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DeveloperIQ "India's first complete software mag" Sept 2002 issue:
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Highlights from the issue, compiled by FN:
* Free as in freedom... focus on some alternate OSs
- SpinOS (an OS that blurs the distinction between kernels
and applications).
- ReactOS: an Open Source effort to develop a quality
operating system that is compatible with Windows NT
applications and drivers.
- BeOS: contains advantages from several OSs without
ancient oddments of older versions.
- Inferno: middleware, networking operating system, and
a development environment for embedded systems.
- Gentoo Linux 1.2: High-performance ports-based Linux
metadistribution. Gentoo Linux has an advanced package
management system called Portage.
- Phat Linux 3.3: You can install Phat Linux on your
computer without repartitioning your hard disk.
- S.Ha.R.K: a dynamic configurable kernel architecture
designed for supporting hard, soft and non real-time
applications with interchangeable scheduling algorithms.
* In the CD:
- SpinOS
- ReactOS
- BeOS
- Phat Linux 3.3
- Gentoo Linux 1.2
- Vita Nuova Inferno - netowrk operating system
- SHaRK
- XFree86 (freely redistributable, open-source
implementation fo the XWindows Systems)
* Post your problem: Questions on
- How to figure out if your Ethernet card is recognised?
(itconfig netstat)
- How to access files on an MS-DOS partition or floppy
- What does it mean if your meachine boots, says LI and
then freezes?
- What if you forget your Linux password?
- How to install GNU software in Linux?
- How to configure your network in Mandrake?
- How to create a 'multiboot' LILO in Linux?
* Compile your own Linux kernel. Continuing the journey
with Philip de Groot. Concluding of a two-part series.
* Look out for some database abstraction on PHP and
learn about the Perl DBI (use Perl to access many
different types of databases through a single API that
works independently of the actual database being used).
* Ad for Borland Delphi7 Studio. "Provides the migration
path to .NET that developers have been waiting for.
... you're in control of a complete e-business
development studio -- with the freedom to easily take
your solutions cross-platform to Linux. Visit
www.borland.com or email indiacustserv@xxxxxxxxxxx
mentioning Delphi7 in the subjectline.
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Frederick Noronha
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