Eugenia Loli Archive

Pegasos II – System Starts Shipping

Submitted by oGALAXYo 2003-12-23 Morphos 41 Comments

According to MorphOS-News the Pegasos-II System starts shipping to the end users.

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X for at least two years

Submitted by Ed Holden 2003-12-23 Apple 25 Comments

According to MacWorld UK, quoting a report from Forbes, we'll be seeing some notably faster G5 chips this summer. And contrary to popular belief there is a G5 Powerbook on the horizon as well - possibly as early as January. But it will be at least two years before a 64-bit version of OS X hits shelves, according to analyst Peter Glaskowsk.

Apple Issues Patch for Mac OS X hole

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-23 macOS 6 Comments

Apple Computer has issued a security update that, among other fixes, closes a hole in Mac OS X that could have allowed hackers to take control of a computer under particular circumstances.

UnixReview: LindowsOS 4

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-23 Linspire 31 Comments

"Is Lindows for everyone? No, but that doesn't mean it won't find a niche" says Joe Casad in his review of LindowsOS 4 on UnixReview. Await a LindowsOS 4.5 review here at OSNews, tomorrow.

Interview With 2.4 Linux Kernel Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti

Submitted by Jeremy Andrews 2003-12-23 Linux 9 Comments

KernelTrap has an interview with Marcelo Tosatti. Marcelo became the maintainer of the 2.4 stable kernel when he was 18 years old, releasing his first kernel, 2.4.16, on November 26'th of 2001. Two years later, he recently released the 2.4.23 kernel and plans to soon put the 2.4 stable kernel tree into maintenance mode, only addressing bugs and security issues.

Review of JBuilder X Enterprise Edition

Submitted by Lin Jiaqi 2003-12-23 General Development 20 Comments

Borland JBuilder X has been touted as Borland’s most significant release in these two years. Building on the stable foundation of the previous releases, Borland JBuilder X Enterprise Edition introduces support for newer application servers, along with enhanced performances and better overall user experience. With JBuilder X, Borland is taking application development into another level. Read on to find out more.

Linus Blasts SCO’s Header Claims

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-23 Linux 138 Comments

Slashdot reports on Linus' replies to SCO's allegations that 65 header files were copied from UNIX.

Open Source: Not If, But How

Submitted by Tom 2003-12-23 Linux 8 Comments

The religious wars over open-source software—especially Linux—are over. What lies ahead is a steely-eyed pragmatism about the software's pros and cons. Read the article at CIOInsight.

An In-Depth look Into Windows Security in 2003

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-22 Windows 24 Comments

"When it comes to security predictions for next year, basically everyone says it's going to be worst than this year despite the increased spending on security and some progress made when it comes to security awareness. Let's take a look at some interesting happenings that made the news during 2003 when it comes to Microsoft security and perhaps you'll be able to judge for yourself what 2004 will bring." Read the article at Net-Security.

Autotools vs. CMake

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-22 General Development 16 Comments

CMake is a project that aims at being a replacement for the GNU Build System (Autoconf, Automake and friends). DevChannel asked Andy Cedilnik, one of CMake's core developers, a few questions about the project's philosophies. UPDATE: Part II of the article here.

Fedora Core 1 versus the free version of SuSE 9.0

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-22 Rumors 45 Comments

"With the imminent demise of the product known as Red Hat Linux, many people are asking, "Where do I go next?" For IT decision-makers, the question couldn't come at a worse time. Just as Microsoft is dropping support for their most popular version of Windows, prodding budget-conscious managers to consider Linux on the organization desktop, the best-known Linux distribution is suddenly no longer a part of the solution set at the retail level." Read the article at NewsForge.

BlueEyedOS Switches to LGPL

Submitted by jeanmarc 2003-12-22 Haiku 29 Comments

BlueEyedOS, an effort to ressurect the BeOS APIs and experience under Linux and X11, switches to the LGPL license from closed source in order to attract more developers.

SCO Sends Second Letter to Linux Users

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-22 SCO 53 Comments

The SCO Group plans to announce Monday that it is escalating its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux OS, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including IBM and other companies, say that SCO's interpretation of its claim over Linux is exaggerated.

Mono on PowerPC Progress

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-22 Mono 17 Comments

The go-mono site reports that the Mono JIT on the PowerPC was able to successfully run the Mono C# compiler to build its first programs. This is by no means complete (exception handling is missing, and Boehm GC seems to fail on MacOS X), but it is getting there.

The KDE Group Protests “GNOME-Only” Decision for UserLinux

Submitted by Tom 2003-12-21 KDE 150 Comments

The KDE Group - a group of KDE and/or Debian developers with a dedication to and interest in both projects - have written this detailed proposal opposing the decision to go with GNOME as the sole UserLinux GUI. Our Take: On Friday I emailed Bruce Perens on the issue, but he didn't reply. Following is my short email to Perens, trying to suggest a solution that might become acceptable by both camps.

Introducing the JNode OS

Submitted by greg gulrajani 2003-12-21 OS News 27 Comments

JNode is a Java new Operating System design effort. The goal is to get an simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use. Any java application should run on it.

Subversion 0.35.1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-21 General Development 19 Comments

Subversion is a version control system which aims to replace CVS by incorporating a modern architecture and needed features currently not found on CVS. The latest interim bugfix release of Subversion is ready. This release is to correct for the problems in the 0.35.0 release and affects Windows users only: fix: file handle leak (r8048), fix: UTF-8 path problem (issue #1660).

Interview with Sun’s Peder Ulander

Submitted by Anonymous 2003-12-21 Oracle and SUN 25 Comments

Sun's Java development site recently posted an interview with Sun's Director of Marketing for Desktop Solutions. regarding the Java Desktop System.

XFree86 4.4.0-RC2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-20 Wayland 42 Comments

The XFree86 project released the second RC for their upcoming 4.4.0 X server version.

Screenshot of full ReactOS desktop

Submitted by Juan Linietsky 2003-12-20 ReactOS 46 Comments

This message was posted in the ReactOS mailing list: "For those of you who haven't followed the progress with Explorer closely, take a look here. This screenshot was taken with current CVS and Filip's Wine DLL snapshot here. There are still many stability problems (lots of multi-threading issues), unimplemented and buggy ReactOS features, but all in all we're much better shape than I had expected to be at this point in time. If we can keep up this pace, 0.2 will be on time (before WineConf) and will rock!" UPDATE: Quake2 running on ReactOS.