Eugenia Loli Archive

More companies are using the threat of Linux when negotiating deals with Microsoft, one of the company's senior executives has admitted.

"Major corporations like Boeing, Lockheed and Motorola were InterBase users, so we've got the track record," Helen Borrie told LinuxInsider. "It's very satisfying to learn of yet another big corporation or enterprise product that has switched to Firebird, and, as the word gets out, it happens more often."

Although Microsoft has refused to confirm the many reports that say so, it appears the company is working on a version of its Windows Server platform specifically tailored for the high performance computing market... That Microsoft would branch off from Windows 2003 Server to create an HPC Edition makes perfect sense for a number of reasons.

"Mono currently doesn't have an impact on most of my clients," said Thomas Murphy, VP of research services for Meta Group. "Use of Linux in the enterprise is growing, but most people are using it for Java and if they are comfortable with .Net they generally are comfortable with Windows," he told LinuxInsider.

Versions up to and including 1.0.4 have a potential denial of service and heap overflow issue related to the parsing of strings in the 'svn://' family of access protocols. This affects only sites running svnserve. It does not affect 'http://' access; repositories served only by Apache/mod_dav_svn do not have this vulnerability. This release fixes this issue.

The SCO Group reported lackluster second-quarter results on Thursday, with revenue falling across its three divisions and its loss from operations widening and McBride blames IBM, Novell to SCO's fiscal woes. In the meantime, the Sun Vs SCO soap opera has started (here too).

Though not mentioned on the main Eclipse website yet, Eclipse 3.0RC1 is available for download on their main download site.

Mandrakesoft has released the AMD64 edition of Mandrakelinux 10.0: "Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for AMD64 combines the strengths of the 10.0 distribution with the latest technology of AMD Athlon64 and AMD Opteron processors. 10.0 Official for AMD64 is based on the PowerPack 10.0 with significant performance enhancements in all of the applications."

From NMC: Speaking from the Wall Street Journal's D: "All Things Digital" conference last monday in Carlsbad, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a number of interesting statements. Most notably, Jobs confirmed that Apple had designed its own PDA device, but canned the project just prior to bringing it to market. Jobs also hinted that the company is not working on a hybrid PDA/phone device.

Apple announced three new dual-CPU Power Mac G5 configurations, with the fastest model topping out at 2.5GHz using liquid-cooling. The new high-end systems miss the 3GHz mark that Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company would achieve at last year's WWDC, but Tom Boger, Apple's Director of Power Mac Product Marketing said it came down to a technology challenge that was bigger than they expected. Boger also said today that users shouldn't expect to see a PowerBook G5 before the end of the year because of the challenges of putting the G5 in a small enclosure, and also hinted difficulties to put it on an iMac. Also, Apple discontinued the remaining G4 Power Macs while released iTunes 4.6.

Xandros has just announced the release of an Open Circulation Edition of the Xandros Desktop OS, which comes with features like the ability to dual-boot with Windows XP, the Opera browser and email package, and access to Xandros Networks. To accompany this exciting release, DesktopOS.com has published an exclusive interview with Rick Berenstein, Xandros Chairman & CTO, Ming Poon, the VP for Software Development, and Stephen Harris, Director of Marketing & PR.

SciTech Software, Inc. today announced the official release of the world's first web-based, graphics-driver build system with support for Windows, Linux, OS/2 and more. With SciTech’s exclusive online build system users can now easily configure, build and install certified SciTech SNAP Graphics drivers on their home machines, for non-commercial use free of charge.

Apple is on the verge of announcing a new, totally re-designed family of three flat-panel displays with the addition of a 30-inch HD-ready model (2560x1600 resolution), claims ThinkSecret. In what appears to be a major change in direction for Apple, the displays will exclusively use a digital visual interface (DVI) connector and will not come with Apple's proprietary Apple Display Connector (ADC).

ICO published a preview over the RC3 of Zeta 1.0, expected later this year. Among the clean ups, updated apps & drivers and bug fixes there is a new preference applet holder. YellowTAB re-created an embeddable preference framework, inspired by the one created in 2000 by Be (and more specifically by my husband, JBQ ;) and was destined to be part of the never-released next BeOS.