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In February Rob Enderle suggested that Cuba's adoption of Linux would make it a political issue and that no US politician could now dare be associated with open source software.

KDE Alpha 2 is out and we have lots of info and some screenshots available for you to check out.

Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has declared more publicity would be generated for open source software if the three large desktop projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org agreed on a common and regular release cycle.

Patrick Stakem wants everyone to know that the newest iteration of FlightLinux is not just for NASA rocket scientists. The special hardened distribution that earlier this century orbited the Earth on an unmanned satellite is set to move into active duty again, this time as a civilian project.

Sometimes, a service pack comes along that really makes a big difference. Take NT. Before SP3, it was garbage; afterwards Microsoft had its first server operating system that was worth anything. XP before SP2 was so-so, but after SP2, it became Microsoft's best desktop operating system ever (sorry, Vista).

Welcome to this year's 6th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Ulrich Hansen created a set of nice looking CD and DVD covers for the just released Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. Roland Mas announced that Alioth has been upgrade to etch. Kurt Gramlich announced a Skolelinux Youngster Meeting on July 20th to 26th in Chemnitz, Germany.

Here in the States, Independence Day is tomorrow. No better time, we thought, to question the systems we trust to tally and track our votes come election season. If you missed the Red Hat Summit, you missed Alan Dechert of the Open Voting Consortium. Dechert contends that voter confidence is crucial to encouraging voter participation–a hot issue in America where voter apathy is bad and seems to be getting worse.

We knew that last year Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik held talks with Microsoft concerning a patent deal. Once Microsoft and Novell signed an agreement with Novell, those talks were history. In fact, Red Hat made a point of spitting on the Microsoft/Novell deal.

Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front.

A dramatic decline in the number of developers targeting Windows is mirrored by a corresponding rise in those wanting to develop on Linux, analysts say.

The Damn Small Linux (DSL) team today released DSL 3.4, a live CD featuring a 2.4.26 kernel and lightweight Fluxbox window manager. "I took a little side trip while working on 4.0 to make a much asked-for version of DSL," chief maintainer Robert Shingledecker said.

Palm will not ship its Linux smartphone until next year, the company's chief executive Ed Colligan disclosed during an earnings call. The maker of the Treo smartphone revealed in April that it is developing a Linux-based operating system for its mobile phones.

After the recent final release of QtJambi, Trolltech's Java bindings, I'm pleased to announce another new member of the Qt bindings family, the Qyoto C#/Mono bindings for Qt 4.3, which are available for download on the Qyoto/Kimono site, where there is also a help forum for your Qyoto programming questions. Big thanks to David Canar for setting up the site, and organizing the release.

The 'Suspend2' project has been renamed to 'TuxOnIce' Nigel Cunningham announced on the lkml, "this is for a couple of reasons: In recent discussions on LKML, the point was made that the word 'Suspend' is confusing. It is used to refer to both suspending to disk and suspending to ram. Life will be simpler if we more clearly differentiate the two. The name Suspend2 came about a couple of years ago when we made the 2.0 release and started self-hosting. If we ever get to a 3.0 release, the name could become even more confusing! (And there are already problems with people confusing the name with swsusp and talking about uswsusp as version 3!)."

Have you ever wished you had access to your Linux distribution's online package repositories when you didn't have access to the Internet, or when your access was slow and unreliable? The recently released APTonCD utility allows users of Debian-based distributions to create backup CDs and DVDs of as many Debian packages as they can download. Used in conjunction with the apt-mirror utility, APTonCD can back up an entire package repository, spanning several CDs or DVDs.

Plans to switch the company's ageing Garnet operating system to a new Linux core taking longer than expected, according to Palm.

Songbird is a media player built on Mozilla and often described as the Firefox of media players. Installing it on Ubuntu is a breeze using a hand little script available on the Internet.

Last month, Nero released version 3.0 of Nero Linux. Since we tested version 2.1 last year, the software has come a long way. Nero Linux 3 supports not just CD and DVD burning but claims to be the first Linux application to support Blue-Ray and HD DVD recorders as well.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.22-rc7 kernel saying, "it's hopefully (almost certainly) the last -rc before the final 2.6.22 release, and we should be in pretty good shape. The flow of patches has really slowed down and the regression list has shrunk a lot." Hhe briefly summarized the changes in this latest release candidate, "the patches are mostly trivial fixes, a few new device ID's, and the appended shortlog really does pretty much explain it," adding, "final testing always appreciated, of course".

Linspire announced today that it will join development efforts to increase the interoperability between the Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML, thus improving the ability of OpenOffice.org users to work with the Office Open XML format.