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Pegasos/Morphos Feature on Giga.de

Guest post by xyzabc 2003-08-08 Morphos 12 Comments

I was watching Giga.de on TV here in Germany this evening and was surprised to see a feature on Pegasos and Morphos (probably to be repeated this weekend). A web article about the feature is available here. I would guess that Giga would be of interest (and probably already well-known) to OSNews readers in Germany. While many of its features are Win- or gaming-oriented, Giga is one of the few TV outlets for features on hardware, overclocking and benchmarking, Linux and, as with the Pegasos article, even more exotic matters.

HP to take care of Unix, Linux and Windows with Nimbus

Guest post by Danny 2003-08-08 General Development 3 Comments

When HP World starts in a few days, users can expect to hear about some new server management software that covers Unix, Linux and Windows in one go, and it's called Nimbus.

Uncool “Switcher” Flirts Back With The PC

Guest post by Sean Rose 2003-08-06 Apple 252 Comments

I'm 31 and an old school geek who started on computers with an Atari 800 as a kid. Growing up moved me into PC land until I became a "Switcher" before being a "Switcher" was cool. That's right - I got an original iMac when they first came out and I never looked back. I write software, and I bought the iMac thinking it was time to expand my horizons and maybe make a few more dollars by selling software on both platforms.

Cheap Outsourcing Trends

Guest post by Kon 2003-08-05 Humor 25 Comments

Primates are becoming the latest high-tech outsourcing trend in a collapsing economic market.

SCO Announces Linux Licensing

Guest post by walterbyrd 2003-08-05 SCO 153 Comments

"We believe it is necessary for Linux customers to properly license SCO's IP if they are running Linux 2.4 kernel and later versions for commercial purposes. The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights." SCO will be offering an introductory license price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003. UPDATE: SCO may countersue Red Hat, SuSE joins the fray. Read it at Slashdot.

Interview with AROS Developers

Guest post by David Ford 2003-08-05 Amiga & AROS 26 Comments

The following is an interview with Ola Jensen and Adam Chodorowski, two of the core developers of the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS), a project to develop a open source Amiga OS clone.

Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 1.3 released

Guest post by Ralf S. Engelschall 2003-08-05 Unix 21 Comments

The OpenPKG project released version 1.3 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software packaging facility.

Four professional Linux OSes compared at InfoWorld

Guest post by Knarfy 2003-08-05 Linux 10 Comments

In this extended review - "Linux servers battle for enterprise recognition" - InfoWorld compares four different and well-known Linux products dedicated to business environments, mostly for server use: Mandrake Linux ProSuite 9.1, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server ES 2.1, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and TurbolinuxEnterprise Server 8. Many tests, including load tests, have been performed on three different systems. This article underlines the overall excellent quality of all these Linux solutions, with notes from 7.6/10 (TurboLinux) to 8.4/10 (Mandrake).

Microsoft Site Brought Down by DDoS

Guest post by Beryllium 2003-08-02 Privacy, Security 88 Comments

For over an hour today, the Microsoft website was brought offline. Reports indicate that it was a standard Denial of Service attack, rather than an exploit in their hosting platform itself (Windows Server 2003, at last check). However, there is a certain likelyhood that the launch-points for this attack were themselves exploited Windows-based computers. The Department of Homeland Security today issued an unprecedented second warning regaring recent Windows exploits. Is this an isolated incident, or is it an ominous indication of pending cyber attacks on popular internet sites?

LinuxTag Show Report with Pictures

Guest post by Nicholas Blachford 2003-08-01 Linux 20 Comments

LinuxTag, Europe's largest Linux show was held from the 10th to the 13th of July 2003 in Karlsruhe Kongresszentrum, Germany. Myself and a colleague (Debian developer Sven Luther) were there for 3 of those days. The organisers took to the free software philosophy with some enthusiasm, the entrance is free but the downloadable ticket is supplied with LaTex source code! Then again this is the same organisation which, knowing German law didn't allow you to threaten legal action without proof told SCO to put up or shut up, SCO promptly shut up.

