Adam Scheinberg Archive

Red Hat OK’ed for US Government Use

"Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is the first Linux platform to receive certification for the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment, the company’s chief technical officer announced..." This GCN article reports that Red Hat secured Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) approval to become an official DII COE 4.x kernel next to Sun Solaris 7, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 10.20 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Read more at GCN.

X-Desktop: The Browser Based Desktop

"This exciting project is designed to unify different operating system desktop interfaces into a browser only application interface. It helps users to feel comfortable with any application using the interface they are used to. It helps companies to unify their intranet applications into one desktop interface - built on existing interfaces or one which incorporates their own CI. It helps to design the same interface for all types of devices using browsers like PDA and other mobile devices, Notebooks, Desktops, Tablett Computers and any other future devices which may come up." Read more at x-desktop.org and definitely check out their demo!

Lindows.com to Offer MP3.com Edition

In his latest Michael's Minute, Lindows.com founder and president Michael Robertson announced the forthcoming LindowsOS MP3.com Edition, which appears to be the Membership Edition bundled with 12 complete CDs. A collaboration between Robertson's previous effort and his current project, it's the first mainstream Linux distribution to focus on audio as a major component. Though it doesn't appear to be as complete as the Red Hat and Debian multimedia editions currently in beta, once again, Lindows.com is directly addressing the needs of a standard desktop user.

Review: Mandrake Linux 9.1 Beta 1

Ladislav Bodnar writes "Mandrake Linux 9.1, a GNU/Linux distribution in the making, is currently under intensive development. This review is an attempt to compare its first beta to Mandrake Linux 9.0, which I have been using for several months. What are the main improvements? The major difference as I can see between the two releases is that MandrakeSoft has updated practically all the packages in 9.0. In the process they have solved a number of small but annoying bugs that plagued 9.0, while keeping the qualities that users have come to appreciate in their various releases: ease of installation, speed and usability." Read the review at DistroWatch

The First Web Browser for SkyOS

Jonathan writes "I'm proud to present SkyKruzer, the first WebBrowser for SkyOS. Finally, I reached the first milestone I set for myself more then 2 years ago. It should be possible to develop new applications with an IDE, browse through the internet and listen to some MP3's or play games. I reached this point with the brand new implementation of SkyKruzer (the default WebBrowser for SkyOS)." More can be read at skyos.org.

A Senior Citizen’s Introduction To Linux

"Terry Hatfield introduced Linux to a Senior Citizen in response to her ongoing Windows system woes. Hatfield proves that Linux can be used successfully by anyone wanting to perform simple tasks -- in this case browsing the Internet, using email, and playing solitaire. After a one month trial, Hatfield asked the elderly woman if she wanted Linux removed from her system, and she affirmed that her new OS of choice was Linux" Read more at DesktopLinux.com

OpenBeOS Supports BeOS Executables

Bruno G. Albuquerque was the first to submit the big news on OpenBeOS. According to the OpenBeOS website, "With the latest round of changes made to the runtime linker, the startup code, and libroot.so, we are now finally able to load and run native BeOS applications. Of course, only simple one will work right now (since we only have (most of the) parts of libroot.so implemented), but I was able to run the same application under BeOS and OpenBeOS simultaneously. We can now make our first tests to prove binary and functional compatibility between both operating systems."