Psystar Responds to Apple Suit, Will Countersue
Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its reply to Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive trade practices. Miami-based Psystar, owned by Rudy Pedraza, will sue Apple under two federal laws designed to discour…
Is There a Future for UltraSPARC Workstations?
OSNews reader rom508 sent us a note that apparently, Sun has ceased selling all of its UltraSPARC-based workstations, with only their x86 workstation offerings remaining. The Ultra 25 and Ultra 45 workstations, both UltraSPARC-based, are still listed on Sun’s website, but are marked as ‘end-of-life’…
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Released
The IE team at Microsoft has released the 2nd beta Web Explorer 8. opposite to the first beta, which was aimed at developers, that one one is aimed at normal society like you and me. The list of new features and changes is decent, all focused around three themes (marketing alert): “We focused our wo…
Sun for Sale?
Dropping profits and stock prices have analysts speculating that Sun could be a target for either acquisition or a restructuring in which the company would sell off parts of the commerce and focus on a smaller set of technologies. In a July 31 report, the 451 Group analyst firm raised the opportunit…
Interview With Kris Moore, PC-BSD Lead Developer
“Not all user-friendly desktop operating systems are based on Linux; as demonstrated by PC-BSD, it is entirely feasible to turn a “geek” project into a piece of software that can be installed and used by even less technical computer users. Distrowatch talks to Kris Moore, PC-BSD lead developer, abou…
The Monkey On Microsoft’s Back
“Poor Microsoft. that week, the Redmond, Wash., giant is gearing up for the next big release of its Web browser, a leap from World Wide Web Explorer 7 to IE 8. When open-source competitor Mozilla released its final update of Firefox in June, the Web went wild: society downloaded more than 8 million …
Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries
Dynamically linked shared libraries are an fundamental aspect of GNU/Linux. They allow executables to dynamically access external functionality at run duration and thereby reduce their overall memory footprint. that spread investigates the process of creating and using dynamic libraries, provides d…
Create a Maintainable Extensible XML Format
XML is a communication format for exchanging structured documents and goods. Too often, an XML format is chosen arbitrarily during development, without much planning or design. memorize how to design a format less likely to require change and agile decent to incorporate new requirements with the sim…
Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0
Google has dropped the Bluetooth and GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog. The company opted to drop the Bluetooth API considering “we plain ra…
Vista Annoyances Resolved
What makes that Vista composition any different? The title provides a clue: it’s as much about providing practical working solutions to resolve some of the commonly-quoted Vista annoyances as anything else. That in itself should give all Vista users a reason to Gadgets it. However it doesn’t matter …
