Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

The Register has an interesting preview/review of Mac OS X Snow Leopard:
I like Snow Leopard, and found moving back to Leopard quite surprisingly painful. Was it really so slow? It didn’t feel so a week ago.
There’s some controversy about how “64-bit” this upgrade really is. I have no complaints about compatibility, and 10.6 promises to [...]

Exciting news for computer users, I hope I can get a copy of this for a review at some point on DLR.
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching [...]

Apparently the latest beta of Windows 7 has leaked onto BitTorrent. I checked over at the Pirate Bay and sure enough it was there. Note that I do not condone downloading it as it is not an official release by Microsoft. But there are people who are going to do it no matter what anybody [...]

Color me unimpressed so far with what I’ve seen about Windows 7. It strikes me as being more of the same as Vista with some window dressing. When is Microsoft going to do what Apple did and start from the ground up?
Dvorak sums it up well. Microsoft needs to dump the Windows code base.
The fact [...]

Well I sure hope so. The more choices folks have in the operating system area, the better. And Apple has made some shrewd moves with the mac mini so hopefully it will work out well for them.
Apple Computer could substantially increase its share of the personal computer market by year’s end, all thanks to the [...]

Another blow to the reputation of Cherry OS.

According to Charles Darvy, one of the contributors to PearPC, the released version of CherryOS includes both code and graphics directly taken from PearPC. ADVERTISEMENT
Daniel Foesch, developer of PearPC’s AltiVec support, claimed to have found particular strings in CherryOS’s debugging output which he originally put into PearPC.
Darvy [...]

Interesting thread over at Slashdot, started by a Linux user interested in running BSD.
We got a similar question over at the ET forum not too long ago. Check it out if you’re interested in running BSD but haven’t gotten your feet wet with it before.

As if the darn activation wasn’t bad enough… :roll:
Microsoft’s new policy of limiting Windows updates to users who have authenticated their copies of its software may create new problems, some observers say, because unauthorized — but vulnerable — copies of the OS will not get patched and could help spread viruses.
Well it will [...]

A LiveCD if you want to check out FreeBSD without actually installing it. Put the CD in and then reboot your computer. Runs right off the CD.
More screen shots here.

Very interesting, I’m downloading the preview now. You can get it here.
Sun Microsystems Inc., whose servers run corporate networks and websites, will give away its newest operating system to generate more sales from service contracts.
Sun spent $500 million developing the operating system, which has 600 new features, said Tom Goguen, marketing vice president for [...]