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The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.4 for Linux and Unix operating systems. The KOffice 1.4 release is a large step towards embracing the OASIS OpenDocument file format which has become an approved standard for office file formats. This format is also used by the upcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0, thus providing high interoperability. New applications in the 1.4 release: Krita - A pixel based image manipulation application and Kexi - An integrated data management application.

Patches are small, sometimes temporary "quick fixes" that address often critical software flaws. Patches are usually made available by software vendors in between service packs or version upgrades upon confirmation that a software flaw affects a large number of users with usually serious consequences.

IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition is designed to meet the relational database server needs of mid- to large-size businesses. It can be deployed on Linux, UNIX, or Windows servers of any size, from one CPU to hundreds of CPUs.

Close on the heels of the popular Fedora Core 4 release is the budding preliminary plans for next release of Fedora Core 5.

Greg Taylor reviews Ubuntu Linux and gives it a 10 out of 10 in his 4-page review.

Updates to come in the company's next version of the Java, code-named Mustang, include language-processing, security and networking feature.

Two Microsoft interviews, here and here , discussing virtualization, clustering and Longhorn.

Michael Robertson has given up day-to-day control of Linspire and is leaving the company in the hands of new CEO Kevin Carmony.

Recursion is a tool not often used by imperative language developers, because it is thought to be slow and to waste space, but as the author demonstrates, there are several techniques that can be used to minimize or eliminate these problems. He introduces the concept of recursion and tackle recursive programming patterns, examining how they can be used to write provably correct programs.

This is not a full FC4 review but a brief overview of a user's experieces with it and five screenshots.

This is a small update to Syllable 0.5.6 which fixes a number of important bugs related to Glibc 2.3.4.

For the first time since the introduction of the "top sellers" section at Apple's online store, there is not a Macintosh among the 20 top selling items. Just before the x86 transition announcement there was an iMac in that list (while there were 3-4 Macs listed consistently each week a few months ago), but after the announcement, the Macs have dissappeared from the top selling list. The only Macintosh-related products in the list now are iLife and OSX Tiger. The rest are all iTunes/iPod products. The lower desire for PPC systems after the x86 announcement was predicted by some analysts. Update: Either OSNews' Mac advocates just went out and bought a bunch of computers to skew the results, or the "Top Sellers" data is very dependent on the time of day. Because as of 2:00pm EST, Macs are well represented in the list, at #1,3,4,5,6,7,9 (but this is the Amazon list, not Apple's store).

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says. "Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'"

According to Fortune Dell has signalled interest in including and selling MacOS X in their computer systems. They also put an eye on AMD, and it seems that Apple never talked to AMD about their x86 switch. Read the whole article here.