OpenBSD now has SMP support for amd64. Learn more about it here.

"As someone who has been involved with software development for over two decades, the whole area of how you actually bring together a team and get them to successfully deliver a project on time, is one worthy of a lot of attention, if only because it is so hard to do", says David Gristwood.

This installment introduces you to the Natural Language Toolkit, a Python library for applying academic linguistic techniques to collections of textual data. Programming that goes by the name "text processing" is a start; other capabilities for syntactic and even semantic analysis are further specialized to studying natural languages.

Security researchers warned Web surfers to be on their guard after uncovering evidence that widespread Web server compromises have turned corporate home pages into points of digital infection.

Illuminata senior analyst Gordon Haff thinks Apple's recently announced deal with COLSA gives Apple the credibility to make further inroads in "sci-tech" at lower levels as well. "They are seeing wins in biotech with smaller deals, and this deal legitimizes the PowerPC architecture they are using in their products," Haff told MacNewsWorld.

"Debian is not easy enough to use to give to everyone... we are working on making it more usable, but it will still take us a while to get there", states Martin Michlmayr, The Debian Project Leader in an exclusive interview for PCTechTalk.com.

"Windows is more secure than you think, and Mac OS X is worse than you ever imagined". That is according to statistics published for the first time this week by Danish security firm Secunia. The stats, based on a database of security advisories for more than 3,500 products during 2003 and 2004 sheds light on the real security of enterprise applications and operating systems, according to the firm.

Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past. Money-makers like the company's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite aren't on the table -- or anywhere near it.

A slimmed-down version of Microsoft's Windows XP will be offered to novice computer users in Thailand beginning in September.

"I've had SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional running for about a month now, its a good step forward from version 9. As usual its fixed lots of annoyances but created more." Read More at ImAFish.co.uk.

Mike Hall builds and debugs a Windows CE operating system for a new device right in front of you. All in less than 10 minutes.

This article demonstrates how Avalon's simple 3-D support enables you to create 3-D scenes. Discusses the ViewPort3D element and the use of point of view, camera, and lights in XAML markup.

Slackware 10 is released. Highlights of the 10.0 release include GCC 3.3.4 (with GCC 3.4.0 as an alternate in /testing), the Linux 2.4.26 kernel (with Linux 2.6.7 as an alternate choice in /testing), X11R6.7.0 from X.Org, Mozilla 1.7, GNOME 2.6.1+, and KDE 3.2.3. Read the announcement and the download information at Slackware's site.

I've been using Fedora Core 1 (FC1) for a few months now and have been quite happy with it. It is a good distribution with a minimal number of bugs (if any) that have caused me problems. Of course, it took some tweaking to get it just right, but I can accept that for the price.