GNOME 2.4.0 Desktop & Developer Platform Released, Sep 11, 2003

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great release to be proud of - thanks very much to every GNOME 2.4.0 contributor!

Outside experts said the new flaws were nearly identical to problems that were exploited by the so-called Blaster infection, which spread last month with devastating damage. Computer users who applied an earlier patch in July to protect themselves must still install the new patch from Microsoft.

Microsoft Corp. may lose 15,000 customers for its Windows operating system as the Viennese city government considers phasing in Linux software, a city official said yesterday.

The Austrian capital will decide by the middle of 2004 whether to start phasing in Linux, said Erwin Gillich, deputy head of the city's information technology unit.

Oracle's transition to the open-source operating system is substantial, says a senior executive

Oracle’s immediate and long-term future is intertwined with the Linux operating system and grid computing, according to Robert Shimp, the company’s vice president of database product marketing.

In a letter dated Tuesday, the maintainer of the Linux kernel dismissed an offer from SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride to negotiate the dispute with the open-source community. "There doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP (intellectual property) in the open-source domain," Torvalds wrote.

The code is quite rough in many places, but many of the developers use it on a daily base and kdepim has improved so much that you can't live without it once you've tried it. :)

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