The Big Kolab Kontact Interview - Part II, Feb 09, 2005

As promised KDE Dot News brings you the second part of the two-part interview about Kontact and Kolab. This part focuses on Kontact, the Personal Information Management suite for KDE made with the combination of KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressbook and other programmes.

Terra Soft Solutions Inc. announced Wednesday that its PowerPC-based Linux implementation, Yellow Dog Linux, now supports the Mac mini and iMac G5.

In addition to the same old accusations of lack of familiarity, applications, and support, Linux on the desktop may be facing an attack against its one clear advantage -- price. Microsoft may be willing to make deep price cuts to staunch a potential market outflow to Linux, according to Amy Wohl, a longtime software industry observer who presented a Linux desktop achievement report at the recent OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit in San Francisco.

Red Hat India, the open source solutions provider on Wednesday said it expected to grow 150 per cent this year in line with its last two years' growth, on the back of high demand from the Government, educational institutions and SMEs.

Linux in the enterprise has won the credibility game, if you use the agenda for LinuxWorld Boston 2005 as an indicator.

The Aspire 1362 NLC runs on a Linux operating system and comes with a one-year warranty and a 100 hours Internet pack.

2.4.30-pre1 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 0
Files changed: 73
Files removed: 0

Following in Apple's footsteps, Robertson is hoping that his move back into the music space will help jumpstart sales of his Linux products. To that end, he will also unveil a digital music hub program called MP3beamer, which will be sold for $20 as a standalone piece of software for Linspire users.

Hewlett-Packard is working to take Linux into several new areas of the server market, including 64-processor servers, the company is expected to announce Wednesday, shortly before a major Linux trade show.

Improvements are been made to the Evolution mail client by GNOME developers, who are already planning GNOME 3

The success of the Firefox browser is driving takeup of open source applications in Australia and opening the door for widespread Linux adoption on the desktop, according to the newly-elected Linux Australia president, Jon Oxer.

A native Windows port for KDE's graphical framework is under development and could help the Linux desktop environment attract Microsoft users, but some fear the move will harm Linux

Sun Microsystems chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos on Monday added his voice to the chorus of Sun executives explaining their rationale for using the newly created Common Development and Distribution License for their Open Solaris project.

 View older news this year: Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan
 View news from other years: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999