Desktop News and Articles

Three new branches in Opensuse's build service provide various OpenOffice packages: stable, unstable and extras. This replaces the previous OpenOffice build service.

IBM has now released the new version of the Lotus Notes Groupware and Collaboration Suite for Linux servers. Besides numerous enhancements and a new, Java-based architecture, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 now provides a Linux distribution-based platform for the server.

The Compiz project has just released the first developer version of its 3D window manager after the reunion with Beryl.

While the KDE Team is busy working on version 4, more and more Linux desktop applications and interfaces keep on appearing. Kcall 0.7 and Decibel 0.5 bring integrated desktop software for Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), VoIP and real-time messaging to KDE.

Kontact, the KDE project's Personal Information Manager (PIM) is making progress en route to becoming a complete Groupware client.

The KDE project has just released a beta 1 version of its next generation KDE 4 desktop environment. At the same time, interfaces to KDE libraries were frozen to allow application developers to use them for their work.

A bug in the Xpdf 3.02 source code can cause the PDF viewer to crash. Programs that use Xpdf code are affected.

Following announcements at Cebit, Collax has now completed work on a Software Development Kit (SDK) for its Collax Solution Platform.