Screenshot of full ReactOS desktop

  Submitted by Juan Linietsky ReactOS 46 Comments
This message was posted in the ReactOS mailing list: "For those of you who haven't followed the progress with Explorer closely, take a look here. This screenshot was taken with current CVS and Filip's Wine DLL snapshot here. There are still many stability problems (lots of multi-threading issues), unimplemented and buggy ReactOS features, but all in all we're much better shape than I had expected to be at this point in time. If we can keep up this pace, 0.2 will be on time (before WineConf) and will rock!" UPDATE: Quake2 running on ReactOS.
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KDE Keeps You Fit

  Submitted by Ingemar Eriksson KDE 23 Comments
ITBusiness.ca has an interesting success story about how LinuxMagic switched FitnessWorld to Linux and KDE. Although the article does not mention KDE, we know they are using KDE thanks to this KDE Success Story that was submitted to KDE::Enterprise. Our Take: Last night we watched the X-Men 2 DVD and in the feature documentaries on the second DVD disk, in the one regarding the visual effects, one of the SGI animators was clearly using KDE as well.
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Best Tool for the Job

  Submitted by Marcus Vorwaller Rumors 80 Comments
"In this article, I'm taking Linux (Debian and others), Macintosh OS X (Panther) and Windows XP and comparing them to find the ideal operating system for web design and development. After using Windows, Macintosh OS X and Linux (in various incarnations) each for extended periods of time over the last 4 1/2 years, here is what I've found." Read the article at MarcusVorwaller.com.
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The Return of S3

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S3 is back on the scene with its first new GPU architecture in five years. Rather than take aim at the high-end, S3 has set its sights on the midrange price/performance category, which is currently dominated by ATI's Radeon 9600 XT and nVidia's GeForce FX 5700, both of which are under $200. Today S3 unveils the DeltaChrome S8 GPU, which represents the midrange of its upcoming line of DeltaChrome GPUs.
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Apple Releases Xcode 1.1

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MacMinute reports that Apple has released Xcode 1.1, an update to its set of powerful developer tools for Mac OS X. Version 1.1 provides overall stability and performance enhancements to Xcode IDE, as well as improvements to debugging, workflow, the Xcode build system and CodeSense. Apple recommends that all Xcode users install this update. Xcode 1.1 is available via the Software Update preference pane. Apple also released today iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5.
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Interview: Red Hat’s Owen Taylor on GTK+

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Today we are very happy to feature an interview with Red Hat engineer Owen Taylor. Owen is the project leader of the GTK+ multi-platform toolkit, also known for his contributions on Pango. It is also important to note that a few days ago he received the highest number of votes for the Gnome Board of Directors elections. In the following Q&A we discuss about the features on GTK+ 2.6 and beyond, RAD tools, performance, GL and other widgets, GTK# and lots more!
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EROS Persists

  Submitted by Topher Cyll OS News 3 Comments
Jonathan Shapiro has changed his mind about halting EROS development. In an email this morning, he wrote:"The EROS project is back. I'm sure this will seem very funny to some of you, but sometimes you have to firmly put something down in order to step back and think clearly about it." Since his first email, the list has hosted a flurry of productive discussions about the strengths and weaknesses of EROS.
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