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Hello everyone! I would like to welcome you to the new and improved KDE Dot News. As I am sure many of you know, although the old KDE Dot News has served the KDE community very well, it was beginning to show its age. Because of that a number of people including myself took it upon ourselves to modernise the Dot.

This three-part "Web development with Eclipse Europa" teaches you how to use Eclipse Europa for Web development using Java technology, PHP, and Ruby RadRails.

This time, Microsoft may have outdone themselves with a proposed patent of such breathtaking hubris that it makes their previous FUD pale by comparison. If it comes off it will either be a licence to print money (Redmond’s version of Quantitative easing?) or the biggest Pyrrhic victory in the history of computing since Steve Jobs refused Bill Gates and hardware vendors a license to use Apple’s OS and software. When you first read about Microsoft’s proposed patent you are suffused with the glow of righteous anger but before you get carried away, stop. Stop and think. This patent might just be, to mix my metaphors, a Trojan Horse and the straw that breaks the Camels’ back.

A quick googling for best desktop blogging client would yield just a few (read millions/gazillions) results. Having researched the subject a lot, my choices were finally limited down to BlogJet and BlogDesk, as per my feature set requirement goes (Primarily, off line editing, draft, WYSIWYG editing, categories, tagging support, pinging, trackbacks support, timestamping, past post editing, automatic image uploading) BUT there is one little problem. Both of these don’t work on Linux.

Moblin v2 Core Alpha has been released. Moblin is a custom Linux distro optimized for netbooks & mobile internet devices (MIDs).

People have been wanting something like a netbook ever since we can remember, even way back in the last millennium. But hardware costs made them unattractive. Now we're tripping over netbooks every time we turn around, and have a wealth of attractive choices. Paul Ferrill takes the Lenovo Ideapad, loaded with SUSE Linux, for a test drive and reports his findings.

According to the BBC, "Good teachers will always be looking to move forward but they are so busy that they are often conservative." Datamation's Matt Hartley has a completely different take on why open source can't get a foothold in American classrooms, and he claims it's largely because teachers and school IT professionals are "misinformation junkies."

In the previous part of this article, we created an example portlet using AJAX and saw how simple and efficient its creation was. In this second part we will talk about how JBoss portal supports markup through tags on layouts and renderers of the pages.

Here's the First version of PlayOnlinux for the year 2009 ! It is a major change in WineVersion's behavior, not about the graphics or the script implementation but on the internal code. This change allows the use of wine packages that have been intended for PlayOnLinux.

Just the other day I was sitting around complaining to my dogs, who are devoted, attentive listeners, that finding out how well hardware devices are supported on Linux is still more work than it needs to be...At any rate both dogs gave me their best "You can complain, or you can do something constructive. Like come outside and throw the ball a few thousand times" looks. So I threw the ball a few dozen times, and then came back inside and decided to write about some of my Linux hardware experiences.

Last week I opened my Feedburner account to check the daily traffic statistics for my by Ron Miller blog. There was a link at the top of the page encouraging me to transfer my Feedburner account, which Google had purchased back in 2007, to my Google account. Seemed like a sensible thing to do since I have all my Google services under a single sign-on except Feedburner. It turned out it was a terrible idea...

I have to admit I let this topic drop after writing my best take on how to go from footnote citations in the text using the [article URL#To-[footnote digit] and back to the approximately the same location using the similar linking syntax: [article URL#back-[footnote digit]. However, I could not do nearly as well when trying to connect external pages with similar easy to use syntax. I must admit my attempt to connect the Home page menu list to specific menu pages with links to articles was weak [1.]. Therefore, I saw further efforts futile.

In this article, we will develop our first ever Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI ) script using PHP scripting language. This article deals with the most basic elements of AGI scripting and the information contained within. So, take time to familiarize yourself with this article, especially if you intend to use a language different from PHP.

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that registration is open for the Linux Foundation's Annual Collaboration Summit taking place April 8 - 10, 2009 in San Francisco. Also available today are further details, including the Call for Proposals (CFP), for both the Annual Collaboration Summit and LinuxCon 2009.

As this amazing chart shows, there are basically three great families of GNU/Linux distros: those based on Red Hat, Slackware and Debian. The last of these was created as a reaction to an even earlier distro, SLS, as Debian's creator Ian Murdock (the “Ian” in “Debian” - Deb is his wife) told me a few years ago.

IBM's latest Lotus Symphony suite plus growing relationships with Red Hat and Canonical could put new competitive pressures on Microsoft Office. Here's the scoop from The VAR Guy.

Easy Peasy (netbook optimized Ubuntu Linux) which was released a few weeks ago will have a few nice new features in the upcoming 2.0 release.

Dynamic, attractive, and rich interfaces have always helped in creating compelling web applications. However, in recent years, the popularity and support for asynchronous browser-to-server communication, combined with the strong client-side capabilities of JavaScript and XML, have resulted in exciting user interfaces with unprecedented functionality. In this article we will see that how AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), as the rich user interface design is commonly called, has gained wide acceptability in traditional web applications, and portals are no exception to this.

This article explains how you can cache your web site contents with Apache's mod_cache on Debian Etch. If you have a high-traffic dynamic web site that generates lots of database queries on each request, you can decrease the server load dramatically by caching your content for a few minutes or more (that depends on how often you update your content).

The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "The Answer", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.0), readying the Free Desktop for end users. KDE 4.2 builds on the technology introduced with KDE 4.0 in January 2008. After the release of KDE 4.1, which was aimed at casual users, the KDE Community is now confident we have a compelling offering for the majority of end users.