In response to Havoc Pennington's post on the future of open source desktop development, GNOME's in particular, two prominent GNOME and Mono Hackers, Miguel de Icaza and Paolo provide their interesting perspective on the subject here and here.

The FreeBSD January-February 2004 Status Report has been published to the freebsd-current and freebsd-stable mailing lists. The archived messages are available online here, and the report is here.

As a student I am quite often confronted with (closed-source) Windows programs. These days there are a few tools that can help running Windows applications on Linux. One of these tools is Win4Lin, Win4Lin allowsone to install Windows 95, 98 and ME under Linux. The Windows NT branch is not supported yet, because Win4Lin sets up a special DOS environmentin which Windows runs.

Apple is developing a major upgrade to Remote Desktop, the company's desktop management and screen-sharing software, Think Secret has learned. Sources said Apple Remote Desktop 2 will boast standards-based reporting, task scheduling, VNC support, and other new features.

AMD PowerNow support as found on AMD K6 cpus, the k6-2/3+ models now works on OpenBSD while SMP is going ahead too.

This site is dedicated to the preservation of GUI systems. Would be great if readers with access to older versions or other systems could enrich the collection.

At the 19th annual Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, which is taking place this week in Los Angeles, Apple announced "Spoken Interface," an upcoming Mac OS X feature that allows those with visual and learning disabilities to use a Mac through speech, audible cues and keyboard navigation. Read more at MacMinute.

This article is intended on helping those that are interested in either switching to Linux or are curious as to what Linux has to offer. Flexbeta tries to cover the basic components of a desktop and how Fedora can perform these basic tasks.

Debian Installer Beta 3 was released two days ago and I wrote a small review concerning the installation part. The new debian installer is good way to set up your favorite distribution. Nontheless there are a few usability things and I thought that it might be a good idea to write a walkthrough from another point of view: Bob "average" User. Read more .

QNX Software Systems today announced that the QNX Momentics development suite Professional edition v6.3 will include a new, fully integrated code coverage tool.

Pango, Glib & GTK 2.4.0 have been released. The announces with a changelog are here, here and here.

What is the current status of operating systems as far as web hosting goes? Here is a quick run down:

Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said. Our Take: Funny, last night I tried to install the Symbian SDK and it bailed out because it wanted me to have Java 1.3.1 while I had Java 1.4.1. Talk about "incompatibilities"...

Victor Padra from Venezuela ported Red Hat's Anaconda GUI installer on top of Gentoo 2004.0.