Monthly Archive:: August 2004

Red Hat delivers Open Source Application Server with support from strategic partners: Interoperable application server is designed to integrate seamlessly with leading vendors' solutions. Also, Red Hat and Black Duck Software team up on software IP Risk Management. New facet in Red Hat Open Source Assurance Plan is designed to mitigate risks for software developers and end users.

Hands-on testing and real-world experiences reveal that, despite great progress, Linux faces obstacles in conquering more enterprise desktops.

This chapter covers the wealth of tools and options available to administrators in Windows Server 2003, including many enhancements to tools that existed in previous versions of the system.

Obfuscation can help prevent the hacking of your Java code, but how does it work? Alex Kalinovsky explains the most common methods and how they can help protect your intellectual property. Also, Tim Stevens shows how combining the open source database HSQLDB with Sun's Java Data Objects extension may save you a lot of excess coding, without losing too much in terms of performance.

Tired of endless Windows security problems? Intrigued by Linux's power but discouraged by its complexity? Tempted by Mac OS but not thrilled with the hardware cost? If so, you might want to investigate the growing bunch of hobbyist OSes -- Syllable, SkyOS, Haiku, MenuetOS, Visopsys, ReactOS and others. Syllable is perhaps the most promising of them all; it's a maturing open source desktop OS with an evolving kernel & device driver range, and is targeted at the home/small-office user.

Arstechnica covers the basics of set up, OS installation and support, performance, and also benchmarks the two applications on the host machine. Virtual PC vs. VMware: which VM cuisine will reign supreme?

Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, including 27 held by Microsoft but none that have been validated by court judgments, according to a group that sells insurance to protect those using or selling Linux against intellectual-property litigation.

Gnome-Summary brings you an interview with Alex Larsson, the maintainer of gnome-vfs & Nautilus, on what's currently going on with gnome-vfs and what we could expect in the future.

Microsoft executive Martin Taylor's schedule is packed with meetings like the one in June when he met with representatives from French drugmaker Aventis in his Redmond, Wash. office. Aventis has tied together groups of computers running not Microsoft's operating system but the freely available Linux. These high-performance clusters can analyze proteins at blazing speeds. "That's great for Linux," Taylor said cheerily, at the time.

Dan Ravicher, President, Executive Director, and Founder of the Public Patent Foundation, believes there are plenty of ways open source developers, advocates, and users can fight against innovation-hindering software patents. But he also believes fighting may be less necessary than some people think.

The Evaluation Edition software enables you to build Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1-based operating systems for 120 days from the day of installation.

Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and others will announce on Monday the first servers to use Intel Xeon processors augmented with 64-bit extensions, a technology with major long-term implications.

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries are a collection of libraries that make up the foundation of the future enlightenment-0.17 window manager, and of several applications:

At next week's LinuxWorld show in San Francisco, Xandros will preview the Xandros Desktop Management Server (xDMS), the first in a new series of servers that will roll out by the end of next year. Xandros' future server line-up will include file, mail, and FTP servers, among others, said Xandros Chairman and CTO Dr. Frederick Berenstein, who remains bullish over the future of desktop Linux, too.