Eugenia Loli Archive

The Desktop Linux Summit today announced that it has doubled the number of sponsors for the highly-anticipated Desktop Linux Summit to be held in San Diego, CA on February 20 and 21, 2003. Linux Professional Institute (LPI), Microtel Computer Systems, NeTraverse, Nova Computech, Inc., OpenOffice.org, StepUp Computing, the Kompany, Transgaming Technologies and Xandros now join Codeweavers, Hewlett Packard, Lindows.com, Lycoris, MandrakeSoft, Sun, SuSE and Ximian as Desktop Linux Summit Sponsors.

GNU-Darwin will no longer 'support or distribute any software which links to proprietary libraries, and that includes Cocoa, Carbon, CoreAudio, etc.' They will also be putting PPC collections into 'maintenance mode' and moving all operations to x86. Read the story at MacSlash.

There is an interview up at TinyMinds.org with the developer of the Slackware-based Linux distribution called VectorLinux. VectorLinux works great on both old and new hardware and yet it is very up-to-date in terms of software versions.

BeOSJournal.org reports that YellowTab's Zeta has reached Beta 3, and is on testers hands. According to Bernd, project leader, later this week a new beta will be ready. This version has many fixes and improvements over the previous version.

Yoper Limited, the New Zealand Linux company, is proud to announce Release Candidate 2 of Ydesktop, the first part of 'Your Operating System that Yoper Limited' ("Yoper") is developing. This second public release contains dozens of fixes and updates from over 5000 downloads of Ydesktop-rc1.

Dr. Jiang Li joined Microsoft Research, Asia as Researcher in January 1999. His research interests include video compression, image processing, video broadcast and communication, peer-to-peer networking, realistic image synthesis and image based rendering. Read the interview at ActiveWin.

Another OS/2 article, this time from John C. Dvorak: "Born April, 1987. Died Dec. 10, 2002. Cause of death: neglect. Place of death: Armonk, New York. Next of kin: none. Attending funeral: nobody. Official announcement appeared on IBM Website."

In the server OS market, Microsoft is dominant, and it wants to stay that way. With the coming release of Microsoft Windows .NET Server 2003, an upgrade from Windows 2000 Server, the company feels it can keep the competition comfortably behind. Read the article at PCMagazine.

Microsoft will release a Plus expansion pack for Windows XP to enhance the digital media features in its desktop operating system. At the same time it will make available the final release of its Windows Media 9 software early next year.

A creative team has posted some concept art and mockups about the creation of an alternative to Kicker, the KDE desktop and taskbar, named Slicker. In the meantime, KDE 3.0.5a was released, incorporating the latest security fixes.

Fred Langa bids farewell to Win95 and Win 3x, two operating systems that literally changed the world but will no longer be supported by Microsoft.

Tinyminds features an interview with Linux kernel hacker Robert M. Love, best known for the preemptive kernel patch.

Saw it at DistroWatch: "Debian 3.0r1 is out. The revisions of Debian's stable branches are released to incorporate all security updates and critical bug fixes since the last stable release and this one is no exception. The following major packages were affected: the Linux Kernel (the default Kernel upgraded to 2.2.22), apache, ethereal, fetchmail, gaim, glibc, kdelibs, php, postfix, python, samba, snort and xinetd, among many others; see the complete ChangeLog for details."

MenuetOS 0.72 released with TCP/IP from Mike Hibbett & demos: OpenGL, 3D Maze, games, GUI appearance setup etc. Additionally, SkyOS has some interesting updates too.