Desktop News and Articles

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

The fact that support for Microsoft Exchange 5.5 has already been discontinued and the prospect of support for Exchange 2000 being discontinued shortly sees IT staff facing stiff questions on the future of their Groupware environments.

The latest 11.2 update of the Scalix groupware supports multi-tenant environments and hosting as a groupware service.

The Kayak Prize 2007, awarded by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) for the most effective campaign against Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) as a standard, went to Microsoft itself.

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

The latest version of Astaro Security Gateway V7 no longer relies on Spamassassin. Commtouch technology is now used to filter unsolicited mail.

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.