Recently KDE 3.2 has hit the full-release stage. Previously, LinMagAU interviewed one of KDE's chief programmers, George Staikos about the upcoming version.

Distrowatch reports on the first Beta release of Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 (Athlon & Opteron). In addition to Mandrakelinux 10.0 common features, it provides improved support for Serial ATA support, and an experimental support for 32-bit GL acceleration.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides an enhanced security infrastructure that defends against viruses, worms, and hackers, along with increased manageability and control for IT professionals and an improved experience for users. To aid IT professionals in planning and testing for the deployment of Windows XP SP2, Microsoft is making available this preview, based on RC1 of the SP2.

SkyDeveloperStudio is available. This IDE makes it possible to create C, C++, Perl and Java projects with syntax highlighting, intergrated source level debugger and an intergrated profiler. Also, SkyOS 5.0 beta4 will be released today to the beta testing team including: SkyDeveloperStudio, GTK, Abiword, and The Gimp. On other hobby OS news, the AROS team gets nVidia support.

As with FreeBSD's ports and NetBSD's packages, OpenBSD's ports system is a compelling reason to use the system. Its designers and maintainers are, too often, unsung heroes. That's one reason Federico Biancuzzi sat down to interview OpenBSD's Marc Espie. Along the way, they discussed security, licensing, and future plans for the system.

Apple has released Xserve RAID Admin Tools 1.3, an update to its Java-based remote management software for setting up and monitoring storage volumes on the Xserve. Read the report at MacMinute.

According to a Forrester Reserch study of 140 large North American companies (aired today in The Washington Post), 12 of them are using OpenOffice.org and an additional 8 are planning to use it. Read the full story at Consulting Times.

Deep inside a dealer lawsuit against Apple is a burning question: how do Apple's retail stores account for what they pay for the Apple products they sell? The dealers behind the lawsuit believe they have the answer: that Apple is defrauding shareholders and misleading the public by misrepresenting the profitability of its stores. Substantiating their claim are thousands of product invoices says ThinkSecret.

Yet another review raving about Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community Edition can be found here.

The Mono project released version 0.31. Changelog here, download from here.

Michael Krueger has written an ATi Radeon driver, based on the Linux 2.6 framebuffer driver. It should support all chips up to 9800/Pro/XT and features native mode setting, 2D acceleration, hardware cursor and YUV422 video overlay support. Arno Klenke has released a beta version of his new ATA disk driver. With support for 48bit LBA drives, chipset support for Intel, Via, SiS, AMD and nVidia chipsets, better performance throughout and a multi-threaded design Syllable gains a significant speed boost. In the meantime, Rick Caudill codes Sourcery, a source code editor for Syllable (screenshot).

Microsoft is expected next week to announce an update to its Windows Mobile OS, which powers cell phones and handhelds. Native VGA and Landscape support is rumoured.

"I found Lindows 4.5 Laptop Edition to be a mixed bag for experienced users. It installs easily, barring download issues and getting into the BIOS to change the boot sequence. But beyond the basic install, it took a lot of work to get everything else installed and configured the way I wanted it." Read the article at LinuxJournal.

GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform Release Candidate 1 (2.5.92) is now available.