an Francisco, CA., April 6, 2004 - X.Org Foundation today announces their
first release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in
January of this year. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version
11 Release 6.7 (X11R6.7), builds on the work of the X.Org X11R6.6 and
XFree86TM Project Inc. V4.4RC2 releases to combine many of the latest
developments from a large number of the participants and companies working
with the X Window community. The X Window System X11R6.7 release can be found
at http://www.x.org/.
With all the buried features and subtle changes hidden away in OS X 10.3 (alias: Panther), you'd think that Steve Jobs were running a covert operation. Sure, you know about Exposé and Fast User Switching — but look deeper, and you'll find that there's much more to this cat than meets the eye.
The Fink Project has released an update for Fink Binary Installer, bringing it to version 0.7.0 and 0.6.3. Fink Binary Installer is a utility designed for open sourced software development. The update features an improved package manager.
Apple computer has a long and distinguished list of “firsts” in
personal computing, not to mention the least of which, they invented
personal computing as we know it today. The others include a long line
of stuff, including, but not limited to, in personal computer “firsts,”
first with a GUI, first with a mouse, first with a color monitor, first
with a floppy drive, first with a hard drive, first to have a CD-ROM,
first to make home movie editing possible, first with USB and Firewire,
first with 64-bit processor — the list goes on.
A Corel representative said the company's online store will begin selling a “proof-of-concept” Linux-native version of WordPerfect on April 15. “This pilot project is designed to determine the feasibility of developing future Linux versions of WordPerfect or WordPerfect Office,” the representative said.
The Fall distribution release period of 2003 was not the most interesting, nor the least interesting in recent memory. For
the most part all of the distributions got better, but not so much
that those running distributions now going on a year in age are
really missing anything terribly substantial. We did find a few
interesting points worth revisiting, however, and those deal with
Mandrake Linux 9.2 and Fedora Core 1.
The wake of the controversial XFree86 license modifications that will premier in XFree86 4.4 is growing larger each day. It now appears that Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mandrake Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, OpenBSD and Gentoo Linux will be sticking with XFree86 4.3 in their next respective releases. With such a large controversy surrounding the license, we decided to ask Free Software Foundation founder and president Richard M. Stallman about the issue.
In a surprise announcement at the developer conference, PalmSource revealed that Palm OS Cobalt will no longer offer synchronization with the Mac OS. This marks a departure as previous versions of the Palm OS had long shipped with Mac compatible hotsync software. update: PalmSource has issued a statement clarifying their position on the issue.
“For our [Mars] landing site work, we always get the highest-end desktop Mac we can find, so we just got one of the G5s with dual 2-GB processors and 8 GB of RAM,” Matt Golombek, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the E-Commerce Times.
Trolltech's Qt development toolkit is serious stuff. As the foundation of KDE on the GNU/Linux desktop as well as its usage as a popular environment (when matched with Trolltech's Qtopia) for PDA interfaces, not to mention great support for Mac OS X, it is hard to imagine any tool that offers a comparably serious cross platform solution. With the third major release of the Qt 3 series last Wednesday, Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord graciously took some time to talk with us about Qt and related topics.