Eugenia Loli Archive

Mandrake 9.0 Dolphin Released

  Submitted by Mark Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 30 Comments
From MandrakeLinux.com: Mandrake 9.0 is out and it's been certified LSB 1.2-compliant today (ProSuite Edition). It's called + Dolphin. It's a major evolution in the Linux-desktop field, and will also empower your servers like never before. Read the press-release, discover all the great and unique features, pre-order it at MandrakeStore.com. Download is available through the usual mirrors, and Club Members benefit from an extended range of download places.
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One PC, Six Hard Drives, 37 OSes

  Submitted by Bill Banks OS News 30 Comments
"This project started with a simple dual boot between Windows 98 and 2000. Then I added some Linux distributions and BeOS. Somewhere along the line, adding operating systems became an obsession. I wanted to see exactly how many I could stuff in one box. It also became a project to prove people wrong. Many people told me that what I achieved could not be done." Read the original article at TechTV and the interview with the OS geek, Richard Robbins, at MaximumPC.
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Employee Leaves Red Hat upon Disagreement for KDE’s Crippled State

Red Hat 63 Comments
Popular KDE developer and Red Hat employee Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer left Red Hat today upon disagreement with their leadership direction regarding KDE. Bero cited reasons that Red Hat made KDE "crippleware" so he does not agree with this company line. We have already reported on the issue here, while Red Hat's UI team recently posted an explanation for the much-discussed issue. In other Red Hat news, the official date for the full release of Red Hat 8 is Monday, Sep 30th.
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Microsoft Posts Steps to Change XP Keys

Windows 5 Comments
An interesting turnabout took place over last weekend when Microsoft Corp. posted on its Product Support Services Web site a detailed knowledge base article that provides step-by-step instructions on how to change volume-licensed product keys for Windows XP. But the move, which started as a customer service to help users legitimately change keys, could actually serve as a blueprint of sorts for hackers to access XP keys, some said.
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Multidimensional Clustering for Linux, Unix, and Windows

  Submitted by GreyFox Databases 4 Comments
This is an interview with IBM's expert Matt Huras on DB2. He shares a sneak preview of the new release of DB2 version 8 and its technical highlights, including it's high-availability features, improved administration tools, performance advice, and multidimensional clustering, which allows data to be clustered according to several different "dimensions" simultaneously. There's a free download of DB2 v8.
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Ballmer: United, We’ll Stomp on Linux

Microsoft 93 Comments
Linux is the only serious threat to Microsoft's increasing dominance of the market for server operating systems, according to new research from IDC. Although Microsoft cannot compete against Linux on price, the company will use its community of professionals to outsmart the open-source movement, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told an audience of Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) in London on Monday.
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OEone HD: A New Experience for Linux Desktop Computing

  Submitted by John Gowin Linux 27 Comments
Linux Orbit reviews OEone's HomeBase DESKTOP: "Unlike Ximian GNOME, the HomeBase DESKTOP product doesn't take over the default GNOME installation included with Red Hat 7.x versions. It will create it's own session type in the graphical login (gdm) used with Red Hat 7.x systems. Why is this important? Well, from my experience, this makes HomeBase DESKTOP the most painless test drive of any Linux desktop product I've tried to date. If you don't like it, just go back to GNOME or KDE or whatever else you use, since nothing has really changed in those installed environments."
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SkyOS 3.9.1d Released

SkyOS 35 Comments
Robert Szeleney released version 3.9.1d of his OS, SkyOS, including a number of fixes, while he ported the first game to SkyOS, Quake I (screenshot). In the meantime, Syllable also recently got a port of Doom and Quake. In other small OS news, ReactOS has a preliminary graphics system able to run simple Windows binaries (screenshot, running inside the Bochs emulator). The team expects more and better compatibility to come when the WINE port gets finished.
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Why .NET Will Conquer the World

.NET 38 Comments
".NET clearly bears a strong resemblance to Java. It offers many of the same features, while adding interesting additions of its own (code metadata, versioned assemblies, etc). Microsoft, however, is better positioned to create a cross-market software unification framework than Sun Microsystems ever was (or is). This will result in a rapid expansion in .NET's popularity which eats into Java's market share as it grows to take over the development world." Read the editorial at ZDNet.
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Better Screen Fonts in OpenOffice Under Linux

  Submitted by David Chester Wayland 22 Comments
OSNews reader David Chester writes: "I've posted a modified version of freetype with hardcoded hinting options. (There are new hinting options available in freetype CVS, but apparently they will remain unaccessable from outside the library, so it has to be hacked by hand for now.) Anyway, I think the main reason it's nice to have a hardcoded libfreetype like this, is that you can have OpenOffice link against it, which improves the readablity of it's screen fonts to my eyes, and makes OpenOffice finally usable. I have some explanation and comparison screenshots".
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