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The United Nations, through its International Open Source Network (IOSN) will organize the first annual Software Freedom Day on Saturday in an effort to educate Asian users about the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and encourage its wider use in the region.

Developers behind the next version of KDE, an open-source Linux desktop environment, are trying to make their software more accessible to people with disabilities.

Like many (if not most) open source developers, I use Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager, for all of my newsletter requirements. Recently, however, I began playing with a different one-way announcement-type newsletter mailer. It's called PHPlist, and as you might guess, in contrast to Mailman, it's not Python powered. Beyond the language difference, it adds a number of useful default features, including email from RSS feeds and sophisticated user management that really extends the power of an announcement-based mailing list.

Representatives from three of Australia's major political parties are expected to detail their policies on open source, Linux and open standards at an industry group conference early next month.

MEN Mikro Elektronik claims to be one of the first European embedded computer suppliers to join the MontaVista Linux software certification program.

Several organisations will celebrate Saturday's International Software Freedom Day by hosting open source events around the country. The Go Open Source campaign and various Linux user groups will host open source install fests in all major city centres around the country, at which members of the public are invited to bring in their PCs and have open source software installed under the guidance of a trained specialist. The events will also feature displays of the latest available software.

Lately there have been a fair amount of "Linux is not ready for the desktop" articles around the web. There are complaints about the trouble of installing and configuring systems. One recurring comment is that there are a lack of pre-loaded systems available. LinuxCertified is one company that offers Linux pre-loaded on laptops, which have a reputation of being somewhat of a bear to install on. Linuxlookup.com was eager to see if LinuxCertified's offering was "ready for the desktop (or laptop)". Read the full review.

A U.K. advertising standards body has warned Microsoft that its 'Get the Facts' ad campaign claiming Linux isn't cheaper than Windows could be misleading.

The new XOrg X11 server is due out on August 25th and with it comes some new, exciting features and improvements to old ones. I will describe some of these features, changes and more in this article.

Life without Microsoft's Windows: Michael Pollitt tests the open-source option

Gentoo based Vidalinux Desktop OS Beta2 will please both Linux and Mac users alike.

RSS/XML feedreading extention to Moz. Thunderbird, Forumzilla, has released new version 0.5.2 which fixes a critical usage bug. OSDir is featuring some screenshots of the application in use. As the forumzilla development team says, "no need for a separate News & Blogs account."

The second day of aKademy, KDE's World Summit 2004, opened the two-day developers' conference, involving a series of presentations and discussions both on ground-breaking topics like KJSEmbed and other subjects important to KDE. When not attending the two parallel tracks of presentations, KDE developers took the opportunity to socialise and hack in the comfortable surroundings of Ludwidgsburg's Filmakademie.

For your next DIY project, pick up an old Pentium computer and a CompactFlash card and build a custom router/firewall.

Welcome to this year's 33rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. A lot of work has been done to help release sarge soon. Several recommendations and removals were requested on the debian-release list. Claus Fischer even requested to document important issues in the release notes. Jeroen van Wolffelaar asked maintainers to answer some questions if they maintain one or more packages with different versions in sarge and sid in order to help the release management.

Day three of aKademy opened with presentations in two tracks, covering the themes of multimedia on the desktop and integration. A cruel starting time of 8.45 meant that the first talks suffered from a rather low attendance, perhaps due to the exploits of certain KDE hackers. But those who managed to crawl out of bed so early were not disappointed.

A U.N.-funded organization has produced a Linux desktop manual for novice PC users as part of an effort to encourage developing countries to use open-source software.

Microsoft on Monday withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce, citing "business reasons."

Enlightenment version DR16.7.1 has been released. In this new package, the theme has been replaced, dependencies have changed, and it has been split into three parts, "programs", "docs", and "themes". We've taken over thirty screenshots for those who like to look prior to downloading.