Eugenia Loli Archive

My workstation OS: Debian

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-26 Debian 113 Comments

"What do you want from a desktop operating system? The real criteria are stability, package management, hardware compatibility, and the people behind the software, the community. For its superiority in those areas, I made Debian my workstation OS." Read the article at NewsForge.

Neo SP1 Announced

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-26 Zeta 46 Comments

Today yellowTAB announced that a service pack for Zeta Neo should be out sime time around the end of the month. Besides fixing unnamed bugs, this pack is also reported to improve PPP performance for both dial-up and xDSL users.

Interview With Main Syllable Developer Vanders

Submitted by Thom Holwerda 2004-11-26 Syllable, AtheOS 17 Comments

The renewed eXpert Zone features an interview with Vanders, the main developer of the AtheOS fork Syllable. He speaks of Syllable's origins, it's future, it's applications and more.

Whatever Happened to SGI?

Submitted by Dave Finger 2004-11-26 SGI and IRIX 56 Comments

The company is Silicon Graphics Incorporated, or SGI, which once was famous for its high-powered graphics and 3-D workstations but has fallen on hard times of late. SGI now focuses on supercomputers, but there's a tiny coterie of fans dedicated to keeping the company's aging but high-powered workstations alive. On a similar note, the every-three-months maintaince release of Irix is 3 months late.

PowerPC atomic instruction prevents code meltdown

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-26 IBM 9 Comments

Something as simple as incrementing an integer can fail in a concurrent environment. This article illustrates the failure scenario and introduces the PowerPC's coping mechanism: atomic instructions. Learn how to close the Window of Death with these assembly-level instructions to update memory correctly, even in the face of concurrency.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 Released with KDE/GNOME Support

Submitted by two people 2004-11-26 Office 42 Comments

Novell hacker Jan Holesovsky has announced a build of OpenOffice.org that has both KDE and GNOME support. When launched within KDE, KDE support is activated, similarly when launched within GNOME, GNOME support is activated. Jan's next project will be to plan for OOo 2.0.

Real Time Java, Javolution

Submitted by aaa 2004-11-26 Java 31 Comments

There is a new open source library allows hard real time Java applications, without garbage collection and offering faster collections, Strings etc.

Notes from a Yellowdog 4.0 installation

Submitted by Rob Carvey 2004-11-25 Linux 33 Comments

Some notes from a Yellowdog 4.0 installation along with some screenshots.

GoBSD Preview1 Release Available

Submitted by Max 2004-11-25 BSD & Darwin 34 Comments

There's a new DragonFlyBSD "distro". It's called GoBSD and you can download it here.

Scope on Application Vulnerability Description Language

Submitted by LogError 2004-11-25 Privacy, Security 2 Comments

The Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) is a rather new security interoperability standard within the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Caleb Sima, SPI Dynamics CTO, talks to Help Net Security about this interesting web application security topic.

Best practices for programming in C

Submitted by Jones 2004-11-25 General Development 59 Comments

Although the C language has been around for close to 30 years, its appeal has not yet worn off. It continues to attract a large number of people who must develop new skills for writing new applications, or for porting or maintaining existing applications.

When to Expect Longhorn Beta 1?

Submitted by anoymous 2004-11-25 Windows 67 Comments

Paul Thurrott makes claims, based on "internal documentation," that Longhorn Beta 1 will be released on February 16th 2005. However, NeoWin says that it won't be released before May 2005.

Poll: The most important feature on an Operating System is…

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-25 OS News 102 Comments

Take the poll inside and let us know what you think (javascript required).

A walk in the park with Java-Gnome and GTK#

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-25 Gnome 40 Comments

This is an analysis comparing Java-Gnome and GTK#, in the source code level. Update: Screenshots from "Free Swing".

KDE’s Scott Wheeler on KDE multimedia

Submitted by many 2004-11-24 KDE 16 Comments

Open for Business has an interesting and comprehensive interview with KDE core developer and multimedia guru Scott Wheeler of JuK and TagLib fame. He outlines the future of KDE's multimedia efforts. Looks like things move away from aRts as sound server and multimedia framework to a very open minded best-of-breed strategy for KDE 4.0, with GStreamer being preferred at the moment.

Jonathan Schwartz: Solaris is the Future of Unix

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-24 Oracle and SUN 95 Comments

We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.

Microsoft Drops Windows 2000 SP5, Plans Security Rollup Instead

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-24 Windows 45 Comments

A source close to Microsoft today sent documentation about an Update Rollup for Windows 2000 that the software giant will release in 2005 in lieu of a Service Pack 5 (SP5). Also, Microsoft has announced what it hopes will be a new attack on piracy - the Redmond-based giant has decided to give away free software to those who bought machines with fake copies pre-installed.

Shrinking Solaris; New Solaris Version

Submitted by Tudy 2004-11-24 Solaris 16 Comments

Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 may be powerful enough to power a data grid, but for real market growth, Sun is looking inward to the embedded space. Despite the hoopla at this month's announcement party to launch Solaris 10, the focus for the operating system has been outside the usual realm of server rooms and desktops. Solaris Express 11/04 will be build 72 and should be available on or around November 30. The big thing for this one is... 64 bit Solaris on AMD.''

AROS-Max-0.2.2 Available

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-24 Amiga & AROS 10 Comments

AROS Max is a pre-configured live bootable CD image, made to show off the best that AROS has to offer. It requires an AROS capable PC, your mileage may vary. Download from here.

Novell Linux Desktop Policy How-To

Submitted by anonymous 2004-11-24 Novell and Ximian 15 Comments

Novell consultant Adrian Malagui explains step-by-step how to apply restrictive policies to Novell Linux Desktop 9, manage Linux users from eDirectory, authenticate through LDAP and store users data and profiles on a central server. See the full PDF article here.