According to a survey by the Austrian broadcasting station ORF, the majority of the parliament is for supporting the use of open source in the public sector.

The stable version of Debian 5.0 is scheduled for September, but KDE backports are available already.

For many people, the summer is an ideal time to go on vacation. Summer of 2008 was also a productive time for Amarok developers.

KDE developers say hello from Belgium and send a video message from Akademy 2008.

The technical boards of ISO and IEC have dismissed appeals by four of its members against adopting Microsoft's Office Open XML formats as an ISO/IEC International Standard.

KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation will be holding their annual Akademy and GUADEC conferences jointly next year in Gran Canaria.