Eugenia Loli Archive

Many programmers are moving to Eclipse, the popular, open source development environment. For programmers familiar with Borland's free JBuilder X Foundation edition, this article starts with a brief comparison of both IDEs' features, ease of use, and stability, and then demonstrates essential tasks in Eclipse -- and shows how they differ from JBuilder -- so you can decide if Eclipse is right for you.

This article looks at how to create a structure for building and distributing applications, including heavily customized versions, and a simple way of disseminating the applications among a number of machines, manually or automatically, as easily as possible.

C/C++ parsers, such as libxml2 or Xerces C++ have entered the scene, and so have their Perl extensions. Perl XML folks have developed Perl SAX, a Perlish counterpart of Java SAX interface. Currently, CPAN contains several parsing modules. This article compares the performance of five free PerlSAX 2 parsers available from CPAN. Older XML::Parser is also included to serve as a baseline.

Today, AnandTech brings you the second part of the series, which focuses on Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 and how it compares to the Linux-based MythTV.

LinuxTimes.net has published a review of Xandros 2.5 Deluxe Edition with screenshots.

Novell Inc. announced on Monday a new initiative called the Porting and Migration Network to help customers and partners move existing applications to SUSE Linux.

There's August's BSD eZine which includes articles such as: DHCP server with Dynamic DNS, FreeBSD Documentation: An Interview with Tom Rhodes, SSH - The Secure Shell: An overview and Cross compiling from FreeBSD to Windows.

This article reviews tips for porting 32-bit software from Linux IA32 to Linux PowerPC. Linux PowerPC also provides a platform for the development and deployment of 32 bit applications that would benefit from a 64 bit environment. This article shares the best practices for porting Intel applications to 64 bit Linux on power. In both casses, PowerPC derived chips offers industry leading performance and provides a world class hardware platform for the deployment and migration of Intel 32 bit and 64 bit apps to the Linux PowerPC environment.

MontaVista Software has announced the immediate availability of an early access version of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition (Pro), based on the latest 2.6 Linux kernel.

With its eyes firmly set on the living room, Microsoft plans to release next month a new incarnation of Windows XP Media Center Edition, an entertainment-oriented version of Windows XP.

The Debian-based Ubuntu Linux was unveiled today and a preview release is available for download. Ubuntu uses Gnome 2.8, kernel 2.6.8.1, OOo 1.1.2 and comes with a text-based, but dead-easy, installation procedure. Ubuntu has disabled the root user (sudo is used, same way as OSX does it) and it endorses the "less is more" philosophy. There are still bugs on the preview release, but the team welcomes feedback via their mailing list. Read more for an interview with team member Jeff Waugh (also of Debian and Gnome fame). Screenshots also included, and more are here to be found.

xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) is a tool kit that can be used for the deployment and administration of complex Linux clusters. It makes simple clusters easy and complex clusters possible. The new release of XCAT v1.2.0-pre6 includes support for Kernel 2.6, JS20 (PPC64), RH Fedora Core 1 and 2, SuSE 9 and 9.1, SystemImager updates and alternative Java support for MPCLI.

Virtual machine software allows you to run one operating system (and its applications) from within the environment of another. For years the most recognized name in virtual machine software for the x86 architecture has been VMware, whose eponymous industry-leading product supports a wide variety of guest operating systems. Read the review at NewsForge.

As users chose to supplement their RISC OS computers with a second machine, there grows a need to manage files over a network. With this in mind, Paul Stewart guides us through evaluating and configuring NFS with RISC OS and Windows.