Looks like the KDE folks are coming into the last mile. From dot.kde.org:

"After over a year of development we're ready to announce the release of the first (and hopefully last) release candidate for KDE 3.2.0. Get it from download.kde.org or use Konstruct if you don't feel like calling configure by yourself. Due to the time constraints, don't expect distribution binaries, but they may pop up at download.kde.org URL too. "

Cooker has been keeping pace with the CVS builds, so I would expect to see RC1 hitting the Cooker mirrors fairly quickly.

MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: The upcoming "IDG LinuxWorld is a computer show well worth attending -- and the price is right if you register before the show starts. Novell's Bruce Lowry discusses Novell's presence at LinuxWorld. 'As for what we're showing on the floor, we will bring pretty much everything we have that touches Linux.. Which is most everything now!'"

"With its acquisitions of SUSE Linux and Ximian plus its role in the SCO v Linux saga as perhaps the real owner of the Unix copyrights, Novell now is one of the biggest players, if not the biggest player, in the Linux World. So it is not surprising that Novell will be rather visible at the January 2004 LinuxWorld EXPO."

"To kick things off for both Novell and the LinuxWorld Expo, Novell CEO Jack Messman will present the opening Keynote address on Wednesday, 21 January 2004." Novell notables Jeff Hawkins, Nat Friedman, Michael Meeks are participating in panel discussions.

The article also has a list of exhibitors, conference tracks, a list of what Novell is bringing, and an interesting discussion of why one should attend LinuxWorld.

Check MozillaQuest.com for the full story and links!

I've been reading a few news stories about the latest pre2.0 of The Gimp and none of the screenshots seemed to capture the major changes that have been done to it. Since I've been using pre2.0 (gimp1_3-2.0-0.pre1) for a couple of weeks now, I though I'd throw up some screenshots and try to focus on the things that have really be revamped.

This year will see Linux finally crack the lucrative desktop market as more commercial software vendors tool up and cash in on the operating system and kernel developers improve graphical interface integration says cult hero and Linux founder Linus Torvalds. Computerworld's Rodney Gedda cornered the penguin power supremo at the Linux.Conf.au in Adelaide.

Computerworld: How do you feel Linux on the desktop is progressing?

Linus Torvalds: Last year was good but I'm seeing a lot more noise about it this year. The server space is easier to tackle first with any operating system as it can be applied to specific tasks such as mail serving; however, the desktop is harder to sell.

Read the full thing here

Dirk Mueller released KDE 3.1.5, the latest and final release in the KDE 3.1 series. The release was triggered by a security issue that was discovered in the VCF file information reader. The ChangeLog lists the other fixes contained in this release. KDE 3.2 is expected to be released early February.

Read the full thing here.

Who's to say what was more uncivil about December's WSIS meeting in Geneva, Richard Stallman's sticking his tongue out when taking his security ID photo, or those who sought, and succeeded in, muddying the waters against official support of Open Source/Free Software?

Evan Leibovitch, president of the Linux Professional Institute, lets you decide, in his thought-provoking post-mortem of the December summit in Geneva.

If you haven't noticed, I've decided to crank out the new site, based on Geeklog. I was going to wait until I had the majority of the content I wanted from the old site was moved into the new site, but it was interferring with posting of new stories and new content. I believe that developing it over time will give me a little perspective on what was useful content, what was outdated and what was just a plain waste of time an effort to move over :)

The updates to PHP versions 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 released on Thursday do not fully resolve the vulnerability that was accidentally disclosed on Reddit, according to the discoverer of the flaw. The bug in the way CGI and PHP interact with each other leads to a situation where attackers can execute code on affected servers. The issue remained undiscovered for eight years.

Read the full thing at http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/PHP-patch-quick-but-inadequate-1568454.html

Pexpect is a pure Python module that makes Python a better tool for controlling and automating other programs. Pexpect is similar to the Don Libes Expect system, but Pexpect as a different interface that is easier to understand.

It runs programs and watches output. When output matches a given pattern Pexpect can respond as if a human were typing responses.

Read the full thing at http://www.topdog.za.net/2012/04/25/python-modules-you-should-know:-pexpect/