Eugenia Loli Archive

Rise and Fall of Installation Procedures

Submitted by Raffaele 2005-05-21 Morphos 32 Comments

There is an interesting and brilliant article on Morphzone about various solutions of approaching installation procedures into Amiga-like OSes and mainly into MorphOS operating system.

System 8 and Copland

Submitted by Tom 2005-05-21 Apple 104 Comments

Apple felt threatened by the pending release of Windows 95. It had preemptive multitasking, and was heralded by many magazines as "easy to use as Mac". Apple started he Copland project to respond. It was to have had live searches, full multitasking and all of Apple's next generation technologies. The project was canned in 1996 at the behest of Gil Amelio, though many of its technologies were eventually included in the OS. Read about it at MLAgazine.

Wakefield RISC OS show report (live)

Submitted by tib 2005-05-21 RISC OS 12 Comments

The Icon Bar has got a live show report from the floor of this weekend's RISC OS show. So far seen there is the A9 Home machine, which runs RISC OS on an ARM9 processor, VirtualRiscPC for MacOS X, allowing MacOS users to run RISC OS on their Macs amongst other things.

Introducing Arch-OS

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-21 OS News 21 Comments

In the UK, Plymouth University's Portland Square building is the subject of an interactive experiment. Researchers have developed a software called Arch-OS which not only manages the buildings systems but also encourages those working inside to interact with their surroundings. Check the video too.

Workstation OS Review of SGI IRIX

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-20 SGI and IRIX 63 Comments

Can a proprietary Unix be a desktop OS that competes with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux desktops? Although it may lack the visual effects of OS X, and installation is tricky in parts, Irix is a stable desktop OS -- possibly because it runs only on SGI's own hardware. Read the rest at NewsForge.

RISC OS 5.09 beta released

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-20 RISC OS 2 Comments

Castle logoCastle have provided a beta ROM image of RISC OS 5.09 for Iyonix users, prior to an official post-Wakefield roll out of the new version. The beta release includes "updated USB" support.

OpenBSD 3.7 review

Submitted by Jem Matzan 2005-05-20 OpenBSD 13 Comments

NewsForge has a review of OpenBSD 3.7, covering some of the new features and what they do, a general overview of OpenBSD, and some suggestions for OpenBSD developers for some new features in the next release.

Partition Logic 0.55 Released

Submitted by Andy McLaughlin 2005-05-20 OS News 23 Comments

Partition Logic is a standalone graphical partitioning tool that boots from a single floppy disk or CD, intended to become a free-software alternative to certain well-known proprietary offerings. It's also an experiment in finding ways that a hobby OS (Visopsys) can be made useful/interesting to the sort of people who don't read OSNews. Release announcement here and download page here.

OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS

Submitted by BSD_User 2005-05-20 OpenBSD 31 Comments

OpenBSD 3.7 is the first release to support newer wireless chipsets, especially for 802.11g, thanks to a big activism campaign lead by project leader Theo de Raadt. It's now possible to create a portable access point with a tiny PDA using the Zaurus port, too. As usual, there are a lot of other big and small changes, such as the import of Xorg, the jump towards gcc3, and a feature to update your installed packages automagically. Discover the details behind the scenes in this interview that Federico Biancuzzi had with several OpenBSD developers.

New Wi-Fi standard takes the slow road

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-20 Internet 17 Comments

The process to establish the next-generation Wi-Fi standard, which promises to quadruple transmission speeds, has stalled as members of the working group developing the standard failed to pass the main proposal onto the next stage.

PC-BSD 0.7 released

Submitted by JaY 2005-05-19 PC-BSD 74 Comments

PCBSD 0.7 was released. This release is built from the FreeBSD 5.4 core, and fixes many bugs from earlier versions, as well as updating the package manager/creator.

OpenBSD 3.7 has been released

Submitted by Marcin Wilk 2005-05-19 OpenBSD 33 Comments

Stable OpenBSD 3.7 has been released. On this site there is release announcement. Changes are noticed here. Many people are downloading files, so use nearest mirror if You can from this list .

Haiku app_server/Interface Kit Progress

Submitted by Kian Duffy 2005-05-19 Haiku 31 Comments

HaikuNews has a screenshot of a test app running on the Haiku app_server (under R5, but does run under Haiku itself the same) using alpha blending and a number of interface kit widgets - buttons, radio buttons, text boxes, and textfields.

Solaris Containers and Zones

Submitted by Robert Escue 2005-05-19 Solaris 6 Comments

A new Sun BluePrints article discusses the differences between Containers and Zones, and how to get the most out of them. The pdf file is located here.

Netscape 8 Released

Submitted by Ryan 2005-05-19 Mozilla, Gecko 45 Comments

Netscape has launched the new and improved Netscape 8 today. The new browser is based on the FireFox 1.0.3 code and includes extra features and enhancements. It includes the best of FireFox with a clean Netscape interface.

What BitMover Got Wrong

Submitted by Shlomi Fish 2005-05-19 Editorial 62 Comments

"What BitMover Got Wrong" over at The Better-SCM site analyzes the wrong state of mind that guided BitMover, BitKeeper's parent company in the long, eventful and sad history of its gratis product.

Apple Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Review

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-19 macOS 70 Comments

TrustedReviews published a review of OSX 10.4 Tiger, with screenshots.

LLVM 1.5 Released

Submitted by Reid Spencer 2005-05-18 General Development 10 Comments

The sixth major release of the LLVM compiler infrastructure was released today by the University of Illinois CS department. LLVM provides a comprehensive set of libraries and tools for building optimizing compilers with bytecode, JIT, and static compilation. For more information on LLVM, please visit the LLVM web site.

Microsoft to flash Windows ID cards

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-18 Windows 19 Comments

Microsoft is getting ready to provide an early peek at new Windows software that aims to help consumers deal with the plethora of Internet logins. Also, more on Windows XP "Eiger", the lean Windows client.

Opera and Firefox: A side-by-side review

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-18 Rumors 68 Comments

"Opera Software recently released version 8.00 of its eponymous Web browser. I decided to see how the new version of the popular commercial browser compares to the open source Mozilla Firefox 1.0. I found both Firefox and Opera are capable browsers, and though they are very different, they each has much to offer any user." Read more at NewsForge.