The Future of OOP UIs is Coming Soon: DesktopX 2

Guest post by Brad Wardell 2003-07-31 Graphics 64 Comments

After over a year of work, we're almost ready with DesktopX 2. We even have a public beta of it now here. Here is a Windows media video with DesktopX 2 in action. I've also written an article for the OSNews readers about DesktopX 2.

Intellectual Property and Linux

Guest post by Roberto Dohnert 2003-07-28 Legal 75 Comments

By now you have all undoubtedly heard about SCO's lawsuit against IBM and the threat that it reflects on the Linux community. The news sites and web forums have been alive with speculation about how this case will pan out, articles either show many shortcomings of Open Source development or how wrong SCO is and how bad they are going to lose.

Why Windows Isn’t Hell Or Why Linux Isn’t Bliss, Part II

Guest post by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda 2003-07-27 Editorial 125 Comments

Misinterpreted. I think that is about the best word around to describe the reactions to my previous article. Whether it has been misinterpreted due to people only reading what they want to read, due to an unclear choice of words on my behalf, or other factors, I am going to try it again. I will try to explain my position, again. Now, more stable, the code has been rewritten from scratch!

Why Windows Isn’t Hell Or Why Linux Isn’t Bliss

Guest post by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda 2003-07-25 Editorial 171 Comments

To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow? Update: Rebuttal article here.

Small Business Dilemma: Open Source or Proprietary Software?

Guest post by Alex Chejlyk 2003-07-23 Editorial 68 Comments

Small business owners now have a software choice. Just a few years ago the only business choice was to either run legitimate or pirated versions of proprietary software. Open source is now in a position to challenge proprietary software on the business and home desktop.

IBM’s New G5 Microchip Plant Not Measuring Up

Guest post by MacWorld UK 2003-07-18 IBM 133 Comments

IBM's new $3 billion microprocessor factory in New York – where G5 processors are reportedly manufactured – is losing money, the company announced this week. Reuters reports that production problems are affecting the plant.

Review of SCRIBUS 1.0 – a Free DTP for UNIX

Guest post by Roberto J. Dohnert 2003-07-17 Office 67 Comments

On July 15, 2003 the Scribus project had a milestone release. They released Scribus 1.0. I have used Scribus both personally and professionally since the early development times. 8.0 was when I first used it. 1.0 came with so many bug fixes and has become so refined I decided to do a review of it.

Happy 10th Birthday to all Slackware Fans

Guest post by Delian Krustev 2003-07-17 Slackware, Slax 33 Comments

One of the oldest GNU/Linux distibutions, Slackware, is ten years away from it's v1.00. You could read the announcement here. Slackware has proven to be one of the most stable distros in these 10 years. It has clean design, and by rule avoids unnecessary changes to the prepackaged software. It's package management is elegant and fault tolerant. Slackware is also known to be the closest cousin to UNIX from all the Linuxes. We wish bright future and tons of new users to Slack!

Windows Server 2003 Approaching 100,000 Active Sites

Guest post by Mike Prettejohn 2003-07-16 Windows 19 Comments

When Netcraft first reported on Windows Server 2003 they gave an indication on the numbers of sites that had been put up prior to the official launch. In the three months since the launch the number of active sites has increased by over 300% and now stands at 88,400. Microsoft will take some considerable encouragement at the number of sites that have switched from Linux (8,000).

Apple Games: Leveraging Small Market Share

Guest post by Kevin M. Arvin 2003-07-16 Apple 85 Comments

How many hardcore gamers do you know who are also avid Mac users? Probably not many. Windows users have thousands of titles to choose from, and cheap hardware to run their games on. Despite the many virtues of the Mac platform, it is not the first choice of serious gamers. Even the speedy new G5’s will not change that.