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The creator of Linux says "I can't be nasty" when leading the open-source movement since it's all built on trust and teamwork.

The long awaited Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4 has been officially released. Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4 is available in two editions - Desktop (US$40) and Deluxe (US$50).

This HOW-TO is a handy one for the Mac folks out there who want to run multiple operating systems, but not install them to their hard drive, all using an iPod as a bootable FireWire drive. This HOW-TO is also helpful for trying out new software (on another OS), running developer versions of Mac OS (like Mac OSX Server/Tiger) as well as having a way to repair your Mac if for some reason it can't boot on its own.

In this article at DesktopLinux.com, Tom Adelstein says that UserLinux marks an important step for Linux. Commercial versions are available from big name vendors with support packages. But what happened to the roots of Linux and a freely available version that is standards-compliant and does not carry a large support price tag? Enter UserLinux and the spirit of open source.

Microsoft is delaying distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 2 via its Automatic Update service by at least nine days in order to give corporate customers more time to temporarily block automatic downloading of SP2 by their employees.

The new version of KDE has a completely new email client, in one of many improvements designed to close the features gap with Windows. The final release of KDE 3.3, an open-source Linux desktop environment, is due in a few days and will give users greatly improved email facilities.

If you haven't checked out Subversion, you should. It's a free, open source, powerful revision control system that was built to be a better CVS. It was created with clear design goals and built on top of robust, time-tested technologies. If you've been waiting for a better CVS and are ready to roll up your sleeves, skip directly to the 'Installing Subversion' section of this article.

Swing provides a complete set of standard GUI components, ranging from simple buttons and text fields to feature-rich tables, trees, and text editors. This article presents a drawing component used by an image-annotation application named JImaging.

HP World HP will be a pitching a story of Unix harmony and advancement at its HP World user conference here this week. First up, HP has now released HP-UX 11i V2 for both its Itanium and PA-RISC based servers. This means PA-RISC customers no longer have to wait until HP-UX 11i V3 arrives to use the same operating system as their Itanium counterparts. The bad news, however, is that both sets of customers will have to wait until the second half of next year to get their hands on V3 - a product once due at the end of this year.

Jorge Castro has a couple of interesting observations about packaging on Linux.

Solaris 9 9/04 Operating System, SPARC Platform Edition, is now available.

This whitepaper by Bill von Hagen discusses how graphical tools can help developers create Linux filesystems and manage application packages and library dependencies. It uses TimeSys tools to illustrate several points, but is largely vendor neutral in its explanation of concepts fundamental to embedded Linux development.

Get up to date on some of the new interface changes and features in Windows Server 2003, including a skinnable interface, folder compression to save space, built-in methods for CD burning, and remote desktop assistance.

When you're through with this chapter, you'll know not only how to use SOAP straight out of the box but also how to extend SOAP to support your diverse and changing needs. You'll have also followed the development of a meaningful e-commerce Web service in Java.