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Mad Penguin has published a review of CrossOver Office 3 as well as an interview with the founder of CodeWeavers Inc., Jeremy White. Review of CrossOver 3 and interview with Jeremy White.

News.com is carrying an article that seems to have gone by unnoticed. Macromedia is looking into releasing Linux versions of their development tools. This will immediately make Flash development accessible. Future products will enable Linux users to program using next generation Macromedia technologies such as MXML.

It's hard to imagine that Linus Torvalds could have launched Linux without directly using earlier OS work, according to a report that has become controversial even before its scheduled publication Thursday.

Andrea Arcangeli is well known for having completely rewritten and stabilized the virtual memory subsystem in the 2.4 Linux kernel. Many were surprised when Linus Torvalds merged Andrea's VM into 2.4.10, but the new memory subsystem has long since proved itself. Andrea is a 27 year old Linux kernel hacker living in Italy and working for SUSE.

Arnold Robbins discusses dynamically allocated memory, focusing exclusively on the user-level view of the process and its memory.

Melbourne Bennett has written an editorial on his opinions regarding Linux & Online communities, detailing how and why you should be giving back to them. Read the full opinion piece here.

OSNews will feature a review of the upcoming Linare Professional edition next month. For this new version Linare has developed a new KDE theme along with other updates to their distro. Screenshots.

WineHQ has an interview with Mike Hearn, the Wine and Autopackage developer (and also frequent OSNews reader). You can read 12 more interviews with Wine developers in their archives.

DesktopOS.com has interviewed Mike Hjorleiffsson, President of Element Computer, and Jason Spisak, Element’s Vice President Marketing (and former Lycoris employee). The interview is focused on ION, Element's new Xandros-based operating system.

I've been trying Linux on and off for a couple of years. My first experience with Linux was with a version of Slackware (can't remember) way back in 1996. At the time the installation was so daunting that I gave up all together. For a little background I consider myself a proficient computer user.

Arvan Reese wrote a guide for beginners explaining all about source-based Linux distros.

Distributors must solve setup and licensing issues for Linux to be a success on the desktop. For Linux to become a real competitor to Windows on the desktop, Linux distributors must refine their software installation and management systems. There are some loose ends that need to be tied up and some tricky legal knots to unravel, says eWeek.

Driver On demand is a driver management system designed for Linux, designed to automatically install drivers by using a httpd server. Its other intention is to create a universal driver standard for Linux, allowing drivers to be installed easier.

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the 2.6.6 stable kernel. A number of notable additions found their way into the mainline 2.6 kernel during this development cycle, including Jens Axboe's laptop mode and the completely fair queueing (CFQ) I/O scheduler, support for a non-executable stack on a number of architectures, several patches laying the groundwork for object-based reverse mapping, and 4KB kernel stacks for the i386 architecture reducing the kernel's per process overhead, KernelTrap reports.