Nokia hat erste Vorschauversionen der Klassenbibliothek Qt 4.7 und der Entwicklungsumgebung Qt Creator 2.0 veröffentlicht. Beide bringen Unterstützung für Qt Quick als wesentliche neue Funktion mit.

The H Open: "The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps to the board of directors; Phipps recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer."

Die GNOME-Entwickler haben GNOME 2.29.92, den ersten und einzigen geplanten Veröffentlichungskandidaten von GNOME 2.30, veröffentlicht. Noch drei Wochen lang können bis zur offiziellen Freigabe von GNOME 2.30 kritische Fehler aufgespürt und beseitigt werden.

Kurz nach der Freigabe der ersten Version des SDK (Software Development Kit) hat die auf das Design von UI-Elementen spezialisierte Firma MetaLab Plagiatvorwürfe gegen die Applikation erhoben - Mozilla reagierte bereits und änderte die Benutzerelemente.

Make Tech Easier: "Git is the revision control system created by the Linux kernel’s famous Linus Torvalds due to a lack of satisfaction with existing solutions. The main emphasis in the design was on speed, or more specifically, efficiency."

Groklaw: "Here's what the Salt Lake Tribune reports happened today at the SCO v. Novell trial, all of which it records as if it were all so. Let's see if it is, by comparing what is reported about the testimony with what we already know. Part of what Groklaw does is insist on checking facts. So, let's do that."

Hardware Central: "Advanced Micro Devices plans to release a processor in its "Fusion" line that will be positioned for the netbook market, putting it in competition with the Intel Atom, and, to a lesser degree, the ARM processor."

Simon Phipps, früherer Open-Source-Vorstand bei Sun, wurde in den Vorstand der Open Source Initiative (OSI) gewählt.

Softpedia: "Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, recognizes the potential of the emerging market and has partnered with Intel and Eucalyptus to promote its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering as part of Intel's Cloud Builder program."

10 Things: "Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing."

The H Open: "Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands."

The Bitsource: "In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System. 
The hardware chosen for the embedded system is a PowerPC 440EPxX. "

Netstat -vat: "The first alpha milestone of the Fedora 13 Linux distribution is now available and it's loaded with a number of innovative features."

MakeTechEasier: "Creating a cool space scene can be done in a few minutes once you’ve got the basic method down, and Gimp provides several ways to go about adding random elements to keep things interesting."

Database Journal: "MySQL has an interesting architecture that sets it apart from some other enterprise database systems. It allows you to plug in different modules to handle storage. What that means to end users is that it is quite flexible, offering an interesting array of different storage engines with different features, strengths, and tradeoffs."

LWN.net: "Color management is sometimes unfairly characterized as a topic of interest only to print shops and video editors, but as Cruz explained at the top of his talk, anyone who shares digital content wants it to look correct, and everyone who uses more than one device knows how tricky that can be."

ars Technica: "As it turns out, there is no way to fully guarantee that identity theft won't happen, no matter what someone puts on the side of a truck."

Datamation: "The definition of virtual Linux is as fluid as the Linux platform itself. For the desktop user, virtual Linux translates into being able to use Linux without changing their existing operating system. For those working with servers however, virtual Linux can mean something very different altogether."

ars Technica: "Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why."

WMD Zone: "Novell have previously tried to leverage that market but did it all wrong. They didn’t understand that there is just one killer feature ... that needs to be in there which is Exchange support."