Win a Free Copy of TuneTracker 2

Gifts, Contests 26 Comments
The second big version of the professional radio automation system TuneTracker was just released June 1st and goes where no other has gone before, in more ways than one. For one thing, the TuneTracker System doesn't run under Windows. It uses the media-friendly Be Operating System. For another, it shatters all kinds of price-performance barriers for professional radio broadcasting software. "This rivals my (other station's) $15,000 system," says Mike Chandler of WOBS, Florida of the $149.95 TuneTracker System, who has been using the Beta version for months. "As a matter of fact, it has less hiccups." And now it can be yours! Read more on how you can win a free copy of TuneTracker 2! Update: The lucky winner is Daniel Mark! Congratulations Daniel!
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Obsolete Microkernel Dooms MacOSX to Lag Linux in Performance

  Submitted by Cristiano Rumors 127 Comments
"Apple's quaint choice of a microkernel for Mac OS X means Linux will lead in performance on Mac hardware. BeOS implements its TCP stack in a user process, microkernel-style, and so does QNX. Both have notoriously slow TCP stacks." Read the article at LinuxJournal. Our Take: Oh, yeah, this is why Be rewrote the whole networking stack with many of its parts living in the kernel space and named the project "BONE". As for MacOSX lagging behind Linux, we should not be forgetting that Apple announced that MacOSX will sync with FreeBSD 4.x for MacOSX 10.2 while it will also sync with the next generation FreeBSD, 5.x, next year. Technically-speaking, FreeBSD 5.x is one of the most advanced operating systems one can find today (or tomorrow :).
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OpenBeOS-NewOS Fork Complete

  Submitted by tantalic Haiku 47 Comments
The OpenBeOS kernel has finally forked from NewOS. Michael Phipps has checked in the source code for the OpenBeOS kernel to the CVS repository. Initially, this code differs little from NewOS. Over time, as the code is tweaked and amended to fit the requirements for creating an R5 clone, the kernel will diverge from its NewOS roots.
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Eyetech AmigaOne Update &Thendic-France Ships first Pegasos PPC

Morphos 52 Comments
Last week Eyetech began shipping the first finalized AmigaOneG3-SE boards to developers. Apart from the boot ROM, these boards are identical to consumer AmigaOneG3-SE boards. Eyetech also announced a more expensive version called AmigaOne-XE motherboard, which will come with socketed PPC CPU(s) and an AmigaOne trade-in option will be available through AmigaOne dealers. Soon more dealers like i.e. Forefront Technologies, a company which is also developing ATI Radeon drivers for AmigaOS4, are to be included on this list.
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Cosmoe Developer Release 0.5 Available

  Submitted by Thomas Weibel Linux 35 Comments
Bill Hayden, the initiator of the Cosmoe project has released a developer version. Bill is looking for feedback, bug reports and even code contributions. You will need a 2.4.x Linux kernel, RPM and a framebuffer graphics driver loaded through LILO. At this point, Cosmoe should only run via the console, as root. A mirror and an additional screenshot can be found here. Recently, OSNews featured an interview with Bill.
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Sun to Reprieve Solaris 9 for Intel?

Solaris 13 Comments
"Solaris 9 for Intel could be poised to ship after all, Register spies at Sun suggest. The official line is currently that Sun is shipping Solaris 9 for Sparc, but that "Sun is deferring the productization and release of the Solaris 9 OE for Intel IA-32." In English this means that Sun has (probably) more or less finished it but is hesitating as to whether or not to ship it, while in ITspeak this sort of phrasing generally means that the product is headed for a lingering death in the netherworld." The story is at TheRegister.
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The m-o-o-t Secure Operating System Project

OS News 21 Comments
"A group of self-proclaimed civil libertarians have launched an effort to create an OS and a set of applications that prevent computer eavesdropping and data collection, even by government agencies. The new open-source OS, dubbed "M-o-o-t," will ship in the form of a single CD_ROM that you can boot on popular PC hardware platforms. The CD-ROM will contain the OS and a set of applications that includes an email client, word processor, spreadsheet program, graphics program, and other unspecified software." Read the news at WinInformant.
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Linux Vendors to Standardize on Single Distribution

  Submitted by Sandro Barbieri Linux 42 Comments
"A number of Linux vendors will announce on Thursday that they have agreed to standardize on a single Linux distribution to try to take on Red Hat Inc.'s dominance in the industry. A media advisory issued on Tuesday said executives from Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux on Thursday will make 'a major announcement that will change the shape of Linux worldwide.'" Read more at eWeek.
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Hurd: GNU Mach 1.3

OS News 10 Comments
KernelTrap reports: "Roland McGrath recently announced version 1.3 of the GNU Mach kernel, offering several bug fixes. He also noted, "We are no longer actively developing version 1.x of GNU Mach. We plan to make only necessary bug fixes or trivial enhancements in the 1.x line, and make further 1.x releases only as necessary for those purposes." A new 2.x version of GNU Mach is under development, utilizing the University of Utah's OSKit."
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Apple ‘iBrowser’ Insurgency Denied by AOL Techs

Apple 81 Comments
"The most tantalising net rumour burning up the wires this week is the one about the Apple iBrowser. Heard it? It goes like this. Apple co-opts the Mozilla code base for a skunkworks native OS X browser that's both super fast and grannie-friendly. A Galeon for OS X. "iBrowser" thus completes the set of consumer software apps gradually introduced with iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie, which are being advertised under the slogan 'everything's easier on a Mac'." Read the article at TheRegister. In other browser news, Opera 6.03 for Windows and Opera 6.01 for Linux were released today.
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