Monthly Archive:: December 2002

Interview With Ingo Molnar

Submitted by Jeremy Andrews 2002-12-03 Linux 3 Comments

KernelTrap has interviewed Ingo Molnar who has been contributing to Linux kernel development since 1995 with an impressive list of accomplishments.

A Chat with John Fowler, Sun Software CTO

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-03 Oracle and SUN 32 Comments

Recently, a few independent departments (Solaris, java, Netscape and other middleware) at Sun Microsystems got integrated into one, the Platform/Software Group. We had a quick chat with Mr John Fowler, Sun Software's CTO about Solaris 10, Java, the competition and more.

Review of LindowsOS 3.0

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-03 Linspire 77 Comments

I heard so much about this product (some good, some bad), but I had never really tried it before Lindows.com sent us in the latest version of their OS, LindowsOS version 3.0. I took it a spin for two weeks now, and here is what I think about it (and for the eye-candy seekers, screenshots included).

Windows .NET Server 2003 Release Candidate 2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-03 Windows 14 Comments

Windows .NET Server 2003 Release Candidate 2 is released to beta testers. Upgrade or join the Customer Preview Program today and see what's new. Update: An anonymous sent us a link on Microsoft's site which describes at a high level how they migrated the entire site to .NET Server RC1. According to the article they are experiencing high levels of uptime and significant performance increase that they may even reduce the size of their cluster.

Java 2 Language Fundamentals and Enterprise JavaBeans

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-03 Java No Comments

Learn the fundamentals of session beans: their characteristics and types; how instance pooling, activation, and passivation are applicable to session beans; and examine session bean methods and their life cycle diagrams. Also, Jamie Jaworski covers the fundamentals of the Java language. Learn how to create packages, import classes and interfaces from other packages, and create a program's main() method; how to access command-line variables and form identifiers; and discuss each primitive type, its range of values, and how to create literal values of each type (free reg. req).

SUN Swats and Solaris-Linux Wars

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-03 Oracle and SUN 6 Comments

Left on its own to interpret the order of the universe, IBM would have you believe any IT decision maker with any common sense would choose to migrate from Solaris to Linux any day: And they have the SWAT team to do it. With the momentum for Linux Intel servers, IBM is throwing its weight behind Solaris-to-Linux migration to gain market share. Read the article at OpenMagazine.

BeUnited’s New Open Standards Portal

Thom Holwerda 2002-12-02 Haiku 14 Comments

Now that there are a number of independent projects seeking to create BeOS compatible systems, BeUnited has launched an effort to share and promote the open standards for these Open Standards BeOS-compatible Operating System (OSBOS). Read about it at BeUnited.org

Microsoft to Loosen Licensing Clamps

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-02 Windows 18 Comments

When it issues a second Windows .Net Server 2003 release candidate, Microsoft also plans to announce a new, per-user licensing option. Plus, other tweaks are being offered. Additionally, major Longhorn revision shows AMD 64 support.

AMD Places Chips on 64 and Migrating to Itanium

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-02 Hardware 9 Comments

eWEEK Executive Editor/News Michael R. Zimmerman and EiC Eric Lundquist caught up with Ruiz at Comdex in Las Vegas recently for a candid conversation about AMD's challenges, its future and Intel's influence in the market. On another CPU-related interview, HP has the task of migrating its Unix customers running HP-UX on PA-RISC, as well as recently acquired Tru64 Alpha customers from Compaq, over to Intel's Itanium architecture. Making sure this transition happens smoothly in Australia is Steve Williamson who transferred from Compaq and now is business development manager in HP's business critical systems division.

Linux Future Scales Out

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-02 Linux 16 Comments

As dominant systems and software companies continue to pour millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise, some observers now believe the open-source OS's future is to serve as a distributed, network-based operating system. Read the article at InfoWorld.

Apple: Let’s Make a Toast to this Recession

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-02 Apple 109 Comments

"Apple picked the worst possible time to take the biggest risk imaginable. Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server are unqualified hits on everything from $999 notebooks through entry servers. Developers are climbing onto the platform in droves, as well they should. I can't say it emphatically enough: Apple is a serious player in the broad IT market now." Read the editorial at InfoWorld.

Lindows: Beyond Windows, Before Linux

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-02 Linspire No Comments

Fred Langa test-drives the latest version of LindowsOS 3.0, this Linux-based Windows work-alike operating system to see if it's ready for prime time.

GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3 Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-01 Gnome 25 Comments

The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3 "Twin Pines", is ready for your bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is intended for testing and hacking purposes only. You will need XFT2 and fontconfig to build it. Among the changes is Sawfish which has been removed completely and replaced with Metacity.

Linux: Benchmarking 2.4 vs 2.5, UP vs SMP

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-01 Linux 6 Comments

Con Kolivas recently posted some interesting kernel benchmarks generated with his contest benchmarking tool. Using resources provided by the OSDL, Con compared 2.4.19, 2.4.20, 2.5.49 and 2.5.50, each with a single processor enabled and with dual processors enabled. On KernelTrap you will find many of the tests, Con makes some quick observations about the results.

Introducing the Aurora Operating System

Guest post by Sebastian Herzig 2002-12-01 OS News 18 Comments

There was a very long break in development of this operating system, and people could only download the boot code and a nearly empty file that promised to contain AuroraOS. But this is over now!

Introduction to Arch Linux

Guest post by Jon "TrekBoy" 2002-12-01 Linux 26 Comments

Coming from a background of using MS-DOS for about 4 or 5 years exclusively (MS-Dos 4.1 or something) Being new to Linux and *nix in general I thought that I would want to learn from the "ground up". I did not want the bloat of Redhat or Mandrake but wanted something simple where I could learn the "stuff" of the OS.