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Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 Original OSNews Interviews 24 Comments

The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. Today, we talk to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson.

Microsoft to Score new C# Standard

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 .NET 11 Comments

Microsoft on Tuesday said that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in April will certify Microsoft's programming language C# (pronounced C sharp) and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), which is underlying software "plumbing" that can run applications written in different programming languages.

HP Chops Unix Server Prices

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 Unix 3 Comments

Hewlett-Packard has cut prices for its midrange Unix servers by about 20 percent, in an attempt to thwart renewed competition from rivals Sun Microsystems and IBM.

AROS Updates and New Screenshots

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 Amiga & AROS 38 Comments

The AROS team has updated their web site with new information about their operating system, plus a number of new screenshots. The team is also looking for active developers to help out the project.

UFS2 Ported to NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 NetBSD 4 Comments

Frank van der Linden has committed UFS2 code (based on FreeBSD's UFS2 by Marshall Kirk McKusick) to NetBSD. UFS2 is an extension to FFS. It adds 64 bit block pointers (breaking the 1T barrier) and support for extended file storage. On other BSD news, OpenBSD got a port of XFree86 4.3.0, while Kerneltrap features an article about the new 1:1 threading implementation that has been merged into FreeBSD -current.

Major Roadmap Update Centers Around Phoenix, Thunderbird

Submitted by Tom Bierce 2003-04-03 Mozilla, Gecko 26 Comments

In one of a string of changes, mozilla.org today announced a new plan that would have future Mozilla development work will be focussed around the soon-to-be-renamed stand-alone Phoenix browser and the Thunderbird mail and newsgroups client (also known as Minotaur). Mozilla 1.4 (an alpha released yesterday) would be the last milestone release of the traditional Mozilla browser suite and the 1.4 milestone would replace 1.0 as the stable development path.

Red Hat Linux 9 Review

Guest post by paul pianta 2003-04-02 Red Hat 69 Comments

This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.

Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit 3.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-02 Windows No Comments

The Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) version 3.0 for Windows 2000-SP3/XP/Server-2003 contains the tools and documentation you need to design, deploy, and support applications on these platforms.

Fiasco 1.0 Microkernel Released

Submitted by Udo Steinberg 2003-04-02 OS News 26 Comments

The Fiasco Team is pleased to announce Fiasco version 1.0, the first official release of the Fiasco L4 microkernel developed at the University of Technology, Dresden.

Creating a Better OSX Finder

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-02 macOS 39 Comments

John Siracusa from ArsTechnica, author of the famous 'Metadata, The Mac, and You' article, now comes back with an article that describes how a better Finder for Mac OS X should look like and behave.

Microsoft Calls AMD X86-64 Operating System ‘Anvil’

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-02 Windows 17 Comments

"But now we have absolute confirmation that there is an X86-64 version of Windows for the Hammer platform and rather suitably Microsoft has codenamed it Anvil," TheInquirer claims. The existence of Opteron and Athlon64 processors with support from Microsoft, and even apparently its thorough endorsement, will put some serious pressure on Intel to re-examine its desktop 64-bit strategy" says another Inquirer article.

Leave Windows 9x Behind

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-02 Windows 52 Comments

Check out the top five reasons for moving to Windows 2000 or XP, and find out what you need to do if you decide to make the change. The article is at ZDNet's TechUpdate.

As Good as It Gets for Linux

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-02 Linux 72 Comments

'To cross the chasm, an OS needs a big marketing machine behind it. Linux doesn't have one. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" stuff only goes so far.' Read the editorial by V. Ryan at OSOpinion.

Cooperating Systems’ HelloWorld: DR Release Now Available

Submitted by Yarone Goren 2003-04-02 Internet 36 Comments

Download the developer release of HelloWorld, a new chatting/community environment (with a backend connected to Gnutella for file sharing) that some people say that it could revolutionize the way we see the world via IM. The application currently works under Windows (the company might do an OSX port if there is enough demand for it) and the file weighs 24 MB.

Red Hat 9 Offers Continutity, Transparency for Users

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Red Hat 37 Comments

LinuxPlanet reviews Red Hat Linux 9. Another story, by Guru Labs, is written mostly for system admins. Also, MozillaQuest has published a brief interview with Mark de Visser, Vice President of Red Hat, Inc.

IST Launches Motif to Java Migration Solution

Submitted by Neil Smyth 2003-04-01 Java 15 Comments

IST announced the launch of its Motif to Java Migration Solution, a complete solution for the rapid and automated conversion of legacy C/C++ X/Motif based applications to the Java Platform.

Sun Looking to AMD for 64-Bit while their Linux Desktop is on Track

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Oracle and SUN 16 Comments

Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its private-label version of Linux for servers, but the company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop system that should hit the market this summer, the company said. However, eWeek says that Sun has no plans to support Linux or Solaris on Intel Corp. Itanium systems, but the company is evaluating AMD's upcoming Opteron processors, Sun officials said on Monday.

REXX-based OS Successor to OS/2?

Submitted by Ulrich Moeller 2003-04-01 OS/2 21 Comments

A volunteer group of OS/2 developers has announced REXX/OS, a successor to the OS/2 OS based entirely on the interpreted REXX language that so many considered one of OS/2's best features...

Today on NewMobileComputing

David Adams 2003-04-01 Wireless 10 Comments

Over at our sister site, NewMobileComputing today: Microsoft's inclusion of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in an XP patch, small motherboards for mobile devices, Biofuel cells that could replace batteries, and an exciting announcement from Apple: the iPad! Visit NewMobileComputing for more details.

Interview with Miguel de Icaza

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Original OSNews Interviews 54 Comments

Miguel de Icaza of Ximian tells all about Mono, .NET and dotGNU, Gnome and its relationship to KDE, and much more.