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This article provides details on how OS X handles multithreading to help port your Win32 application.

Ten years ago, Sun Microsystems publicly debuted Java, software that initially helped establish the company's forward-thinking reputation and that later spread to most corners of the computer industry. James Gosling is the man behind the technology, interview here.

One of my popular articles shortly after I joined OSNews in 2001 proved to be "the big *BSD interview" and so it is only appropriate to end my serving at OSNews with a similar theme. Today we are very happy to host a Q&A with well-known FreeBSD developers John Baldwin, Robert Watson and Scott Long. We discuss about FreeBSD 6 and its new features, the competition, TrustedBSD, Darwin etc.

The newest versions of the next Windows add graphics sizzle and more search features but lack visible productivity enhancements. Also, Microsoft is battling the perception that there's little to get excited about in the long-awaited and much-ballyhooed Longhorn. Elsewhere, here is Longhorn's lengthy security wish list.

This is an economic analysis of the OSS movement from the journal Policy.

Apple's Intel-based Mac development kits have started trickling into developer's hands, Think Secret has learned. Elsewhere, CodeWeavers CrossOver to support Intel-based Macs.

The open-source OpenPKG project released version 2.4 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform multi-instance Unix software packaging facility.

If you are considering moving to .NET development and don't want to break the bank by forking out the money for Visual Studio Builder have a comparison of .NET tools you might want to use. The review includes SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop, XDevelop, Visual SlickEdit, and DreamWeaver.

This site has created a rather large collection of OpenSolaris (Nevada build 16) screenshots. Screenshots guide you through the installation process, configuraton, kernel compiling, BFU-ing, etc.

A truly in-depth review on Libranet 3 here.

Andrew Morton, maintainer of "mm" patchset of the Linux Kernel which acts as a development tree has posted a long list of features for potential inclusion in the 2.6.13 version of the Linux kernel.

Read a multi-page Gentoo review here.

This afternoon, a Microsoft spokesperson gave Tom's Hardware Guide some initial background information regarding which technologies will be represented in the company's release of beta 1 of Longhorn Server, which now appears on schedule for this summer.

Solaris Express 6/2005 (a.k.a. Nevada Build 15) was posted today, providing a host of improvements including aggressive use of large pages, desktop enhancements, the "Nemo" (GLDv3) network driver framework, DTrace enhancements, and a host of bug fixes. You can obtain a free download. An overview of new features is available.