Code dandy Transitive adds laptop, legacy Solaris/SPARC plays
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Helping the damned Software shifting specialist Transitive continues to better define its magical play. In recent weeks, the company has reworked its product portfolio to go after Legacy, Sever and Workstation segments, while also strengthening ties with blade server maker Egenera and AMD.â¦
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10.3.7 fixes bugs, fills security holes
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Three months ago I introduced my readers to a new system for hosting VST plugins compiled natively for Linux. That system has continued its development and has become a mainstay in the Studio Dave Linux audio arsenal. Here's an update on the system's recent incarnations, complete with the usual multimedia extravaganza of text, screenshots, and sounds.
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Aspyr Media has posted an incremental update that squashes bugs, smooths play.
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SableVM is a robust, extremely portable, efficient, and specifications-compliant Java Virtual Machine that aims to be easy to maintain and to extend. It features a state-of-the-art and efficient interpreter engine. Its source code is very accessible and easy to understand. It also has many robustness features that have been the object of careful design.     SableVM is a clean-room implementation of the publicly available specifications.    In this version, we added an experimental generational garbage collector, we imported a new GNU Classpath snapshot, we added handling of Jar/Zip files on boot classpath, we added user-friendly failure messages for bootstrap problems, we added added a profiling switch, we made sablevm-classpath install its files in standard locations, we made jikes and gcc be less verbose by default, and we made several important bugfixes and improvements.  You can download the SableVM from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523&release_id=281502
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Blog: Linux coder David Miller has got Linux running on a Sparc server logical domain, Sun Microsystems' latest partitioning technology.
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Rob Richards mentioned in a previous book review about some of the issues he was having getting the Oracle extension enabled on his Fedora 8 system. Well, he's come back after doing some more testing/compiling and has found some resolution to his issues.   I really didn't need to get it running, but the sheer fact that I tried it and it wouldn't work, pissed me off enough to spend some time getting it resolved. Hopefully this helps anyone else having the same problem. I am currently using instant client 11.1, but I did try the 10.2 version with the same results.   He steps through the process he followed - tracking down the missing libaio files, correcting an issue with SELinux loading the Oracle libraries and his realization: he just needed to allow text relocation. Included in the post are the command line calls that'd need to be made to make it all happen.
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Hollywood love inspires DTrace bomb It was all hookers and balloons at Sun Microsystems when the company first found out that Apple would pick up its well-regarded DTrace analysis tool for use with Mac OS X. Now, however, one of the lead DTrace developers has expressed some regrets after Apple "broke" his software in an apparent bid to protect big media and ISVs.â¦
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Latest PEAR Releases:Console_CommandLine 0.1.0Services_Amazon 0.7.1Testing_Selenium 0.4.2HTML_Table 1.8.2Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Pager 0.1.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_HTMLTable 0.1.4Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2 0.1.11Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery 0.1.11Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_XML 0.2.0Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBTable 0.1.7Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_CSV 0.1.6Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_Array 0.1.3Structures_DataGrid 0.9.0Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XUL 0.1.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Smarty 0.1.4Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_HTMLSortForm 0.1.3Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DataObject 0.2.1OLE 0.6.1PHP_CodeSniffer 1.0.0Console_CommandLine 0.1.1Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_PDO 0.1.0Net_FTP 1.4.0a1
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The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980's.  Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator.  It allows you to play all of your favorite Atari 2600 games again! This is the 1.4.1 release of Stella for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.  Distributions for other operating systems will appear as they become available.   Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, it has been ported to a number of other platforms.   The distributions currently available are:    * Binary distribution in RPM format for Linux (stella-1.4.1-1.i586.rpm)    * Binary distribution for Mac OSX (StellaOSX1.4.1.dmg.gz)    * Binary distribution for Windows (stella-1.4.1-win32.zip)    * Source code distribution for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows (stella-1.4.1-src.tar.gz)    * Source code in SRPM format for Linux RPM-based systems (stella-1.4.1-1.src.rpm)  PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ASKING FOR ROM IMAGES TO USE WITH STELLA! ALL SUCH REQUESTS WILL BE IGNORED!  New in this Release ===================    * Fixed PAL sound issues.  PAL games now should sound correct (no distortion     or missing sounds), but some games may still run too fast.  This is still     a work-in-progress, and will be fixed in Stella 1.5.    * Cleaned up the SDL event gathering loop.  This should hopefully fix the     problems with "double-pumping events" reported by some Windows users.     Event gathering and dispatching is now much faster as well.    * Fixed a bug where the Control or Alt keys could be assigned to some event,     but they could never be used.  Control/Alt can now be used for any event.    * Updated stella.pro file to work with the latest Good2600 ROMset release     (Thanks go to Voch for helping to maintain the stella.pro file).    * For the Windows port; removed requirement for ROM files to be named *.bin     in the StellaX frontend.  The ROM's can now have any name, but ZIP-files are     not yet supported.    * For the Windows port; fixed the problems with the included modified SDL     library and Windows 98 users.  Stella should now run in Windows 98.    * For the OSX port; added preference to allow user to select the directory     in which ROM images are stored.  This sets the default directory to start     the browsing for a ROM in, and doesn't preclude the user from selecting a     file outside that directory.    * For the OSX port; fixed preferences bug where Preferences changed before     a game was opened were not being saved.
