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.
Source: CIOL
CodeWeavers’ new software offering enables Linux users to run most Microsoft Office XP components on Linux, thus giving an extra edge to this OS.
The CrossOver Office Version 2.0, allows applications like Microsoft Office XP, Adobe Photoshop 7, and Microsoft Access without the need for a Windows emulator or OS license. Outlook XP is not supported in CrossOver Office Version 2.0, but will be supported in next version of CrossOver Office.
Linux offers powerful, flexible tools for creating CDs. You can create disks that are readable on almost any platform and create .iso files for download and distribution. Creating CDs on Linux is easy -- once you know your way around the terminology, standards, and a few hardware issues. Take a look at this article, then you, too, can burn CDs from the command line.
DesktopLinux.com previews the upcoming CrossOver Office 2.0 release from CodeWeavers that introduces support for Adobe Photoshop, among other featured enhancements. Embedded Linux support engineer, and former Adobe test engineer, Cal Erickson gives the new release extensive testing. Read on for his review...
The Australian hacker has been working on pushing Samba beyond the POSIX world and figuring out what work needs to be done to get Samba to support new filesystems such as XFS, ext3, and Storage Tank. The answer is nothing less than a complete rewrite of Samba's smbd code, which has become his latest pet project. Here's an interview with Andrew Tridgell on his latest Samba rewrite.
Source: OS News
I'm not a technical writer. I'm not someone who's only used the most well known Operating Systems. And most importantly, I'm not someone who is going to try and convince you that you need to switch to Linux if you're currently using Windows. Let me go one step further... I'm going to tell you why Linux is NOT for you. Hopefully the people I'm talking to will be seeing clearly enough to know who they are by the end of this article.
The XMMS (X MultiMedia System), an MP3 player for Linux, website was hacked today. Come see what the hackers left. It is interesting to rid this "grafitied" web sites after they are hacked. Teaches people much about the hacker mentality. In this case, they are malicious crackers, but I shall not dwell on semantics...
Here it is: http://www.xmms.org.
Performance breakthroughs seem to come in two varieties: easy and hard. That's no platitude; 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.
