Review: AmigaOS 4.1
AmigaOS 4.1, which recently finally got a whole lot more accessible, has been reviewed by Ars Technica's Jeremy Reimer. "Long after most people had given it up for dead, companies such as Hyperion Entertainment Inc. are hard at work improving and enhancing the operating system. I had a change to look at a preview copy of the latest release, AmigaOS 4.1, and it is an impressive piece of work." Hardware 3D compositing, memory protection, virtual memory, a modern browser, and performance improvements are among the new features of AmigaOS 4.1. As a sidenote, OSNews will review AmigaOS 4.1 on the Sam440ep in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
Microsoft, Mozilla, Google Talk Browser Futures
From eWeek: "In a session billed as the browser wars up close and personal, key Microsoft, Mozilla and Google representatives spoke about the past present and future of the browser platform as they see it . . . one of the issues that stood out to me was that of developer discontent. When the Ajaxians opened up questioning to the audience, an attendee stood up and said Google's announcement of its new browser "was greeted with shock and horror," by him."
Delayed New Palm OS, Due End of Year
Palm's planned Linux-based Palm OS, called "Palm OS II," is "on track" to be ready by the end of the year, with a target of early 2009 for devices running the new OS to be on sale. The new Palm OS is being developed independent of Access, the company that owns the current (old) Palm OS, which is acquired with PalmSource in 2005.
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Microsoft Expands High Performance Computing
Microsoft just released Windows HPC Server 2008, with support for thousands of processors. A NYTimes article takes a closer look at Microsoft's ambitions in supercomputing, and current trends in the HPC field, where Microsoft has almost no current presence. Microsoft's strategy is probably a recognition that with the price of high-powered hardware decreasing, many new companies and organizations are finding application for high-powered systems, and they hope to be able to take a portion of that new business using people's familiarity with the Windows brand as a foot in the door.
SGI and Khronos Group Publish OpenGL with New License
SGI and the Khronos Group published a new license for OpenGL. "The license, which now mirrors the free X11 license used by X.Org, further opens previously released SGI graphics software that has set the industry standard for visualization software and has proven essential to GNU/Linux and a host of applications." New new license is shorter than the the FreeB license in version 1.1, which wasn't an Open Source license.
Viewing the Night Sky with Linux, Part III: Stellarium and Celestia Take You There
LinuxPlanet: "But they don't really give you the feeling of being there like a couple of newer entries on the Linux astronomy scene: Stellarium and Celestia."
Let's Talk Cheap Software
ComputerWorld Blogs: "Want to know one of the things I really like about open-source software? The price."
OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks: Harmonizing With MS Office, Managing Large Complex Documents
LinuxPlanet: "... we learn how to harmoniously swap documents between OOo and MS Office. And we explore OOo's wonderful Navigator tool, which is a powerful time-saving tool for managing large complex documents such as books and long reports."
DIY YouTube Uses Open Source Project Panda and Amazon EC2
Linux Magazine: "Behind the open source project is the British firm New Bamboo, specialists in software development based on Ruby on Rails."
Free Linux Driver Development
IT PRO: "Issues remain because of the reluctance of some vendors to release open source drivers or specifications."
Open Source Founders Doubling Up on Startups
The Open Road: "The OpenRemote blog suggests that Digium remains Spencer's primary home, but that he moonlights as the principal hardware designer for OpenRemote."
Today is G-Day
Crunch Gear: "CG will be at the event in force with a liveblog and images but before we walk to the well of hype and drink deep and hearty droughts of orgasmic praise, let’s talk about what Android is and isn't."
"Name and Shame", or Socially Responsible Use of Your Log Data
That Grumpy BSD Guy: "Your logs contain an ever-growing mass of data on spammers. How about making an effort to make that data useful to others?"
Android Jumps to General Consumer Electronics in 2009?
Engadget: "While the world waits to see the first Android cellphone revealed in New York later today, others are hard at work extending the reach of the open-source OS beyond just handsets."
Ten Easy Ways to Attract Women to Your Free Software Project
Free Software Magazine: "What's missing is a practical implementation strategy: here I present ten relatively simple changes in how you run your project, to make it more attractive to would-be contributors—especially women."
Famous Quotations Script For Linux And Unix
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is yet another follow up to a whole cavalcade of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap at reference.com, although this one is grabbing its material from QuotationsPage.com."
DIRECTV Scores Points in the Linux Community
OStatic: "Unlike NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games, DIRECTV customers who have the NFL Sunday Ticket SuperFan viewing package can now watch live football games on computers running Linux."
VirtualBox update brings improved performance and 64-bit support
Linux.com: "Sun has released the first update to its recently purchased desktop virtualization program, now called Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0. While not a major update, it does bring improved performance and 64-bit operating system support to the popular open source virtualization program."
Google Touts Open Source Cred
OStatic: "Who's the first company you think of when the words "open source" come up in conversation?...if Google co-founder Larry Page is to be taken seriously, apparently it ought to be Google."
13 Terminal Emulators for Linux
TuxArena: "ROXTerm is a GTK terminal application with an interface similar to the one of GNOME-Terminal, supporting backgrounds, desktop transparency effects, profiles, colour schemes and many more."
Did Google Reverse-Engineer Windows?
"Since its release a few weeks ago, curious developers have been sniffing through the source code for Google's new Chrome web browser. Chrome's source is interesting for a variety of reasons: there's the new V8 JavaScript virtual machine with its boasts of near-native code performance, the WebKit rendering engine that does all the hard work of understanding and displaying web pages, and (last but not least), Chrome's secure sandbox designed to minimize the impact of any security flaws that might exist in both the browser and plugins alike. It is this secure sandbox that has piqued the curiosity of some observers, and for a reason that many may find surprising. From reading the source, it looks as though Google has reverse-engineered Windows, and that's explicitly prohibited by the Windows EULA."
Windows 7 To Replace Subsystems with Services?
According to Microsoft beat writer Mary Jo Foley, word is that "Windows 7's mail, photo-management and movie-maker subsystems applets are all being replaced by optionally installable Windows Live equivalents." To many, replacing subsystems with services is a good thing. But what will the self-professed geeks think? Cnet seems to think that "Windows 7 must appeal to geeks--or else!"
Wubi Tuesday
IT PRO Blogs: "There's nothing more through the looking glass than writing complex pattern recognition statements in awk. There's also nothing quite as much fun as rolling your own Linux distribution from scratch."
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