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Red Hat's David Airlie reports in his blog that a simple hack allowed him to develop an X server without root privileges in the course of just one afternoon.

New releases of the two competing Web technologies, Flash and Silverlight, have just become available. While version 10 of the new Flash Player runs on three platforms, the Silverlight implementation, Moonlight, is designed exclusively for Linux systems.

Digicams almost completely replaced legacy cameras, and now Album Shaper offers a replacement for photo albums.

The X.org developers are working on moving a less prominent component from userspace to kernel space: mode setting controls.

Chip manufacturer VIA has announced a strategic Open Source initiative for Linux driver development.

ATI graphics cards have become more and more interesting for Linux developers ever since the manufacture released the sources. The latest drive has released power management functions that have previously been neglected on Linux.

The new version includes Webkit and Phonon as part of the cross-platform library for graphical user interfaces. Trolltech has asked developers to test the RC.