Desktop News and Articles

The Ubuntu Developer Week, which began yesterday and runs until Friday, is a perfect opportunity to look over the shoulders of the Ubuntu developers.

Canonical has released its third alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04. It brings a few new features to test, including notification settings in the user interface and the much publicized ext4 filesystem support.

Novell kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has released statistics on his personal email activity.

Evgeniy Polyakov has released a patch to the kernel's out-of-memory (OOM) killer function, which was designed to prevent a system freeze in an OOM condition by sacrificing one or more processes. The patch "tames" the function by defining the specific process to kill.

Foomatic is now released in version 4.0. The software creates PDFs, describes external drivers better and includes PPD extensions.

The new edition of the Russian distro comes with bugfixes for the network manager, default printer settings and an updated version of OpenOffice 3.0.

Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.

Nokia will offer its Qt widget collection software under less restrictive LGPL licensing and has opened up its repositories.

Now available for download, the release candidate for KDE 4.2 brings few changes to the Beta.