Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small little details that continue to be fixed during each development cycle."

VMware plans to unveil a subscription plan Monday to grant developers cheaper and easier access to the company's products. Elsewhere, Bochs 2.2 was released.

Quick feedback. More testable code. Finding serious problems early. What's not to like? Michael Kelly pleads the case for unit testing.

After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor. Many people still remain skeptical, but I personally believe that the time is right for Apple to switch to x86-64, for two main reasons:

KHTML Developer Allan Sandfeld announced that KDE's browser Konqueror now passes the ACID2 test from webstandards.org. While some patches were taken from the Safari fixes, a good part of the fixes have been written from scratch. Konqueror is the second browser to actually tackle the hard test.

Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 brings productivity to desktops, turnkey power to servers, says InfoWorld.

Computers can do a lot of things today: connect to the internet or do text editing or any other productivity task. They can play music, display or retouch photos, play movies. Produce realistic 3D graphics. But it's still 'blind', it has no idea of your existence, your emotions, the objects you are interacting with. Observer is about to end this era. Have a look at the videos presented in the movies section to understand the potential offered by Observer.

Anandtech did an excellent job benchmarking some of the latest CPU's from IBM, Intel, and AMD. This is primarily aimed at server performance, but some interesting details surrounding Mac OS X surfaced.

Red Hat is changing course again with its free Fedora version of Linux, announcing Friday that it will turn over copyrights and development work to an outside entity called the Fedora Foundation.

GeekCulture features an interesting subject this week: dress Steve Jobs! Here's my (un)dress effort.

"Many Unix administrators always used to smirk when I talked about Linux. They could always point to the fact that regardless of whatever I could say, they had journaling file systems, which they could manage using various Logical Volume Management (LVM) tools, and I couldn't touch that." Read the article here.

The SCO Group's revenue continued to decline in its most recent quarter, but the company that launched a legal attack on Linux reported a narrower net loss compared with the year earlier.

Open Source has a wealth of offerings across many different arenas of software, to date a great deal of the offerings out there are development tools, general purpose applications, and first generation vertical applications. In the medical market there has been a long history of development on first generation software such as OpenEMR, FreeMed, FreeB and others. For some users these applications have offered a productive and capable platform on which to run their practice, but it is apparent to most the first time they go to use them that there is not the level of richness and depth found in proprietary alternatives like WebMD's Intergy, NextGen, or The Medical Manager. With the the release of ClearHealth 1.0 RC1 there is now a credible and full featured Open Source (under the GPL) offering that competes point for point in the big five areas of medical software:

This extensive whitepaper, authored by Microsoft, introduces the many new features of Windows Mobile 5.0 from a developer's perspective, and provides an overview of the tools used by developers to create applications based on the new mobile device software platform. Read it here.