Eugenia Loli Archive

Wasabi Systems, a provider of embedded BSD products and services, today announced completion of a port of NetBSD to the 64-bit SH-5 processor from SuperH, Inc., on the Cayman Development System. In June, Wasabi Systems became a founding member of the SuperH Partner Program for providing services to SuperH Licensees.

UnitedLinux, the joint software development effort by four Linux distributors, is working on a version of its software for desktop computers, according to executive Gregory Blepp.

The journaled file system, which will run atop the Mac's traditional HFS file scheme, will be switched off by default; users will be able to switch it on via the command line, sources said. They reported that while "Elvis" runs in the background, enabling Journaling FS will slow current system performance by 10 percent to 15 percent. Read the full report at eWeek.

eWeek hosts four articles regarding Linux on the desktop. "Linux Renews Desktop Bid", "Linux Is Ready to Roll, With or Without Office", "OEMS are MIA When It Comes to Desktop Linux", "Red Hat Linux 8.0 Tops Desktop Class".

RISCOS Ltd have been busy bees over the summer and the fruits of their work are now available for all subscribers to download. RISC OS Select 1 was a step up from RISC OS 4.0 and Select 2 shows as much improvement again. As the Select site reports, the beta version of Select 2 is now online for download if you're a Select subscriber. A full stable CD based release is expected in 3 weeks time.

"Microsoft's rejection of Sun Microsystems' Java is nearly complete. Save for the occasional nod towards Java's popularity in enterprise development, Java does not enter into any of the development plans at Microsoft." Read the editorial at ZDNews. Also at ZDNews, you will find another related editorial, "will C# benefit Microsoft, or the industry"?

The Qwt library contains GUI Components and utility classes which are primarily useful for programs with a technical background. Beside a 2D plot widget it provides scales, sliders, thermometers, wheels and knobs to control or display values, arrays, or ranges of type double. In the meantime, Trolltech released Qtopia 1.6 beta, A complete mobile computing platform.

TinyOS is a component-based runtime environment designed to provide support for deeply embedded systems which require concurrency intensive operations while constrained by minimal hardware resources. For example, originally designed for the Smart Dust hardware platform, our scheduler fits in under 200 bytes of program memory.

LinuxWatch.org hosts two (rather short) reviews this week, for Lycoris B-53 and for Lindows 2.0.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knows what it's like to be in the hot seat. The company he leads has been under fire for a controversial new licensing programme that raised prices considerably for some customers. A high-profile initiative to deliver web services is on the rocks. And the threat from the open-source Linux operating system is stronger than ever. Read the interview at Silicon.com.

IBM announced on Monday a microchip for personal computers that will crunch data in chunks twice as big as the current standard and is expected (but not confirmed yet) by industry watchers to be used by Apple. Apple was not available to comment, and IBM declined to comment on which computer makers would use the chip, but its plans would mark a change for the industry, which has emphasized the importance of the speed of a chip rather than its ability to handle heavy workloads. Read the report. Update: Read another report at ZDNews.

BeOS developer (and frequent OSNews reader) Robert Renling wrote an article about the history of BeOS for BeFaqs.com. The link is dead at the moment because of the Slashdot effect, but there is a Google cached copy available.

Computer scientist and entrepreneur David Gelernter believes computers should imitate life. That means rethinking what it means to manage knowledge—and replacing the current PC and Mac desktop with a "narrative structure." Read the article at CIOInsight.

"Oldtimer Linux gurus get rather cranky about graphical interfaces. Sissy, bloated, slow. If it is too easy it is suspect, unworthy of the true sysadmin. I think it's nice to have a rather more flexible perspective, and to rejoice in the wealth of choices." Read the article at EarthWeb.