From KDE News:

Right on the heels of the KDE 3.2.1 release, Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

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From Mandrake Linux:

ISO images of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community are now publicly available on a number of FTP mirrors! Mandrakeclub Silver Members (and above) are granted access to a "PowerPack-like"3-CD version of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community which provides many supplementary add-ons such as NVIDIA drivers, Acrobat Reader, Real Player andothers, as well as a 4th and 5th CD with extra applications. Corporate Club Members (and above) are granted access to a downloadable DVD ISO of Mandrakelinux which includes supplementary add-ons such as NVIDIA drivers, Acrobat Reader, Real Players and others.

KDE Project Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 3.2 Generation GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution March 09, 2004 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with a basic desktop and eighteen other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more). KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik).

From Open:

The polite term in system administration is "problem determination." The impolite experience is killing, when IT managers have to spend days trying to figure out why their company's systems froze. This week, IBM vice president of autonomic computing, Alan Ganek, explains the concept of autonomic computing as a solution. Our reader poll lets you decide if autonomic computing as our future is inevitable or impractical.

The court appointed Administrator has filed the "redressement judiciaire" (Chapter 11 like) exit plan for the company.

The plan proposes the repayment of 4.1 million euros of liabilities over a 9 year period without interest. Of this, 3.3 million euros is exigible and 0.8 million euros is conditional upon certain events. The plan allows Mandrakesoft to repay its liabilities from revenues without raising additional capital. The Court will rule on the plan in the coming weeks.

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From MandrakeSoft:

The new version of Mandrakelinux provides many new great features and is available for download right now for contributors and Mandrakeclub Members, and as a DVD set available for pre-order at Mandrakestore. Public ISOs will be available a bit later.

Discover all Mandrakelinux 10.0 features, including the new kernel 2.6 integration, MagicDev and others on the feature page.

From Linux.com:

With Linux appearing more frequently in the press and on TV, people are becoming more curious about it. They are still reluctant to leave their comfortable Windows world, but they are curious. Enter LiveCD Linux -- a CD with a full Linux operating system that runs completely from the CD without the need to install anything on the hard drive. Taking ten people who never used Linux before and who have only basic computer skills, I set out to run several LiveCDs through some informal tests.

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At The People Behind KDE this week an interview with the man who represents what working and contributing to a project like KDE stands for. He is outspoken, always helpful, has broad view of things that KDE needs and it's future, he is passionate about politics and social issues. He is from Cowtown, in The Great White North: Canada's own Aaron Seigo!

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Learn how to use The GIMP's powerful layer and pattern tools by framing a digital photograph in the digital darkroom of MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo. This tutorial is based upon GIMP 1.3. Thus it also is applicable to GIMP 2.0 and in effect previews GIMP 2.0. You can apply the basic skills, elements, and principles that you learn in this tutorial to edit and manipulate photos, clipart, scanned images and other digital graphics with The GIMP. You also can use the GIMP to design and create all sorts of stunning computer graphics and images from scratch. GIMP is an excellent, pixel-based, image manipulation and editing program. It's free and open source software. GIMP is a cross-platform (XP) program for the BSD, Linux, UNIX, Mac, and Microsoft Windows platforms. GIMP looks and feels much like Adobe Photoshop. Unlike Photoshop, GIMP is free and does not need to be registered or activated. The GIMP 1.3/2.0 desktop and UI make GIMP as easy to use as Photoshop, perhaps even easier. Think of the GIMP and Photoshop as similar software products of comparable quality.

Check MozillaQuest.com for the full story and links!

Mandrake Linux 9.2 for AMD64 is now available with BitTorrent (4 CDs) for silver members. Most of the i586 RPMs are compatible with that release and you will see that this edition is on the average 20% faster than a traditionnal 32-bit system. In addition, AMD64 users will find new commercial RPMs as new NVidia drivers, updated Java RunTime Environment and j2sdk 1.4.2 RPMs.

And, the three first ISOs of a new Powerpack 9.2.1 release include all official updates -- some packages built for the Club such as Gaim 0.74 (which now supports MSN messenger), the latest Mozilla 1.5, and a new OpenOffice with additional patches and improvements.