You had to wait a long time, far too long already. But now the time has come, WoP, in version 1.5, is available for download - for Windows and Linux. The Mac users have to wait a little bit longer unfortunately, but, rest assured, we haven't forgotten you!

We had planned to publish WoP 1.5 within this year and had to work on it until the very last second.

Read the full thing at http://padworld.myexp.de/index.php?news&update_id=255

After a long year of changes in the kde-www land, ranging from looks to scm switches, a final last coup:

KDE is running its own pastebin service now!

Read the full thing at http://neverendingo.blogspot.com/2010/12/news-from-kde-www-pastebin.html

I don’t normally comment on other people’s software… but… a little while ago, opensuse was wondering whether KDE apps would work with these Gnome Shell requirements. Last time I checked, their “Activities” sounded like virtual desktops, but now they’ve returned to an application-based shell. This in sharp contrast to Plasma Desktop’s increasingly Activity-oriented workspace.

So what does that mean? Well, in gnome-shell, windows are organized by application – by the binary that spawns them. All your firefox windows are grouped together, all your okular windows grouped together, etc. You can still group windows on virtual desktops, but alt-tab is application-based, so as soon as you’ve got more windows than screen space you may as well have everything on one desktop.

Read the full thing at http://chani.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/activity-oriented-vs-application-oriented-workspaces/

With holiday season right in front of us it's about time to draw a line between 2010 and 2011 and have a look at most important events of this year. We carefully selected most important things that happened or haven't happened.

Read the full thing at http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=26

Please welcome the Mandriva 2010.2 release, which is coming to a mirror nearby you right now!

As announced previously, Mandriva 2010.2 is an incremental update on top of Mandriva 2010.1, incorporating all the security and bugfix updates since its release.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2010/12/23/mandriva-2010-2-is-out/

Once upon a time, I used to not care about the health of my servers. And while some still suffer in relative silence, for the most part I have changed course on the matter, and there’s just no excuse NOT to monitor things up the wazoo, just in case.

But, monitoring can be complex. There are services out there that’ll do it for you, Open source software packages and commercial solutions alike. But, all of that is TOO MUCH EFFORT for the lazy admin. Nagios, for example, is powerful and flexible. But it takes time to get comfortable with it. And a commercial solution based on nagios, groundworks, which is meant to make things easy, is downright bloated and clunky to work with.

Read the full thing at http://qdork.com/2010/12/system-monitoring-for-the-lazy-admin-part-1/

Go ahead and try a Google search for “Linux” in the news feeds. In fact, try looking up “Linux” in any news search engine and see what you come up with.

Notice a pattern yet? For some reason that seems to escape most people, Ubuntu "owns" the Linux headlines with very few exceptions. Obviously Chrome OS and Android are in the top news headlines as well, however generally it's Ubuntu that shows up as most popular in open source news these days.

Read the full thing at http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3917826/Ubuntu-Myopia-Continues-Among-Users.htm

The first packagers’ meeting took place the last Wednesday on the #mageia-dev IRC channel on Freenode. About 25 people attended, and many proposed to help both experienced and beginner packagers.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/?p=346

There was no easy way to make use of touch- input devices on Linux with Qt. Up until now. On a recent meeting with other people interested in getting touch (and here we are also talking about touch with multiple points) in Linux/X11 during the X.org Developer Summit and Ubuntu Developer Summit (great events!), it has been decided to fill this gap.

Read the full thing at http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/12/15/touching-the-x11-2/

While Mageia team is working hard on making build system available for packagers and teams are being setup thanks to volunteers, various media are already speaking about our project. They asked some Mageia team members to give some more information about the reasons and the organization of Mageia.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/?p=219