The KDevelop team released its first beta version of the development environment for KDE and Qt programs.

Nokia issued its first release candidate for Qt 4.5 that includes, among other things, translucent widgets.

A quicker boot sequence, a revamped installer and improved hardware management: the new version of the Turkish Linux distro has arrived.

Since the release of KDE 4 a year ago, the KDE Project has suffered a lot of criticism for previous 4.0 versions. With KDE 4.2, codenamed "The Answer", KDE developers hope to silence the critics.

The Ubuntu Developer Week, which began yesterday and runs until Friday, is a perfect opportunity to look over the shoulders of the Ubuntu developers.

The new edition of the Russian distro comes with bugfixes for the network manager, default printer settings and an updated version of OpenOffice 3.0.

Nokia will offer its Qt widget collection software under less restrictive LGPL licensing and has opened up its repositories.