"Microsoft's gamble to break the law to fend off competition paid huge dividends. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's decision Friday permits Microsoft to repeat illegal acts and lets it retain all of the fruits of its illegal behavior. The way is now paved for a Microsoft-owned Internet." Read the rest at USAToday.

Hobby OS SkyOS now features a full OpenGL stack. Read more at the SkyOS web site.

"IT staff can make almost any software system secure with enough pain and wizardry, but getting great security with hardly any effort at all is true magic. That's the attraction of the Internet's most secure operating system, OpenBSD. The latest release of OpenBSD, Version 3.2, started shipping Nov. 1." Read the article at eWeek.

The KDE project have just unleashed KDE 3.1 RC-2 for testing. This version only has bugfixes from last week's RC-1 and (so far), it is only distributed in source form.

"Reviewers like to evaulate Linux distros for the mythical Uncle Ralph and Aunt Faye, the prototypical clueless technophobes. Can Aunty and Uncle, who still rub sticks together to make fire, install and run Linux? Let's get real. Computers are complex machines for performing complex tasks. There is always a learning curve. No one sits down to any PC--not Mac, not Windows, none of them--starting from zero knowledge, and is instantly productive." The review is at LinuxPlanet. Another one at InfoWorld.

OSNews reader Pat Suwalski writes "I thought this might be original... Here is Xandros Desktop running Internet Explorer 5.0 that comes with MS Office 2000 , updating itself via windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Runs perfectly afterwards too!"

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This series of articles is specially written for newbie programmers using Gnome and GNU/Linux. Python, the chosen language for development, avoids the usual overhead of compiled languages like C. Read it at LinuxFocus.org. Previous articles in the series: first article, second article.

"Lindows 2.0 is like Baby Bear's porridge--it's just right. This new operating system isn't too hardcore for the average user, and it's nowhere near as expensive to buy and operate as Windows." Read the article at ZDNet Australia.

One Spanish region has made the switch completely, even encouraging a local company's development of a Linux distribution. Other European governments are considering following a similar policy.

"It's all over but the shouting. The non-settling states can still appeal, but they're not going to win. The DC Circuit slapped down Judges Sporkin and Jackson when they tried to give Microsoft a hard time; now that it has the ruling it wants, it's going to let that ruling stand. That leaves only the Supreme Court, and it's hard for me to imagine this particular Supreme Court even hearing the Microsoft case." Editorial.

"With this release RedHat are making a concerted effort at integration and that is something that sits awkwardly with the open source model. Firstly, it forces a degree of cooperation between software developers - they need to adhere to standards but if they want to become part of the latest Linux distribution they need to adhere to those standards that it adopts." Read the review at LinuxLinks.

gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is the official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets extensible via inheritance and a comprehensive set of widget classes that can be freely combined to quickly create complex user interfaces.

Jaluna introduces its first product, Jaluna-1, a suite of Real-Time software components. Jaluna-1 is based on C5, the 5th generation of Sun Microsystems' ChorusOS product. Millions of units of ChorusOS operating system products are shipping worldwide in the UNIX, telecom and network devices markets. Beyond Jaluna-1, future Jaluna Software Component Suites will leverage other Open Source technologies including Linux, Eclipse and Java.