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In this month's KDE: From the Source, entitled Breaking the Network Barrier George Staikos takes us on a walk-through of KDE's desktop networking protocol handlers in the vein of sftp:// webdav:// and a few really nifty ones I wasn't aware of like info:/ perldoc:/ and tar:/. The entire KDE desktop environment is decked out like this, and as George puts it, "Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X have a long way to go to catch up with the robust, transparent functionality that KDE has provided since version 2.0."

The JDS Community Web Site has provided MySQL 4.17 RPMS to the repository

This years awards go to a number of great projects and sites. Results are a good indication of real choices of Linux community. For me, the most interesting fact is that Frozen Bubble is the most popular game.

The German subsidiaries of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Novell Inc. are teaming to offer Linux-based products to the country's huge public sector.

After launching two of the world's first Linux smart phones, China's E28 Ltd. is now offering handset manufacturers the opportunity to license its software and hardware designs based on the increasingly popular open-source operating system.

People have been debating on the RedHat vs Sun “i-can-accuse-you-better-in-my-blog” clashes. One can find every newsite, every analyst and heck every tom, dick and harry taking one side or the other of the supposedly two-way battle. But is it really two-way….. and are they really fighting or just doing business?

Research: Businesses are going open source, but OS may still be too technical for most users.

MPlayer, a popular movie player application, has been in the 1.0 release candidate stage since September 2003. We caught up with some of the developers of this huge project for an update.

Andrew Morton, maintainer of the 2.6 series Linux kernel, has won the Technology Award presented by the Australian UNIX and Open Systems Users Group as part of its Open Source Awards for 2004.

Many European local governments are thinking about ditching Windows, but Microsoft is fighting back.

Mandrakelinux 10.1 Officiel [sic] comes with extended support for mobile devices, better hardware compatibility and application upgrades.

KDE and its various applications have featured very well in the Linux Journal 2004 Readers' Choice Awards which are published in the November issue of the magazine. Most importantly, in the category of "Favorite Desktop Environment", KDE came in first followed by GNOME. The trend over recent years has shown KDE gaining more and more popularity over GNOME and this year KDE received two votes for every one that GNOME received.

In a posting to the lkml, Al Viro offered a guide on how to cross-compile multiple platforms in parallel.

This article shows you how to improve the boot speed of your Linux system without compromising usability. Essentially, the technique involves understanding system services and their dependencies, and having them start up in parallel, rather than sequentially, when possible.

Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced last week it was teaming with the U.S. Department of Energy to begin work on Open/Speedshop, an open source version of SGI's performance analysis tool Speedshop designed to run on Linux platforms. The tool will be issued under a yet unnamed open source license.

The latest advancement of embedded Linux as a telco platform was the release last week of a registered Linux distribution from TimeSys that complies with the Open Source Development Lab's (OSDL) Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 specifications.

One of the minor ironies of the Linux world is the slight disconnect between the mantra of "choice" the most ardent advocates use to make the case for a multitude of graphical interfaces and the state of the North American enterprise Linux market, where a single distributor has dominated since the late '90s. That distributor is, of course, Red Hat...

I have just started a free course at the department of Informatics, which is a part of the School of Economics and Commercial Law at Göteborg University. The purpose of this course is to study the philosophical foundations and theories that have developed in the open source/free software field. Beginning with a historical view of the developments in theory and philosophy the course participants will continue their study of the phenomenon and also be given the opportunity to discuss the new issues these development philosophies have given rise to. Additionally the question of whether these same theories and philosophies can be applied in other fields of intellectual endeavor aside from programming.

The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.33 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This Announcement notes the significant changes in 1.3.33 as compared to 1.3.31 (1.3.32 was not formally released).

Latest report from the UK, although indicative of serious change, tells us again what we already know.