Menuet v0.78-pre3 was released yesterday. Besides some bug fixes, the main change is a new look to the user interface.

Mac OS X makes it easy to develop applications then deploy them to other flavors of UNIX. This article discusses tools and techniques for developing code on Mac OS X for deploying on other UNIX platforms.

Mark Mitchell recently announced the availability of GCC 3.4.2. Mark explains, "there are no new features in this release, but there are a lot of improvements for various languages and architectures."

The open-source OS still hasn't picked up much momentum in the mobile world, but maybe manufacturers are trying to introduce it in the wrong place, says TheFeature. BTW, we are looking for editors to help with active news posting at OSNews' sister site, NewMobileComputing.

The OpenGL Architecture Review Board has released the OpenGL 2.0 specification.

A number of interesting Linux articles this month too at LinuxGazette.

The following is a short review of Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation Edition 2.01 otherwise known as the OC release. This is the first time there has been a freely downloadable version of Xandros in the companies history and I believed it was worth writing a review on. The OC Edition is a limited version of Xandros Desktop that is freely distributable, so you can get it for free and give it out. Read the Review at DesktopOS.com. Also at DesktopOS, a Libranet 2.8.1 review.

There are 100's of different Linux distributions and picking one can be difficult. So (:^tuxs.org) has devised the "Linux Distribution Chooser" to help you find a good distribution to try for the first time. Answer a few simple questions and the "Linux Distribution Chooser" will suggest a Linux distribution for you to try The Distribution Chooser has been now updated to version 0.2 following the feedback from Distrowatch readers.

Yesterday Apple released a security patch that addresses 15 issues, including a serious Kerberos vulnerability. The patch repairs issues in OS X versions going back to 10.2. The patch is available through Software Update, and an advisory can be found at Apple's web site.

Microsoft had released a special registry key for large customers that delays Windows XP SP2's automatic download and installation for 120 days, to give companies time to prepare for the update. They have decided to extend that timeframe to 240 days, due to pressure from customers.

Intel's high-end Itanium chip is not making the kinds of inroads that Intel had hoped. It's Xeon chip still rules the roost for servers. In response, the company will be launching a program that lets potential users try out Itanium hardware before they buy. A ZDNet article covers where Intel's going with the Itanium and Xeon.

Kompose' is an Expose'-like (OS X) full screen task manager for KDE that has just gone to release 0.4.1 in two months. You really have to see it to understand, but imagine that tiny little box in your taskbar that indicates all our running windows blown up and on the entire desktop. Then add a tiny screenshot for each app. For those without an OS X box around we have provided these screenshots of Kompose' in action.

Jim Allchin is group vice president of Microsoft’s Platforms Group and has overall responsibility for the Windows operating system. He talks about Longhorn, security, 64 bit, open source, and life at Microsoft. Read the interview.

Tim O'Reilly has spoken often over the last year about how to apply the ideals of open source with the slow and eventual shift from dependence on software to dependence on information. The new software is 'infoware'. In Applying Distributed XML toward The Open Source Paradigm Shift to Infoware, I propose that we can preserve the freedoms to innovate with data and to fork infoware by working with locally hosted xml files like we do with RSS.