The beauty of an open development platform is that anyone can take a stab at creating an application. KDE, which is built upon the Qt application and UI framework, is a shining example of this. A quick look at KDE-Apps.org reveals that new apps are added daily. I periodically browse through the latest KDE apps to see if anything stands out, and I found these five, some of which are in early development.

Read the full thing at http://maketecheasier.com/5-intriguing-kde-apps/2010/09/29

The Mageia project is a fork of Mandriva Linux. It is a brand new project, announced on September 18, 2010. There is an ongoing discussion about different aspects of the project, and one of those discussion revolves around the project’s logo. There have been some very good and some not so good logos proposed by community members, and what is being presented in this article are some of the proposed logos.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2010/09/28/best-of-proposed-mageia-logo/

The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up
an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project

The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop
and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a
major change in the project's structure. After ten years' successful growth
with Sun Microsystems as founding and principle sponsor, the project
launches an independent foundation called "The Document Foundation", to
fulfil the promise of independence written in the original charter.

Read the full thing at http://lwn.net/Articles/407383/

Since we’re starting with a new base, a brand new name for the development release in Mageia needed to be found.

This was one of the – many – tasks that needed to be done to get Mageia going (although admittedly one of the fun tasks ). Olivier Thauvin, aka Nanar, accepted to take on this task and things started rolling when he posted a new thread in the mageia-discuss mailing list, with a couple of initially proposed names.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/?p=32

On September 9 the news of Broadcom's release of the code for some of its wireless Ethernet chip sets sent shockwaves throughout the Linux community. Broadcom owners, as well as distribution developers have a reason to celebrate.

In the past, Broadcom owners had to resort to NDISwrapper or rely upon the limited reversed engineered drivers. Neither was optimal. The release of the code by Broadcom should eventually mean a much better Wi-Fi experience for owners of systems with Broadcom chip sets. But for those that like to read between the lines there may also be a deeper significance to this move.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/why-broadcoms-release-more-significant-code

An articulate, accurate, and well paced article on KDE 4.5, marred only by a point of view that I cannot seem to reconcile - one that appears to state that Ubuntu is the only relevant distribution, and Gnome is the only desktop anyone has ever seen before.

It is quite possible that I am overreacting, or reading far too much into it, but read it for yourself, and see what you think:

http://apcmag.com/linuxs-new-look-kde.htm

(We'll just pretend that the headline of the article doesn't exist)

The Mandriva Community will be autonomous and governance structures will be created to ensure freedom. The Mandriva enterprise is just an element of this independent community.

A community manager will be hired by Mandriva to help the community to implement these plans.

From a desktop point of view, Mandriva intends to be the BEST KDE DISTRIBUTION IN THE WORLD : easy to use, stable, rich featured and with excellent localization.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2010/09/20/mandriva-news-by-the-board/

As you may have heard, the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution is unclear.

Most employees working on the distribution were laid off when Edge-IT was liquidated. We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don't think the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project.

Many things have happened in the past 12 years. Some were very nice: the Mandriva Linux community is quite large, motivated and experienced, the distribution remains one of the most popular and an award-winning product, easy to use and innovative. Some other events did have some really bad consequences that made people not so confident in the viability of their favourite distribution.

Read the full thing at http://www.mageia.org/

I'm not the least bit surprised that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that VMware will be buying Novell's Linux business. After all, I suggested that VMware could really use Novell's SUSE Linux for its future, and I also knew that Novell was in hot and heavy merger and acquisition talks earlier this week. My own sources have also now confirmed that VMware is Novell's suitor.

Read the full thing at http://blogs.computerworld.com/16978/vmware_is_buying_novell

It would appear that Adobe has released a preview release of x86-64 Linux Flash Player (Square).

You can download it at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html