Nicholas Blachford just had a presentation posted to MorphZone. It's aimed for ex-Amiga users and people who know nothing about MorphOS so it doesn't go into technical details but lets you know the capabilities of the system and what it's all about. There's also .zip and .lha versions for download.

The text coupon ("IReadOSNews") that entitles you to freely download the LindowsOS 4.5 Developer Edition will expire today, Friday, January 23rd, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time, so you only have an hour (as I write this) to get it (you can download it later, but you need to go through the procedure of getting it before time's up). More information about the text coupon and how to use it, read our recent interview with Kevin Carmony of Lindows.com. Update: Time's up folks!

Open source advocate Bruce Perens tells BBC technology correspondent Clark Boyd why the real threat to Linux and the open source movement is not from the SCO lawsuits, but from software patents.

A federal judge on Friday said she was satisfied with Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) efforts to comply with its landmark antitrust settlement after the company announced new steps, including free access to some of its Windows operating system code. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the 2002 settlement with the government was working despite concerns from the Justice Department about one key provision.

Robert Szeleney, creator of SkyOS, was lately shopping for a new file system for his hobby OS and finally adopted the OpenBFS file system. OpenBFS was initially created for OpenBeOS and it is a re-implementation of Be's BFS. It is 64-bit, attributed and journaled, however it lacks built-in mulit-user, ACL support and other advanced security features. Robert promises changes to the file system (as opposed to a plain port) and so he now renamed his version "SkyFS". Full file system access (read/write/execute) is expected to be ready by the end of this weekend.

"After developers finished squishing more than 2,000 bugs, KDE 3.2, codenamed Rudi, is available in Beta 2, codenamed Dobra Voda (which in Czech means "good water"). What are new features of the desktop environment? Does an update make sense?" Michael 'STIBS' Stibane asks in his review.

"As never before, corporate customers are turning to Linux software instead of Microsoft Windows to run big business operations. Now, if only they could get the word processor's basic "cut and paste" feature to work." Read the rest of the article at CNN (from Reuters).

Here is an interesting review which compares SunONE WebServer and Apache/Tomcat. It can be found here (PDF) while another review is here.

This is a development release leading up to GTK+-2.4. Changes since GTK+-2.3.1 include many API fixes for new widgets and bug fixes in new and old code, along with various new API enhancements, such as allowing saving a GdkPixbuf to an in memory buffer, and a "blazingly fast" fixed-height mode that can be enabled for GtkTreeView. GLib 2.3.2 and Pango 1.3.2 were also released. Elsewhere, ComputerWorld interviews Jeff Waugh, release manager of Gnome.

In a press conference held today at LinuxWorld 2004 in New York, members of the old X consortium, some members of the disbanded XFree86 core developer group, and Havoc Pennington of freedesktop.org announced that X.org and XFree86 have essentially merged, and that the reformed group is working together to bring "not just more eye candy but new functionality" to the X server for Linux and Unix. Our Take: We wonder what this means for Keith Packard's X implementation hosted at fd.o. Update: Apparently the above is not accurate, only a few (one?) developers joined X.org.

When running tests, installing operating systems, and compiling software for my Ultra 5, I came to the stunning realization that hey, this system is 64-bit, and all of the operating systems I installed on this Ultra 5 (can) run in 64-bit mode.

During an inteview with NewsForge at LinuxWorld, MandrakeSoft CEO Francois Bancilhon said the company is releasing financial results today that show a profit. "Now, he said, "we can move to the next step, which is to grow it." In the meantime, Mandrake Linux 10-beta1 was released today.

Business Linux desktop announcements are continuing to come fast and furious at LinuxWorld here, the latest coming from Xandros Inc. with its unveiling of the "Xandros Business Desktop Operating System".

This is the second part of Pudge's review of Mac OS X Server 10.3 on Slashdot.