KOffice 1.5 Released

  Submitted by Mitarai KDE 56 Comments
"The KOffice team is proud to announce KOffice version 1.5. With this release, KOffice starts its ascent into the office suite hall of fame. This version sports OpenDocument as the default file format, accessibility, a new project planning tool KPlato, professional color support and adjustment layers in Krita and the long awaited Kexi 1.0. You can read more about it in the press release and the full announcement. Packages are available for Kubuntu and SUSE."
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Review: Fedora Core 5

Fedora Core 16 Comments
"Red Hat's Fedora Core 5, which hit the Internet late last month, shines in the server and developer roles with which Linux has come to be identified. In addition, for many scenarios, Fedora has matured enough to perform well as a mainstream corporate desktop. During tests, eWEEK Labs was impressed with the fast-moving distribution's updated SELinux and Xen virtualization components, broadened programming language and tool support, and hot-off-the-compiler GNOME 2.14 desktop environment."
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Microsoft, EU Clash Over Windows Innovation

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Microsoft and the European Commission will clash in court over innovation and intellectual-property rights when the software giant appeals a 2004 antitrust decision, according to court papers seen by Reuters. Microsoft wants to turn around the Commission's decision that it abused the dominance of its Windows system to muscle out rivals who did not have enough detail of the operating system to create efficient software that could run with it.
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Q&A with Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak

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"Steve Wozniak says he never intended to change the world. That was the other Steve, Steve Jobs. He just wanted to build computers. Oh, and he really - really - wanted to spend his career as an HP engineer, a position he reluctantly left. Life turned out differently for the self-trained electrical engineer. In 1976, he and Jobs started Apple Computer, which would help launch the personal-computer revolution. Wozniak recently sat down with the San Jose Mercury News to talk about Apple's 30th anniversary in his home perched in the Los Gatos hills. Here is an edited version of that interview."
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KDE 3: All About the Apps

KDE 7 Comments
"Last November, KDE 3.5.0 was released. Since then, many users have been waiting for the next big steps. While most of the core developers are working on the first iterations of KDE 4, the KDE 3 developer platform is more vital than ever, resulting in new and exciting applications. 'All About the Apps' puts the spotlight on the classics of KDE's applications as well as new and promising applications from the KDE community that can make your KDE desktop more productive. We will also keep you informed about development in current KDE 3.5 series."
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Apple Remote Desktop 3 Released

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Apple delivered a new version of Remote Desktop to customers Tuesday, the first update to the software in nearly a year and the first major revision in almost two years. Remote Desktop 3, which allows users to control and administer Macs remotely, packs more than 50 new features, Apple said. Among these are support for Spotlight searching across remote Macs, a Dashboard widget, Automator support, an AutoInstall feature that automatically installs software on Macs when they reappear on the network, full drag and drop support to and from remote Macs, Application Usage and User History reports, and more.
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MSN Messenger Most Used IM Client

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Analytics firm comScore Networks announced Monday the results of its February measurement of instant messenger usage around the world, with Europe surpassing the United States in IM users for the first time. MSN Messenger was also ranked as the most used client, garnering 61 percent of the worldwide market. According to the survey, 82 million people in Europe use instant messaging software, amounting to 49 percent of the online population. In the United States only 69 million of people use IM, or 37 percent of the online population. Latin America had the highest IM penetration covering 64 percent of Web users.
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Novell Still Runs Windows

  Submitted by george Novell and Ximian 29 Comments
Novell may be passionately evangelising Linux and Open Office on the desktop but more than half of its own employees can still boot Windows and Office if they wish. Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president, speaking at a press event in Sydney, conceded that "about 2000 employees right now out of 5000 are single-boot only, which is Linux only, the rest are dual-boot." He said that a project to migrate the 3000 dual-boot workers to open source is likely to be completed over the next year or so.
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Interview with Josh Berkus of PostgreSQL

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The BSD family of operating systems isn't the only BSD licensed software whose roots originate from the University of California at Berkeley. While many are familiar with Berkeley's contributions to Unix, fewer are aware of the role it played in the formation of modern database systems. The PostgreSQL project has transformed that codebase into a database that is known for its rock-solid stabiity and advanced features. In this interview, Josh Berkus provides some insights into PostgreSQL from his perspective as a core developer.
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Novell: Linux Desktop Set to Take Off

