Eugenia Loli Archive

Opera 8 Beta2 Available

Submitted by Ben Strozykowski 2005-02-25 Opera 30 Comments

Opera 8 Beta2 is now available with a host of new features, including security fixes, and UI enhancements. Would be nice to see an Opera version for PocketPCs too, not just for Smartphones.

Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Review

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-25 Wireless 17 Comments

Sharp has always been an innovator with the Zaurus line of PDAs and the newest member of that family is no exception. The Zaurus SL-C3000 takes the utility of previous generations and extends it even further. The C3000 is a clamshell device that resembles a miniature laptop when opened and has a bright vivid screen that is wonderful to work with.

NetBSD 2.0 Rendezvous

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-25 NetBSD 41 Comments

In December 2004, the NetBSD Project released the feature-rich NetBSD 2.0. Even after such a masterpiece, developers kept working on improvements, new features, and new ports following the new development roadmap. Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed them to find out what they are working on and how they plan to promote their project in the near future.

Microsoft to disable product activation over Net

Submitted by Joel Pomales 2005-02-25 Windows 90 Comments

Customers who find themselves reinstalling Windows XP should be ready for a headache: Microsoft will no longer support activating the product over the Internet.

Firefox 1.0.1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-25 Mozilla, Gecko 51 Comments

Firefox 1.0.1 is a security update for the 27 million users who have already downloaded the free browser. The Mozilla Foundation encourages all users to download the update.

Apple takes a step away from FireWire?

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-24 Apple 50 Comments

With the latest crop of iPods, Apple is no longer including a FireWire cable in the box. The music players will still work with FireWire, if a cord is purchased separately, but only a USB 2.0 cable comes with the device. The move is part of a gradual shift on Apple's part to standardize the iPod on USB, which is far more common in the Windows world. Nonetheless, some Mac owners were rankled by the move, saying that as recently as a year or two ago many Macs didn't include a USB 2.0 port. My Take: Just bought (a previous generation for cheap) iPod Mini yesterday. It's a truly nicely done product. The FW option seems better than the USB on my 2 year old Powerbook, as it has USB 1.1 instead of 2.0.

IBM throws weight behind multi-OS push

Submitted by jeanmarc 2005-02-24 IBM 12 Comments

IBM has quietly added a new option to the suddenly vogue market for "hypervisor" software that lets a computer run multiple operating systems simultaneously, CNET News.com has learned.

Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 2.3 released

Submitted by Ralf S. Engelschall 2005-02-24 In the News 4 Comments

The OpenPKG project released version 2.3 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform multi-instance Unix software packaging facility. OpenPKG 2.3 consists of 545 selected (from a pool of over 850) packages. The major technical efforts for this release were spent on the porting of all packages to the now officially supported Unix platform Sun Solaris 10 on both Intel and SPARC architectures.

Part III: Corporate Desktop Linux – The Hard Truth

Submitted by Steve Mallett 2005-02-24 Linux 11 Comments

Part III of Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth is published. In it retired World Bank CTO W. McDonald Buck looks at what the CTO needs to consider in making a realistic desktop switch to Linux (-after- having switched to OS software on Windows & Linux in the server room) in a big company and how to avoid ending up toasted.

C++ exception-handling tricks for Linux

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-24 Linux 7 Comments

Handling exceptions in C++ has a few implicit restrictions at the language level, but you can get around them in some instances. Learn ways to make exceptions work for you so you can produce more reliable applications.

Editorial: The Boring State of Operating Systems Today

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-23 OS News 206 Comments

When I joined OSNews in 2001, I did it with a great excitment because of my love for... messing around with many operating systems in order to explore news ways of doing things. Back in the '80s and the '90s there were a lot of OS projects that would draw the attention of the computer users of the time. But in this decade, it seems that other than Windows, OSX, Linux and a very few other much smaller OSes, the scene is sterile. And it's only getting worse.

Javolution 3.0 – A Java Revolution?

Submitted by Jean-Marie Dautelle 2005-02-23 Java 45 Comments

The new Javolution 3.0 (open source library) allows your objects to be preallocated at start-up and transparently recycled during execution.

Mandrakelinux 10.2 Beta 3 Available

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-23 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 56 Comments

The third beta of Mandrakelinux 10.2 is out and about for testing.

Comparison: FreeBSD vs NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-23 FreeBSD 41 Comments

Here's a comparison by a BSD user between FreeBSD and NetBSD. Elsewhere, the FreeBSD logo competition has just kicked out, officially this time.

Mini-Mozilla marches toward Windows mobiles

Submitted by Tudy 2005-02-23 Mozilla, Gecko 21 Comments

Minimo, the Mozilla browser for mobile devices, is poised to move beyond Linux PDAs and onto Windows CE devices, according to the Mozilla Foundation. Screenshot here (mobile version of OSNews is showing). Elsewhere, the Mozilla chairman Mitch Kapor speaks out.

Mono Security Manager – Using CAS permissions

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-23 Mono 3 Comments

Here is a two-part article on security and Mono.

Last FOSDEM 2005 Interviews

Submitted by None 2005-02-23 In the News 2 Comments

FOSDEM 2005 will take place this Week-End in Brussels, Belgium.

John C. Dvorak: How to Kill Linux

Submitted by Ed 2005-02-22 Linux 170 Comments

The idea here would be to cut the driver layer out of Windows and attach it to Linux directly. This would become MS-Linux. If Microsoft actually produced an MS-Linux that was the standard Linux attached to the driver layer of Windows, giving users full Plug and Play (PnP) support of all their peripherals, nobody would buy any other Linux on the market.

Live Query: name=”SkyOS”

Submitted by Kelly Rush 2005-02-22 SkyOS 30 Comments

Query support has been implemented into SkyOS. Queries can be initiated through either the Viewer, or directly through the command line.

Sony to end Clie line of PDAs in Japan Too

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-22 Wireless 11 Comments

Sony Corp. is calling an end to its Clié line of PDAs (personal digital assistants) in Japan, the company said Tuesday. The move comes eight months after the company said it would no longer sell new models of PDAs overseas and puts the cap on a product line first announced by the Tokyo company in mid-2000. Elsewhere, here's a review of the Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox 420.