KDE 4.3.0 is out, and it is a great release. It is unlikely that any one specific thing will strike the user as the most noticeable improvement; rather, the overall user experience of KDE has improved greatly in KDE 4.3.0. The release's codename, Caizen, is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. That has been the goal of the KDE team for 4.3.0: polish, polish, polish. The statistics from the bug tracker speak for themselves: 10,000 bugs have been fixed.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2009/08/04/kde-430-released-caizen

Issue 1 looks at the Linux KVM Hypervisor Technology, System Automation with Puppet, Cloud and Hypervisor Technologies, Building IP Networks and Linux iSCSI solutions

Read more about Open Source Unified Computing Magazine and download the PDF at http://www.opensourc3.org/

The nature of the enterprise desktop is changing, and the emphasis now is on instant accessibility, mobility and flexibility - attributes which Linux, on the server, desktop, netbook or mobile device, is well placed to provide

Read the full thing at http://www.h-online.com/open/Routing-around-the-desktop--/features/113714/0

Drizzle is a re-thought and re-worked version of the MySQL kernel designed specifically for high-performance, high-concurrency environments. In this exclusive article, MySQL guru Jeremy Zawodny takes an inside look at the goals and state of Drizzle development.

Read the full thing at http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7379/1.html

From /.:

A new router, designed by one of the creators of ARPANET, manages flows of packets instead of only managing individual packets. The router recognizes packets that are following the first and sends them along faster than if it had to route them as individuals. When overloaded, the router can make better choices of which packets to drop.

Read the full thing at http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1830217/New-Router-Manages-Flows-Not-Packets

Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time. Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?

Read the full thing at http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7413/1.html

To write it down clearly: I don't like clones. There are too many distro's out there as it is. Over the last years I have had many people ask me: I have tried Distro X, Y and Z, can you help me? Just a while back a colleague told me, I have upgraded Ubuntu and now my server won't work, can you help me? Or constantly I get people telling me: "I have tried Clone of Clone X, Y, Z, it looks nice, but then I upgraded and it hosed my system."

Read the full thing at http://www.linux.co.nz/journal/2009/7/3/cloned-distros-why-ubuntu-sucks-and-should-be-banned.html

Today, three days before the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit starts, the KDE team released KDE 4.3.0 RC1. RC1 is an early candidate for what will become KDE 4.3.0 at the end of this month.

Artwork has now also been merged, and KDE 4.3 will have a new Plasma look, sported by the new, light "Air" Plasma theme. Oxygen, the default in earlier versions of KDE 4 is still available as an option through the "Desktop Settings" dialog.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2009/07/01/release-candidate-kde-430-out

We are proud to announce the release of Cacti 0.8.7e and Spine 0.8.7e.

Please visit http://www.cacti.net/ to download.

There are quite a few bug fixes in the 0.8.7e release. Some highlights
include:

* Reduced issues unexpected SNMP agents results
* Fixed issue with SNMPv3 passwords and Firefox Browser
* Fixed a long standing bug where changes to graph trees would not show up immediately

Thanks,
The Cacti Group

You already know the Linux command called "top", and also iotop and iftop (from previous Web Upd8 posts), but I bet you don't know some of the other 14 top-like Linux apps

Read the full thing at http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/06/16-top-like-linux-apps-commands.html