Download the developer release of HelloWorld, a new chatting/community environment (with a backend connected to Gnutella for file sharing) that some people say that it could revolutionize the way we see the world via IM. The application currently works under Windows (the company might do an OSX port if there is enough demand for it) and the file weighs 24 MB.

LinuxPlanet reviews Red Hat Linux 9. Another story, by Guru Labs, is written mostly for system admins. Also, MozillaQuest has published a brief interview with Mark de Visser, Vice President of Red Hat, Inc.

Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its private-label version of Linux for servers, but the company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop system that should hit the market this summer, the company said. However, eWeek says that Sun has no plans to support Linux or Solaris on Intel Corp. Itanium systems, but the company is evaluating AMD's upcoming Opteron processors, Sun officials said on Monday.

A volunteer group of OS/2 developers has announced REXX/OS, a successor to the OS/2 OS based entirely on the interpreted REXX language that so many considered one of OS/2's best features...

Miguel de Icaza of Ximian tells all about Mono, .NET and dotGNU, Gnome and its relationship to KDE, and much more.

Media files and a transcript of Alan Redhouse's AmiGBG speech are now available for download. The speech was held at a Swedish Amiga show last Saturday and includes information on plans for a MicroATX version of the AmigaOne-XE board, to be targeted mainly at server farms and a SE-lite version targeted at embedded uses.

Microsoft is getting serious about management software. That's either terrific news or a real cause for concern, depending on who you are. On other MS news, three-fourths of computer software security experts at major companies surveyed by Forrester Research Inc. do not think Microsoft Corp.'s products are secure, the technology research company said on Monday.

And one more Mandrake Linux 9.1 review. This time is at LinuxOrbit.

DistroWatch has the details of the official release: The press release has all the details with links to further information, such as features and benefits, product description of the Personal and Professional editions, technical details and the package list. Red Hat Linux 9 is available for immediate download to paid subscribers to Red Hat Network (US$60 per year). It will be released to FTP servers on 7 April. Update: Release notes on the newly created "Shrike" mailing list. New Nvidia drivers here. Update 2: How to add the Java plugin on RH 9.

What a big month this was with many Linux releases (and not just Linux ones). The third most popular Linux distribution (along with Debian), after Red Hat and Mandrake, is SuSE. While the company is more successful in Europe, with their 8.1 release a few months ago they were able to broaden their user base worldwide even more. The new version, 8.2, is coming out in about a week from now, but OSNews had early access to it so we were able to evaluate it. Read more for our experiences with SuSE Linux 8.2 and check out a few screenshots too.

The GPL is a wonderful license for community works, for the basic reason that it starts out with the premise that the point is the source code. The program, someone is trying to make. Not the programmer, not the programmer's company, or the programmer's pay check. What it basically says is that there is no way for one to act as a stop-gap to the flow of code development and the organic way that code tends to build upon itself.

Recently, some sharp criticism has been displayed against the OS reviews posted on OSNews by third parties. In an effort to make the reviews more substantial, I have put together some guidelines in addition to the generic guidelines OSNews already provides for the readers who want to have their voices heard on this site.

Jason Filby has notified us: "ReactOS 0.1.1 is out, and features much improved windowing and GDI abilities; WineMine can be played to a limited extend and the MS VGA and VMWare VGA drivers can be used. There is also better disk drive detection and support as well as registry, IO and console improvements. The usetup installer has also progressed well." For more infomation and screenshots, turn to the ReactOS website.

Some of the people complained about the two previous posted reviews being incoherant and you said "write your own", so I thought I would throw my two cents in...