Red Hat upgrades Linux desktop OS.
Red Hat Linux 9, which will be available for download as of Monday by members of the Red Hat Network (http://rhn.redhat.com) and in retail stores a week later, features new threading technology called NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) that its predecessor Red Hat Linux 8 lacks, said Matt Wilson, manager of base operating systems at Red Hat.

NPTL will allow the operating system to better execute applications that perform multiple tasks simultaneously, something commonly called multithreading. The improvement should come in the form of better performance, scalability and stability, Wilson said. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Red Hat 9 also features new versions of Open Office and utilizes the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) which allows drag and drop printing. There's a ton more stuff so I suggest reading the article if you're intersted in Linux. Having a Linux machine myself I have to admit it's a pretty nice OS. Especially since it's basically free.

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I want to trade my Gameboy Advance for a GP32.. It comes out the box with an English manual, a PC link cable, the GP32 uses PC smartMedia as its Hard disk and has 8meg of internal ram + its (upgradeable) OS, a USB port, a large hires screen (which is SO much better than the GBA one), two stereo speakers (one on each side), a joypad and 6 buttons (4 on front and 2 shoulder buttons), a 3v in socket, a headphone socket, volume control, battery compartment (2xAA for 10-14 hours) & an EXT out port which allows you to do many things including using the gp32 on your TV or for wireless multiplayer... [0xDECAFBAD]

So I traced the links until I got here. This little puppy appears to be the perfect game system. It plays everyones games and it's expandable, wireless, and with a big screen. Even has a Win type OS!

8:12:12 PM   

Microsoft breaks with standards effort. The software giant steps down from the W3C choreography working group, reflecting a growing discord between IBM, Microsoft and other companies over standards for Web services. [CNET News.com]

Crap! Here we go. Now there'll be 50 flavors of XML: XML, IBM-XML, XML-scape, X++,x#.

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