KDE 3.4 Release Candidate 1 Announced, Feb 28, 2005

On February 26th 2005, the KDE Project announced the first release candidate of KDE 3.4

"There are lots of shops that are totally Windows-based; moving to Linux would simply be too much of a change for some. If their needs are being met with Windows applications and services, there's no need to rush to Linux," he said.

The Gentoo Foundation Inc.'s Gentoo Linux has quickly grown into one of the world's most popular Linux distributions. However, Gentoo's non-commercial status, as well as its reputation as a bleeding-edge distribution for Linux system tweakers, has so far dimmed its prospects for enterprise adoption.

New Zealand's Ministry of Health is going back to Unix for its mission-critical applications.

IBM today stepped up its open source efforts with the contribution of more than 30 projects to SourceForge.net.

Linux got a leg up from Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and the China Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which announced this morning plans to jointly establish a lab based in Beijing to develop complete evaluation systems for the open operating system (OS) and PowerPC core.

If you're looking to hire a Linux sysadmin, you might need to rethink your hiring guidelines and practices.

The founder of the OpenBSD and Open SSH projects, Theo de Raadt, has been presented the Free Software Foundation's 2004 award for the advancement of free software.

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