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New Cinema Displays Announced at WWDC

Kevin05 2004-06-28 Apple 51 Comments

This morning at WWDC Steve Jobs introduced three new Apple Cinema displays. The new 20, 23 and 30-inch displays will use the standard DVI connection instead of Apple's proprietary ADC connection. The 30 inch display, which can run at a resolution up to 2560x1600, will require a special dual link Nvidia card. To read more about what's new at WWDC, head over to MacCentral.

yellowTAB Expands Internationally

Kevin05 2004-02-06 Zeta 17 Comments

yellowTAB has announced that they are expanding internationally. They will be opening offices in Canada and Italy, in order to reach users and markets around the world. yellowTAB North America will be opening it's own store, Zelect.com. In other yellowTAB news, recently an educational edition of Zeta RC2 was released.

Syllable 0.5.2 Released

Kevin05 2004-01-03 Syllable, AtheOS 26 Comments

Syllable 0.5.2 has been released and is now available for download. Some of the changes include new graphics card drivers for the nVidia GeForceFX and the Savage IX/MX chipsets. The media framework has also been updated, so now Syllable works with multiple soundcards. A full list of changes can be found on the Syllable website.

Sun to Release Solaris for Opteron

Kevin05 2003-10-10 Solaris 16 Comments

"Sun Microsystems' Solaris will become the third operating system to take advantage of Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Opteron processor. Solaris, Sun's version of Unix, already runs on 32-bit "x86" processors including AMD's Athlon and Intel's Xeon. But Sun also will release a version in 2004 that will take advantage of the 64-bit extensions that make Opteron different from those other chips, Sun software chief Jonathan Schwartz told reporters in a meeting here Thursday." Read more at ZDNet.

PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5

Kevin05 2003-09-20 Apple 55 Comments

PC Magazine has reviewed Apple's new dual 2 GHz G5 PowerMac. They say that the performance of Apple's new top of the line workstation is "generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available". Read the review over at PC Magazine.

SkyOS 4.0a Released

Kevin05 2003-08-19 SkyOS 44 Comments

SkyOS 4.0a has now been released. This release supports USB. USB mice/keyboard, HUB's, card readers, harddisks and digital cameras should all work once they are plugged in. SkyOS 4.0a also includes a lot of kernel and application bugfixes. For more infomation, go to the SkyOS website.

Java on AMD Opteron 64bit Natively

Submitted by Frequent Reader 2003-08-09 Java 34 Comments

Sun announced yesterday that a native Java version for the AMD 64 bit processor will be available on Linux and Windows platforms, allowing companies to migrate their current Java applications from a 32-bit to 64-bit computing platform.

Oracle’s Infrastructure Now Fully Linux-ized

Kevin05 2003-08-08 Databases 12 Comments

"Oracle is aggressively adopting Linux both internally and for its products, despite SCO Group's threats earlier this week that it may sue those who don't pay licensing fees to the company. Chuck Rozwat, an Oracle executive VP, says the company has moved its IT infrastructure to Linux, a year after CEO Larry Ellis issued the mandate." Read more at InfomationWeek.

Lindows Continues its PC Push

Submitted by danjr 2003-08-08 Linspire 39 Comments

The operating system company makes a further move into the hardware business, offering Linux on a desktop computer with flat-panel monitor for $449. The computer has a 1.2GHz Duron processor, 256MB of SDRAM and a 20GB hard drive.

Navy Buys Linux Powered X-Serves

Submitted by The LinuxChimp 2003-08-07 Apple 65 Comments

"A company that specializes in running Linux on Macs said Wednesday that it has landed a deal to supply the U.S. Navy with 260 Apple Xserve servers. Terra Soft Solutions said the machines will be used as part of a sonar imaging system that defense contractor Lockheed Martin is building for the Navy. Rather than using the Mac OS, the Apple servers will run Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux operating system." Read more at CNET News.com

Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 2 Released

Kevin05 2003-08-06 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 35 Comments

MandrakeSoft has released the second beta version of Mandrake Linux 9.2. A list of changes and download locations can be found here.

Apple Offers Premiere-Trade-In Program

Submitted by Alexei Barr 2003-07-16 Multimedia, AV 46 Comments

In response to Adobe's decision to drop the Mac version of Premiere, Apple now offers a trade-in program to entice Premiere users to move to Final Cut Pro/Express. If Adobe users trade in their disks with Apple, they will receive a free copy of Final Cut Express, or a $500 rebate for Final Cut Pro. In other Apple multimedia news, Apple released Soundtrack for $299, a music composing application.

Cosmoe 0.7 RC-20 Released

Kevin05 2003-07-13 Linux 4 Comments

Cosmoe 0.7rc20 is now available. During all the furious patching, "Pulse" started working and now has apparently broken again. Most other patches submitted via the mailing list have now been applied.

Oracle Makes Bid for PeopleSoft

Kevin05 2003-06-06 In the News 21 Comments

"Oracle on Friday announced a surprise $5.1 billion takeover bid for enterprise software maker PeopleSoft, only a few days after PeopleSoft said it was acquiring rival J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion. Oracle is offering $16 cash per share for each share of PeopleSoft, a roughly 6 percent premium over PeopleSoft's closing price Thursday of $15.11." Read more at ZDNet.

The Unix Tree Rethought: an Introduction to GoboLinux

Kevin05 2003-05-09 Linux 77 Comments

"Lately, there has been lots of discussion on the current state of Linux as a desktop system, and articles pop up here and there, occasionally with very good ideas. However, none have surprised me more than this one. It was all very hyphothetical, but had pretty radical ideas on how the author thought the Linux directory tree should be reorganized." Read more about GoboLinux, a Linux distro that uses a new style directory tree at Kuro5hin.org.