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Curt Brune writes: "Inside are the gems I discovered at this year's Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, including current directions in embedded Linux development, progressive silicon art, robots for science and entertainment, public transportation and the relentless drive of the economy."

The Zero Install system makes software installation not merely easy, but unnecessary. Users run their applications directly from the Internet from the software author's pages. Caching makes this as fast as running a normal application after the first time, and allows off-line use.

Linux kernel 2.6.5 has been released. Get it from a mirror or read the changelog.

Now the C# compiler will properly flag errors in CLS-compliance while it gets Basic support. Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding support to the C# Mono compiler to support the various checks required by the Common Language Specification (CLS).

The SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 images downloads option lets you download evaluation copies of the SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 CDs. When you purchase the product, you will receive a registration code that will lift the evaluation time frame (90 days). Download here.

Principles are fine things to have, but only if you can afford them. With its stock declared a 'junk bond' and finishing a terrible quarter, Silicon Valley's leading Microsoft antagonist Sun Microsystems has now decided it can't, says Andrew Orlowski for TheRegister.

Two years ago, when Rick Carey was chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, he was crazy about Linux and especially about Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor. At the time, he was leading the charge to migrate all of the computer systems at Merrill to Linux. But these days, things have changed. Elsewhere, Internetnews has a brief interview with Red Hat's CEO.

Fink 0.6.3 (for OS X 10.2.x) and Fink 0.7.0 (for OSX 10.3.x) were released today. These releases includes source and binary packages as well as binary installers.

In the previous installment of this series, Philipp K. Janert, Ph.D. implemented two very simple example programs, which nevertheless demonstrated quite a few of the core concepts of Qt programming. This month, he will take a step back and look at some of the fundamentals of programming with Qt.

This Technology Preview is based on the Beta 2 build of Windows CE 5.0 and is subject to change prior to the final release of the product. This preview is intended for evaluation purposes only.

In response to the article about Free Software and usability, Brad Griffith decided to write up an article about the niceties of GNOME and its future. Mirror here.

Sun Microsystems announced Friday that it has moved to a new phase of legal and technical cooperation with longtime foe Microsoft that will involve a payment of $1.95 billion to Sun, reports News.com. The timing of the Microsoft-Sun agreement could be seen as a smokescreen to mitigate the continued bad financial and layoff news for Sun, says NewsForge.

Matthew Newton takes a look at new releases of Mandrake and the Gnome 2.6 desktop, with an eye toward bringing one more Linux user online.

This paper written by Andreas Tille is intended to people who are interested in the philosophy of Custom Debian Distributions and the technique which is used to manage those projects. It is explained in detail why these are no forks from Debian but reside completely inside the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and which advantages can be gathered by this approach. The concept of meta-packages and user role based menus is explained. In short: This document describes why Custom Debian Distributions are important to the vitality and quality of Debian.