Media files and a transcript of Alan Redhouse's AmiGBG speech are now available for download. The speech was held at a Swedish Amiga show last Saturday and includes information on plans for a MicroATX version of the AmigaOne-XE board, to be targeted mainly at server farms and a SE-lite version targeted at embedded uses.

In part one in a series of chats with key members of the Xandros team, DesktopLinux.com gives you an insider's view of the Xandros project philosophy and architecture. Oleg Noskov, Xandros software development manager, talks about domain authentication -- one of the essential keys to integrating with, and eventually migrating from, existing Windows networking infrastructures.

And one more Mandrake Linux 9.1 review. This time is at LinuxOrbit.

Slackware is the oldest surviving Linux distribution out there. For those who believe that Slackware was the first Linux distribution I have news, because SLS was before Slackware, but that is another story. It is the most *NIX like distribution and has borrowed many of the things we can find in BSD *NIX. Here is a mini-review of their latest release, 9.0.

What a big month this was with many Linux releases (and not just Linux ones). The third most popular Linux distribution (along with Debian), after Red Hat and Mandrake, is SuSE. While the company is more successful in Europe, with their 8.1 release a few months ago they were able to broaden their user base worldwide even more. The new version, 8.2, is coming out in about a week from now, but OSNews had early access to it so we were able to evaluate it. Read more for our experiences with SuSE Linux 8.2 and check out a few screenshots too.

Three new interesting InformIT developer articles posted: "J2EE Performance Tuning, Part 2" (Part I here), "C# Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern" (Part 4) and "Object-Oriented Frameworks for Network Programming".

Recently, some sharp criticism has been displayed against the OS reviews posted on OSNews by third parties. In an effort to make the reviews more substantial, I have put together some guidelines in addition to the generic guidelines OSNews already provides for the readers who want to have their voices heard on this site.

After much delay, the first 2 Amiga Gamecards (offering 4 games each) are currently selling at CompUSA stores. This was shared in latest of the weekly held AmigaWorld Q&A sessions with Amiga's CTO. Some of the most notable games were written by the AmigaDE/AmigaOS software development house Zeoneo Limited.

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.

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.

The server maker expects major PC makers soon will begin bundling Sun's software for running Java programs on their computers.

"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.