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"The KDevelop Team is proud to ship KDevelop 3.0, the first major release of the completely rewritten, award-winning Integrated Development Environment (IDE)."

"Microsoft is moving to a new phase in its competitive attack, arguing that the company is better than IBM and Linux when it comes to connecting different applications."

"Linux Networx announced today the addition of two new executives as part of its long-term growth strategy to expand the company's presence in supporters."

"RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams revealed an integer overflow in the do_brk() function of the Linux kernel allows local users to gain root privileges."

Today I installed KDE 3.2, third major release of award winning KDE3 desktop platform, on my Fedora box. I have been using KDE 3.2 RC for the past few days and the final version from today. My first impression is "wow".

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view an office Linux machine on your Windows PC at home.

On Monday, OSNews had the pleasure of talking face to face with Trolltech's CEO and founder, Haavard Nord. Mr Nord discussed with us the new features found in Qt 3.3 (download, changes, announcement), Qtopia and the arising market of Linux in mobile phones as well as in the business computer market. Update: ITManagersJournal hosts a Trolltech article as well.

"The SCO Group took its intellectual property challenge of Linux to Harvard on Monday and received a cold reception from area students opposed to the company's legal tactics."

"The GameCube Linux project on Groundhog Day released an alpha version of Linux running on the Nintendo GameCube. The busybox-based release supports screen output, networking code, a telnet server, and a webserver. The project aims to enable GameCube use as a thin client, multimedia terminal, server, or runtime environment for "homebrew" development."

"Although only a minor upgrade, Mozilla 1.6 gains several features that were missing from the excellent Internet suite—namely, support for NTLM-secured sites and improvements to the mail client. The free, open-source Mozilla remains the best browser option available today, and the mail client has become a viable option for any business."

"Linux is everywhere. it's in your Web server. It's in your data center. It's in your desktop, your laptop and your handheld. It may soon be in your car and home appliances. It's being used by NASA to operate the Mars rover."

"Amazon.com Inc. is among the largest, most visible proponents of the Linux operating system. When questions are raised about the capabilities of Linux to scale and be sufficiently secure to operate enterprise systems, Amazon is often cited as an example to answer those questions. At the recent LinuxWorld conference in New York, Eric Lundquist, editor in chief of eWEEK, had a chance to sit down with Tom Killalea, vice president of infrastructure at Amazon.com."

"Security company WatchGuard has launched an appliance for smaller companies to combat hackers, worms and DDoS attacks"

"Taking place on the prestigious Del Mar Fairgrounds, Desktop Linux Summit 2004 will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on April 22 and 23, 2004. Desktop Linux Summit 2003 accommodated 600 participants, and sold out almost a month before the actual event. Anticipating unparalleled interest in the growing desktop Linux movement, this year's venue will accommodate twice that, with the number of both exhibitors and attendees expected to double from last year."

"The only issue in trying NeedleSearch is that it only works with the open-source web browser, Mozilla. Don't think of this as a drawback. If you've never tried Mozilla, by all means do so. It's free, and offers many compelling features, in addition to being largely unburdened by the all too frequent glitches that require patches to Internet Explorer."

Historically, the company has been a notable contributor to the GNU community and is a major proponent of Linux on the desktop.

"In the hopes of gaining more control over their infrastructure, more university IT administrators are accelerating plans to migrate to open-source technology with its code, not just the company that made it."

"Updated kernel packages are now available that fix a few security issues, an NFS performance issue, and an e1000 driver loading issue introduced in Update 3."

Anaheim, CA. The first EclipseCon is off to a good start. Yesterday was tutorials day. Today was the first day of the conference itself. Attendance figures are still not official, but 600 plus or minus a few is a good guess. It's also well above the number hoped for by the show planners. John Wiegand (IBM) and Eric Gamma started with proceedings this morning with the first keynote: a "State of the union" address on the Eclipse platform. There was SRO for the keynote. At least 50 attendees lined the back wall of the ballroom, or sat on the steps between the two levels of the room, to hear the keynote.

I note that in the interview, McBride mentions that back then they had "a commitment to bring Microsoft into the picture", he was close to Noorda when they did the purchase from USL in '93, and his problem with Linux is that he wants it to be a paid item, like bottled water, that you "buy now, buy often".