Jason Filby has notified us: "
ReactOS 0.1.1 is out, and features much improved windowing and GDI abilities; WineMine can be played to a limited extend and the MS VGA and VMWare VGA drivers can be used. There is also better disk drive detection and support as well as registry, IO and console improvements. The usetup installer has also progressed well." For more infomation and screenshots, turn to the
ReactOS website.
Some of the people complained about the two previous posted reviews being incoherant and you said "write your own", so I thought I would throw my two cents in...
William Lee Irwin III recently announced on the lkml that he'd successfully gotten Linux running on a 64GB x86 server. His posts included two different boot message logs, one without his page clustering patch, and one with. In the latter case, his patch overcomes the 1GB mem_map virtual space limitation imposed by x86 32-bit servers, without which the kernel over-runs allowable memory space.
Read the report at KernelTrap.
Yes, we all know the "big three" (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) commercial distros, we also know the next big bunch of respected traditional/geek distros (Debian and Slackware and some might add Gentoo too in this list), and we know the "other big three" in the desktop Linux area (Lindows, Xandros, Lycoris). However, not everyone knows what is available besides this "threshold". Here is a list of Linux distros that worth knowing about and to keep an eye on!
The development of Mandrake Linux 9.1 has been completed: "
Sounds like a good time to put myself in the seat of a first-time Linux user and dissect this long-awaited release. I had rehearsed the installation of Mandrake Linux 9.1 final using 9.1 RC2, and this time I decided to explore in detail the hardware and software configuration that I would consider adequate for a comfortable Mandrake desktop experience. Kind of, a Mandrake 9.1 Certify-It-Yourself PC if you see what I mean..."
This article concludes DistroWatch's 7-part series in which followed the Mandrake 9.1 development process.
A milestone for
Syllable OS: "
With a couple of patches from Arno Klenke, both the ATAPI driver and ISO9660 filesystem driver work together happily, and we are able to mount, read and unmount discs" project leader Vanders
wrote. In the meantime,
SkyOS gets some significant updates on its installer on other parts of the OS.
A
long thread has started in the phoebe-list over at Red Hat, people arguing that Mp3 capabilities should/shouldn't be included in Red Hat's products. Mike Harris of Red Hat
replied to the issue and gave a clear answer about the facts.
The server maker
expects major PC makers soon will begin bundling Sun's software for running Java programs on their computers.
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An update on the current status of OpenBSD Symmetric Multiprocessor support was recently posted to the OpenBSD smp mailing list. At this time, it still looks to be quite a ways off in the future, with currently only i386-specific code that will detect and spinup a 2'nd processor, but not yet actually use it." Read the report at KernelTrap.
Eclipse 2.1 was released today. For a list of what is new checkout
here. In other developer news, OnLamp
posted an article explaining what's new in Python 2.3. Info on PHP 5 can be found from
here.
When I first started playing with Linux (RedHat Distribution -- Version 5.2 Deluxe), it was a present from a father's friend in Boston. As I recall that is the only version of RedHat I ever got to work correctly without any major problems (like "Kernel Segmentation Error" or something to that effect).
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The GPL, GNU General Public License, is a license boilerplate that the FSF, Free Software Foundation, has put forward to be adopted by software developers that are creating software. The GPL has some fundamental flaws that may actually make one wonder if people using the GPL license really understand the license." Read the editorial here by Chris Davies.
MadPenguin has the
first review of SuSE 8.2. OSNews' SuSE 8.2 review is coming this Monday, so stay tuned.
In what one IBM-watcher calls a 'dramatic change' in IBM's thinking, Big Blue is now starting to
push mainframes that run Linux -- and only Linux.
SciTech Software is preparing to release the first version of SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux to outside beta testers over the coming weeks. If you have an interest and XFree86 based display drivers for your Linux platform and are willing to test out new technology, we would love for you to join our growing Linux beta program! Read more for the rest of the announcement.
In a major strategy shift, Sun
will stop offering its own customized version of Linux and will instead turn to several other standard Linux distributions.
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Every once in a while a product stands out not only because it is innovative but because it just makes sense. It fills some space that has not previously been filled. I'm certain that you will agree that Knoppix -- a live Linux-On-CD Distribution -- is one of those products." Read the article at LinuxAndMain.
Let me start by saying that I'm desperate for a real alternative to Windows on the PC platform. I like Windows XP for a lot of reasons, and hate it in equal amounts for just as many other reasons. I want to like Linux, I really truly do. I really want to be be in a situation where I can migrate happily, easily and with the minimum of fuss onto another better system in part or fully over time, but at the moment that day just seems too far away.
Microsoft Corp.
today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003 is optimized to enable customers to take advantage of the performance enhancements in the Intel Itanium 2 processor.
This week it seems to be the week of anniversaries: Two years of
Mac OS X, ten years from the
Pentium launch, ten years of
Red Hat, three years of
OS/2 World.
