Eugenia Loli Archive

Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci has written an article about AmigaOS4 and its differences with AmigaOS 3.9.

According to this SMP support is now in OpenBSD-current.

In the final part of this series of articles in response to Eric Raymond, an examination of whether a hybrid model is the way forward.

The Debian Project announced their AMD64 port is ready for inclusion in Sid. The port is currently at 97% compiled with most of the remaining packages having FTBFS RC bugs filed for unrelated reasons.

"We now have two distinct classes of Linux users whose interests are not the same, and perhaps we have more than that if we want to talk about people who think of software in political rather than pragmatic terms. Can these factions work together, or will tensions between them eventually kill the free software and open source movements?" Read the editorial at NewsForge.

Given the rapid growth of Linux in the technology industry, it might be easy to overlook other open source Unix variants. But recent numbers from research outfit Netcraft show that past is prologue. FreeBSD, that other Unix variant, has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year.

In GNUstep 0.9.3 spell checker has been reimplemented using libaspell. There is a new NSComboBox implementation. NSToolbar is much improved. There are binary incompatibilites from ivar additions in NSView and subclasses, a number of W32 window event enhancements, and art backend glyph drawing with alpha enhancements. On other toolkit news, the C++ Fox Toolkit 1.2.4 was released.

SkyFS has been updated to support the "Securtiy Context", and has now become a full multi-user filesystem. All files can be associated with such security contexts to permit various file operations (read, write, append, list, modify etc.) for all users specified in this security context only. In other news, system-wide controls have been polished up (screenshot available on website), and preliminary translation and support for the Chinese language has been implemented.

TuxS.org has posted a short review of the PCLinuxOS Live CD PR7.

Read here for a not-so-short first-impressions review of the developer pre-release version of AmigaOS4.

common language runtime objects, Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Structured Query Language (SQL). Content controls like Button and listable ItemsControls like ListBox have built-in functionality to enable flexible styling of single data items or collections of data items. Sorting, filtering, and grouping can be applied to the data. Read the articles here.

GTK+ 2.4.3 is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with 2.4.0. The main reason for this quick followup release is a problem with the button size allocation logic in 2.4.2, which showed up in the Gimp. A number of other bugfixes have been included as well.

Working largely on their own time, Linux devotees apply their collaborative model for creating software, known as open source, to attack SCO and its case. Dozens of online detectives comb corporate documents, analyze legal filings and publish everything they can find about the company, its finances, management and connections to Microsoft.

In a move that could ultimatety deal a heavy blow to Microsoft's intellectual property rights, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine patent the company holds on the FAT (file allocation table) file system, a format used for the interchange of media between computers and digital devices.