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Executives from Sun Microsystems Inc. outlined their response to the growing popularity of Linux, speaking at the launch on Monday of the most significant update of the Solaris operating system in over two years. Key to the effort is a plan to release Solaris under an open source license with a new subscription pricing model, as well as a software updating system similar to those used by Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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To each his own, but I love eye candy.  When I heard that you could get the 3D Xgl and Compiz environment running on Ubuntu/Kubuntu dapper (my default distribution), I immediately searched the web for instructions.  Most of the instructions take a reasonably timid approach, which gets your 3D environment running in a test console (the second display, or :1).  I'm more adventurous, however, and I immediately went for a total replacement.  What follows are instructions for doing the same.
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Sun Microsystems Inc.  is revamping its Solaris operating system, incorporating key pieces of rival Linux software in a move that could gain better support from developers who have massed behind Linux.
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Sivar writes &quot;Ace&#39;s Hardware and news.com.com.com report Solaris that 10 has been released. Improvements include a performance-enhanced TCP-IP stack to shed the &quot;Slowaris&quot; moniker and their much-vaunted ZFS (Z File System).
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Spyrit is a MUSH/MUCK/MOO client written in Python using the Qt toolkit. It aims to be a pleasant, extensible, polished product, and to support all three major platforms.    Spyrit v0.2 is still a few features short of going gold, but should already be usable and pleasant to use.  Version 0.2 implements ANSI format codes rendering, preliminary Telnet negotiation support, SSL encryption where supported, unlimited input history, plus a few minor improvements and speedups.  It also offers experimental binaries for both Windows and Linux. Feedback on those is kindly welcome.
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This is release 0.3.1 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).   Mainly, the work focused on rewriting certain parts of the ReactOS Core (kernel, HAL, bootloader, etc). Read through the changelog, and you will see the amount of changes in this release!  Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware.  Press-release: http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_34.html  Changelog: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0.3.1  Download packages are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6553&package_id=6629&release_id=492696  ReactOS website: http://www.reactos.org
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Sun is expected Tuesday to ship xVM Ops Center, a datacenter automation console compatible with Linux- and Solaris-based x86 and Sparc environments.Ops Center&#39;s features include automatic installation of firmware and bare-metal operating systems; scanning and tracking of servers in a network; and patch-management tools for SUSE, Red Hat, and Solaris, according to a company statement.James Staten, an analyst with Forrester Research, said the last feature is particularly compelling, but not enough to attract a great deal of new business to Sun&#39;s platform.&quot;The patching mechanism they have is very impressive and works with both Linux and Solaris, but given that this is a 1.0 product the appeal will remain mainly with existing Sun customers,&quot; he said via e-mail Friday.&quot;It&#39;s a substantially better entry in systems management than their previous attempts, and much more open,&quot; he added.The Ops Center codebase has already been released under the open-source GPLv3 license and is available at www.openxVM.org.Sun previously said the first commercial version of Ops Center would be available on Jan. 8.Oren Teich, director of product management and marketing for xVM, said the company needed additional time to make some final tweaks and improvements in areas including firmware provisioning and reporting, following requests from early beta users.He disagreed with the notion that mainly existing Sun customers will buy the software, saying the company expects that sales will be split between current and new users. While it is a 1.0 release, code from two existing Sun products, N1 System Manager and Sun Connection, are running under the hood of Ops Center&#39;s GUI, he said. &quot;In some ways, this is a very mature project.&quot;Yet the first version has a key omission: support for Windows. &quot;Although Windows support is not currently available, we&#39;re committed to offering it in the future,&quot; Teich said.Sun is also developing xVM Server, a bare-metal, Xen-based hypervisor with support for Linux, Solaris and Windows guest operating systems.While Sun&#39;s xVM brand stands for &quot;the intersection of virtualization and management,&quot; according to Teich, the Ops Center 1.0 release does not feature a broad range of functionality around virtualization. This summer, Sun will release its hypervisor product and &quot;an update to Ops Center that will have a lot of virtualization capabilities on top of it,&quot; Teich said.The company will battle along with leader VMware, Oracle, Microsoft and an array of other vendors for a stake in the virtualization space, which analysts have pegged as remaining wide-open despite the voluminous hype around the topic in recent years.With Ops Center, Sun will go up against IT management powerhouses such as HP and IBM.Subscription pricing for Ops Center, with support and network-delivered services, ranges between $100 and $350 per managed server per year.