Microsoft will continue the trend of integrating managed code support in major product releases—first with SQL Server 2005 and later in the Windows Longhorn operating system.
Despite having pockets of communities spread across the country, open source software (OSS) has no future in the country's budding software development business, according to a software development expert.
For the past week we hosted a competition for a free Xandros Business Desktop 2.0 box. Our winner is Tony Bourke and his original article "FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64".
Microsoft can expect thousands of extra technical support calls after the release of its security update for Windows XP this summer, according to security analysts.
Apple says it is seeing a large number of UNIX, Java and Open Source developers migrating to Mac OS X. "Over the last three years, people who have experience in those areas are showing a great interest in our OS," Apple VP of Worldwide Developer Relations Ron Okamoto told internetnews.com.
Mandrakesoft proved to judges in the Parisian version of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy court earlier this week it had a viable business plan and exit strategy. Now all that remains is for the popular Linux distributor to follow through on its promise.
Here is an introduction to the style of Objective-C Cocoa and some reasons why the author at Kuro5hin hopes more programming will be done in this style in the future.
There is so much controversy surrounding the Open Source General Public License (GPL) - especially with regard to the SCO v IBM case - that it makes a sense to review the simple basic legal points involved, writes Bloor Research president Robin Bloor.
Christian Limpach imported a new port into the NetBSD source tree: NetBSD/xen. Xen is is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software. See here for more details on Xen or join the port-xen mailing list.
LinuxDevCenter takes a look at the Sony PlayStation 2 and add-ons that make it into a Linux computer. Elsewhere, the effort to port Linux to the GameCube -- a longtime goal for many hackers -- finally came to fruition in December 2003 at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany. Read about it at the LinuxDevCenter.
This paper provides detailed discussion regarding the algorithm, implementation, kernel tunables, and messages you are likely to see on a system running the appropriate kernel updates.
Are you a Java or a .NET/Mono/Portable.NET developer? Then you might be interested in this competition that could help you win a prize that's worth over $3000 US.
Dan Gilmor writes for the Mercury News: "It looks like I'm going to have to reconsider something I'd been taking for granted -- that Linux on the desktop, and especially the laptop, was a non-starter in the operating systems race. While I wasn't paying sufficient attention, the proverbial tortoise has been playing some serious catch-up. One reason I'm rethinking this long-held conviction is in my lap. I'm writing this column on a nearly 4-year-old IBM ThinkPad, a computer that was a marvel of technology in its time but is now fairly old stuff. Linux has rejuvenated this machine."
