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As part of Microsoft's settlement with Sun Microsystems, Sun agreed to take part in a licensing program under which Microsoft gives rivals access to various Windows communications protocols. However, Sun's check is apparently still in the mail.

Michael Chute on OS X, Research "In the end, ease of use and data security was the rule," Michael Chute told MacNewsWorld. "I spoke with people using Linux clusters, and while they were effective, they entailed more significant IT resources. No need for a bunch of scientists mucking around when they do not have the time to learn system administration."

In a historic announcement, issued jointly this evening by RISCOS Ltd., Castle, Advantage 6, MicroDigital and VirtualAcorn, it would very much appear that the past on-going disputes surrounding RISC OS have been settled. Take a deep breath, then wait for this.

This is a step-by-step guide to installing FreeBSD 5. It assumes moderate experience with linux and leaves you with a fully updated FreeBSD system.

After three years and much controversy, Miguel de Icaza's Mono project has finally released its 1.0 version. NewsForge recently talked with Erik Dasque, the senior project leader for Mono, about the release of 1.0, the controversy and criticisms encountered along the way, and the plans for the future.

"In this continuing series of Longhorn articles, I will talk about the APIs that developers will use to write the next generation of Windows applications. In this article I will focus on WinFX and discuss briefly the rest of the technologies. I will give you a high-level introduction to WinFX and what it means to developers." Read the article by Wei-Meng Lee at WindowsDevCenter.

"It's alive!" was the cry issued this week by the Solaris grunts at Sun Microsystems. For the first time, the engineers managed to get a true 64-bit kernel up and running on an Opteron box. This is a key milestone in Sun's ambitious plan to make Solaris a preferred operating system in the x86 world.

ArsTechnica brings you an introduction to Mono. For starters, they will dish up a basic introduction to Mono, MonoDevelop, and C#, and then branch out to GTK#, database access, ASP.NET, advanced C# topics, and conclude with a discussion of the future of Mono, and the C# standard. Not a Linux guy? Don't worry, all examples will work on Windows and Linux, with OSX support coming shortly.

To de Icaza, replicating Microsoft's hard work--much of which has been published to standards body Ecma International--will make other operating systems, notably Linux, more attractive to developers. And with the "universal virtual machine" of .Net, programmers can have a greater choice in languages. In his office decorated with small stuffed monkeys ("mono" means monkey in Spanish), de Icaza spoke to CNET News.com shortly before the company began shipping Mono version 1.0.

The latest release of Solaris Express is available for download. Tonnes of new features again, as listed on blogs.sun.com by the three A's, Alan, Alan and Adam.

.Net is fast becoming the developer's platform of choice --in spite of Microsoft's poor promotional job.

The first release candidate of Subversion 1.1.0 is ready and available. From the release notes: Subversion 1.1 can best be summarized as: (1) a new non-database repository back-end, and (2) a whole slew of client-side improvements.

Continuing the earlier discussion about low latency and Ingo Molnar's voluntary kernel preemption patch, the conversation moved onto the affect a filesystem can have on latency. Specifically, 2.6 maintainer Andrew Morton noted that ReiserFS was known to have some latency issues in both 2.4 & 2.6 kernels.

Sun claims for Java performance Vs .NET and the MS counter-claim.