With positive reports from beta-testers worldwide about the new and improved Windows version coming out late this year, early next year, one would think that the tides for Microsoft are turning. To some extent that probably is true, for home users and early adopters at least… But what is happening in the corporate environment? Well, [...]
Wonderful news from the Open Source World… Ubuntu 8.10 has been released on Thursday. Using kernel version 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24 and Xorg 7.4, this new version has some cutting edge technology under the hood! On the software side, you can expect the usual goodies like OpenOffice (still version 2.x though), FireFox 3, The Gimp and [...]
The popular IT news site Neowin reports that they have received word that the beta of the newest Service Pack for Vista will be coming out in about 4 weeks, as Microsoft has started to send out invites to selected testers. Included will be Windows Search 4, wireless Bluetooth support, support for the new VIA [...]
The head Linux kernel developer & creator, Linus Torvalds, has added a large amount of patches into the main development branch of Linux. One of the patches allows the new file-system to present itself as ext4, instead of ext4dev, which suggests that this new Ext-version is finally getting out of development phase. However this does [...]
The new release for one of the most popular Linux distro’s, Debian, has been delayed. Debian Lenny, as this latest version is called, was supposed to be out last September. Developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl states on his blog that this is due to too many release-critical bugs. Translated to normal english, this just means there’s too [...]
