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Microsoft offers development tools for Mac, Web
Even as its steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows, Microsoft is building tools to write applications for the Mac OS and the Web. Read more »
Melbourne gets ready for open source codefest
If developing code in open source languages and spending time with luminaries in the local developer community sounds like a good way to spend a few days off work, you should probably consider spending early December in Melbourne at the inaugural Open Source Developers Conference. (OSDC) Read more »
25-year-old BSD bug found and fixed
A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at least 25 years old. Read more »
Apple takes over CUPS, Unix printing software
Apple has acquired the source code for CUPS, an open-source project for managing printing on Unix and Linux systems. Read more »
HP: Linux adoption a long-term process
In a presentation at the Sydney Linux World Conference and Expo yesterday, Hewlett Packard's Linux vice-president, Martin Fink, said businesses deploying Linux should be driven by long-term planning rather than "doing it because they can". Read more »
Tattersalls dumps Linux 'complexity' for Microsoft
Gaming giant Tattersalls has decided to dump four Linux operating systems in favour of a Microsoft counterpart across its Maxgaming business. Read more »
SCO Group returns from the dead to haunt Linux
SCO Group, which for years has claimed that Linux infringes on its Unix intellectual property, has received new funding and seems set to continue its battle against the open source operating system. Read more »
Sun readies tools line for Solaris 10
Sun Microsystems has updated its development tools in preparation for the release later this year of Solaris 10, a major upgrade to its Unix operating system. Read more »
McNealy keeps busy at Sun
Despite leaving the chief executive role at Sun Microsystems last year, Scott McNealy is staying active with the company as chairman, and remains as outspoken as ever. Read more »
Sun hopes Project Indiana will help OpenSolaris
Sun Microsystems has revealed the outline of a project code-named Indiana, an effort to package up the OpenSolaris operating system into a convenient and usable "distribution" in the mould of Linux. Read more »
Features (161)
Vi for programmers
Love it or hate it, the vi editor is a powerful and flexible developer tool. Learn how put vi to work for you with this article on the top 10 vi features. Read more »
Linux for development?
Does Linux really offer the benefits that merit your consideration as you decide on an OS platform for your development solutions? Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Martin Pool
Martin Pool is a Canberra-based software engineer who started work on the distcc distributed compiler. Builder AU recently caught up with Martin to talk about his work, SCO and open source software. Read more »
Is Java Windows for Unix?
Java is an incredibly successful toolset -- but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular? Read more »
UNIX programming and open source Q&A
Eric Raymond's upcoming book on UNIX Programming discusses the principles that guide UNIX development. Find out what his thoughts are on the state of UNIX programming and other issues that face the open source community. Read more »
Mixing Unix and Windows
Most enterprises have a mix of Windows and Unix systems. Columnist Larry Seltzer explores the options for interoperating those systems. Read more »
Red Hat Cygwin provides UNIX shell scripting in Windows
Who says shell scripting in Windows is dead? Now you can run Linux shell commands while working in Windows. With Red Hat Cygwin, you get the best of both worlds (Windows and Linux) for creating batch jobs. Read more »
Time to improve application deployment
How many of us pay any attention to the system engineers who need to actually deploy these things? The answer is, quite unfortunately, not enough of us. Read more »
Unix pioneer an open-source killjoy?
Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings. Read more »
Open-source .Net takes shape
Builders of the Mono open-source development project has released an update that will let programmers write Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix operating systems. Read more »
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The Fud is Flying! (Again)
-- It seems like that the latest marketing technique for software vendors is to sling a little FUD and see if it sticks. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt make for some attention-grabbing headlines and are great for scaring potential customers away from a competitors offering. Read more »
The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computers
-- Ever wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »
OS X Leopard source code released
-- The core set of components under the hood of Apple's Leopard operating system has been released to developers. Read more »
.NET doesn't have to mean VB.NET or C#
-- It’s funny... when people think about the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) they tend to think in terms of either VB.NET or C#. Read more »
iPhone root password cracked in three days
-- It's been out just three days, but already the Apple iPhone has been taken apart both literally and figuratively. The latest: inquisitive Apple fans have hacked into the firmware and discovered the master root
password to the smart phone. Read more »
AUUG conference gets a peek inside Google
-- Google is poised to give their first public insight into the management of their clustered architecture at the annual AUUG conference in Melbourne next week. Read more »
Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!
-- In this week's roundup we look at Citrix's purchase of XenSource, whether Sharepoint is Microsoft's new platform for lock-in, as well as a plethora of Google news. Read more »
Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation
-- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »
Just how much memory is Firefox using?
-- According to our logs 40% of you use Firefox: can you tell how much memory it's using? Here's a few tricks you should know if you're trying to cut it down to size. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.