Eugenia Loli Archive

Wired: music production and composition software for Linux

Submitted by Colin Laplace 2004-11-08 Multimedia, AV 31 Comments

Wired aims to be a professional music production and composition software running on Linux.

Evaluating Eclipse vs. IntelliJ IDEA

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-08 Java 11 Comments

Both Eclipse 3.0 and IntelliJ IDEA 4 are feature-rich, Java IDEs that provide syntax checking, code assistance, and code generation for coding. In addition, they both provide support for refactoring, Ant, unit testing, and CVS. And soon, the Eclipse Visual Editor 1.0 for building GUIs using either AWT/Swing or SWT will be available. But some important differences exist between the two. This article briefly compares the features, ease of use, and stability of Eclipse and IDEA.

Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions

Submitted by ibm 2004-11-08 General Development 3 Comments

Perl 6 is finally coming within reach. This article gives you a tour of the grammars and regular expressions of the Perl 6 language, comparing them with the currently available Parse::RecDescent module for Perl 5. Find out what will be new with Perl 6 regular expressions and how to make use of the new, powerful incarnation of the Perl scripting language.

Novell Launches an Enterprise Linux Desktop

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-08 Novell and Ximian 78 Comments

Novell is announcing a new Linux desktop today, called "Novell Linux Desktop 9: Powered by SUSE Linux." More info at Newsforge and News.com.

Darwin 7.6 sources Available

Submitted by Andreas 2004-11-07 BSD & Darwin 16 Comments

As always after a minor OSX revision, Apple has posted updated sources for Darwin.

CrayCore version 0.3 released

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-07 OS News 9 Comments

CrayCore is a CRAY YMP-EL Emulator. Currently, CrayCore executes instructions one at a time, through a command line interface. Future plans are to slowly add features until CrayCore is fully able to run Unicos. CrayCore version .3 has been released, in two packages, a source.zip, and a win32 binary. New features include light memory support, vector support, and many more opcodes. Be sure to check OpcodesTwo.txt, included with both packages for status on which instructions are implemented, and how to use them.

Introducing BlueIllusion OS

Submitted by distantvoices 2004-11-07 OS News 35 Comments

The author of the hobby OS Blueillusion writes:

Running Linux on Windows

Submitted by Barney Matthews 2004-11-07 Linux 22 Comments

There are a couple of ways you can try Linux before installing it on your hard drive. One way is to use a live cd, another way is to run it on Windows. Damn Small Linux has a version designed to run directly from Windows. Read more.

FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Available

Submitted by Bascule 2004-11-07 FreeBSD 102 Comments

FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE is now officially available. This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases. New features from 4.x include massively upgraded SMP scalability including the new KSE M:N threading implementation, and the new ULE constant time scheduler (currently switched off per default). All in all these features bring scalability of kernel features on SMP systems (at least small to midrange systems) more or less on par with the Linux 2.6 kernel series with the NPTL threads library.

PDA Makers Won’t Commit on PalmOS 6.1

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-06 Wireless 37 Comments

"Nobody knows when we'll start the shift to Cobalt, OS 6, or on which devices. For now, we're saying that we've built the functionality we need into the Treo and the Tungsten T5 and there's no need to confuse developers by switching. I'm not even prepared to commit us to a change next year, or the year after, at this stage", said PalmONE president Ed Colligan. It is interesting to see how companies afraid to switch to new programming frameworks in fear that they will allienate their third party developers who are used to the "old way". Nobody likes big changes, it seems.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Special

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-06 macOS 116 Comments

IT-Enquirer has a three-part special on Mac OS X 10.4: Part 1, 2 and 3. Update: I declare the comments section on this news item to be a disaster zone. It can't be saved. Just stay away.

Gcc 3.4.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-06 General Development 20 Comments

The GNU Compiler Collection is a suite of compilers that compile C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Java, and CHILL for a wide variety of architectures. Version 3.4.3 was released recently.

Xen 2.0 Released

Submitted by Mark Williamson 2004-11-06 OS News 24 Comments

The Xen team announced the release of Xen 2.0, the open-source Virtual Machine Monitor.

October Syllable Newsletter Out; SkyOS Gets Firefox

Submitted by M Saunders 2004-11-06 Syllable, AtheOS 23 Comments

The latest Syllable Development Newsletter is available, covering work in October. Highlights include driver updates, kernel improvements and a Quake 2 port. Elsewhere, after almost a month of daily work, Mozilla Firefox has been successfully ported to SkyOS (still in beta). This native port will bring a much-needed professional web browser to SkyOS.

Java 5 source code is available

Submitted by aaa 2004-11-06 Java 26 Comments

J2SE 5.0 sources are now available under the Java Research License.This is a much more relaxed licence than previous SCSL license.

Mac OS X 10.3.6 released

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-05 macOS 23 Comments

Apple today released Mac OS X 10.3.6 via the Software Update preference pane. According to the release notes, the update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and is recommended for all users.

RISC OS 5.08 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-05 RISC OS 6 Comments

Castle today released a slight update to its RISC OS 5 for Iyonix machines, version 5.08. This is a bug fix release, addressing issues seen by a few users.

Interview with Richard Stallman

Submitted by W. da Rocha Lima 2004-11-05 Open Source 132 Comments

I think it's not needed to introduce Richard Stallman, however: Richard Matthew Stallman, or just RMS, is the GNU project founder. It's a little difficult to interview someone like Stallman. I tried to make him talk about some technical issues, but he's extremely concerned about the ideology behind free software. Freedom is his slogan and he defends it as he defends his life." Read Interview.

Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 simulator available

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-05 Wireless 24 Comments

PalmSource has released a simulator for its latest Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 OS. The simulator allows software developers to test their programs without actually having a handheld running the new OS.

LinuxCertified LC2430 Laptop Review

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-05 Hardware 81 Comments

San Jose-based LinuxCertified.com sent us one of their best-selling laptops, the LC2430. We've used it for more than a month with four different distributions and here's what we think about it.