After a long time in development, version 0.9 of the Gecko-based K-Meleon web browser for Windows has been released.

Sun Microsystems is about to take the next step in its plan to refurbish the reputation of its Solaris operating system in the eyes of a small but crucial group: programmers.

When you have 20 or more windows open across nine virtual desktops, the complexity of window management can become overwhelming. A number of new tools are now available to facilitate effective window management. Elsewhere, you can tile your desktop windows in full screen no-gap layouts to simplify copy and paste, drag and drop, and visual comparisons. WindowSizer's window management engine will automatically resize neighboring windows to maintain a tiled layout.

Jeff Roberson has announced that he has has begun integrating the Giant-lock free VFS code into the FreeBSD 6.x development tree.

The Independent Qt Tutorial has been updated and now has an Italian translation. Also, a new chapter about OpenGL and Qt has been added. The OpenGL chapter is based on NeHe's great tutorial.

Mastering J2EE can be daunting, with an ever-growing list of technologies and acronyms. The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) has been at the core of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) from its inception, but it is often underutilized by novice J2EE developers. This article will help demystify the role of JNDI in J2EE applications and show how it can help decouple your application from the details of deployment.

Colors are another form of data, and in light of the fact that the human eye can perceive more than ten million different colors, that's a potentially huge amount of data. Color theory helps you organize this data into manageable chunks. This chapter outlines color theory, both pigment-based theory and light-based theory.

Testing code isn't the easiest thing in the world, and it gets even more complicated when working with legacy code. This chapter explains the theory behind modular coding and how testing can be difficult in this environment.

So you want to start programming UNIX shells. You could sit down with a dense volume of coding advice, but you're a techie. You want to jump right in and start coding. This chapter will help you get started right away with shell programming in UNIX.

Learn about three new features coming to Enterprise Linux (D-BUS, HAL & Network Manager) that are designed to make hardware "just work." The technologies that make this possible were inspired by Havoc Pennington's paper on this topic.

Pieter Van den Abeele of Gentoo writes in his blog: "The Gentoo team has done an amazing job creating the most customizable meta-distribution on todays market. One of our projects codenamed Portaris, has been maintaining Gentoo Portage on top of Solaris9 and Solaris10 builds. I am pleased to announce that Gentoo is considering integrating OpenSolaris support into the machine readable knowledge base we call Portage."