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SUSE Linux 10.1 has been finally released including Xgl preview, NetworkManager, AppArmor 2.0 and XEN 3. Learn more about it reading the Product Highlights and studying the first incoming reviews and screenshots galeries. This release forces you to choose your desktop. Guess what I think is the better desktop and more polished one: KDE 3.5 including all the neat Novell projects like KNetworkManager, KPowersave, Kerry Beagle, OpenOffice.org/KDE and of course YaST system configuration which together make it the best available KDE desktop. Read More

Once upon a time, I believed in fairy tales. Later, during my software engineering education, I came across a fairy tale called "capabilties detection". The tale's main content was that it would be possible for a software to query for available capabilities in some kind of backend. It told about a mythical protocol called X11, which would allow an even more mythical software called an X11 client, to query an almost unbelievably mythical thing called an X11 server for the availability of what the tale called extensions. Read More

Yesterday, I went to the IV Jornada Software Libre conference at the Universidad de Las Palmas sponsored by the Canary Islands government. There were some interesting talks, and much discussion in between. I gave one called 'Software Libre is Inevitable' in the morning. Read More

Ok, so finally I'm back online. When I came back from LinuxTag last sunday, my development box didn't boot anymore :-/ It took until today to get it working correctly again (RAM, mainboard, power supply were suspect). Finally the RAM was broken, now it's replaced by nice 1 GB RAM. Read More

OfB: Scott, perhaps summarizing what you've said before, can you give us a roadmap for KDE multimedia? Where is KDE Multimedia heading? Where is the place of KDE Multimedia in the future of KDE? Scott: Well, I suppose roadmap is probably a pretty good analogy -- since there are a lot of ways to get there. Right now those of us in that are more active in KDE multimedia have tried to lay out a set of requirements for multimedia frameworks; they need to support audio and video decoding, routing that to the appropriate places (sound card, sound server, etc.) and probably some basic recording features. Then we've tried to evaluate what's available to us and how we can make use of the things that are available to best support KDE as a desktop. We learned a lot from aRts, so we're trying to make sure that the options that we're considering will be viable long term; but also we don't want to be explicitly tied to a single framework -- at least not yet. So what some of us started on at aKademy was a framework for abstracting away the basic features -- playing stuff, mostly -- of the media frameworks and making that pluggable. We're pretty sure that we'll have a few implementations around and we'll be able to make a decision on what should be the default at a later time. Read More

What could DHL be doing delivering me a parcel I wondered early this morning. Well it seems my Google Summer of Code 205 t-shirt turned up, just in time for me to start looking through the 200 KDE applications and just as many Ubuntu applications for Summer of Code 2006. Read More

My main system is an HP Pavilion laptop. I bought it refurbished a couple years ago, direct from HP. And, since it as a refurb, I figured it would be wise to also get the extended warranty. Read More

Some would even say "only the apps and data matter". Why? The next iteration of the desktop itself may be pretty, but it is just...desktop (yeah, more feature-rich than competition). Read More

I live in Tucson, Arizona, in the heart of the Sonoran desert, among the Saguaro and Javelina. I love it here; the desert has a unique kind of beauty: vast, sparse, ancient, and enduring. I love the spectacular sunsets, and the spicy smell after a long-needed rain. I love the tough resilience of desert life, which still somehow manages to reveal a fragile beauty now and then. Read More

With less than 2 hours to go to submit applications, students must be busy smoothing the final edges of their texts before submitting to Google. And as it turns out, we're getting some very interesting ideas for Summer of Code this year. I hope the quality of the proposals is indicative of the quality of the code we'll see in the next three months. Read More