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DeveloperNet Newsletter 2005-10-06

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Contents

This Week's Topics: Porting, Migration, and Cross-Platform


Articles

Setting up VMware on SUSE Linux

From www.OpenSUSE.org

Setting up VMware Workstation on the build versions of SUSE Linux (or even after a simple kernel update on the stable version) can be a bit taxing. This page should help you resolve some of the steps to recovering your VMware installation, or getting your first install to work.

Setting up VMware on SUSE Linux

Developer's Toolbox: Tools to Migrate Apps from Windows to Linux

By Richard Smith

This article takes a look at some tools that will provide you with part of what you need to make the move from Windows to Linux. While these tools may not seem to be specifically developer focused, their goal is to facilitate the ease of migrating your applications from Windows to Linux.

Developer's Toolbox: Tools to Migrate Apps from Windows to Linux

Guide to Porting from Solaris to Linux on POWER

By Chakarat Skawratananond (chakarat@us.ibm.com), Linux on POWER Technical Consultant, IBM

By Matthew Davis (mattdavis@us.ibm.com), Linux on POWER Technical Consultant, IBM

Accelerate your porting efforts by following this six-step guide. Learn the differences between Solaris and Linux™ on POWER™ that you commonly encounter during a port. Get an introduction to the development environment for Linux running on IBM® POWER processor-based systems, and see how SUN's compiler/linker switches compare with those of GNU GCC and the IBM native compiler. Finally, learn about tools for performance analysis and software packaging for Linux on POWER.

Guide to porting from Solaris to Linux on POWER


Book Review

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

By Miguel de Icaza

The new book from Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina: Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries is a must-have book for anyone writing .NET and Mono code.

Full Book Review


Forge Project Highlight

Gtk# Win32 Installer for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK

Gtk# Software Development Kit Win32 Installer for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK

A new version of the Gtk# Win32 Installer for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK is now available. This version is included in the Windows self extracting executable file gtksharp-1.0-win32-0.3.exe. This version includes the addition of a Gtk# application Project Template for C# projects as well as a first cut of some of the Gtk# samples available in the CVS repository for Gtk#.


Early Access

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News

DeveloperNet Gives Away an iPod

A big thanks to all those DeveloperNet members who took our September survey. We had a great response, and the feedback you provided will help us to better serve you. We had a random drawing of those who took the survey. Werner Seifert from Austria was selected and awarded an iPod. Congratulations. Look for another survey to come out soon and another opportunity to win an iPod!

Woodbine Sees Novell and Linux as Sure Bet

WALTHAM, Mass.—04 Oct 2005—Novell today announced that Woodbine Entertainment Group, a billion-dollar provider of racing, gaming and entertainment products, has chosen Novell for secure collaboration and automated desktop management. The company is providing employees with reliable tools that support its e-mail intensive work environment, reduce administration costs by 80 percent, streamline resource management and improve virus protection. As a result, Woodbine is lowering overall costs and dramatically increasing productivity.

Woodbine Sees Novell and Linux as Sure Bet


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