Submitted by KJK::Hyperion
2004-05-27
ReactOS
Steven Edwards from the ReactOS project
talks about ReactOS, Wine and Samba-TNG.
Submitted by Matthew Baulch
2004-05-27
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 4.10 has been released and is now available on the
master ftp. It should be showing up on
mirrors shortly. Changes include the addition of USB2 support, a "dumb console" driver, a host of security fixes and many other tweaks. Userland utilities such as ifconfig, killall and rtld have also been updated. This release is very much an incremental one and contains no major new features. The current plans are for one more FreeBSD 4.X release which will be FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. After that, it's expected that FreeBSD 5.3 release will have reached the maturity level necessary for most users to be able to migrate to 5.X.
Submitted by Jason Reid
2004-05-26
macOS
The 10.3.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" and is recommended for all users. Key enhancements include:
improved file sharing and directory services for Mac (AFP), UNIX (NFS), PPTP, and wireless networks,
improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers,
improved disc burning and recording functionality
iPods connected via USB 2.0 are now recognized by iTunes and iSync,
additional FireWire audio and USB device compatibility
updated Address Book, Mail, Safari, Stickies, and QuickTime applications,
improved compatibility for third party applications
previous standalone security updates
The desktop metaphor, used in practically every modern operating system, has been around for many years and has been very successful in making computer usage easy for even the most novice users. Whereas once a user had to type commands in and navigate through directories by entering every single character in a path name, the desktop graphical user interface metaphor made it possible to perform the same actions by simply pointing to and clicking the iconic views of the various files and folders.
KDE 3.3 Release Cycle Starts with KDE 3.3 Alpha 1 "Kindergarten"
The KDE 3.3 Alpha 1
has been released to the FTP servers this morning. There won't be any binary packages for this release, everyone using Kindergarten is asked to compile it with --enable-debug, so that we can get valuable feedback.
An application developer can choose any one of a number of strategies to read and use an XML document. In some very simple examples a script containing a number of regular expressions might do the job, but normally a more rigorous technique is required. The Simple API for XML (SAX) is one of the two key techniques for analysing and processing XML documents (the other is the more complicated Document Object Model (DOM)). Read the
article here.
.NET luminaries
discuss themselves, their technology expertise, and whatever else comes to mind, this time about
Visual Studio.
Submitted by Michael S. Mimoso
2004-05-26
Legal
Bunker down for a spate of battles over software ownership and patents in the near future,
said Usenix Association president Marshall Kirk McKusick.
The "intelligent connected device" will be the next hotbed of innovation and growth in the technology sector -- revolutionizing markets as they exist today, according to embedded operating system market leader Wind River. Chairman and CEO Ken Klein
predicts a major shift in device software, and says that companies not actively building connectivity and intelligence into their products today will not survive past the next wave of technology innovation and growth.
In my recent
article reviewing OpenBSD 3.4, I ran into a few issues. First off, a few days after my OpenBSD 3.4 article went up, OpenBSD (without bothering to consult me) went and released OpenBSD 3.5. I
hope no one noticed.
Here's
a review of MDK 10.0 Official Powerpack with screenshots.
A US company that creates software to link disparate applications and operating systems says
business is brisk.
Submitted by Chris McKillop
2004-05-26
QNX
Cisco
has made public the details on it's new super-high end router, the HFR. It is using a new OS, IOS XR, which is based on the QNX/Neutrino microkernel.
The new version of the
Syllable Live CD includes updates to the ATA driver, i810 audio driver, DHCP client and VMware video driver. Best of all, you can now install the OS from the Live CD -
see here. In other Syllable news, Chat 0.2.0 has been released (IM client) and Syllable has been featured in Linux User and Developer magazine (issue 39).
Submitted by Shellie
2004-05-26
Java
Gain the power to develop and test quick JSP's with integrated Java code, using a great IDE that will help improve your productivity. This
article will guide you step-by-step through the installation of Eclipse, Jakarta Tomcat, and an Eclipse Tomcat launcher plug-in that will integrate them.
SuSE Linux 9.1 is the followup to an excellent desktop distribution. SuSE gave me the opportunity to use SuSE 9.1 Professional for a couple weeks. This is a review/personal thoughts on the distro.
Seen at Ximian's Federico Mena-Quintero
blog: GTK+'s Owen Taylor
posted an interesting study on how to render nice fonts on a resolution-independent screen. It seems that Red Hat is gearing up to compete with
Longhorn's features. Elsewhere, Søren Sandmann posted a
good list of interaction problems in GTK+ that individual hackers might enjoy fixing.
I am much into learning all-about-Gnome development lately, using
GTK# and
Mono. Unfortunately, the Mono/GTK# documentation is not that complete in regards of developing Gnome applications and this has being quite a stumbling block. The release of the "
Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" book felt like a godsend to help clarify a few points about the GTK+ and Gnome architecture. But was it really?