IRIX 6.5.20 is releasing with all new systems shipping from SGI worldwide manufacturing centers. The IRIX 6.5.20 release contains both maintenance and feature updates.
Sun Microsystems is spitting nails over a biting report from Meta Group, a market research and consulting firm, that suggested, among other things, that Sun's customers should rethink doing business with the company in the long term, and that CEO Scott McNealy should be replaced.
"Earlier this year The Register expressed an interest in Lindows.com's Lindows Media Computer, and despite the accompanying back-handed compliments, Michael Robertson himself got in touch and arranged to have one shipped round. So for the past couple of months I've been able to check out LindowsOS itself, the Lindows.com business model in operation, the hardware, and the whole notion of the 'living room' PC, or the 'one per room' PC."Read the article at TheRegister.
Everyone loves benchmarks, so here is your daily dose: NVidia has just released the (pricey) GeForce FX 5900 and pretty much regained the speed crown from ATi (possibly until the upcoming .13 ATi card comes out). Nvidia benchmarks here, here, here, here and here.
"At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2003 trade show in New Orleans in May 2003, Microsoft finally revealed its roadmap for Longhorn, the next major Windows desktop version, and the successor to Windows XP. Longhorn, as readers of this site know, will be the most dramatic and exciting release of Windows ever, and the most important update to the product since Windows 95."Read the article at WinSuperSite.
"This page isn't here to debate whether OpenSource Software(OSS) is high quality or not. The majority of programmers already know that OSS is responsible for the bulk of today's most superior software. In addition, BSD licensed software is known to be generally even Higher in quality than most other types of OSS. This page is here to explain how BSD and similar licenses hurt the OSS community more than they can ever help it, and why developers should use GNU licenses or similar instead."Read the editorial at FreeWebs. Our Take: Yeah... right... :P
In this article David Johnson will explain some key Qt concepts, create an example Qt program, and demonstrate how easy it is to program with Qt. This article is from the perspective of a FreeBSD developer, but the majority of it is suitable for those on any platform.
SCO has filed a lawsuit alleging that IBM has misappropriated and misused SCO's Unix code. With two thirds gone of the 100-day period before SCO is due to revoke IBM's Unix licence, vnunet.com interviewed Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCO Source. Sontag has overall responsibility for SCO's intellectual property.
eWEEK Labs tested two such well-crafted Linux distributions: SuSE Inc.'s SuSE Linux 8.2 and MandrakeSoft S.A.'s Mandrake Linux 9.1. These distributions would be as good as Mac OS X as alternatives to Windows.
"I have read quite a few reviews on SuSEs latest product with different people giving their opinions so here are mine. SuSE in my opinion has made the biggest improvements to its distribution in recent years but will SuSE Linux 8.2 carry on with this trend or not?"Read the article at IMAFish.
The next version of PalmSource Inc.'s handheld operating system will support true multitasking, bringing Palm OS 6.0 up to the level of its competitors and delighting developers who had been expecting it in the previous version.
There are multiple ways to look at Mac OS X and take it apart. Each way makes its own contribution to your understanding of the OS. In this long and interesting sample chapter of the "Mac OS X Disaster Relief" (updated edition) book, Ted Landau looks at the major ways to "take apart" Mac OS X.
"It's too bad 97 percent of you will have to wait until the end of the year to check out Apple's new iTunes Music Store. It flat out rocks!"Read the article at KnoxNews.
"Several readers took me to task for referring to Linux, BSD, and OS X as Unix. Lighten up, folks -- I'm on your side. No one feels more protective of Unix's heritage than I. Unix has a rich legacy that deserves to be preserved and accurately conveyed to new generations of computer scientists. It rattles many of us to see that the operating systems that best exemplify Unix traditions today aren't Unix at all."Read the editorial at InfoWorld by Tom Yager.
FreeBSD 5.1 Beta 1 was released during the last few days and can be obtained from here (ISOs here, select a mirror). The release notes are available from here. They will be replaced with RC-1 in 3-4 weeks.
From the Mono homepage: "Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top of Mono+IKVM. A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here".
"I was all set to run a column this week about the deplorable lack of even marginally acceptable word processors for Linux -- I even had it all written -- when along came TextMaker and blew that plan out of the water. (I still like the product, even though it has now made more work for me.) But the newfound existence of TextMaker suggests another, similar but broader, question: Why can't the community write something that good?"Read the editorial at LinuxAndMain by Dennis E. Powell.
"When will RAM prices make disk drives obsolete for database developers? I first came across this question when talking with Michael "Monty" Widenius, one of the visonaries behind the MySQL database. For some applications, running entirely in RAM is not news at all. One major platform, the Palm Pilot, relies entirely on battery-powered RAM. Disks are used only occassionally for remote backups."Read the article at DevChannel by Peter Wayner.
The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1 "Daddy Walrus", is available for immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors. Full details and changelog here.
