New versions of Gtk#, MonoDevelop and MonoDoc have been released.

Flexbeta.net claims that it has learned the release dates for Windows XP 64 Bit, Tablet PC 2004 and Windows XP SP2.

This is the third installment of a series of pieces that I have been writing about my experiences with my new Apple iBook and MacOS X Panther having been a long-term Windows user.

In this article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to build an infrared chat application using the IrDAClient class supported in the .NET Compact Framework class libraries. Elsewhere, by way of a blog entry, David Hill explains how you can implement an asynchronous call pattern that allows you to consume Web services from a Windows Forms application without having to worry about threads.

This is a 30 day evaluation version of the Xandros Desktop OS Business Edition. It is fully functional for 30 days and includes a PDF of the abridged User Guide.

The aim of the Kimono project on KDE is to write a complete wrapper for KDE/Qt using the Mono framework and is based on early work by KDE bindings hacker Richard Dale. Kimono uses KaXul, a fully XML-based representation of the UI, the Dot reports. However, the changes made to KDE in preparation for Kimono has left the other binding effort, Qt#, orphaned with a dead dependancy: QtC.

LinuxJournal discusses improvements & applications the 2.6 kernel offers embedded development.

In an effort to make its version of Unix compare more favorably to Red Hat's Linux, Sun Microsystems plans in coming weeks to begin selling its Solaris operating system through a subscription model.

QEMU, the free software PC emulator available, has a Win32 port (and another CygWin port) pending commit (screenshot). The port is "only" for the emulation of a complete x86 PC (QEMU supports two other modes too), and that is initially also the only mode considered.

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new VoIP features in its forthcoming Windows CE version 5.0, touting the embedded computing platform for use in VoIP-enabled devices.

FreeBSD has a solid reputation in terms of features and performance on x86, powering sites from Hotmail to Yahoo, yet it doesn't tend to be the first (or even second) OS that comes to mind with many people when thinking of Solaris alternatives for the SPARC platform.

InternetNews and ArsTechnica posted two preview articles regarding the pending release of Gnome 2.6.

PowerPC processors are found in everything from supercomputers to game consoles and from servers to cell phones -- and they all share a common architecture. This introduction to the PowerPC application-level programming model will give you an overview of the instruction set, important registers, and other details necessary for developing reliable, high performing PowerPC applications and maintaining code compatibility among processors.

"Is it possible that, despite all the hype, open source is not necessarily the best way to develop software? That it's not about to take over the software industry, and that it's no more a threat to Microsoft than were Netscape, the Macintosh or Word Perfect?" Read the analysis by Tony Healy.