Five years ago, open source databases were not on most IT professionals' radar but today they are making enough blips to keep a full staff of flight controllers busy.

The new release is out there for you to download. New in this release is Darwin/Mac OS X support, updated MESA, more drivers and the usual round of bug fixes.

The new release is out there for you to download. New in this release is Darwin/Mac OS X support, updated MESA, more drivers and the usual round of bug fixes.

Trolltech is proud to present version 2.2.3 of Qt, the cross-platform C++ Graphical User Interface application framework.

Trolltech is proud to present version 2.2.3 of Qt, the cross-platform C++ Graphical User Interface application framework.

pdowner asks: "I've just finished and handed in my latest Operating Systems Inmternals assignment for my degree in Computer Studies. It

involved writing/modifying a timer module for a Microkernel implemented in modula 2, which is written by one of my lectures and is

available from here. I am interested in finding out what microkernels other universities use to teach their students the insides of Operating

Systems."

Might it be that one could cobble together a system such that the kernel takes care of all the hardware-based graphical duties, such that one could boot Linux with frame-buffer support enabled and switch directly into a window manager and desktop, bypassing XFree86 entirely?

"I think Linux will become dominant before it is really ready technically for the end users. And the reason I believe that is because I now think that Microsoft monopoly is going to collapse ... in the near future."

This article looks at some of the old windows managers -- mwm and olwm. Olwm has been around longer than mwm has but it has been replaced now by the latter and is not under development.

Kerneltrap (http://www.kerneltrap.com/) is a news and discussion

portal devoted to low-level systems programming, embedded

systems, and OS kernel hacking. Whether you are a professionally

trained software engineer, a kernel hacking guru, or a weekend

hobbiest with a knack for device drivers, this site should be of

interest to you.