Eugenia Loli Archive

JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition Version 1.4.1_03 (Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Solaris Operating Environment) released. Check out the release notes and download section.

Michael Phipps of OBOS has posted a status update and response to some community discontent. In his post, he explains why a new name has yet to be announced, why some of the status graphs have gone without being updated, and gives a general idea of what is left to be done.

Quark finally made available for pre-ordering their long-awaited QuarkXPress 6 after 2 years of porting it to Mac OS X. Our Take: The big surprise for me personally was when earlier today I browsed the comments at VersionTracker, the premier OSX software repository. The vast majority of these users seems to have already switched to Adobe InDesign. $200 bucks cheaper too.

Intel on Monday quietly marked the 25-year anniversary of x86, the basic architecture underlying the chips that power most of today's PCs. Elsewhere, rivals Sun and Intel on Monday announced a deal set to ensure that their mobile products will work better together over the next few years.

This detailed 101-page how-to article provides the necessary background and procedures to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming console into a Linux-based software router with firewalling and virtual private networking capabilities.

Sun's new products apparently are paying off. Thanks to the V120, V1280, and V880, Sun is selling more UNIX servers than its competitors. Sun's UNIX servers account for 52% of the shipments for the first quarter of 2003 in the worldwide market place. Press release.

MagneticSystems posted a review and benchmark article of Pegasos and MorphOS.

eWEEK is reporting that Apple is nearing the release of a new Power Mac known internally as Q37, which will include the new chip. However, Q37 will ship before Apple rolls out a 64-bit version of Panther in September. Instead, the new Power Macs will ship with a special Jaguar build train code-named Smeagol. Smeagol will run on the new chip but won't take advantage of many of its key features, limiting initial performance gains.

NetBeans have today released their 3.5 IDE. A nice environment to develop e.g. Java or C++ in.

When debugging kernel problems, being able to trace the kernel execution and examine its memory and data structures is very useful. The built-in kernel debugger in Linux, KDB, provides this facility. In this article you'll learn how to use the features provided by KDB and how to install and set up KDB on a Linux machine.

Ximian has released their long awaited Ximian Desktop 2, their popular Gnome-based desktop, and Evolution, their popular email client and calendar program. They can be found on the main Ftp server. You can also check their mirrors. OSNews featured an interview with Nat Friedman of Ximian recently.

TuxReports features an introduction to Red Hat Linux 9 with screenshots. Elsewhere, Slashdot readers discuss the Linux experience on an Acer TabletPC.

Wal-Mart and its PC source, MicroTelPC, have replaced their Mandrake PC offerings with SuSE PCs. We do not know if the financial status of MandrakeSoft and the poor marketing and retail availability in US had a role in this switch. SuSE PC prices start at $298. Wal-Mart continues to sell LindowsOS and Lycoris PCs (prices start at $199). Also, hardware prices seem to go down, as Gateway started to market a very cheap, yet fully featured 15" XGA laptop (2.2GHz Celeron, 30GB, 256MB RAM, DVD/CD-RW), the 400SP, for only $799 US (customize it to exclude the carrying case and the extra warranty).

Slow day today, so here is another poll to have fun with. Let's see what hardware most geek readers around here desire!