OneStat.com today reported that more and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024x768 (54%) which is the most popular screen resolution for exploring the internet. While 800x600 has fell from 32% last year down to 25% this year, it is still holds a huge share among users and so developers should still be considering these users when designing their desktop applications. Other resolutions include: 1280x1024 14.1%, 1152x864 4%, 640x480 0.6%, 1600x1200 0.8%, 1152x870 0.1%.

Just days after Yahoo canned the enterprise version of its free instant-messaging client, AOL announces that it is halting sales of its own enterprise IM offering. This pretty much leaves Microsoft and Sonork playing ball alone in the Enterprise IM'ing market. Skype is an interesting VoIP alternative to Enterprise IM'ing (no ads/spyware according to them) and it now has a version for Linux (Qt-based).

Apple announced on Monday network management software that will help administrators remotely control systems running Mac OS X--or the Windows or Linux operating systems.

A VS.NET programmer is looking at MonoDevelop and pinpoints its goods and bad points.

The purpose of grid services is to break application silos by allowing the virtualization of the IT resources where the application is running. Using grid services does not mean you have to rewrite all your applications. The IBM Grid Toolbox Version 3 for Multiplatform (IGT) provides a set of tools that lets you easily create grid services from existing applications.

A friend of mine wrote to me and asked me how he could go about switching to Linux*. I sent him an email back with some suggestions about how to approach it and he suggested that I should share this with others, so here it goes.

The Patent Office's recent review of Microsoft's file system could put Linux and other GPL-licensed products at risk warn industry figures.

Andy Tucker (who OSNews interviewed almost a year ago to the day) has posted some thoughts on his reasons for wanting to open-source Solaris. Speaking for myself, I share many of Andy's reasons and I suspect many of our other engineers do as well. As Andy requests in his blog entry, we want to hear from the community specific requirements and ideas (and not just about the license).

According to reliable sources DotGNU is using Qt for their Windows.Forms backend. The project is not using Qt's widgets - they are simply using Qt styles (or was it themes) on an offline XPixmap , and blitting it over onto the screen. Here's the obligatory screenshot.

Pat Volkerding has announced RC2 for Slackware 10 in the Slackware -current changelog. Updates include all the new Gnome releases (e.g. Nautilus 2.6.3) and a new testing kernel, 2.6.7.

Six months ago, I decided that the GNOME desktop was ready for exclusive use on my desktop computer. Having used GNOME daily since that time, I have come to appreciate the thought and attention to detail that makes GNOME so friendly and usable. I have written a brief article that describes my experience with GNOME and that provides a brief introduction to GNOME for those who have yet to try it out for themselves.

Departing from its past practice of not providing ISO images for free download, SUSE has released a complete, bootable, and installable ISO image of SUSE LINUX 9.1 Personal.

According to BeGroovy, "With the start of WalterCon 2004 comes the new name for OBOS, Haiku. Too late for complaining, the t-shirts have been made." In related news, the BeUnited JAVA port was demonstrated and will be released soon. Also see coverage on IsComputerOn.

Is there a business model for a GNOME-based Linux desktop software ecosystem? Such a project could transform the entire desktop operating system scene before Microsoft's Longhorn version of Windows comes out. But can Linux developers be nimble enough when it comes to money? Read the editorial at NewsForge. On a related Gnome note, our new site Gnomefiles.org, has seen a visual update based on feedback, so make sure you check it out. Gnome developers, don't forget that by posting an app you are becoming elligible for prizes (to be given out next week).