Welcome to the Mandrakelinux Community Newsletter -- dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrakelinux-related news &info.
Inside this Issue:

• Sponsor of the Week -- Thawte Starter PKI Program
• Top Story -- Mandrakesoft acquires Edge IT
• Market News -- Mandrakelinux in the US
• Financial Corner -- KBC securities rates Mandrakesoft stock
• Mandrakesoft in the news-- Open Source focus in the French Government
• Mandrakeclub -- New RPMs released and Mandrakecampus unveiled
• Software Updates -- Security Advisory on Kernel
• Quick Reminder -- Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official Products & New goodies
• Call to English writer! -- English-speaking Editor WANTED

SourceForge.net (www.sourceforge.net), an OSDN (a subsidiary of VA Software Corp.) (NASDAQ: LNUX) site, and the world's largest collaborative site for cross-platform and Open Source developers, today announced it has received its largest donation ever in support of its Open Source collaborative development initiatives from Omidyar Network, an organization investing based on its core belief that every individual has the power to make a difference.

Read the full press release here

From Newsforge:

My friend Robin Miller recently wrote a very decent article about how spoiled we Linux users are, which inspired me to write this article that I've been kind of meaning to write for a while anyway, an article about how the various Linux repositories are and have been such a vast competitive advantage for Linux.

Linux distributions have a fantastic advantage in that you can have all of your software come from a single repository if you choose. This makes Linux distributions much easier to maintain.

Read the full thing here

From Open for Business:

With 2003 ushering in the era of 64-bit desktop computing, it was certainly time for a 64-bit development platform, and Trolltech has filled that need. Qt 3.3 offers full 64-bit support on all supported platforms. So, yes, your application compiled with Qt 3.3 will be able to enjoy the benefits of 64-bit processors on not only AMD64 processors running Windows or GNU/Linux, but also the PowerPC G5 running Mac OS X or LinuxPPC (Yellow Dog is presently beta testing 64-bit G5 PPC support).

Read the full thing here

From Open:

This issue marks the 100th issue of Open on the Web. It also marks some interesting new beginnings for Linux on Power and Power on open source.

Linux has a strong affinity for 64-bit power computing. This issue's story about bioinformatics describes research endeavors going on at two campuses wherehigh-performance computing could turn the tide for important medical breakthroughs. It's a classic tale of collaboration spurred on by the open source ethic and tangible new knowledge spurred on by Linux on 64-bit computers.

The French Ministry of Equipment has chosen Mandrakelinux Corporate Server to replace 1,500 Microsoft Windows NT servers in a national scale deployment. Recently, Civil Service Minister Renaud Dutreil was quoted in Reuters as saying "the competition is open" between open-source and Microsoft for the nearly one million government computers. Mandrakesoft is proud to supply the operating system for the Ministry of Equipment deployment, and to supply open-source alternatives to governments around the world.

For further details, please see http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/business/2490&wslang=en

From KDE News:

Trolltech has announced the availability of the first Qt 4 Technical Preview. Qt 4, the next major release of the popular cross-platform C++ application framework which KDE is based on, is scheduled for final release in late Q1, 2005.

Five new technologies, codenamed Arthur, Scribe, Interview, Tulip, and Mainwindow are being incorporated into the next major version of Qt 4.0.

Read the full thing here

Mandrakesoft today announced its audited financial results for the first half-year (October 2003 - March 2004). Compared to previous unaudited results (announced in April 2004), net result has been increased by 511KE (~ $630 K).

Details are available at:http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/newsletter/sn040708

KDE Project Ships First Beta of Next Major Release

July 7, 2004 (The Internet) - The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3 Beta 1. As another step towards the aKademy in late August, this release is named Klassroom.

This beta release shows astonishing stability, so the KDE team asks everyone to try the version and give feedback through the bug tracking system.

Read the full thing here

From KDE News:

When was the last time you took a look at KOffice, KDE's native office suite? This article looks at the good, and the bad, in the latest version of the 1.3 series. Although OpenOffice.org grabs most of the limelight KOffice has been steadily improving, with a low memory footprint and tight integration with Konqueror you might find useful.

Read the full thing here.