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Right on the heels of the KDE 3.2.1 release, Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

allAfrica.com posts an introduction to Open Source type of article.

Virtual instrumentation specialist National Instruments has developed commercial Linux drivers for its motion controllers, and has added Linux support to its Motion Hardware Driver Development Kit for those wishing to develop their own drivers.

The Government approved US$20 million for nine OSS projects, to be implemented through 2008. The plan also targets a contingent of programmers specialising in OSS application and development as well as IT products that meet criteria and Vietnam’s OSS application requirements.

Alan Cox discovered that the isag utility (which graphically displays data collected by the sysstat tools), creates a temporary file without taking proper precautions. This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking isag.

Open source software needs to be more widely used if the next wave of technology is to fully take off, IBM's Vice President of Technology and Strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, said Monday.

A year after it launched its Centrino chip package for building notebooks with wireless networking abilities, Intel has begun a public project to let Linux take advantage of the hardware.

A vulnerability was discovered in KDE where the path restrictions on cookies could be bypassed using encoded relative path components (e.g., "/../"). This means that a cookie which should only be sent by the browser to an application running at /app1, the browser could inadvertently include it with a request sent to /app2 on the same server.

In an effort to help its large-scale customers conserve bandwidth and speed up the delivery of online music, Napster is using open standards technology from IBM as part of a cache-management system, the company says.

Escaping enterprise messaging application and services lock-in isn't impossible, not if you exchange Exchange for Linux. So says Julie Hanna Farris, whose faith in Linux and open source software is so strong that she founded an alternative messaging solutions company, Scalix. Corp.

Generally speaking, this is the only book about Qt that discusses a recent version of Qt, so programmers who want to really learn Qt should definitely take a look at this offering. It not only explains how to program for Qt, but also, in some cases, why the API is the way it is. If you are looking into coding a multi-platform application that isn't Java-based, this is the book you need.

Beta is last-chance for changes that impact localizations so get those string changing fixes and features landed ASAP or let drivers@mozilla.org know if you're going to have trouble getting them in before Beta.

Linare Corporation was very kind to send us a Linare PC for a hardware review (software review will follow in a few weeks). The Linare PC is currently selling via Wal-Mart or via Linare's online shop for only $199.95 US and it comes pre-loaded with Linare Linux 1.0. Is this PC a good first computer option or an adequate home solution? Read on to find out.

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in Mozilla 1.4.

Corsaire discovered that a number of HTTP user agents contained a flaw in how they handle cookies. This flaw could allow an attacker to avoid the path restrictions specified by a cookie's originator.

A vulnerability in gdk-pixbuf versions before 0.20 exists that could allow a malicious BMP file to crash the Evolution mail client. The updated packages have been patched to use gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0's BMP- handling code.

Supporters of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) may want to mark the last Saturday of August on their calendar. The Software Freedom Day (SFD) initiative is set to kick off it annual program on August 28, 2004. Led by Matt Oquist, the event aims to raise awareness of FOSS by widely publicizing the existence of open source software, and demonstrate the high quality of the products.

The first installment of Chris DiBona's new monthly column for the LJ Web site. First up, taking on the spam war from another angle.

Last week one of my colleagues said, "The technology of Linux seems to be doing a better job of converging, while the 'support orgs' around it are acting more and more like the Unix fragmentation of old." I agree. Too many Linux, open source, and free software advocacy groups seem to act as if they are alone in the universe, or waste time arguing with competing advocates, instead of cooperating with others to achieve their goals.

Updated kdelibs packages that fix a flaw in cookie path handling are now available.