Eugenia Loli Archive

Tiger vs. Longhorn

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-08 Rumors 83 Comments

Wondering if you should stay Windows or make a switch? Read on to learn about what's coming up for Microsoft's Longhorn and Apple's Tiger.

Review: Mandrake Corporate Desktop

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-08 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 9 Comments

The corporate desktop GNU/Linux distribution is a relatively new invention, having begun with SUSE/Novell Desktop, then followed by Sun's Java Desktop System and Red Hat Desktop. But with much less fanfare, Mandrakesoft released a Corporate Desktop product last January.

AireOS: 64bit Hobby OS

Submitted by krackmania 2005-03-08 OS News 17 Comments

Portable, compact, and simple hobby Operating System for the 64bit age: AireOS.

OpenBSD’s “Out of the Box” Wireless Support

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-08 OpenBSD 18 Comments

KernelTrap has spoken with OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt and several other OpenBSD developers regarding their recent efforts to add comprehensive wireless hardware support to OpenBSD. The article takes an in depth look at several of the dozen new drivers found in the upcoming OpenBSD 3.7 release, exploring the stories behind their development.

Pod2Go: The Ultimate iPod Sync Application

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-08 macOS 19 Comments

Who said that the iPod can only be used as a music player? Pod2Go is here to transform your iPod from a mere music player and file storage gadget to a (sort of) PDA.

NetBSD enabled PAM

Submitted by Jan Schaumann 2005-03-08 NetBSD 8 Comments

Christos Zoulas announced recently that as of 2005-02-27, NetBSD has PAM enabled for all applications that perform authentication. Support for PAM, which is specified in the X/Open Single Sign-On standard, was originally imported into NetBSD-current on December 12th, 2004. This means that NetBSD 3.0 will ship PAM-enabled per default; users following -current should take care to update their systems using etcupdate and/or the '/etc/postinstall' script. See Christos' email to the current-users mailinglist and the OpenPAM website for more details.

BitTorrent 4.0.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-08 Internet 42 Comments

BitTorrent 4.0.0 is released for Windows and Linux. The Mac OS X version is pending.

Enhanced DR-DOS v7.01.07 has been released

Submitted by Udo Kuhnt 2005-03-07 OS News 33 Comments

The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project has released v7.01.07 of Enhanced DR-DOS, an Open Source OS based on DR-DOS 7.01 alias OpenDOS.

Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement

Submitted by Manuel FLURY 2005-03-07 Legal 116 Comments

The Council Presidency today declared the software agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified majority of member states and the requests of several states to reopen negotiations. More here.

One-Step Compilation for RISC OS

Submitted by Ian Chamberlain 2005-03-07 RISC OS 5 Comments

The porting process on a large scale introduces many new problems - and also opportunities for automation and removal of tedium. In this article Peter Naulls discusses the ideas behind a RISC OS "autobuilder".

First Symbian OS virus to replicate over MMS appears

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-07 Wireless 9 Comments

Named CommWarrior.a, the new virus attacks smartphones running the Symbian OS based Series 60 platform, replicating over both MMS and Bluetooth.

The Rise Of The Customised Security Attack

Submitted by LogError 2005-03-07 Privacy, Security 10 Comments

As criminals operating online have begun to realise the potential commercial value of Internet-related crimes, so they have started to investigate other ways of using malware to line their pockets.

Divide & Conquer: The Demise of Unix

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-07 Unix 119 Comments

"Has it managed to completely escape the attention of the "open source" movement that Adobe, Macromedia, Corel, and so forth have blithely continued to remain virtually Windows-only while waiting for the dust to settle? Only now they have realized that it won't settle and oh-so-quietly the rush of announcements of support for Linux has not translated into a rush of quality applications." Read the editorial here. I've written a similar editorial a few years back.

FreeBSD Process Management

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-07 FreeBSD 10 Comments

This chapter explains process management in FreeBSD in detail, covering topics like context and thread switching, signals, and jails. Included are some exercises to help you put your new knowledge into practice.

MenuetOS 0.78 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-07 OS News 19 Comments

MenuetOS 0.78 is released. Changes: New Panel and Menu system, new options for Windows, automatic memory detection, .ICO support, and faster rendering, updated JPEGVIEW application; Displays jpeg image as backgound, new launcher application; Startup applications, PCNET32 Ethernet Driver, it now works with VMWare, TCP/IP bug fixes to TCP retransmissions, window resizing/moving.

WinFS To Be Available on Windows XP

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-06 Windows 53 Comments

Microsoft may not be willing to talk file-system futures, but it is working to back-port its future file-system technology to Windows XP.

Bounties for Gnome’s Optimization

Submitted by Ben Mauer 2005-03-06 Gnome 128 Comments

Novell and OSNews are sponsoring the memory reduction project led by Novell's Ben Mauer by providing bounties to developers to help to clean up bloat in GNOME and related programs. If you are a developer and you are interested in some extra cash or prizes by making Gnome more usable on machines with 128 MBs of RAM (very usual configuration in developing countries or even European businesses), please read here. Related post here.