Monthly Archive:: December 2004

Thunderbird 1.0 is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client rate it here. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, builtin RSS support, privacy protection and much more. Elsewhere, Evolution 2.0.3 was released too (rate it here).

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Why Sun needs to enter the PC market? Let's first examine several companies in the market today:

LinuxJournal has a nifty article on how to build simple clusters with Ruby, based on real world experience from the National Geophysical Data Center. Article here

The 10.1 Official is now available as CDs or DVD on a number of FTP mirrors and through Bittorrent. Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official new features are available online.

As you might already know, FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier, a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without touching your hard drive. Today, FreeSBIE 1.1 is released.

LinuxCertified.com offers a solution for the users who require ultimate mobility: the LC2100 laptop loaded with the Linux of your choice. For more info and screenshots/images, read more.

Here's yet another review of Fedora Core 3, this time at NewsForge.

The Facade pattern puts up a new interface — that is, a facade — in front of the original system. In this sample book chapter, you'll learn when to apply it, and how to do so. Elsewhere, this chapter provides an overview of Unified Modeling Language (UML), a graphical language for modeling businesses, software applications, and system architectures.

The Users & Computers snap-in for Active Directory enables you to create Organizational Units (OUs) to set up an OUT Tree in the domain. This chapter coves setting up and managing OUs.

Linus Torvalds has some interesting comments on Sun's CDDL License which has been submitted to OSI's approval.

This article presents a multiple ways to keep the FreeBSD operating system up-to-date. It takes a FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE system through a subset of security advisories to explain the different sorts of patches an administrator might apply.

Microsoft will end extended support for the 8-year old OS at the end of 2004. Customers wishing support will have to sign up for a custom contract.

A month after the release of Fedora Core 3 (FC3) we have a pretty good idea over its evolution since its first release last year. In fact, we found FC3 to be its best release yet.