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There's a common thread within the KDE-using community that likes to take Gnome to task for its lack of features as compared to their preferred desktop interface. "More is better" is the phrase that might best summarize the mantra that this community adheres to. Russell Hires was among those KDE users that adopted this philosophy until he was in a circumstance which required that he install Gnome instead. Russell submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which details a change in the way he perceives Gnome now after using it more extensively.

ObjectWeb will begin distributing an open source BPEL server in the coming weeks, expanding the available options for a middleware technology used to link several applications and data sources into a larger business process. It will be the second open source BPEL server released in recent weeks.

Welcome to this year's 36th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Graham Williams has written a book entitled Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide which is intended to deliver a fun and productive environment. It guides you through the many different regions of a GNU/Linux system with a focus on getting your desktop environment to do what you want it to do.

There is currently some confusion over the status of Sender ID in the IETF's MARID working group which has been considering the proposed standard. NewsForge has gone to directly to the source to clarify reports that Sender ID is a dead proposal. It is not. It is very much alive. Here is what we've learned.

Last month, insiders in Washington felt the Induce Act, which would outlaw technology that could contribute to copyright infringement, was history. According to music activist organization Downhill Battle, a year-old organization dedicated to bringing balance to a debate often dominated by the RIAA and large music labels, this is no longer the case. "We were told by people on (Capital) Hill that it is less likely that the bill will come to the floor by itself and have a nice debate and vote," says Nicholas Reville, Downhill Battle Co-Founder. "More likely the Induce Act is going to be snuck through a back door in legislative procedure. The only supporters in any industry or interest group are in Hollywood. From their perspective (the Induce Act) is not going to happen if it gets full airing."

Publication of New LSB 2.0 Standards Unites Two Leading Advocates for Linux in Push to Accelerate Software Vendor Support for Linux in the Enterprise

Jaroslaw Staniek is a software developer who recently submitted patches for 277 files into the KDE CVS, making it possible to use KDELibs/win32 on Windows.

Work has begun porting KDE libraries to Windows. The goal is not to make KDE for Windows, but to make it simpler for software developers to benefit from the KDEs features when making Windows software.

The recent annual summit of the K Desktop Environment project witnessed several significant developments, one of which was the fact that developers got the HTML rendering engine used by browsers like Mozilla working with the KDE browser Konqueror.

This article is kind of a follow-up to my first Fedora Core 2 review, published on OSNews in May. Most of the reviews are published shortly after the release of a distribution, and there's always someone who complains that one cannot really "review" a distribution after only a few days of actually working with it.

The Free Standards Group (FSG) has revealed details of its Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, a specification aimed at preventing Linux fragmentation. When Novell's Linux desktop arrives at the end of this year it will be stripped down to avoid integration problems and to keep it simple for users.

Several mechanisms have emerged which attempt to thwart the proliferation of an ever increasing volume of spam. The SPF ("Sender Policy Framework") is a framework designed prior to the SenderID initiative, which is being considered as a standard for email authentication by major players like Sendmail, Microsoft and the IETF, among others. But the Apache Software Foundation and the Debian Project have both chosen not to implement SenderID because of its restrictive IP licensing. In this article we will take a close look at SPF: how it works and how it is deployed.

THE NSW Government's multimillion-dollar pursuit of a level playing field for open source software may be troubled by a shortage of open source specialists.

The Free Standards Group's updated standard will improve Linux code portability and interoperability, developers say, and reduce the worry of platform fragmentation.

To help bolster its Linux operating system, Novell and partners are setting up a new initiative to help customers and companies port applications to Linux.

SystemRescueCD is a great open-source tool that provides lots of capable features for repartitioning, imaging and repairing computer systems.

"At GenesDigitales we are proud to announce the last version of DNALinux. This version includes one of most requested features: Programming languajes like C, Perl and Python. Now DNALinux users can compile programs. Another requested feature included is the JAVA runtime enviroment (JRE)." - dnalinux.com

I have been a big fan of apt4rpm ever since I worked at Conectiva (the guys who created the thing). Managing Red Hat and Fedora servers without it would be a PITA. Sadly, I see lots of people who don't know about it, or know, but don't use it to its fullest. So, here's a few tips...

Qub333 has written a review of Yoper Linux v2.1 here. Yoper's claim to fame is the speed at which it runs, out of the box. Yoper is a distro that targets the desktop Linux user from a brand new convert to the legendary guru.

The Internet Engineering Task Force has rejected Microsoft's Sender ID proposal due to the company's refusal to reveal details of a possible patent application on its proposed technology.