The next planned release of Borland Software Corp’s Kylix cross-platform development suite could bring Microsoft-style web services to Linux, helping consolidate the product’s early market lead, writes Gavin Clarke.Scotts Valley, California-based Borland is investigating use of Ximian Inc’s Project Mono in Kylix, as a possible means for Windows developers to move .NET applications to Linux. Mono is an open-source implementation of .NET libraries and other technologies developed by Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp.
Borland stressed its work is at an exploratory stage, but told ComputerWire Mono potentially provides a set of components and frameworks that Windows developers can easily map to.
LinuxWorld has a review on the Linux version of Unreal Tournament 2003.
“Didn’t know about the Linux version of Unreal Tournament 2003, Epic Games’ popular first-person shooter? That’s because Epic Games seems to be keeping quiet about the Linux version’s very existence. Joe Barr examines the mysterious shortcomings that plague what could have been very cool news for the Linux community.”http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/1028.unreal.html
ExtremeTech has done a series of reviews on different Linux distros. They include Mandrake 9.0, Red Hat 8.0, Suse 8.1, Lycoris, and others. Most of the reviews are several pages long and include screenshots.
They are definitely worth checking out. Especially if you are new to Linux and trying to decide which distro to go with.http://www.extremetech.com/category2/0,3971,540430,00.asp
The KDE Project yesterday announced the release of KDE 3.1 RC 1. This release, while important, will have but a short lifespan (RC 2 is scheduled for next Monday), and so binary packages are not planned.http://dot.kde.org/1035902091/
There is also an article on The Register about enabling TrueType fonts in KDE. I haven’t tried it yet, but if the screen shots are reliable then the results are incredible. Apparently, true type font support is turned off in freetype and that is why they are not displayed properly in some programs – OpenOffice.org as one example.http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26770.html
I finally fixed my font problem in Mozilla. The fonts for this website, and many others, where being rendered wrong. In fact, they were horrible.On the f2o.org forum, someone mentioned the Microsoft web fonts. Install these and all the problems would disappear. The only problem was that Microsoft had discontinued this program. Thereby making this option very difficult to follow up on.
So, I did a search on google looking for the web fonts. What I found turned out to be even better then just the fonts. I found a site on sourceforge with the fonts, instructions, and scripts for installing them. I downloaded the necessary things, followed the instructions, and everything worked perfectly. The link is corefonts.sourceforge.net.
The instructions are based on Red Hat 7.3 but they should work for most distros. It involves building some rpms, so you may have to look for them in different places. http://corefonts.sourceforge.net
Cool, I just installed RealPlayer 8 onto my Red Hat 7.3 and it works. I can even access RealVideo/Audio from within Mozilla 1.1. Here is how I did it. I went to the www.real.com website and found in the lower right hand corner a link for Linux/Unix RealPlayers. I follow this link and downloaded the Linux 2.x (linc6 i386) RPM.Once I had this downloaded, I changed to root and installed the rpm. (Actually you need to rename the file in order to remove all the underscores in the name and change them all to periods.) The rpm install triggers a graphical install screen that allows you to install the proper plugins and set up the correct mime types for netscape. Once this is done, it than allows you to enter some information and configure the player for your internet connection. And that is basically it. However, this process installs RealPlayer for root. In order to install it to your home directory, you need to either open a console and type in realplay or go to the KDE menu – multimedia – realplayer and start up the player. This will once again ask for information. Once loaded, you can install the netscape plugins into your home/.netscape/plugins directory.
In order to get everything working in Mozilla, I had to once again su to root and copy the plugins from my home/.netscape/plugins folder into my mozilla plugins folder. Once this was done I could access realplayer content from within Mozilla 1.1.
I will turn this into a tutorial in the next few days and stick it on the site. Remember, your mileage may very depending on your system and exactly what you are trying to do.