Eugenia Loli Archive

Bush Unveils Final Cybersecurity Plan

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-14 Privacy, Security 110 Comments

The Bush administration signed off Friday on the final version of the United States' strategy for protecting the Internet and securing information systems. Additionally, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants even more power to snoop on the Internet, spy on private conversations and install secret microphones, spyware and keystroke loggers.

Genesi Announces New Pegasos Computer for CeBit Release

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-14 Morphos 18 Comments

Plexuscom, a designer and manufactures of broadband Internet access solutions and appliances, has reached an agreement with Genesi Sarl to produce and deliver limited quantities of the PegasosPPC computer for release at CeBIT 2003. Genesi and Plexuscom will share a Booth at CeBIT, 12-19 March in Hannover, Germany. Read the specs and see the pictures at the morphos-news.de site.

Linux is Giving Sun a Burn

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-14 Oracle and SUN 27 Comments

"When Sun Microsystems got started in 1982, companies such as Wang and Data General dominated the hardware business. In less than a decade, this upstart Unix outfit was a billion-dollar-plus phenom while the once-mighty minicomputer makers had been consigned to irrelevance." Read the commentary on ZDNews and a comment a few days ago, explaining Sun's Linux strategy, which is different of what IBM, DELL or HP does with Linux. Also, another Sun article says that Java servers feel the open source heat.

Getting to Grips with Grid Computing

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-14 Internet 7 Comments

Until now, the internet has largely been used as a tool for communication - but new applications are starting to use the internet to coordinate work between machines. This could lay the basis for a whole new level of automation across society, leading to great gains in productivity. The first step in this process is 'grid computing'.

The Roadmap for FreeBSD 5-STABLE

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-14 FreeBSD 53 Comments

FreeBSD team's Scott Long lays out a roadmap for FreeBSD-5 stable in this informative email. He says that although the latest release of FreeBSD 5 marks a major milestone in FreeBSD's history, there are significant improvements necessary in the areas of SMP, kernel lockdown, performance, network driver stability, ACPI and much more. He also presents a tentative schedule for the rest of the year for FreeBSD 5.1 and 5.2 releases.

Lindows at the Showdown

Submitted by Timothy R. Butler 2003-02-14 Linspire 21 Comments

Lindows has aimed to become the GNU/Linux distribution for anyone coming from Windows to Linux (hence the name). They have, without a doubt, pushed the envelope for marketing and pushed the Linux operating system into the mainstream media and retailers. Still, does LindowsOS have what it takes to be the victor of the Penguin Shootout? Find out at OfB.biz.

Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta 2 – Mandrake Linux for the Rest of Us

Submitted by ladislav 2003-02-14 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 24 Comments

"For the last few weeks I have been reporting on the development cycle of Mandrake 9.1. Then, the presence of an ISO image for Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta 1 piqued my curiosity, and some days later two ISO images for Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta 2 were made available on the various mandrake mirrors. Among my obsol... err, I mean, my old computers, I have a 350 MHz iMac which hasn't seen much use for the last 8 months. So without any extraordinary expectations, I decided to attempt the installation of this different flavour of Mandrake Linux. I was in for a few good surprises..." Read the article at DistroWatch.

Beta Development of Lycoris Desktop/LX Continues

Submitted by Tim 2003-02-14 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 12 Comments

Build 68 is now available from FTP's and via the Update Wizard (fixed SVIdir in keytable init script, kdeconfig: LANG support in startkde, changed KDEDIR to /opt/kde2, ktip now shows Desktop/LX Welcome, uses viewlets profile and 48 pixel image, defattr(-, root, root), updated FAQ for helpcenter, added khtml security patch).

Interview with Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord: QT Development

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-14 Qt 31 Comments

On Feb. 12, Norway's Trolltech formally announced its relationship with IBM, which is using Trolltech's ATopia office application suite as part of its 405LP design. LinuxPlanet caught up with the nine-year-old company's CEO Haavard Nord to ask him about the IBM deal, the latest on Trolltech's Qt libraries, the embedded device market, and about what Sun could learn from Trolltech's dual-licensing scheme.

