The first, very-alpha, release of the Qt library on DirectFB is now available for testing. A lot of things still have to be implemented, so please don't expect to be able to run Konqueror on DirectFB (yet). More info and screenshots at the Dot.

Explore all the possibilities for your installation of Windows Server 2003. You will get all of the helpful tips you need to complete a successful installation or upgrade.

Fleecy Moss has answered 10 new Amiga community questions addressing various topics at the AmigaWorld.net portal. Amiga Inc also opened a new community exchange homepage. Here people can contribute various software and art of which some will be selected by the community to be included on the AmigaOS4 CD.

SkyEye is an ARM simulator. Now the newest Skyeye Ver 0.3.0 Beta was released. It can simuate these ARM based CPUs & boards:StrongARM SA1100/SA1110, Atmel AT91, Cirrus Logic EP7312. uC/OS-ii(ucos-ii), uClinux 2.4.x, armlinux 2.4.x OSes can run on skyeye.

Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday. The company's next major release, codenamed "Cambridge," will not be provided in boxed, retail form, according to company communications with employees and developers, which have been made available to Linux and Main.

The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation. The program will be announced "within the next month or so," according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, but on Monday the company will announce what he calls a "precursor" to this program in a press conference with SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride and SCO's high-profile attorney David Boies, of the firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

IBM's new $3 billion microprocessor factory in New York – where G5 processors are reportedly manufactured – is losing money, the company announced this week. Reuters reports that production problems are affecting the plant.

One question on everybody’s mind when they are thinking about Linux and how it will fit into the enterprise mould is that of whether the number of known distributions — believed to have reached approximately 130 — is helping or hurting Linux. This week at "CA World" in Las Vegas, a handful of the Linux world’s most influential activists gave their viewpoints on that issue. Elsewhere, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the refusal of Linux resellers to indemnify customers is bound to weigh on the minds of CIOs implementing open-source software. "Who's liable for Linux?" Editorial at ZDNet.

A thousand open source projects quietly produce excellent code under the radar. What goes on in these projects? How do new people join? What motivation is there? Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin interview several core OpenBSD developers.

Today OfB.biz put the microscope on the successor to the spring Penguin Shootout award's winner on their website, -- SuSE Linux 8.1. Read more at OfB.biz

Sony Japan has uncovered the CLIE PEG-UX50 - the first Palm OS 5.2 device to support both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth out of the box, also packing a landscape display (480x320) and a digital camera. Check the report and 4 images at Infosync. Web browser used is NetFront 3.0 (specially supported by OSNews).

On July 15, 2003 the Scribus project had a milestone release. They released Scribus 1.0. I have used Scribus both personally and professionally since the early development times. 8.0 was when I first used it. 1.0 came with so many bug fixes and has become so refined I decided to do a review of it.

Large enterprises that plan to use virtualization software to consolidate server capital and lower operating expenses have a powerful management ally in the latest edition of Leostream Inc.'s Leostream Virtual Machine Controller. eWEEK Labs' tests show Leostream VMC Version 2.0, which was released this month, can provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use management solution for handling day-to-day operations and provisioning Windows-based virtual machines.

Microsoft Corp. has been busy on the Java front recently, with the release of a new version of its Java conversion tool and enhancements to its Java development environment. Microsoft Tuesday announced Version 2.0 of its Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA). The JLCA is based on ArtinSoft Inc.'s migration technology for converting Java code to Visual C# .Net code.