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DeveloperNet Newsletter 2006-02-02

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Contents

This weeks topic: Porting, Migration, and Cross-Platform

Articles

Porting and Migration Resource Page

This resource page provides you with links to many resources that can help you with all phases of your porting and migration efforts. These documents and tutorials can help you plan and execute porting and migration, using your own development resources. Click here.

Migrating To Linux, Advantages Over Windows 9.x And XP

Look at any industry rag, such as eWeek or Information Week, and what do you usually see? Problems, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities with Windows. Whether it is viruses, phishing, adware, or hacking, it's happened to Windows. Add to that the infamous blue screen of death, additional crashes, and the multitude of headaches caused by this desktop reality. For the complete article, click here.

Migrating From Windows NT To SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Find out how easy it is to cut the proprietary operating system ties and join the open source revolution--and save money while you're at it. For the seminar, click here.


News

SUSE Linux 10.1 - Public Beta

Currently, an early development build of SUSE Linux 10.1 is available for your review (code name: Auckland). This is an unsupported, preliminary, open source only edition of SUSE Linux that contains bleeding edge packages and represents the latest development snapshot. For details, click here.

Need an Application To Run On Linux?

If you've got any critical applications that you must use on Linux, please take a minute to let us know what they are. We'll monitor the submissions to see what the most popular requests are and do everything we can to nudge the vendors in that direction. Together, your voices will count for more than they would separately. To be heard, click here.

RealBasic Software Releases 2006

RealBasic Software released their latest version with improved Support for Novell Linux Desktop. Also, localizing your REALbasic applications into multiple languages is now much easier. You can create constants and define different values for each language right inside of REALbasic, or export all string data to a file and create your localization data with Lingua™, a free utility for localizing REALbasic applications. To learn more, click here.


Forge Project Highlight

FLAIM Database Engine

FLAIM is an embeddable cross-platform database engine that provides a rich, powerful, and easy-to-use feature set. It is the database engine used by Novell eDirectory™. It's proven to be highly scalable, reliable, and robust and is available on a wide variety of 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.


Early Access

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