Thirteen companies, including Motorola and Acer, have been handed letters
claiming they have failed to comply with the GNU General Public License.
Brighthand has
some speculative information on Tungsten T6, Zire 73 and the Tungsten-E|2 (
wish). Elsewhere, InfosyncWorld
is previewing the most powerful communicator to date, T-Mobile's MDA-IV.
Xactium
has published a white paper on Language Driven Development (LDD). LDD is a revolutionary approach to designing and implementing software and systems. LDD makes huge productivity gains by bridging the gap between the way developers think about their problem domain, and the languages and tools that implement the solution.
Submitted by Metic
2005-03-16
Linux
The homegrown Linux operating system has come a long way from its origins as a college kid's pet project and computer hobbyist favorite. Refined in recent years by professional computer programmers at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Novell and Red Hat, Linux now has become so technically powerful that it lays claim to a prestigious title--
it runs more of the world's top supercomputers than any other OS.
Microsoft
has released an early version of Indigo, a new communications system intended to let Windows programs more easily connect to other software.
Update: Videos
showing Indigo.
Large enterprises
should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Fuji Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC.
Submitted by Diego Dompe
2005-03-16
Mono
Tne new Mono GUI Designer "Stetic" have "reached the milestone of being not 100% useless" according to its developer. Flash video
available.
XMK - eXtreme Minimal Kernel - is a preemptive multitasking real-time operating system for embedded microcontrollers. What makes XMK different from other RTOSes is that XMK is designed to be small first, then scaled up to larger platforms. The BSD-licensed XMK is designed to be highly configurable and comes with a choice TCP/IP stacks: the tiny
uIP stack or the more powerful but larger
lwIP stack. XMK is available for a
number of embedded platforms.
As most OSNews readers know, I got into a spat with the Gnome developers last week, which culminated in my publishing of an angry editorial, which sparked a firestorm of controversy. On one hand, the controversy was positive, because it introduced a lot of people to the fact that many people believe that Gnome developers have not had an effective channel to receive and interpret feedback from users. But on the other hand, the controversy had the negative effect of inflaming passions, putting everyone's guard up, and perhaps even widening the gulf between those who love Gnome but want a voice in its future, and those who hold its future in their hands. This effect was unintentional, and I would like to apologize for any damage I might have done to the project.
The first beta of IE 7.0 isn't expected for a few more months. But information on Microsoft's security, standards and interface plans
are trickling out now.
Submitted by Aaron Benedict
2005-03-15
Apple
According to AppleInsider Apple
is working on a two button mouse to further assist people switching from Windows.
Sun Microsystems
plans to simplify its Java license for commercial software companies.
A decade ago, Bill Gates and other executives at Microsoft decided that traditional packaged software was dead--all software
would eventually be delivered via the Internet.
QNX Software Systems Co.
unveiled a new source-code product that will shorten the development cycle and increase design flexibility for developers using the QNX Neutrino RTOS.
Fedora Core 4 Test 1 is now available, more info
here.
Microsoft
has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows.
The PostgreSQL database project has recently released Version 8.0, which was received with quite some fanfare, mostly due to its first-ever Windows port. Mad Penguin
talked with Josh Berkus, one of the core team members, to find out how 8.0 has fared since its official release on January 17, 2005.
Submitted by Fagomeno Skatomilo
2005-03-15
Apple
Nicholas Ciarelli is an excellent journalist.
Too bad. The poor kid's liable to be bankrupt before he's old enough to buy beer. All because he's very good at what he does; and because he does it on the Net.
Latest statistics for the Web server market
show that Fedora, Red Hat's free Linux operating system, is growing in popularity. But the picture isn't quite so rosy for its enterprise offering.
Workload management is critically important for an on-demand business.
IBM LoadLeveler is a job-management system that allows users to run more jobs in less time by matching the jobs' processing needs with the available resources. Maintaining maximum system uptime of the job management system is increasingly important.
