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Subversion is versatile, feature-rich and works well with Xcode. Read this article to learn how to install and set it up on Mac OS X Server.

Bob Young is, arguably, one of the most influential figures in the development of Linux and open source. By co-founding Red Hat with Mark Ewing in 1993, Young helped turn Linux into a household name (although himself uses Mac OS X). After being involved with Red Hat for more than 12 years, Young recently stepped down from Red Hat's board of directors. NewsForge caught up with him to see what his plans are, and what his thoughts are on Red Hat and the future of open source.

Black-hat hackers often use a bundle of tools called a rootkit to secure access to your machine and cover their tracks. When working on your computer, they need to store files and be sure that you will not stumble across them and get suspicious. Peter Hickman explains how this works.

Modern memory management isn't as simple as knowing that you have 150MB of programs to run and 256MB of memory to do it in. Modern Unix-like operating systems have their own characteristics for allocating and using memory. Howard Feldman explains how this works and shows how to analyze and reduce the memory consumption of your programs, no matter what language you use.

YellowTAB posted a news item outlining the general direction and features to come in the future in their Zeta operating system: Bluetooth and better ACPI support, move to GCC 4.x, SATA support, changes to the Media Kit and media player, multi-user support and more.

In light of the many misunderstandings about Linux, software repositories and installation of packages, part one of this season's Mandriva Linux 2006 review includes an extensive background article about it. It explains why the nature of Free Software leads to a more userfriendly software installation setup for Linux distributions in general, as compared to proprietary systems such as the current desktop market leader. The process is illustrated with Mandriva Linux tools. This first part of the Mandriva Linux 2006 review also contains information on the installation and benchmark figures against previous Mandriva/Mandrake products, amongst other things.

Microsoft offers scant documentation and tools for working with file types in Windows XP, presumably to protect the sensibilities of the novice user. Ironically, however, this just creates a whole new set of problems for beginners, and more hassles for experienced users. This sample book chapter remedies that situation. You'll learn the basics of file types, and then see a number of powerful techniques for using file types to take charge of the Windows XP file system.

Coming from his background in Java development, the concept of using delegates and categories, as opposed to subclassing, was a bit foreign to Marcus Zarra. In Java subclassing, nearly everything was quite common. So common in fact, that Sun provided generic subclasses in quite a few cases. Objective-C and Cocoa, however, have a different approach. Marcus walks you through the different approaches used in Objective-C programming. Also: the Java platform includes a number of packages that are concerned with the movement of data into and out of programs. These packages differ in the kinds of abstractions they provide for dealing with I/O (input/output). This chapter covers primarily the stream-based model of the java.io package.

Currently in beta-testing, Parallels Workstation is a new virtual machine system for Windows and Linux. The main program is wizard driven and it takes around 30 seconds to set up a virtual machine profile.

In this article .NET 2.0 won 2 out of the 3 major tests – clearly besting Java 1.5 in both execution speed and real-world memory efficiency. Java did, however, manage to hold its own in the native types memory comparison by a pretty wide margin. This indicates that on the whole .NET is a more efficient platform, with perhaps at least one area for improvement – native type memory efficiency.

A month behind schedule, Nokia starts shipping its Linux-powered 770 Internet Tablet in Europe, sporting a 4-inch 800x480 display, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 1.2, Opera 8.02 browser and more. UPDATE: Many thanks to Toni Leppänen for sending us a screenshot of Opera rendering OSNews.

On Nov. 3, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed that Apple has filed patent application 20050246554 titled “system and method for creating tamper-resistant code.” James D. Batson is listed as the sole inventor for application 837413 originally filed in April 2004. This appears to be related to Apple’s forthcoming Tiger-Intel platform. Elsewhere, 10.4.3 for x86 is in sync with the PowerPC version.

More than 2 years ago we reviewed the excellent "Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming" book. Now, a new edition has been released and it's renamed to "Advanced Mac OS X Programming". We take a quick look as to what has changed since the first edition.

NetBSD 2.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 54 architectures. More information is available in the 2.1release announcement.