pushing clock speeds and pixel rates, but rather making pixels much better looking!