Maynard Kuona takes a look on Gnome 2.6-pre and discovers a whole new world of new features and well-crafted interfaces built-in on every Gnome-bundled application.

Microsoft is paying Sun Microsystems $1.95 billion as part of a deal signed Friday--but Sun could gain as much as $450 million more over the next 10 years through a patent provision in the agreement.

Joe Beda, development lead on the Avalon team at Microsoft, discusses whether Avalon will be the technology that Microsoft uses to replace the Web.

Faster clock speeds, smaller die sizes, and more cache are what we've come to expect each year from the major desktop CPU vendors—and 2003 didn't disappoint.

OS2 World reports that Serenity Systems published the document "eComStation Roadmap", announcing eComStation 1.2, which should be available by the second quarter of 2004.

Paul Murphy writes for the LinuxInsider: "Personally, I'd put DEC's failure to recognize that commercial VMS users weren't remotely like mainframers in solid second place, although I can think of some other contenders too -- including AT&T's purchase of NCR, the Defense Department's choice of staff and criteria in the development of ADA, and Intel's decision to continue 64-KB block addressing in the i80286."

Jan Schaumann announced today that, in order to provide a summary of the most important changes over the last few months, the NetBSD Foundation has decided to follow the example of other projects of releasing official status reports on a regular basis. The first quarterly status report, covering the activities within the NetBSD Project during the first three months of 2004 is now available online.

"Challenges remain, but goals are set for Sun" Mike Tarsala analyzes for MarketWatch.com.

CinePaint is taking a new direction to migrate away from GTK+ to FLTK and this has lit up a new discussion about GTK+ 2.x's speed problems on both Windows and Unix. The CinePaint project cited other reasons as well, like the non-elegance of the API, the bloated source that makes it difficult to debug it and thread-safe reasons.

What's easier? To completely move to a FOSS-compliant OS immediately, or to start the transition to FOSS world by using their apps on Windows? Sam Rawlins investigates.

Terra Soft Solutions completed the first Yellow Dog Linux developers summit, resulting in a two-year Yellow Dog Linux roadmap for PowerPC. With the next release of Yellow Dog Linux Terra Soft will offer 32-bit and 64-bit products built upon Red Hat's RPM-based Fedora.

Brendan Eich has written to a newsgroup outlining some of the plans being made to ensure that Mozilla technology remains useful and relevant in the future.

X.Org Foundation today announced their first release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of this year. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11 Release 6.7 (X11R6.7), builds on the work of the X.Org X11R6.6 and XFree86 Project Inc.

Ximian's Robert Love explains by example how Project Utopia will benefit the Linux desktop.