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New Breed Software has announced the immediate availability of major update to its children's art and drawing program, TuxPaint. The new version incorporates features requested by teachers and parents including an easy-to-use configuration tool, a multi-layered coloring book mode, and templates to jump-start design says project creator and well known open source developer Bill Kendrick.

Novell will launch its own Linux distribution, aimed at the enterprise, before the end of the year, the company's solutions manager for the Asia-Pacific, Paul Kangro said yesterday. Kangro demonstrated the features of the forthcoming distribution, which will be named Novell Linux Desktop, during a roadshow organised in Melbourne yesterday. The Novell Linux Desktop is based on SUSE Linux which Novell acquired last year.

That's right, folks - we're close to the release of Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 and, just like our last 1.0 release, we want to organise worldwide parties to celebrate.

KDE Project Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 3.3 Generation GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution

Attention to details and solid advice make up for less-than-stellar graphics.

Ubuntu Linux is a new Debian-based distro sponsored by Canonical Ltd. I spent a week using Ubuntu and came away impressed, despite some of its obvious teething pains.

Ten years ago, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling built a 16-node cluster, the original Beowulf, and started Linux and commodity hardware on a program of relentless improvement.

Welcome to this year's 40th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Christian Perrier reported the new debian-installer can be understood by two third of the world population since it is translated into 40 languages.

Centel is now distributing LinspireEspañol, the Linux operating system for laptops and PCs.

The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the French Atomic Energy Commission have signed an agreement to work together on an open-source software product.

Well now, it turns out Sun was done after all. On first take, this looked way preposterous: Eastman Kodak Co., which knows little or nothing about enterprise software and is falling quickly behind the competition in its own market, sues Sun Microsystems for patent infringement involving Java -- Sun's supposedly homegrown, bread-and-butter IP and front-line enterprise software product. Then, bam, Kodak wins a legal judgment last week in a federal court, with the jury populated by Rochester, N.Y. citizens. And the camera guys do this in a mere three weeks in a case that was first filed in February 2002.

On Tuesday, Novell Inc. announced that it will use its patent portfolio to protect its open-source software offerings.

Former Oracle Corp president, Ray Lane, has given his backing to SpikeSource Inc, a new company set up by industry veterans to target the opportunity for providing support services around Linux and other open source projects.

Flexiety Software Company has begun selling OpenOffice.org for Windows in 25 CompUSA stores in three major markets: Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Texas. The $49.95 package includes one year of free quarterly updates and one year of online tech support. It is also being sold through Tiger Direct online.

Mandrakesoft and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs are cooperating to install Internet access points in Africa.

MontaVista Software has begun work to endow Linux with a feature currently possessed only by proprietary rivals: a guaranteed fast response time useful in everything from automotive control computers to video players.

Like most people, I've generally taken fonts for granted over the years. You hit a key, a letter appears on screen -- no magic involved. That was pure ignorance on my part; when I first switched to Linux it surprised me how much was involved in getting that character up on the screen.

At the Linux World Expo in London today, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announced the Linux Authorised Training Partner (LATP) program. This will be the only training program covering all versions of Linux, and complementing the LPI’s existing internationally accepted certification standard. The program will be run in the UK by LPI affiliates Open Forum Europe.

The new native IPsec implementation for 2.6.x kernels greatly improves the security of Linux systems.

At Rouse's Supermarkets in Louisiana, it was just another July day in 2004. Customers placed their summer grocery selections on the conveyor belts; cashiers scanned them and collected the amount due using their touch-screen terminals, just like always. But underneath the hustle and bustle at the checkout lanes, a silent revolution had taken place. Even though their PC-based cash registers seemed the same, the operating system that all the technology rested on had changed from SCO Unixware to Linux.