On December 1st MandrakeSoft announced a new product MandrakeMove based on the KDE Desktop. KDE::Enterprise caught up with Gaël Duval to ask a few questions about MandrakeMove and KDE.
Microsoft is set to release a test version of the next update to Windows XP, which adds security features as well as improved support for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi networks.
Performance enthusiasts Jack Shirazi & Kirk Pepperdine, Director & CTO of JavaPerformanceTuning, follow performance discussions all over the Internet to see what's troubling Java developers. While surfing the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.java, they came across some interesting low-level performance tuning questions. In this installment of Eye on performance, they dive into some bytecode analysis to try and answer some of these questions.
Trolltech today announced the release of Qt, version 3.3.0 beta 1.Trolltech also iIntroduces the Qt Solutions: they provide platform and industry specific tools and components, as well as cutting-edge components that are too new to include directly in the Qt framework releases.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it was looking into reports of a potential bug in its Web browser that could help malicious hackers design convincing Web site spoofs. On other browser news, Opera 7.23 for Linux was released.
Denso and Toshiba jointly develop world's first multi OS environment for car navigation systems, which supports µITRON and Microsoft Windows Automotive. Check our NMC site for more embedded news.
Apple this week continued seeding new pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.3.2 to developers, sources said. The company also detailed the update’s bug fixes to the High Level Toolbox frameworks. Also, Apple is to launch next-generation ‘New iMac’ desktops with magnesium-alloy cases early next year.
Quite a lot of development has been going on at SkyOS. After receiving a test ATI Radeon video card, lead OS coder Robert has created a driver that allows for hardware acceleration. Additionally, the new "Message Notification" system has been completed, and screenshots can be seen at the SkyOS homepage. Finally, Lycander, a member of the software development team, has finished porting GLib 2.0 to SkyOS.
A few weeks ago we published an article titled "The Great Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List", detailing a few personal wishes for the next version of OSX. Later I learned that quite a few Apple engineers read the article and so it felt good that the time spent writing the article was not just a voice in the void. A reader emailed me a few days ago asking me to do the same for other OSes and DEs. So here is my personal wish-list for a future version of Gnome. Please tell us about your own Gnome wish list in the comment section provided.
While the second Service Pack of Zeta 1.0-RC1 is out and about, Argentinian Zeta fans have published two interviews with YellowTAB's Bernd Korz here and here.
TrollTech recently Qt 3.3 introduces many new features as well as many improvements over the 3.2.x series. The Qt version 3.3 series is binary compatible with the 3.2.x series. Qt 3.3 is .NET enabled, it supports IPv6 in addition to IPv4 and it now includes a new tool class called QLocale among other new goodies. Its Qt/Embedded version has added support for SNAP graphics drivers from SciTech Software. This gives access to accelerated drivers for more than 150 graphics chipsets (new SciTech DDK here).
A debate has started in the Linux kernel mailing list about the ide-scsi module. The cdrecord guys want it up while Linus points out that the module is "bad" and it imposes a number of problems to users. Our take: I've been hit by most of Linus' points: from the 'silly CD numbering' confusion, to the need to have two LILO entries to load ide-scsi or not in order to either burn a CD or be able to watch DVD.
GTK+OSX's project manager, Robin Rowe, is now in search of Mac/Unix developers to help him out with a native port of GTK+ for Mac OS X, based on Carbon and without the aid of X11. The port is already usable (CinePaint can run on it) but there is a lot of work still to be done. A stable native GTK+ port could enrich significantly the OSX application base with free open source like Gimp, Bluefish or Anjuta and add to the elegance without the use of X11 (Robin said the port will use an OSX theme by default).
The first milestone in the Xouvert roadmap has been reached. The first version of the new replacement X-server features patches from different places around the net and a cleanup to the default X-tree.
