Three MSDN articles: Dare Obasanjo provides examples of lesser-known class functionality in System.Xml.Schema namespaces. This second of a three-part article series explains how to write, install, and debug your own tasks to enhance what is possible to build with MSBuild. While ASP.NET 2.0 is completely backwards compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, its new features may require you to revise parts of your Web applications. This article provides a detailed analysis of how changes in ASP.NET 2.0 will influence your porting decisions.

"Kommander is on its way to become one of the most compelling tools in KDE. It has elements that should be very interesting to application developers, power users, newbies and companies looking at using the Linux desktop. So the answer to the question many of you may be asking, "What is Kommander?", really has to be answered from each perspective. A simplified technical description is that Kommander is two programs, an editor and an executor, that produce dialogs that you can execute." Read the article at TheDot.

This chapter is a short, casual introduction to Subversion. If you're new to version control, this chapter is definitely for you. We begin with a discussion of general version control concepts, work our way into the specific ideas behind Subversion, and show some simple examples of Subversion in use.

Red Hat's Havoc Pennington blogs about the issue of dependency hell and weighs in the good and bad of static linking. He also links to an interesting article by Jono Bacon.

Two months ago, Gnome took its software repository offline in order to bolster internal security, and since then there has not been a focal point on the internet for GNOME software. We're happy to announce Gnomefiles.org, a resource for Gnome/GTK+ developers and users to post and find software. Read for more info and the prizes we offer to the first devs that will submit an app.

The Mono team just released Beta 3, the final beta before we see the 1.0 release candidate and final. Elsewhere, the Cocoa# developers got their first window showing on the MacOS X, and they also got inheritance working. This is a young binding, but here is a screenshot of what it looks like.

Sun said it will take an "aggressive" approach to opening up the source code of its core operating system. It just isn't saying when. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker fended off questions from reporters and analysts Tuesday during a briefing centered on the major developments for Solaris 10. The enterprise platform is scheduled for a September 2004 launch date to coincide with the shipment of Sun's next generation Java Enterprise System. Update: More here.

Iconbar.com and Drobe are reporting that Castle Technology has revoked RISCOS Ltd's licence for developing and distributing RISC OS. This is aparently due to a legal dispute over licence terms.

How committed is IBM to the open-source movement? Officially, IBM is the world's loudest promoter of open-source software, spending millions to run Linux advertisements and fund an open-source development lab, and devoting hundreds of its own programmers to cranking out open-source code.

PostgreSQL 7.4.3 was released yesterday. Here is a official announce and new features list.

Kernel 2.6.7 released today. Grab it from kernel.org or from one mirror. Read the changelog here.

Patrick Volkerding released Slackware 10-RC1 today. It includes the latest 2.4.26 kernel, Gnome 2.6.1+, KDE 3.2.3, GCC 3.4, XOrg 6.7 and more. A test kernel 2.6.6 option is offered via the "testing" tree. Slackware does not offer ISOs for the RCs (however there are some third party users that compile the RCs or the -Current tree regularly as ISOs), so if you are already running Slackware 9.1, you can use the excellent Swaret to upgrade to the latest packages (make sure you edit your /etc/swaret.conf prior of using swaret to allow for kernel upgrades and other options).

The Pegasos user group had a look at the developer pre-release version of AmigaOS4.

This article gives an overview of Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft's version control technology, and provides a look at where this technology is headed in the future.