Monthly Archive:: April 2003

The Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) version 3.0 for Windows 2000-SP3/XP/Server-2003 contains the tools and documentation you need to design, deploy, and support applications on these platforms.

The Fiasco Team is pleased to announce Fiasco version 1.0, the first official release of the Fiasco L4 microkernel developed at the University of Technology, Dresden.

"But now we have absolute confirmation that there is an X86-64 version of Windows for the Hammer platform and rather suitably Microsoft has codenamed it Anvil," TheInquirer claims. The existence of Opteron and Athlon64 processors with support from Microsoft, and even apparently its thorough endorsement, will put some serious pressure on Intel to re-examine its desktop 64-bit strategy" says another Inquirer article.

Check out the top five reasons for moving to Windows 2000 or XP, and find out what you need to do if you decide to make the change. The article is at ZDNet's TechUpdate.

Download the developer release of HelloWorld, a new chatting/community environment (with a backend connected to Gnutella for file sharing) that some people say that it could revolutionize the way we see the world via IM. The application currently works under Windows (the company might do an OSX port if there is enough demand for it) and the file weighs 24 MB.

LinuxPlanet reviews Red Hat Linux 9. Another story, by Guru Labs, is written mostly for system admins. Also, MozillaQuest has published a brief interview with Mark de Visser, Vice President of Red Hat, Inc.

Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its private-label version of Linux for servers, but the company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop system that should hit the market this summer, the company said. However, eWeek says that Sun has no plans to support Linux or Solaris on Intel Corp. Itanium systems, but the company is evaluating AMD's upcoming Opteron processors, Sun officials said on Monday.

A volunteer group of OS/2 developers has announced REXX/OS, a successor to the OS/2 OS based entirely on the interpreted REXX language that so many considered one of OS/2's best features...

Miguel de Icaza of Ximian tells all about Mono, .NET and dotGNU, Gnome and its relationship to KDE, and much more.

Media files and a transcript of Alan Redhouse's AmiGBG speech are now available for download. The speech was held at a Swedish Amiga show last Saturday and includes information on plans for a MicroATX version of the AmigaOne-XE board, to be targeted mainly at server farms and a SE-lite version targeted at embedded uses.

Microsoft is getting serious about management software. That's either terrific news or a real cause for concern, depending on who you are. On other MS news, three-fourths of computer software security experts at major companies surveyed by Forrester Research Inc. do not think Microsoft Corp.'s products are secure, the technology research company said on Monday.

And one more Mandrake Linux 9.1 review. This time is at LinuxOrbit.