MacOSX 10.2.4 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-14 macOS 39 Comments

The MacOSX 10.2.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: Address Book, Classic compatibility, Finder, FireWire, Graphics, OpenGL, and Sherlock. It includes AFP and Windows file service improvements, as well as audio, disc recording, graphics, and printing improvements.

SQL Server “Yukon” Details Revealed

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-13 Databases 5 Comments

Microsoft showed off some of the forthcoming programmability features of "Yukon," the next version of its SQL Server database, here at the VSLive! developer conference on Thursday. Yukon won't be an XML database, but will rather integrate support for XML data types into the relational SQL Server database.

Microsoft Tests Newer Entertainment OS

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-13 Windows 17 Comments

Microsoft is working on a newer version of its Media Center software, which is expected to debut on PCs around the third quarter, according to sources.

TurboTax Can Destroy your Alternative OS/Partitioning

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-13 Bugs & Viruses 46 Comments

ExtremeTech runs a story where explains the measures Intuit has taken in its latest version of its TurboTax software in order to escape pirating. Except the DRM issues arose, the software writes on sector 33, without asking the user. On many computers, there could be partitioning information, or even important data on your alternative OS.

Mac OS X Users Discuss the Aqua UI

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-13 macOS 58 Comments

MacOSX developers and users are discussing in their blogs some inconsistencies found in MacOSX's user interface and some found in the iApps. Read here, here, here and here.

Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran 1.0 Goes Golden

Submitted by Andrew 2003-02-13 General Development 23 Comments

SciTech Software, Inc. today announced that the Open Watcom 1.0 has been released and is now available for download from the OpenWatcom.org website and for purchase on CD from SciTech's website. Read more for the press release.

XFS 1.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-12 General Development 11 Comments

XFS is a high-performance journaling file system. It provides quick recovery after a crash, fast transactions, high scalability, and excellent bandwidth. This new release adds support for multiple filesystem block sizes and striped logs, plus plenty of bugfixes. SGI also provides an OS installer for Red Hat users who would like to use XFS instead.

Gates Previews Microsoft’s Upcoming Technology

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-12 Windows 32 Comments

Microsoft Corp. will unveil a new suite of business applications, new computer server software and new technology for 'smart' wristwatches in the coming year as part of its vision for the future of technology, co-founder and chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday. Update: News.com has a story too.

Xandros: Delivering the Corporate Desktop

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-12 Oracle and SUN 30 Comments

DesktopLinux.com discovers what Hilton hotels recently learned -- Xandros delivers the corporate desktop. Emphasizing solutions that offer a smooth transition for companies migrating from Microsoft Windows and a significant cost savings (reportedly millions for Hilton alone), Xandros is paving the way for Desktop Linux. This in-depth interview with Xandros' Chairman Frank Berenstein and VP of software development, Ming Poon walks us through the global corporate transition to Linux, Xandros' corporate strategy, open source philosophy, and much, much more.

Mono wx.NET Wrapper and MacOSX Port in the Works

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-12 Mono 43 Comments

wx.NET is a .NET wrapper for the multi-platform toolkit wxWindows. Additionally, Mono Weekly News is out and Includes a new interview, software announcements and the PHP/Mono integration. Also, there is work being done to try and port Mono to MacOSX. More info on the ongoing effort, in the list.

Fair Queuing Disk Schedulers

Submitted by Jeremy Andrews 2003-02-12 General Development 3 Comments

Following the recent release of an anticipatory IO scheduler, Andrea Arcangeli started a lengthy thread in which he proposed an SFQ (Stochastic Fair Queuing) disk scheduler. The idea was picked up by Jens Axboe who had evidently worked on a similar idea earlier. Jens quickly posted two different disk schedulers utilizing "fair queuing" algorithms, more commonly used in handling network traffic. Read the full story at KernelTrap.