The
NetBSD team has decided to do away with any selective moderation for postings originating from the openbsd.org domain based on an email announcement on behalf of NetBSD. This rule was instated to protect the NetBSD mailing lists from abuse or denial of service attacks by the founder of
OpenBSD, Theo De Raadt, who some time ago threatened to attack the NetBSD project machines. The original
report can be found at BSDForums.org.
Submitted by Jonathan
2002-07-30
Windows
After several months of beta testing, the most important service pack ever issued for Windows 2000 is at last available for download. The
Service Pack 3 (124 MB, German
here) is a collection of bug fixes that addresses all the issues that were discovered since Windows 2000 shipped. This new Service Pack 3 also adds some new features like the ability to configure the middleware and an automatic updater.
Read more to vote for the operating system that should have been the Next Big Thing (TM), but that never happened for whatever reason. Please make sure you vote an OS based on its *technical capabilities*, not because you used to be its user when you were 16, or because you like its background color, or because you heard good things about it once. Vote for the one that you truly think it was technically superior at its time.
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A letter was received by one member of the KDE development team asking the KDE Project to use Red Hat Linux on machines at LWCE and to display RedHat's shadow man logo on those machines. In exchange, the letter from RedHat explained, KDE would "benefit from many valuable marketing benefits in our booth, on our website, and in our newsletter." At press time, Open for Business was unaware of any response by Mann or others at RedHat concerning this PR disaster. It does, however, raise an interesting question of what the software vendor hopes to accomplish with its continuing near boycotting of KDE. As Red Hat's might is considerably weaker in the desktop segment, with its preferred desktop (GNOME) taking only about 20% of the desktop market versus KDE's over 50%, they would be wise to change course. While being at 70% market share 2-3 years ago, Red Hat hardly enjoys more than 25% market share nowdays." Read the whole story about the PR fiasko at OfB.
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The four distributors Caldera, Conectiva, Suse Linux, and Turbolinux are planning to introduce UnitedLinux, a joint server operating system for enterprise deployment, in November of this year, the companies said late Friday. The technical specifications of the OS have already been finalized." Read the
interesting report on what will be included on the UnitedLinux distribution over at ExtremeTech.
Submitted by Jim Vanaria
2002-07-29
macOS
In light of all the controversy surrounding the price of Apple's new OSX 10.2 Jaguar upgrade scheme, it is interesting that is
today obtainable from Amazon.com for $79 USD ($129 - $50 rebate). On a related note, Macintouch is reporting that Apple is extending the MacOSX Up-to-Date and MacOSX Server
Up-to-Date programs to include Jaguar Server upgrades for just $19.95 in response to intense criticism. Apple also added that people who bought MacOSX 10.1 retail in its own box, can get an upgrade if purchased July 17 or later.
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With great excitiment, Lycoris releases a new and incredible update to its flagship desktop operating system, Desktop/LX. Desktop/LX now includes a powerful new
Control Center, Desktop Sharing, Iris (Internet Rapid Installer for Software) and much more." Read more for the rest of the press release.
Submitted by zhangcl
2002-07-29
Red Hat
Red Hat
released the second beta for their upcoming Red Hat Linux product, codenamed Limbo. Apparently, this will be called "Red Hat Linux 7.4" and not 8.0, as many people concluded earlier. The new beta includes many bug fixes, new versions for KDE and some additional fixes for Gnome 2.0 from the CVS, as well as GCC 3.2-pre. Mailing list archives for Limbo
here.
Want to know why many developers have chosen Windows Embedded for their real-time computing solutions?
Read technical articles, case studies, and independent viewpoints on real time, and learn which Windows Embedded operating system might be right for you.
Submitted by Stewy
2002-07-29
Unix
The August 2002 update for MSDN contains the Windows Services for Unix 3.0, adding the Interix technology into Windows. Heres the blurb: Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 provides a full range of cross-platform services geared towards customers wanting to integrate Windows into their existing UNIX environments. With the addition of the Interix subsystem technology, SFU 3.0 now provides platform interoperability and application migration components in one fully integrated and supported product from Microsoft. Key Distinguishing Feature from SFU 2.0 The most significant feature of SFU 3.0 is the integration of the Interix subsystem technology. The Interix technology provides over 1900 UNIX APIs and migration tools such as: make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip, gbd, as well as the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers.
This
Cosmoe release's major features: Improved autoconf support for DirectFB, autoconf support for building Cosmoe to run in an X window (--enable-xwindows), mouse changed to /dev/mouse from /dev/psaux, better failure cases for the video driver loading, so if Cosmoe fails to load you're not stuck with a dead keyboard, incorporation of contributed bug fixes for Aedit and Aterm. Features coded but
not included in this release: Sed scripts to convert Atheos programs to Cosmoe. Download
here, read the mailing list
here.
Norman Feske at the technical university of Dresden, Germany, is developing a new windowing system for the experimental Drops OS, called DOpE. DOpE runs under Linux as well and it can run X11 on a window. Read the
proposal explaining the project (in german) and check out some
screenshots.
The annual AmiWest show was held last weekend in Sacramento, USA. As with many important Amiga shows held in the US, UGN provided Amigans live webcam and audio coverage of this event. Most interesting was the live coverage of Bill McEwen's Saturday evening banquet
speech (MP3).
Update: Please use the following mirrors for the mp3 instead:
USA,
France,
Norway and
UK.
Update 2: Sendo has published an Amiga related
press release, confirming that their Z100 mobile phone will ship with Amiga software.
As seen over at
PCLinuxOnline: "
Lycoris is scheduled to announce the availability of Deskxop/LX Update 2 build 46 on Monday. In the meantime, you can freely download the 3 isos from various
mirrors as they become available.
sunet.se seems to have it available as of this morning."
Submitted by Prognathous
2002-07-28
OS/2
OSNews reader Prognathous writes: "
Well, actually it was released earlier this year, but I couldn't find any references in your news section, so it's about time. The only problem is that other than in usenet, details are scant and the official release was very subdued (search the page for "4.52")." This release is only available to IBM's active software subscription customers of OS/2 Warp 4 and it does seem to be a service pack ("Convenience Package" as IBM calls it). IBM does not intend to provide any additional convenience packages in the future.
