ActiveState ships Tcl Dev Kit 3.0
ActiveState, announced the release of Tcl Dev Kit 3.0, with powerful new features for the rapid development and delivery of professional quality Tcl applications on a range of platforms.
Linux releases 2.6 kernel
After almost three years, the Linux kernel has been given a major update to Version 2.6.0, which was released on December 18, 2003.
Lindows.com must change name
Judges in Finland and Sweden have given [[http://www.microsoft.com | Microsoft]] what it has twice been denied in the U.S.: preliminary injunctions barring competing Linux vendor, Lindows.com, from using the Lindows name.
Microsoft sued Lindows.com in the U.S. in December 2001, accusing the company of infringing its Windows trademark and asking the court to bar Lindows.com from using the Lindows name.
The company lost two requests for an injunction and the matter is now for a jury to decide in a trial set to start March 1, 2004.
European courts appear to be siding with Microsoft. The Redmond, Washington, company sought a preliminary injunction in Finland on November 28 and it was granted on Decemebr 1, company spokesperson Stacy Drake says.
Microsoft has also filed a request for a preliminary injunction in the Netherlands and intents to do so in France, where it has already taken the first step in that process by filing a complaint with a local court, Drake says.
"In response to what is a clear and obvious infringement on our trademark, Microsoft has taken action in select international territories to curtail infringing or misleading behavior on the part of Lindows.com," Drake says.
Lindows.com Chief Executive Officer Michael Robertson in a statement issued in response to the Swedish injunction, lashed out against Microsoft's legal pursuit of his company, accusing Microsoft of using lawsuits "as a battering ram to smash Linux."
Lindows.com spokesperson Cheryl Schwarzman says the company was unaware of the Finnish preliminary injunction or the filing of a complaint in France. Lindows did know of the Microsoft action in the Netherlands, she says.
Drake denies that Microsoft is trying to stifle competition.
"Microsoft's steps in this case are only about the Lindows name. We are merely asking that Lindows.com change its name, which obviously is meant to copy our Windows brand," she says. "Contrary to Lindows' statements, this is not about Microsoft trying to prevent competition."
CodeWeavers releases CrossOver Office 2.1
Crossover Office, a product of CodeWeavers Inc., eliminates the need for Windows emulators and Microsoft OS licensing fees, saving Linux-based enterprises two ways -- the low costs associated with Linux, plus the direct access to Windows-based products without purchasing additional transitional software.
Gentoo Linux Server Vulnerability Found
After hackers had managed to compromise the Gentoo Linux Server. Officials at Gentoo Technologies Inc. believe that they have identified the vulnerability and exploit that were used to compromise one of the servers that house the code for the company's Linux) distribution.
Leading vendors support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Red Hat, Inc., the open source software provider, announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is now out, supporting an increased range of IT deployments and spanning seven hardware architectures.
ActiveState Releases Professional IDE for OS Programming on Solaris
ActiveState announced the release of Komodo 2.5 for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
Komodo's new enterprise-grade performance, multi-platform support, and comprehensive feature set enable greater developer productivity for building and deploying applications with Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT.
SuSE and SGI to pump up Linux to 128 Processors
SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) and SuSE Linux announced recently their collaborative efforts to extend the Linux OS to higher levels of scalability and performance.
Lindows offers 'world's most affordable computer'.
Lindows developer of affordable Linux powered consumer OS LindowsOS recently unveiled KooBox, a US $449 desktop system complete with an14.1 ' flat-screen LCD monitor powered by an AMD Duron 1.2GHz processor and 256MB SDRAM.
Opie offers standardized Linux platform for handhelds
The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment or Opie project has recently released its Opie 1.0 which is now available to interested developers of handheld applications on Linux.
Gentoo Linux 1.4 now available
Gentoo Linux 1.4 was recently released at LinuxWorld, the new version includes automated kernel build, CFLAGS generation, the Gentoo reference platform and support for netless installation.
Linux 2.6 test version released
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux unveiled recently the Linux kernel's much-awaited 2.6 version The 2.6 kernel includes support for Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) servers, which means that it is expected to strengthen Linux's appeal as a multiprocessor operating system.
Emulate legacy operating systems on Linux
This article shows you how Linux is used to emulate a wide variety of operating systems. More than mere academic exercises, these "hosted OSes" are practical investments for many server rooms. One of the best things to do with a Linux box is to run programs for other operating systems on it. It can simplify your life considerably.
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Inside the Linux kernel debugger
When debugging kernel problems, being able to trace the kernel execution and examine its memory and data structures is very useful. The built-in kernel debugger in Linux, KDB, provides this facility. In this article you'll learn how to use the features provided by KDB and how to install and set up KDB on a Linux machine. You'll also get acquainted with the commands and the setup and display options available to you in KDB.
