Monthly Archive:: January 2004

CodeTek Ships VirtualDesktop 3.0

CodeTek Studios is now shipping version 3.0 of VirtualDesktop, software that lets Mac OS X users work on multiple projects on separate—as the name implies—"virtual desktops." The latest version, which runs on both Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3, adds support for Apple's X11, Panther's Expose feature, an auto-hide pager, enhanced hotkey support, improved AppleScript support and more. Check the differences between Lite and Pro versions here and read the rest of the report at MacMinute.

GNU/Linux Home Desktop Kit PC Project Part 5: User Defaults

Linux has a unique opportunity to take advantage of its open source nature by offerings its users greater integration than even proprietary software can due to the fact that developers have access to both the code from the operating system as well as a large assortment of bundled applications. The following osViews editorial contribution is the fifth piece to a multipart series, ( | | | ) which outlines the framework for a consistent, full-featured Linux desktop platform that would help grow the operating system's desktop install-base among new users and Windows converts.

Microsoft Shines More Light on Longhorn

As Microsoft prepares developers and independent software vendors for Longhorn, the next version of its Windows operating system, the company wants to wean them off older Windows programming models. Elsewhere, Microsoft's Bill Gates took centre stage at yesterday's software developer day in London to convince UK software developers to stick with Microsoft, even though Longhorn, its next-generation operating system platform, is two to three years away.

KOffice 1.3 Released

Today, the KDE Project released KOffice 1.3 for Linux and Unix operating systems. Big improvements have been made in KOffice 1.3 with respect to interoperability with other office file formats. It is now for example possible to import as well as export OpenOffice.org documents. Also new is the ability to import PDF files into KWord and make changes to the document. Support for Microsoft document- formats has improved as well.

Red Hat Engineer Talks Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Inc. joined the growing number of server makers and Linux distributors that are offering some sort of financial protection for its customers against legal action by the SCO Group last week prior to LinuxWorld. In this interview, Red Hat vice president of engineering Brian M. Stevens talked to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about the distributor's new Open Source Assurance program, the addition of a server provisioning module to its Red Hat Network, the 2.6 kernel and the SCO lawsuit.

Big Guns Take Linux Higher

IBM Corp., Novell Inc., and Sun Microsystems Inc. bolstered Linux's enterprise appeal last week by detailing present and future products at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York. Hoping to accelerate acceptance for grid computing among commercial users, IBM is developing a grid-enabled version of WebSphere, code-named Cayuga. According to sources familiar with the company's plans, Cayuga is designed to make it easier to implement and manage grids. Elsewhere, movement leader Bruce Perens looks at court and market battles, plus Linux community projects.

Intellectual Property in the Real World

Information has been regarded as property in Western society for hundreds of years, but can it really be owned? If you’re a movie studio, a software company, or a record label, the answer has to be "yes." Russell Peterson submitted the following editorial contribution to osViews, which proposes that information can be too valuable to be privately owned, and discusses open source as the means of bringing it into public ownership.

Agfa Monotype Licenses Fonts to Red Hat for its Enterprise Linux

Agfa Monotype, a global provider of fonts and font technologies, has licensed fonts to Red Hat. Red Hat has licensed Agfa Monotype's Albany, Cumberland and Thorndale typeface families, and a font that conforms to the Unicode 3.2 specification, Unicode's latest international character encoding standard for multilingual digital information exchange. Red Hat is licensing these high quality fonts through the Red Hat Network, mostly targeting Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.

Ten More Ways To Make Windows XP Run Even Better

In the original "Ten Ways To Make Windows XP Run Better" Langa covered many fundamental tweaks and adjustments that can help you to move XP out of its bland and sometimes limiting default settings and into a configuration that better fits your own personal needs, preferences, and work style. Fred Langa now examines free add-ons and utilities that further refine and improve your operating system.