Eugenia Loli Archive

Apple Benchmarketing Raises Questions

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-25 Apple 124 Comments

Analysts and others are raising questions over Apple Computer's claim that its new Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest personal computer. Articles at News.com, ExtremeTech. Apple is defending their benchmarks. In the meantime, the first reference of how faster the G5 is against the G4s, is available.

Open Source’s Time of Truth

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-25 Open Source 41 Comments

Intellectual-property expert Richard Wilder says the liability issues raised by SCO's Linux lawsuit will force distributors and developers to rethink assumptions about open-source software, IP rights and customer protection. Elsewhere, TheInquirer explains what OSS is.

Yellow Dog Linux to Support G5

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-25 Linux 5 Comments

Terra Soft said today that its Yellow Dog Linux will soon include support for 64-bit processing on the Power Mac G5. As an Apple Authorized Reseller, TerraSoft is receiving pre-orders for the new Macs.

Mandrake Goes For High Performance Clustering

Submitted by Timothy R. Butler 2003-06-25 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 8 Comments

At the International Supercomputer Conference 2003 today, MandrakeSoft announced its latest entry to the company's growing portfolio of middle-to-high end server products. MandrakeClustering is a high performance clustering distribution for IA-32 and AMD64 (Opteron) architectures. IA-64 support should come in September, the company reported. Read about the announcement at OfB.biz and here..

Better Java Garbage Collection with IBM’s JDK 1.4.0; More Java News

Submitted by Frank 2003-06-25 Java 16 Comments

This article discusses incremental compaction, a new feature in the memory management component of IBM JDK 1.4.0. Incremental compaction is a way of spreading compaction work across different garbage collection cycles, thereby reducing pause times. Elsewhere, industry leaders discuss Java status Quo. Also, Eclipse SDK 2.1 leverages Java’s strengths, but beware of too much expansion, InfoWorld says.

Apple on WWDC: Innovation or Catch Up?

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-24 Apple 212 Comments

I was present at Apple's WWDC yesterday and witnessed one of the historical moments in Apple's history, the introduction of their 64-bit platform. Am I impressed? The answer is complicated. I was happy to see Apple moving on and deliver. But I would have expected nothing less from a 4 billion tech company who had the need to catch up with the "other" platform, the 32-bit PC. You all heard by now what's new in yesterday's press releases and news coverings. But here is a wrap up of the first day of the conference and a commentary on what Apple really announced yesterday, underneath its surrounding distortion field.

Mozilla 1.4 RC3 is Available

Submitted by Neo Gigs 2003-06-24 Mozilla, Gecko 20 Comments

A new release candidate of Mozilla 1.4 is out, RC3.

Novell Sets out Linux Roadmap

Submitted by Mike Weight 2003-06-24 Linux 28 Comments

Novell will launch a bundle of its network services running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server later this year. And in 2004, the entire services stack from Netware will be running on Linux, the company said, as revealed this April by vnunet.com, VNUnet reports.

LindowsOS 4.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-24 Linspire 43 Comments

DistroWatch reports: "It seems that LindowsOS 4.0 has arrived. While the official product launch won't happen until Tuesday, the Lindows.com web site has come back to life, ready to sell us their latest and greatest. The information on the product page and also in a recent edition of Michael's Minutes will take some serious research before we can present it in a clear and concise way, but basically, the cheapest available product is LindowsOS 4.0 for US$49.95 for digital delivery. This is a 2-CD product (installation CD + live LindowsCD)." Update: The first review of LindowsOS 4 is at TuxReports. Update 2: ExtremeTech posted another LindowsOS 4 review.

Linux’s New Popularity May Hurt Apple More than Microsoft

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-24 Linux 75 Comments

In the latest of his legendary keynote stage shows, Steve Jobs kicked off Apple's WWDC this morning in San Francisco by showing off the company's speedy new aluminum G5 desktop Mac.

Torvalds Speaks Out on SCO, Linux

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-24 Linux 19 Comments

Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux open-source operating system, has some strong views about the legal dispute between The SCO Group and IBM, which he shared with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli in an e-mail exchange last week.

OpenOffice.org GM for Mac OS X Released

Submitted by Mat 2003-06-24 Office 13 Comments

After two years of work, OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (X11) is ready for download by all Mac OS X users. With anti-aliased fonts, to name but one feature, this Golden Master satisfies the needs of professionals and individuals wanting a free, complete, and open-source office suite able to operate in an office environment alongside Windows, Linux, and Solaris machines. Elsewhere, AbiWord 2.0 Beta 1 was released.

Microsoft Corp. Turns Focus on Privacy

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-24 Microsoft 10 Comments

Since Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates sent a memo 18 months ago urging the company to focus on making its software trustworthy, the company has devoted developers and money to security in its software products. But Microsoft has given short shrift to a second concern outlined in the so-called "Trustworthy Computing" memo - protecting privacy - except when forced by the government. With the hiring of a new privacy chief, the software company is hoping to improve its privacy record and keep government regulators at bay.

KSE Progress on FreeBSD SMP Environment

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-24 FreeBSD 14 Comments

This is a significant milestone to be shared with everyone! Khairil Yusof reports that libkse is now running quite well on his FreeBSD 5.1+ current based SMP system. He has tested a bunch of apps on his system, taking the approach of enabling kse one app at a time. Read more at FreeBSDForums.

Do the Lindows Rock

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-23 Linspire 58 Comments

LindowsOS 4.0 is expected to be released this week and so the Lindows.com web site is down for upgrade at press time. In the meantime, the Lindows.com folks released a funky Lindows theme song called "Lindows Rock". To view the video clip, you will need Flash.

Next-gen SCSI Prototype Shown

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-22 Hardware 22 Comments

Three tech allies demonstrated a new storage technology that they believe will keep a venerable hard drive standard safe from extinction.

New Pegasos Review

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-22 Morphos 25 Comments

Here is a new Pegasos review, also reviewing the MorphOS in addition to the hardware.

VM, File Caching and You

Submitted by Behrang Saeedzadeh 2003-06-22 Haiku 22 Comments

The new OpenBeOS newsletter is discussing the new VM and file caching implementation for OBOS.

AMD64, UltraSparc III and SMP Support in OpenBSD-CURRENT

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-22 OpenBSD 40 Comments

The OpenBSD folks are informing us that mozilla works in -current, the SMP branch works okay with a big lock on i386, the UltraSPARC III goes single user now and the AMD Hammer port: kernel works so far, toolchain/compiler stuff in the works now.

Symbian Expected To Outpace Microsoft In Cellular Phone Market

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-22 Wireless 15 Comments

Symbian PLC will outpace Microsoft Corp. in the market for cellular phone operating systems, reaching double the market share in 2007, a research firm said Friday. Symbian, a software consortium formed by handset makers, will have 5 percent of the market in five years, with Microsoft coming in second with 2.5 percent and Linux third with 2 percent, the Probe Group, Cedar Knolls, N.J., said. Get more mobile computing news on our sister site, NMC.