The Dot talked to Rick Berenstein, Xandros Chairman and CTO and Ming Poon,Vice President for Software Development about Xandros and their products and the relationship between Xandros and the KDE project.

OpenVMS, Hewlett-Packard's high-end operating system, got its first European outing this week on the company's high-end Intel-based SuperDome server.

SpecOps Labs has sent Flexbeta a few screenshots of “David” in action. David is the codename for a middleware application that sits on top of Linux to enable it to run Windows applications. This is the first time that "David" has been shown to the public (which apparently is nothing but WINE, but SpecOps managed to make a lot of fuss in the media about this "new technology" without mentioning WINE).

From internetnews.com: "Microsoft's technology evangelist is offering "friendly" suggestions to Mozilla open source browser groups and calling for more discussion about how the two sides can benefit from upcoming enhancements in Longhorn, the next version of Windows." Read more at internetnews.com. Here's a really interesting excerpt from Robert Scoble's blog.

The next version of Windows is still several years away, but PC Magazine offers a sneak peek. Take a guided tour of the 4072 build of Longhorn from the disc handed to WinHEC attendees in Seattle. PCMag has a preview too. Also, Microsoft plans to release versions of Longhorn, for Itanium and 64-bit extended systems as well as a 32-bit edition, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

Apple filed its quarterly report (SEC form 10-Q) with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. In the filing, which is available as a 65-page PDF document, Apple discloses several details on net sales, its retail stores, job cuts, iTunes and more.

Jeremy Hogan's commentary, Red Hat's community relations manager, is a response to NewsForge's Joe Barr, who asserted earlier this week that the company had given numerous confusing messages about its intent to enter the desktop market.

Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner, recommended that enterprises boost spending on patch management and intrusion prevention software to keep ahead of worms, which are appearing ever sooner after vulnerabilities in Windows are disclosed.

Resellers are enthusiastic about recent moves by Novell and Red Hat to move Linux onto the desktop but warn that fear of the unknown and missing applications are holding progress back. Asked if he thought Linux was ready to grace the desktops of the average business Philip Burgess, sales manager at Sire Technology, said: "Blimey, I've just put the phone down after talking to SUSE Linux - I'm going to see them next week."

The portable operating-system interface for Unix, 16-bit computing and the OS/2 subsystem will 'be lost' along with some legacy transport protocols, product manager for the Windows 64-bit client says.

"With price-performance, we've seen a lot of interest in our products coming from places we never dreamed we'd seen an Apple logo," Apple director of server software Tom Goguen told MacNewsWorld. "I believe we'll have lots of opportunities -- we'll hit video hard and we'll succeed -- but over the long term, we'll be even more successful outside the video market." Read the analysis at MacNewsWorld. Elsewhere, Apple Computer is preparing its developer forces for yet another run through the jungle with its next Mac OS X build, code-named Tiger.

Luax is a similar framework as Java or Python for that matter, offering OS-independent programming platform for writing any kind of applications. Unlike Java, LuaX uses existing C/C++ open source libraries extensively (SDL, etc.) to do its work.

The new programming model of grid services allows applications to be abstracted through their interface, enabling cross-platform and cross-programming language interoperability. This article demonstrates this by showing how to implement and deploy an existing application as a grid service using the IBM® Grid Toolbox for Multiplatform.

With the next version of Windows, Microsoft is looking to add a number of laptop-specific features designed to make portable machines both more powerful and at the same time as easy to use as consumer devices such as portable DVD players.