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PHP 5.3.0 released. New features include namespaces, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions, and there are many bug fixes.

Red Hat seeks to certify the cloud--Q&A. Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of Corporate Development, on the company's cloud strategy.

KDE's Aaron Seigo gives sneak peek at version 4.3. Here's a screencast on the upcoming release.

Will Stallman C# warning fall flat? Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation says C# and Mono are a Microsoft conspiracy.

Building a Linux App Store: Can You Help? Isn't there room for one?

Typical Linux desktop options like KDE and GNOME? limit the way computer users interact with the applications and programs on their systems. There's not much to do beyond opening and closing an app, and moving or resizing a window. The development team behind ?toil? is building a desktop interface that aims to stand that idea on its head and let users create workflows that work best for them.

The GNUstep-based environment is built with lightweight and modular components that allow users to combine project- and document-oriented activities (or, services, as the ?toil? team calls them) more easily.

Fedora 11 is now available. It features ext4, the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases, and Microsoft Exchange compatibility.

Mozilla to deliver a preview of Firefox 3.5 today. It will arrive in advance of the official Release Candidate 1.

Novell is considering an open source app store. It's a new way of marketing open source, officials say.

KDE On Windows continues. There are rumors that KDE isn't moving forward on the Windows platform--not true.

Seen: Linux notebooks with ARM CPUs. Freescale and Qualcomm have coined the term smartbook for them.