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In keeping with their policy of releasing all commercial products as BSD licensed open source within two years of development, PostgreSQL, Inc. has released a robust, scalable replication solution for PostgreSQL under the BSD license. The article quotes an statement from the company which says:

"I would really like to be able to play with OpenBSD's PF, or FreeBSD's jail, but I'm rather fond of Gentoo and portage. Right now anybody wanting to play with portage on a BSD has a lot of work to do before getting started, since we don't have stage-1 tarballs. I still don't have a stage-1, but this text and attendent files comprises a small start along the road to generating one." Read the instructions here.

SkyOS, the popular hobby OS, now supports OpenGL for its normal 2D operations and also freeform windows are supported. SkyGI windows can have a per pixel window shape now.

Throughout the week, Apple has made number of software seeds to developers and testers. On Monday, Apple seeded build 6R50 of Mac OS X 10.2.7; on Tuesday, build 7B49 of Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" as well as Xcode; on Wednesday, build 6R50 of Mac OS X Server 10.2.7.

IBM is pushing Linux as the upgrade path for current users of IBM's venerable OS/2, but most customers of OS/2 computing, especially branch banking, are looking towards a Windows migration.

This is mainly a bugfix release, but contains a very important new piece: Java Update feature is installed when the J2RE is installed, and it can automatically update your computer with the latest J2RE release. It also contains new java logo. Read the release notes and download.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced significantly expanded hardware support for the Solaris Operating System (OS) x86 Platform Edition. Sun's goal is to ensure that the Solaris OS x86 is available on the widest range of x86 systems by adding 100 new third-party systems and 100 new components to its Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) delivering more value, choice and flexibility to customers. Read on for the rest of the press release.

One of the major roadblocks for Unix was the lack of one single standardized platform for applications. Linux seems to be following along the same line, although on a different parallel. To compete head-to-head with Microsoft, Linux advocates should standardize the platform, A. Russell Jones says.

On the 25th IBM released beta compilers for Mac OSX, there is both a c/c++ and a fortran compiler, these compilers is for use with the G5/PPC970 processor. Elsewhere, on a TechNewsWorld review it is stated that "while decidedly Apple, Xserve puts to shame many of the Linux distributions available by tying together the diverse number of applications that are needed to administer an equivalent Linux server into a simple, GUI-driven interface."

Trolltech today announced the release of Qt, version 3.2.1 Qt, Trolltech's C++ multiplatform application framework, is the industry-leading C++ tool used to create applications that run natively on Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac OS X, all from the same codebase. Here is a report on the future of Qt, on 4.0.

Ch is a superset of C language. It parses and executes C code directly without intermediate code or byte code. It does not distinguish interpreted code from compiled C/C++ code. The new Ch 4.0 is the most complete C interpreter in existence and is embeddable in other programs and hardware.

Apple news from around the web: "Apple seeds Panther build 7B44, Server, Xcode", "Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks", "Dual-2GHz G5 to reach education buyers first", "Apple forms new Enterprise sales group", "Virtual PC not compatible with G5 yet".

Today, Mozilla 1.5 Beta, the next version from the Mozilla Team was released. As per usual; Linux, MacOSX and Windows packages are available. A spellchecker for Messenger and Composer in addition to many bugfixes are just some of the updates in this beta. For more info, read the release Notes.

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