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I decided to write this review to provide a quick inside to the new Linspire 5.0 released on March 15th, 2005. The review will determine the use of Linspire 5.0 in a SOHO (Small Office Home Office) Environment. The download was free for me since I'm a current CNR subscriber.
UPDATE: Another Linspire
review, and the Linspire 5.0 Live CD is now
available for free download.
The following article summarizes my experience with AMD64 and Fedora Core x86-64 in desktop systems. In a few years all new computers will be 64 bit. Microsoft and Intel are positive about the 64 bit direction, and Linux seems to be ahead of Wintel for now.
Wishful thinking? Yes, but let's consider the possibilities. The last couple years have seen significant advances in hardware production and design. One of the more interesting (and potentially revolutionary) developments to take place this past year is the announcement of a new CPU, the STI (Sony, Toshiba, IBM) Cell processor.
It was with a sense of anticipation that I opened the book, "
Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage", by Tom Owad. Being a recent 'switcher' from Windows to Mac, the idea of building a first generation Apple to go with my cutting edge machines had the engineer in me pretty jazzed.
Though great advances in Linux Desktop usability have been made in recent years, one rather large area of difficulty still exists, posing some serious issues on the ease-of-use front. There is, however, a little-known solution to these problems...
As seen
here and being discussed
here, Sun has decided to restrict support for:
Bare Feats, a popular site devoted to Mac vs PC benchmarks,
benchmarked Doom 3 on the Mac to investigate what are the issues with Mac's slower performance in Doom 3 compared to the PC. They even contacted the developers responsible for the port who explained that it indeed has to do with Mac's architecture, gcc's slower optimizations and the OS X itself. From the article: "
PowerPC architectural differences, including a much higher penalty for float to int conversion on the PPC. This is a penalty on all games ported to the Mac, and can't be easily fixed."
GNU/Linux is increasingly being seen as a viable, economical alternative to proprietary operating systems, and its market penetration, especially on servers, is increasing. To continue to grow Linux's importance as a secure, low cost kernel, much more serious programmers are needed not only to keep improving it, but to develop stable drivers and most importantly to help continue the rapid Linux march to the Desktop.
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
I've been a professional software engineer for close to ten years. Based on my experience, I recently attempted to enumerate the ten worst engineering "traps" most developers seem (for whatever reason) prone to fall into. Here's the list I came up with. It should be noted that wherever two of these come into conflict, the item close to the top of the list wins.
Since usability seems to be a major topic on the OSNews forums, I think time has come to clarify some common misconceptions. Usability is not about selecting the fanciest Theme from kde-look.org, it's not about 'Reading the F*** Manual', it's not about having all application share the same looks, it's not about nice front-ends to obscure command line programs, it's not about newbie-friendliness, it's not about apt-get install foobar and it's not about setup.exe.
In this document I will walk you through the process of creating a Debian package for Xandros 3.0. When completed this package will install the Kasablanca FTP client.
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more.
People have said many times that
Blackbox development, the minimalist window manager for X, was dead. With sometimes as much as two and a half years passing between stable
releases, I can see why they'd get such ideas.
Guest post by Terry Shannon
2005-03-07
Editorial
With HP's high-flying CEO Carly Fiorina departing, the company's woes are well known. But how did a firm with such a storied history and vast assets get headed down the wrong path, and what do they need to do to set their course straight?
I have interviewed the author of the fascinating software Contiki OS, lwIP, uIP and protothreads, and asked him questions about the software itself, the way he develops on embedded platforms, as well as his interests in sensor networks and opensource.
Porting large numbers of programs to RISC OS introduces many new problems - most notably, how to keep them all up to date. In this
drobe.co.uk article I discuss the development of an autobuilder for RISC OS ports, and encourage people to contribute to it.
The vast majority of operating system reviews are the result of a user spending a few days or weeks using a particular operating system and writing about their observations. This review is the result of my continued use of Solaris 10 (previously Solaris Express) from August 2003 to February 2005.
To begin this review, I visited
Xandros download page, snagged the public torrent, downloaded the ISO, and burned myself a copy of Xandros 3.0.1 OCE. Credit goes to Xandros for having a professional website that's easy to negotiate and for offering instructions to help new users of all platforms perform this task.
I’m sure that everyone has heard the old saying, "Mac for Productivity, Unix for Development, and Windows for Solitaire".
My experience has shown me that at least for my needs, the Mac is not only for productivity, but for development as well. Windows? Well, some things never change.
I came across this while browsing the Linspire Forums. It's a link to MP3beamer, but
you get a peek at the underlying OS, Linspire 5.0.
