...a product called Win4Lin allows you to run Windows 95 or Windows 98 under Linux so that you can run Linux but still use company-standard applications such as Microsoft Office or Outlook. The best thing about Win4Lin is that it seems to cause virtually no performance degradation to Windows or Linux. If anything, Windows seems to run faster than it does natively...
Read more here.
Here's the latest statement from Linus regarding the Linux 2.4 Kernel release date. His statement says that he knows of no major showstoppers, and that he's asking the major devel houses to deploy the test kernels internally and start bug testing. Sounds pretty good - especially considering the improved USB support. Perhaps all those nifty USB gadgets you stopped using since you moved to Linux will now work! *grin*
Yes, Mandrake 7.2 is ready for download. It hasn't been officially announced or spread to all the usual mirrors yet, but word crept out yesterday on mandrakeforum.com. Be patient if you can't get through at first; you know how these things go; and keep an eye on the official Mandrake site for further news.
BadRAM is a patch to Linux 2.2 which allows it to make use of faulty memory by marking the bad pages as unallocatable at boot time. If there were a source of cheap faulty DIMMs this would make building Linux boxes with buckets of memory significantly cheaper; it also demonstrates another advantage of having the source code to one's operating system. Sounds almost too good to be true doesn't it?
Well, as the title says - KDE 2.0 final is out! You can download it here or here or you can look at the mirrors Note: RH 6.2, FreeBSD and Solaris packages will be available soon.
Network World is running an article on how IT managers should deal with Linux "sneaking in" to their networks, or more precisely, being surreptitiously installed on workstations on their network. Opinions of the IT managers they interview range from 'Reformat the hard drive and fire the person who installed that renegade operating system' to 'Don't ask, don't tell.' The article's author (rightly) points out that this is probably an unstoppable phenomenon
It appears that Jeff Dike has supplied a new implementation of the Linux kernel, whereby it is possible to boot a Linux kernel from the command line. This allows you to test a kernel before installing it, or completely partition users off from the main system. Networking appears to be through a slip connection, AFAIK, but this thing shows serious potential for increasing security and for kernel hacking, among many other nifty uses.
The GCC Steering Committee has issued a statement on the use of snapshots in distributions. This statement is clearly in response to Red Hat's use of gcc-2.96 in its Red Hat 7 release. They didn't like it very much, and there are compatibility problems. Worth a read. Credits for this news goes to Linux Weekly News.
Saw
this at Arstechnica : Gnulinux.com
has an interview with Jordon Hubbard, the President and CEO
of FreeBSD. There's plenty
of banter on "Linux vs. FreeBSD," as expected but there is some
interesting discussion on the role of FreeBSD in the "post-pc
era" and answers to questions like "Can FreeBSD scale to a PDA?"
A snippet:
