Monthly Archive:: September 2004

From OS/2 to Linux: Part 3. Timer and DLL calls

Eugenia Loli 2004-09-01 OS/2 5 Comments

Linux is evolving as the predominant operating system of the new millennium, and legacy operating systems such as OS/2 are being gradually phased out. This series of articles helps the developers involved in the tedious process of migrating/porting the OS/2 system drivers and applications to Linux. In this last of three installments, the authors focus on how to do timer calls and DLL calls in OS/2 and Linux, with a view to mapping between the two systems.

Valgrind 2.2.0 Released

Guest post by Julian Seward 2004-09-01 General Development 10 Comments

We are pleased to announce a new stable release of Valgrind, version 2.2.0.

Increase Denial of Service Resilience on FreeBSD

Submitted by Avleen Vig 2004-09-01 FreeBSD 8 Comments

This paper on how to tune FreeBSD to better withstand DoS attacks was at OnLamp a few months ago. It is now up on Silverwraith.com, along with several other FreeBSD tuning papers by the author.

New L4Env and DDE release

Submitted by Ronald Aigner 2004-09-01 OS News 2 Comments

The TU Dresden OS tream is happy to announce the release of a new version of L4Env, the L4 development environment, and DDE, the Device Driver Environment for L4. It contains improved support for building L4 applications and running them on almost all of the L4 microkernels.

MyXaml Vserion 1.00 Is Released

Submitted by Marc Clifton 2004-09-01 .NET 13 Comments

MyXaml is proud to announce the release of version 1.0 of its declarative parser. MyXaml allows the programmer to write declarative programming instructions in XML to construct complex object graphs and property initialization for the .NET/ASP.NET framework and third party classes.