Eugenia Loli Archive

The HP-UX kernel is a multitasking, multiuser, multiprocessor, multithreaded, load-leveling, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious modular operating system with real-time scheduling extensions. To get a handle on it, read this introduction to the basic organization of the kernel and its data structures.

Apple recently provided developers with a new pre-release beta of Xcode 1.5, an upgrade to Mac OS X's suite of development tools. Release notes for the beta say that Version 1.5 will feature dead-code stripping, code completion for Java, support for the Subversion source-code control system, AppleScriptable CodeWarrior importing, and AppleScript support in the native build system. Xcode 1.5 will also boast speed improvements, Ant templates, faster editor performance, remote debugging, and an enhanced debugger with a globals browser and memory browser.

"Folks in the software industry doubt Linux will suffer from the same kind of forking and fragmenting that limited Unix and its ISV support, but the idea may nevertheless be pushed as an offensive against Linux by Microsoft, which is already running ads in Europe depicting mutant penguins assembled with other animal parts as if to suggest they are unsure what they are." Read the article at NewsForge.

Microsoft is set to include its Services for Unix (SFU) add-on for Windows as an integral part of the next major release of the Windows server operating system, codenamed Longhorn and expected in 2007. Some analysts said the move could eventually sideline conventional Linux and Unix operating systems. A growing number of firms are using SFU, currently a free add-on for Windows 2000, 2003 and XP Professional, because it enables a single system to run Windows, Linux and Unix software.

Delphi for .NET is here and Xavier Pacheco provides an overview of Delphi for .NET, with a focus how to use Delphi to develop software for business solutions.

Python is a flexible and powerful dynamic scripting language with full object-oriented features. Its many proponents say that the Python language allows them to express their intentions more directly and efficiently than other languages. But newcomers to Python from the Java technology or Microsoft .NET world may find themselves missing their feature-rich and polished IDEs and development tools.

Microsoft is launching new initiatives intended to make the Windows operating system a more attractive target for software developers.

A very interesting talk by Bruce Eckel (author of "Thinking in C++" and "Thinking in Java") on Java issues and directions, at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business on 25-Jun-2004. Link for Real streaming video here.

Fresh back from their break, the EkkoBSD team has released another beta of their BSD flavour for general consumption.

Apple hopes to woo stranded Windows NT 4.0 migrators with a migration tool it's building into the Tiger Server, due out in the first half of 2005.

Jeff Bogdan explores Avalon's control content model, a concept that can be nearly missed by the developer on first encounter, but one that provides extreme flexibility when meeting the demands of richer scenarios.

O'Reilly's upcoming Mono: A Developer's Notebook walks you through nearly 50 mini-projects that will introduce you to the most important and compelling aspects of the 1.0 release. This article, which shows you how to install Mono on Windows, how Gtk# works, and how to write a simple Gtk# program, is just the sort of mini-project you'll find in the book.

The long-awaited Slackware 10 release has hit the streets, so to speak. Though Patrick Volkerding's Slackware wasn't the very first Linux distribution (it was originally based on the SLS distribution) it has outlived all of its predecessors. First released on July 16, 1993, Slackware has come a long way since its floppy-based origins -- though in some ways, it has also remained very much the same. More here...

The bug-fixed GLib-2.4.4 is now available for download here. UPDATE: And here is GTK+ 2.4.4.