General Development Archive

Borland to Revamp Developer Package

Eugenia Loli 2001-10-21 General Development No Comments

Borland, will announce version 2 of its Kylix package Tuesday. Kylix, introduced in January, lets software developers write programs that can be used on Linux or Windows machines. The new version will add features that improve the product's support for Web services, a representative said. Web services move tasks that took place on a PC or a single server onto a network of servers, ZDNews reports. In other development news, Python 2.2b1 was released.

Converting your Root Partition to JFS or XFS

Eugenia Loli 2001-09-06 General Development 3 Comments

Following up the interview which OSNews hosted recently regarding modern journaled filesystems, here are two tutorials on how to convert your / (root) Linux partition to SGI's XFS or IBM's JFS filesystems.

Dennis Ritchie Put the C in Compiler

Eugenia Loli 2001-09-03 General Development 6 Comments

He invented the C programming language. He is one of the co-creators of Unix. He has watched more than one multi-billion dollar industry evolve around his creations. And still, Dennis Ritchie shows up for work each day in the same Murray Hill, NJ office where he and Ken Thompson first ran Unix on a Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-7 back in 1969. Why? Well, it's not just any old company that employs Ritchie. This is Lucent's Bell Labs we're talking about the home of the laser, the place where the transistor first saw life. It's a pretty exciting work environment, and, as Ritchie is fond of saying, it's nice to walk around your office and stumble into things like canisters of liquid helium. It was at his nondescript office, right next to where Unix was invented, that Ritchie met with Linux Magazine's Robert McMillan and Adam Goodman." More at Linux Magazine.