The KDE development team has set itself beta goals as milestones en route to the first release candidate. An initial release candidate of the KDE 4.0 developer platform is now available along with the improved beta four.

The third beta release sees the KDE team freeze the development platform and includes further code clean-up work. The developers have concentrated on libraries since the second beta, but there are some more visible changes, too.

The KDE project has just released version 3.5.8 of the Linux desktop fixing various bugs and enhancing a number of components.

UK-based ARM is looking to develop a Linux platform for mobile devices in cooperation with six partners.

The new 0.6.0 version of the compositing window manager Compiz now supports multiple x-screens and has new plug-ins.

Foresight Linux can claim to be the first Linux distribution with the latest Gnome desktop: Foresight 1.4 has just been released with Gnome 2.20.

The KDE Display Manager (KDM) can be exploited to allow users to log in without a password. This would give users the ability to log in as other users or even root.

The new Gnome version 2.20 was released today, in line with the project's six month release schedule.