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12-01-2007 |
 OSNews.com in Agnix ProjectApple Serves DMCA Violation Notice to OSx86 Project2006-02-17 13:04:21+00:00As was to be expected, Apple's legal team got busy concerning the OSx86 Project. Just days after OSX 10.4.4 for Intel got cracked, the project closed down its forum with the following notice: "We're sorry to report that despite our best efforts, the OSx86 Project has been served with a DMCA violation notice. The forum will be unavailable while we evaluate its contents to remove any violations present. We thank you for your patience in this matter."Read more Davyd Madeley's Look at GNOME 2.142006-02-17 13:04:20+00:00On popular demand, here is Davyd Madeley's preview of GNOME 2.14. "Built on the shoulders of giants, GNOME 2.14 hits the shelves on the 15th of March. As well as new features and more polish, developers have been working around the clock to squeeze more performance out of the most commonly used applications and libraries. This is a review of some of the most shiny work that has gone into the upcoming GNOME release."Read more Seventeen Minutes with Bill Gates2006-02-17 12:59:37+00:00"On Monday, we had the honor of meeting with Bill Gates to discuss MIX06, IE, DHTML, AJAX, Compatibility, Office 12, and also gain insight into where he surfs on the web. He also shares with us where and how software can make the world a better place." ArsTechnica analyzes the interview.Read more SkyOS Gets System.Windows.Forms2006-02-17 12:53:55+00:00Just a few days after Mono got ported to SkyOS, SkyOS now has support for System.Windows.Forms. A screenshot of the first C# application using System.Windows.Forms developed in and for SkyOS is available at the SkyOS website. Support is not complete yet, obviously.Read more Windows OEM Not Transferable to New Motherboard2006-02-17 12:41:51+00:00"Microsoft recently made a change to the licence agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence you need to purchase a new Windows licence. Here is what Microsoft has to say: "An upgrade of the motherboard is considered to result in a 'new personal computer' to which Microsoft OEM operating system software cannot be transferred from another computer. If the motherboard is upgraded or replaced for reasons other than a defect, then a new computer has been created and the license of new operating system software is required." Please note that this does not go for retail copies of Windows, but only for OEM versions.Read more Booting 100 Systems of DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris2006-02-17 12:35:19+00:00Someone who goes by the alias Saikee claims to have a multiboot system booting... 100 Operating systems, which include various flavours of DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, and Solaris. In this thread he explains how to set up your machine, incuding GRUB, to boot 100 different flavours of various operating systems.Read more The GNOME Journal, February Edition2006-02-17 12:31:06+00:00The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published. It features a look at the 0.10 GStreamer release from a user's point of view by Christian Schaller, a short introduction into (de-) forming 3D models with SharpConstruct by Claus Schwarm, an interview with Jeff Waugh in the new 'Behind the Scenes' series by Lucas Rocha, part two of the tutorial on writing a clock using GTK+ and Cairo by Davyd Madeley, and also part two about marketing GNOME by John Williams.Read more Linux Kernel Boots on Intel iMac2006-02-17 00:15:01+00:00The Linux kernel is now up and running on an Intel iMac, and as such the Linux guys have beaten the windows guys. "Using elilo and a modified Linux kernel, we can boot from a USB hard disk on the 17" iMac Core Duo. We are using the hacked vesafb driver to inherit the bootloader's framebuffer, keyboard and a USB network card work. Gentoo runs and can compile the Linux kernel." Note that you can't really do much more than stare at the shell prompt, as no graphical environment boots yet.Read more Microsoft Releases Details on Office 20072006-02-16 18:54:00+00:00Microsoft on Feb. 16 is set to announce 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools - 13 of which are new - that form part of its 2007 Microsoft Office family of products, previously knows as Office 12. Retail pricing for the comparable versions of the product has not been increased, remaining unchanged from the retail prices for Office 2003, John Cairns, senior director of licensing and pricing in Microsoft's Information Worker division, told eWEEK. More information at CNet.Read more FOSS for os/2: Keeping the Flame Alive2006-02-16 18:52:35+00:00"After a decade of neglect and increasingly reluctant support from IBM, the manufacturer, the OS/2 community persists. Where users of GNU/Linux or FreeBSD have turned to free and open source software for political and philosophical freedom and software quality, the surviving OS/2 community has been turning to FOSS as a means of defending members' right to use the operating system of their choice. The result is a small but surprisingly diverse collection of projects that, to a GNU/Linux user, is a mixture of the familiar and exotic."Read more Genesi Selects Tundra Tsi109TM for PPC High Density Blade Server2006-02-16 18:47:24+00:00"Tundra Semiconductor Corporation today announced the Tundra Tsi109 Host Bridge, the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC, will be integrated into the Genesi High Density Blade Server, demonstrating the Company's rapidly strengthened position as the industry's leading supplier of host bridges for PowerPC." A lot of chit-chat press-release nonsense, but the bottom line might be that Genesi is trying to fill the PowerPC void left by Apple's move to Intel.Read more Oracle Tried to Buy Open-Source MySQL2006-02-16 18:42:00+00:00Oracle tried to acquire open-source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant collaborative programming philosophy. MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos confirmed the acquisition attempt in an interview at the Open Source Business Conference here but wouldn't provide details such as when the approach was made or how much money Oracle offered.Read more Review: Palm Treo 700w Smartphone2006-02-16 18:36:08+00:00"The Treo 700w excels as a phone, and has a number of advantages over the Treo 650, but is still not the best Windows Mobile smartphone on the market. It is rather bulky for a daily-use phone and it fails to take advantage of the full power of Windows Mobile. Rather, it seems to have been designed to move the functions of the the Palm-based Treo over to a Windows platform."Read more 'First' Mac OS X Trojan Sighted2006-02-16 15:45:45+00:00Antivirus researchers have discovered what's claimed to be the first computer Trojan to infect Apple Mac OS X computers. The malware, dubbed Leap-A, spreads via the iChat instant messaging system as a file called latestpics.tgz that infected machines send to contacts on an infected user's buddy list. The malicious file, which poses as a set of pictures, is a compressed Unix shell program. The user is prompted for admin credentials to launch the malicious code, which is better described as a Trojan than a virus. Mac OS X users who do this will find their machines infected.Read more Using strace to Debug Application Errors2006-02-16 15:36:50+00:00"Recently I inheritted ownership of an SVN server which was misbehaving. Trying to determine why it wasn't working correctly involved a few hours of testing, careful thought, and caffeine. Eventually I got it working correctly using the often-overlooked tool strace. strace is a common tool upon many GNU/Linux systems including Debian. Put simply strace is a 'system call tracer' - which is where it gets its name from. Using strace, as root, you can monitor the system calls made by any process upon your system. This can be enormously beneficial when you have a misbehaving program."Read more |
