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XFree86
Downloads XFree86, a free implementation of the X Window System, has been ported to Darwin and Mac OS X. Pre-compiled binaries for XFree86 are available with a graphical installer from the XonX Project. Please visit the XonX Project website for more...
[August 9, 2002, 0:54]
Key Linux Group Faces Split
News A schism has struck the XFree86 movement, an open-source graphics project key to Linux and several other operating systems, with the core group in charge of the project expelling one of its members. The six-member Core Team of the XFree86 project...
[March 21, 2003, 7:58]
Penguin Playtime: Linux Gets Game
News As a platform for the nontechnical gamer, Linux has previously seemed about as fun as being locked in an iron maiden. While there has been a slew of open-source games that are, more often than not, hacked versions of popular commercial games, you...
[June 9, 2000, 8:33]
Can Client Hardware Run Linux?
News Due to Linux's growing popularity on servers and newer desktops, and the recent release of Linux-native office suites, you'll need to consider you desktop's current hardware configuration before making the switch.
[May 15, 2002, 9:58]
Ximian Changes Open-source Licence
News Ximian, a company working to improve the Linux operating system for ordinary computer users, has made a philosophical shift in a key new open-source software project that now will be governed by a less restrictive licence.
[January 28, 2002, 9:30]
Eye2Eye: Dirk Hohndel Of SuSE Linux, Part II
News Dirk Hohndel, chief technology officer with SuSE Linux, talks about Intel's Trillium project, the advent of 64-bit computing and the paradigm shift that open source represents. This exclusive Eye2Eye interview with ZDNet's Will Knight, concludes...
[March 16, 2000, 12:07]
Apple X11
Downloads An implementation of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X. Based on the open source XFree86 project the most common implementation of X11 X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast, and fully integrated...
[March 19, 2003, 0:25]
Apple X11
Downloads Prior to the introduction of Mac OS X, virtually the only way developers could create a graphical application in a UNIX-based operating system was with the X Window System, more commonly called X11. X11 for Mac OS X offers UNIX users the ability to...
[November 14, 2007, 10:14]
Linux Picking Up Its Game
News A lack of good games can hurt any PC platform, and Linux is feeling the pain. On Thursday, game developer Loki Entertainment Software and members of the open-source community outlined plans to make Linux a better gaming platform.
[February 4, 2000, 7:26]
Key Linux Group Faces Split
Talkback The author should do some homework. XFree86 is not the primary windowing system for Linux systems, it's X.org (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/), which was not even mentioned.
[February 4, 2006, 1:46]
Exclusive: Linux On The Desktop After All?
News Linux is ready to fulfil the requirements of most desktop users, according to the chief technical officer of SuSE Linux and founder member of the XFree86 organisation, Dirk Hohndel. The comments follow widespread reports that Hohndel's boss, SuSE...
[March 7, 2000, 14:21]
Open Source Service Takes Off
News Open source development site SourceForge.net, which coordinates some of the largest and most influential programming projects around, announced Friday that it has reached more than 100,000 registered users.
[January 22, 2001, 13:31]
Augmented Reality With Wearable Computers Running Linux
White Papers This paper describes the concept of augmented reality, the process of drawing virtual images over the real world using a head mounted display. Using wearable computers, it is possible to take augmented reality software outdoors and visualise data...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback Bad technical article. As the article quotes a guy, I don't know if it's the article, or the person quoted that's at fault here. Kernel windowing? Do they mean framebuffer support in the kernel? Who knows.
[July 1, 2004, 23:49]
Letting In Linux review
Reviews It's out there, and it's free -- or at least close to it -- but you just haven't had the nerve to take the plunge and try Linux. We have good news. It's not necessary to make a complete commitment to the open-source operating system.
[July 12, 2004, 9:40]
Government-funded Linux Software Arrives
News KDE, one of the major interfaces designed to make Linux slick looking and easier to use, has been upgraded, an effort that includes the first results of work funded by the German government. The software comes from the Kroupware project, bankrolled...
[January 31, 2003, 10:04]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Strangely, no one has pointed out that there is one important UI area where Vista is far and away more advanced and capable than either XP, Linux, or even Mac OS: the tablet PC platform. Vista is the only OS for PC's (including Macs) that has...
[October 24, 2007, 4:58]
Free OpenOffice For Mac Users
News The free, open-source competitor to Microsoft Office now caters to Mac users. Sun Microsystems released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS X computers on Monday.
[October 15, 2002, 7:57]
Making Linux Usable Tops Torvalds' List
News The biggest development in Linux in the past year has been a more refined user interface, Linux founder Linus Torvalds said on Wednesday, deprecating the deeper work that remains his own domain. Within the last year, it's progressed past the eye...
[August 30, 2001, 9:23]
Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 9.1 review
Reviews Setup & interface Not long ago, Linux installations brought fear and trepidation to the uninitiated, but thankfully that's no longer the case. Mandrake Linux 9.1 provides a graphical installation process and throws out only a few stumbling blocks.
[April 22, 2003, 13:56]