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IBM releases free Q2 Linux Middleware CD Set
IBM has helped thousands of developers move their applications to Linux through its Linux Speed-start program. It has everything you need to start the move to the Linux platform, including the new and free Q2 release of IBM's Linux middleware CD Set(DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server, DB2 Migration Toolkit, WebSphere Application Server , WebSphere Studio Site Developer, WebSphere SDK for Web Services, WebSphere MQ - formaly MQ series messaging, IBM Directory Server - LDAP Infrastructure,
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Performance Inspector Open Source Project for Linux
Performance Inspector puts your finger on the pulse of your C/C++ and Java code, helping you nail down performance bottlenecks and problems with Linux kernel interaction. The suite of tools includes sample-based profiling, monitoring at the thread level, and more.
Source http://www-124.ibm.com
ISV's test drive IBM eServer Linux
IBM has a new eServer Linux Test Drive program. It enables ISV's the abbility to test drive Linux on all IBM eServer platforms. It's no-charge access(14 to 30 days) to the eServer iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, or its mainframe zSeries. ISV's can choose Turbolinux, SuSE, or Red Hat to develop, port, and or test drive their solutions on IBM's eServers running IBM's middleware, and the e-business developers' toolkit based on Linux.
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Server clinic: Put virtual filesystems to work
This article provides information VFS. A virtual filesystem (VFS) is an abstraction with surprisingly productive uses. Several popular languages now support VFS constructs, including Java and Perl. Tcl's filesystem is completely virtual filesystem aware and is way ahead of other languages in its VFS sophistication. The concept should intrigue anyone working with Linux, of course, simply because so much of Linux's own character comes from the representation of devices, tables, and other objects w
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Nicholas Petreley on what Linux developers really want
Evans Data Corp's 2003 Linux Developer Survey is out, and this year Evans brought in Nicholas Petreley -- long-time Linux observer, founding editor of LinuxWorld.com, and contributing editor for InfoWorld -- to analyze the survey results. To get some perspectives on what the survey tells us about Linux developers' likes and dislikes, take a look at this interview.
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Improve Linux performance
Performance breakthroughs come in two varieties: easy and hard. The boundary between the two is surprisingly clear. Although in some cases it has taken considerable genius to realize their first application, they're easy to understand. The other kind involve careful measurement, specific knowledge, and a fair amount of tuning. Good programmers can operate in either the "hard" or "easy" mode. This article offers a paired collection of 4 hard and easy tales from real (programming) life.
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IBM releases complex spreadsheet generator for Linux
SheetPages is a technology that provides a simple HTML front end for complex spreadsheets on Java enabled operating systems including Linux. With the template deployed in a Java Server Page (JSP), spreadsheets can be made available either in view or update mode for multiple users, as needed. The advantage of SheetPages is that complex spreadsheets can be viewed on a wide variety of clients. Many browsers can be used to view spreadsheets because SheetPages generates simple, static HTML.
Source http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com
Etnus TotalView 6.0 Supports Most Popular Linux Compilers
Etnus, the world's leading provider of debugging solutions for complex code, today announced that the Etnus TotalView Debugger, version 6, supports GNU GCC 3.2, and the Intel C++ and Fortran compilers for Linux, version 7.0. While these are today's most popular Linux compilers, developers have suffered from the lack of quality debugging support. Now, those programmers have access to the world's most powerful debugger.
Source http://www.etnus.com
FreeBSD 5.0 released
The culmination of nearly three years of work, this release starts FreeBSD on the path of advanced multiprocessor and application thread support and introduces support for the sparc64 and ia64 platforms.
Source http://www.freebsd.org
Intel announced on Tuesday new software to help programmers speed up Linux programs running on Inte
Intel announced on Tuesday new software to help programmers speed up Linux programs running on Intel Xeon and Pentium 4 processors.
Intel's $699 VTune software lets programmers zero in on the parts of a software package that consume large amounts of computing resources such as memory. A Windows version of VTune could remotely monitor Linux programs, but customers had asked Intel for a native version that would run directly on Linux computers, Intel spokesman Scott McLaughlin said.
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Domino 6 Gold release is now available for Linux
A free trial version of the Domino 6 Gold release is now available for Linux. Some of the major features include: HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, improved session handling, better denial of service attack handling, custom tag library for those developers developing J2EE applications, and activity logging enhancement to include more detailed information about Notes sessions. The technical overview is also available.
Source http://www14.software.ibm.com
Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 12
In this article, Daniel Robbins introduces the Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) for Linux. He explains what EVMS is, why it is so desperately needed, and why it will very likely transform the way storage is managed on Linux systems. Have you ever stopped to think about how many powerful storage-related technologies are available for Linux? We have plenty of them and find ourselves being able to choose the best one based on our needs. Choice is definitely a good thing.
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