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Apple this week seeded to beta testers the first pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.3.4. In a seed note, Apple said Version 10.3.4 should provide a performance gain when launching non-prebound applications among many other changes, ThinkSecret reports.

Learn about what is new in Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software from a developer's point of view. MSMobiles also has more info, links and screenshots of the SE version of Windows Mobile 2003.

"The iPod has more than 50% of the US market, while iTunes Music Store has been selling 130 million songs per year. Certainly it seems that Apple has everything going for them, but they may in the end lose it in the same manner they lost the desktop market" Rajan R. is editorializing for OSNews' sister site, New Mobile Computing. On a similar note, Real's CEO seems to have taken to heart Steve Jobs' answer to his recent request to open up the DRM format to Real Networks.

The first release candidate of Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 (Athlon & Opteron) is now available. Several bugfixes and a few new applications have been added. DistroWatch has the details.

The creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has weighed in on the issue of backporting features from newer Linux kernels into older ones, calling the practice a good thing for the most part. When asked by e-mail to comment for internetnews.com, Torvalds wrote: "I think it makes sense from a company standpoint to basically 'cherry-pick' stuff from the development version that they feel is important to their customers. And in that sense I think the back-porting is actually a very good thing."

eWEEK Labs reviews the latest version of The GNOME Project's desktop environment for Linux and Unix and finds a faster and more polished release that further brightens the prospect of Linux as a viable corporate desktop replacement.

This article describes how to build a composite custom control with Borland C# Builder for MS .NET. However, once the control is built, you can use it in any other IDE, such as Visual Studio .NET.

ReactOS 0.2.2 RC-1 is out. Many screenshots of the CVS version are available here.

This article explores a solution for globalization applications in Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME). It describes this solution throughout the software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. You'll learn why globalization is important in J2ME applications, the guidelines for developing a globalization application, and how to implement these guidelines throughout the development cycle.

VMware has pledged to support the 64-bit extended architectures of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel for its virtual machine software running on both Windows and Linux over the next 18 months. Update: This article covers changes in VMWare Workstation 4.5 compared to the previous version, 4.0.

This show is all about architecture from Why to How. Keith and Harry bring the developer's and architect's perspective to the discussion, respectively. The discussion starts with the importance of good design and architecture, to techniques, tools, standards, and the like.

Novell chief information office Debra Anderson has been charged with the task of migrating more than 5,000 employees onto desktop Linux and Open Office during the next 12 months.

Moataz Bhatti wrote an interesting article on the new Wireless Era that awaits computing, for our sister site, New Mobile Computing.

SUSE's chief technology officer said he believes the practice of "backporting" features from the 2.6 Linux kernel into older versions is a "bad thing" because it interferes with standardization of the open source operating system. During a keynote address at the Real World Linux Conference here Thursday, Juergen Geck also chided industry players to avoid practices that could further fragment open source standardization efforts.