Novell and Ximian 79 Comments
Linux on desktop computers will begin taking off in mainstream markets in the next 12 to 18 months, Novell President Ron Hovsepian has predicted. Linux has been widely used on networked computers called servers, but it has comparatively little success on personal computers, beyond technically savvy users. Many companies have argued the open-source operating system is on the verge of breaking out in PCs and have been proven wrong. But Hovsepian sees some changes that he believes make the market ripe.
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Cross-Platform Sample Virus Targets Windows, Linux

Bugs & Viruses 64 Comments
Virus researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found proof-of-concept code for a cross-platform virus capable of infecting both Windows and Linux systems. In an alert posted to Viruslist, Kaspersky said the sample virus has been given a dual name - Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a - and highlighted the way attackers are targeting multiple platforms in malware attacks. "The virus doesn't have any practical application," the company said in the alert. "It's classic proof-of-concept code, written to show that it is possible to create a cross-platform virus."
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Vista on Intel iMac; Boot Camp Passes Muster in Speed Tests

  Submitted by grabberslasher Apple 9 Comments
Windows Vista is now running on the new Intel-based Macs. "Managed to get Windows Vista installed today, with a bit of creative thinking. You see, Vista does not support Boot Camp's partitioning. There are some complex ways around this, but just to prove it can be done I booted from an XP CD, deleted the existing partitions and formatted the entire internal HD with NTFS. Once that's done, you can reset the iMac and insert your Vista DVD before the XP setup starts installing XP." In the meantime, CNet performed some tests, and concluded that Apple hardware is just as good at running Windows as any other x86 system. Ars reviews Boot Camp as well.
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Microsoft Makes Gains in Server Share

  Submitted by gubol123 Microsoft 33 Comments
"Microsoft gained nearly five percent market share in the Web server market, however still lags well behind market leader Apache, research and security firm Netcraft said Friday. Nonetheless, it was the biggest one-month swing in the history of the industry. With more than 80 million Web sites on the Internet, Microsoft now claims a 25.2 percent share, up 4.7 percent from March. Apache still leads by a wide margin, however it was down close to 6 percent to 62.7 percent. Sun remained a distant third, down slightly to 2.36 percent."
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New Sun hardware: Sunray 2 Pictures

  Submitted by jamesd Oracle and SUN 15 Comments
"Sun is preparing to release new Sunrays. The first is SunRay 2, it has one DVI connector for monitors, with the USB ports on the front, a much needed improvement, and an integrated stand. The second looks much like the first but comes with dual DVI outputs for dual headed setups." On a related note, Sun has laid off seven per cent of its SPARC processor and server group, as it pares back projects in an effort to save costs.
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O’Grady on Apple vs. Does

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Jason O'Grady, who runs PowerPage.org, one of the websites Apple is forcing to disclose sources, has reacted to all of it at ZDNet. "My position on the Asteroid postings is that I didn't steal the information and I didn't ask for it. Someone volunteered it to me and it looked credible, so I posted it. It wasn't marked confidential, trade secret or any such thing but it looked legit to me, so I ran it. When Apple later asked me to remove it, I complied. Apple feels that independent online journalists are not protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and that a journalist's confidential communications and sources should be exposed to them or any large corporation that doesn't like what they publish - at will. I think that this is completely wrong on several levels."
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Kubuntu in Trouble: Storm in a Teacup

  Submitted by dumbkiwi Ubuntu 49 Comments
As many already said yesterday, the Kubuntu.de story seems to be a classic example of a storm in a teacup. "Their article makes everything sound much worse than it is. The problem was that when kubuntu.org moved to a new host the sysadmin request to recreate Amu's account never got answered. Amu makes the cool Live CDs that get published along with KDE releases so it's obviously very useful for him to have an account. I should have poked Canonical's sysadmin to remind him but the account has now been added so problem solved. This doesn't mean, as some people seem to have suggested, that Canonical is in any way dropping support for Kubuntu, they continue to be wonderfully supportive, both to the community of developers and commercially if you want to buy a support contract off them."
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