Eugenia Loli Archive

yellowTab TV Presentation Video Available; Zeta 1.0-SP3 Out Soon

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-09 Zeta 37 Comments

Following today's TV presentation, IsComputerOn published the video (99 MB) of yellowTab's CEO and CVO presenting Zeta (in German). The second video, which will focus on the recently announced ZintrO, will be posted later today. In the meantime, ZetaNews reports on the upcoming SP3 of Zeta 1.0.

Using Windows Forms Markup (WFML)

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-09 .NET 14 Comments

Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML) provides an extensible mechanism to add a markup model on top of an existing .NET Framework object model. WFMLs parsing rules can be summarized as "XML elements map to .NET Framework types and XML attributes map to Type properties (or events)". This sample includes a WFML parser that dynamically generates an object instance tree from an XML file in WFML format.

Microsoft and SCO Being Investigated By the SEC?

Submitted by dopey 2004-03-09 Legal 28 Comments

Newsforge & GrokLaw report that "Although the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) never officially makes public when it investigates an organization, an SEC staff member told NewsForge that complaints and tips about suspected under-the-table funding, stock-kiting, illegal insider trading, and money-laundering involving Microsoft or Microsoft-connected individuals to the financially struggling SCO Group have been coming into the agency with regularity since last August.

AROS Status Update

Submitted by Fabio Alemagna 2004-03-09 Amiga & AROS 16 Comments

Among the various things, the latest months have seen AROS improving under many aspects, ranging from HW support, thanks to the new PCI subsystem, to GUI enhancements. Read the full status report and don't forget to take a look at the new screenshots.

Study: Open-source databases going mainstream

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-09 Databases 8 Comments

Following in the footsteps of the Linux operating system, open-source databases are moving toward mainstream use and threatening proprietary software alternatives, according to a new survey.

The Berkeley Software Distribution OSes Have Much to Offer

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-08 BSD & Darwin 85 Comments

What's so great about BSD? Plenty. The old daemon might even teach the penguin a thing or two: "BSD has become a quiet success. MacOS X is the ultimate Unix-style desktop" says Linux-Magazine.

Moving Linux to School Desktops

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-08 Linux 15 Comments

Increasingly, businesses, government entities and schools are starting to look beyond Windows, which IDC says securely dominates the desktop market with a 94% market share. Instead they're considering running Linux as their client operating environment. But the move is a slow one. In the meantime, Sun's JDS turns heads: Fonterra, Auckland University giving Linux serious consideration.

A Preview of GNOME 2.6

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-08 Gnome 63 Comments

Sayamindu Dasgupta put up a preview (mirror) of the upcoming Gnome 2.5.

Rock Linux 2.0 Released

Submitted by Valentin Ziegler 2004-03-08 Linux 1 Comment

ROCK is a Distribution Build Kit. You can configure your personal build of ROCK and easily build your own distribution. Features of ROCK Linux v2.0 are build dependency auto-detection, a new binary package format, "smart optimizations", the ability to be build on a cluster and many more. ROCK Linux comes along with over 1000 package descriptions ready for compilation. Currently supported platforms include x86, AMD64, PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC as well as SPARC64.

Distibuted Version Control with svk

Submitted by Chia-liang Kao 2004-03-08 General Development 4 Comments

The article at Perl.com describes the design and implmementation of svk, a distributed version control system built on top of Subversion.

Swing-Applications with Native-Widgets: SwingWT

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-08 Java 12 Comments

SwingWT uses Eclipse's SWT to offer native host-widgets for Java applications. Screenshot.

Tune Eclipse’s startup performance with the Runtime Spy

Submitted by Frank 2004-03-08 General Development No Comments

This article introduces the Runtime Spy, one of Core Tools available from Eclipse.org. The Runtime Spy is a perspective and set of views specifically designed to help you find and diagnose plug-in startup performance problems. It's considered one of best tools for understanding and diagnosing startup performance problems related to plug-in activation.

GNOME 2.6-Beta1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-08 Gnome 67 Comments

The first beta release of GNOME 2.6 is available for testing. Changelog, download location, gotchas.

Networking improvements in the 2.6 kernel

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-08 Linux 9 Comments

The new Linux kernel includes support for and improvements in many areas of networking: from tunneling and better file security to encryption and privacy protection. This article covers how these improvements affect users even as they make Linux more secure and more enterprise-ready.

Subversion for CVS Users

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-08 General Development 19 Comments

This guide is aimed at CVS users who want to know more about the new features in Subversion, but it is also useful for someone familiar with source control systems who wants to find out what Subversion offers. Mike Mason is talking about the philosophy and design behind Subversion, how it improves upon CVS, and how to get started using it.

Windows Could Lose Media Player in EU Tangle

Submitted by danjr 2004-03-08 Microsoft 86 Comments

If Microsoft cannot settle an antitrust case brought by European Union regulators, the company may be ordered to remove Windows Media Player as an integrated feature of the dominant Windows operating system, at least for personal computers sold in Europe.

The Macintosh at 20: Interview with Jef Raskin

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-07 Apple 45 Comments

2004 is indeed the 20th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh computer, but the history of this computer is actually a little older than this. Joining Berkeley Groks is Jef Raskin (JR) who started the Apple Macintosh project. Frank Ling talks to him about how the project got started, his perspectives on current operating systems, and his current work.

Some Implications of Software Commodification

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-07 OS News 17 Comments

This article explores the concept of commodification in a historical context while also seeking to discover lessons that might be applied to contemporary open source business efforts. I also wrote a similar editorial a few weeks ago.

Migrating custom Linux installations to 2.6

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-07 Linux No Comments

This whitepaper provides an changes that you may need to make to a customized or specialized Linux installation in order to use it with the Linux 2.6 kernel, building upon the configuration file and administrative updates that were touched upon in the third article in this series.

Installing Mandrake Linux Community Edition 10.0

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-06 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 36 Comments

This page describes the installation steps Tips4Free did with the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community Edition 3-CD set. It includes many screenshots of the installation procedure.