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The Kexi Team announced the immediate availability of Kexi 0.1 beta 3, codenamed "United Europe", a new preview release of the integrated data management environment aimed at developers and experienced users. Please read the announcement and how you can compile Kexi. Read More

Linux Journal has an article written by Marcel Gagne about SuperKaramba. Read how you can bring those dynamic applications to your own desktop so you can monitor your CPU usage, disk space and network activity floating transparently while constantly being updated. Or with the words of Monsieur Gagne "Don't merely monitor your system logs-give your system stats displays a certain je ne sais quoi with GUI tools." Read More

Recently Customize.org, one of the original desktop customization sites on the Web, has added some sections for KDE skins, themes and art such as cursors for general X11. We'd like to invite the KDE art community to submit their work to our site. By attempting to bring GNOME, KDE, and Windows artists together under one roof, we hope that we can increase porting and cooperation among all the communities. So come join us and show us what you've got! Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KDE Bluetooth improves Device Discovery Service. Kopete has a new history browser. Optimizations in K-menu drawing and KMail POP fetching. Kdebindings adds a graphical tool with wizards for generating bindings. KMail adds support for Annoyance-Filter anti-spam tool. Read More

NewsForge's editor Joe Barr spent some time with the current development version of Rekall 2.2. Rekall is a dual-licensed GUI database front-end with aspirations of becoming Linux's answer to Microsoft Access (screenshots of tables, forms and debugger). He finds it already very usable today and predicts a bright future. The release of the final Rekall 2.2 version is expected for late April or May. Read More

The Free Software community is constantly inundated with interesting new projects, but occasionally something crops up which is really special. Kst is just such a project. Started by Barth Netterfield, an astrophysicist, as a personal project to plot data from his experiments, it has now taken on a life of its own, being used in numerous academic projects, and finding funding from several government agencies. Intrigued by this project's success, and with a little prod from co-developer George Staikos, I interviewed Barth and George about kst, Free Software and physics. Read More

Some time ago on kde-www there was a request for volunteers to help with the amaroK website. The amaroK team is considering to switch to a CMS based site so that they get more organized with their content. Read More

Dan Allen has written a tutorial on Konstruct, a build utility that eases the process of building KDE releases from source by downloading tarballs and collating the required compilation steps. Read More

Mad Penguin has a review of the latest development version 1.1.6 of the desktop publishing application Scribus. Scribus was, besides K3b and KDevelop 3 recently proclaimed by Newsforge as being one of Free Software's killer applications. If you're curious what the future will bring, read the Roadmap Document for Scribus. Read More

This month I had the opportunity to speak about KDE, what KDE is doing to move into the enterprise, and present a case study of a company who moved from a Microsoft Windows platform to Linux and KDE. The presentation was at Real World Linux in Toronto, and Robert Brodie of Display Works Inc. joined me to talk about their migration experiences. The slides are finally available online, both mine and Robert's. In addition, the original OOImpress document of my slides is online. Read More