"Mandrake 10.1 Community, released in Sept. 16 is an incremental upgrade to Mandrake 10. The new features make it a worthy upgrade for home users but the bugs that remain are certainly not what a business desktop should upgrade to until later when the Official version is released." Read the review at SpiderTools.

Along with the stable bug fix release of GTK+ 2.4.10, the unstable feature releases of GLib-2.5.3 and GTK+ 2.5.3 were also made available.

Apple computer posted on the open-source section of its site a list of softwares included in the next version of Darwin, 8.0 (currently in beta). Here a glance at the new software included.

The Vector Linux team is proud to announce the release of VectorLinux 4.3. This small 326 MB download provides you a complete and fast desktop solution, even suitable for older hardware.

On the XML and Java technology frontier, where numerous technologies jostle for space, XMLBeans is making a mark for itself in a very short time. This article introduces the technology with a simple example, takes you through the step-by-step process of compilation and binding, and discusses advanced features like XML cursors, tokens, and XQuery expressions. It also discusses how XMLBeans is more powerful than other XML-Java technology data binding techniques.

An ongoing series of articles that track the quality of programming tools for Linux, including Opteron and Pentium 4 tests for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and Intel C++.

On MenuetOS 0.78-pre3 there is a new screen layout, with a new panel application, graphics designed by Andrew Youll. The menus, applications and icons are completely under user control now - just edit MPANEL.DAT to make changes. You do not need to re-boot for changes to take effect.

A contributed live CD created from the current UserLinux desktop package set is available for download.

OneFinger is a general-purpose GUI for composing CLI commands with the mouse. Although entirely graphical, it does not attempt to hide the underlying CLI language. Requires Python for Qt3.

BlueJ is an interactive Java development environment. It provides a unique user interface that presents a graphical display of the application classes and their relationships, and it lets users interactively create objects of any class. This 2.0 release adds support for J2SE 5.0, full diagram keyboard navigation, editor improvements, interface improvements, a new text evaluation pane, improved jar file creation, and many other improvements and bugfixes.

Bryan Clark is discussing what a good "Find" dialog would be to be used with applications.

In this lesson in the Clueless Computer User series, Ed Hurst will discuss more about stability and interface issues. A popular buzzword these days is "interface". That's just a fancy word implying that two or more people are face to face. In actual practice, it usually means anything but face to face. It's a means of interacting with another. You are said to "interface" by some means. So it is with computers.

Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, is continuing its slow but steady slide in market share. According to fresh numbers from web metrics firm Websidestory, IE's share has slipped 1.8 per cent in the last three months.

If you're as confused about the definition of Enterprise Software as Microsoft and the Department of Justice, then this article from Tom Adelstein at O'Reilly's Linux DevCenter should clarify things.