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KDE Version 4.1 Ships in Beta

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) Project has released the first beta of KDE 4.1, which is targeted to fully replace KDE 3, when it goes final in July. Like other desktop open source projects focused on Linux and open source users, including GNOME and OpenOffice.org, KDE presents a graphical desktop interface designed for usability. The new version has many improvements to the desktop shell and is much more configurable than version 3, as described in the release notes. The KDE Personal Information Management suite is also now ported to the new version, along with quite a few other applications. Here's a look under the hood.



Asus Laptops to Offer Linux-Based Instant-On Features

Asus, which has seen healthy and growing sales of its inexpensive, mostly Linux-based,ﾠ Eee PC laptops, announced five new laptop models on Thursday designed to use DeviceVM's Slashtop instant-on software. The announcement came at the Computex show in Taipei. The Asus M70T, M50V, M51T, F8Va, and F8Vr laptops will all include Slashtop, thought it will go by the name Express Gate on the systems. Slashtop, if you're not familiar with it, is an embedded Linux OS including both the Firefox browser and Skype. Here's what's really cool about these systems.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Check in with Chris DiBona, Google's open source chief, on how committed Google is to OSS, and more.....

Google announces OpenSocial 0.8.....

Bill Gates discussed Windows 7 at the D conference. It has a multi-touch interface--video and photos found here.....

Ruby on Rails upgrade may arrive this weekend.....

Eighteen universities say they are turning to Groundwork Open Source's network management software.....

Funambol, maker of open source messaging software, has a new version of its BlackBerry push e-mail and PIM sync app.....



OLPC's Open Source Sugar Platform Aims for New Hardware

As we reported last month, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort has had rocky times recently. The company has just announced a partnership with Microsoft to put Windows on OLPC laptops, although Linux-based open source versions of the sub-$200 laptops will stay in production. The laptops are targeted at children in developing nations. Recently, several key executives have left the project, including former president Walter Bender. Questions swirled about Bender's reasons for leaving OLPC, but now, in a surprise twist, he has resurfaced. Bender has announced Sugar Labs, a new foundation focused on taking the Sugar user interface in the OLPC laptops to other hardware platforms.



Lock Down Your Public Wi-Fi Hotspot Sessions: Five Free Apps

Do you ever use public Wi-Fi hotspots? If you are increasingly using them, you have company. A study done by iPass late last year, showed that work-related hotspot usage was up 68 percent in 2007, relative to 2006. Airports topped the list of public places where users wirelessly connect. The vast majority of hotspot users, though, don't take the right steps to secure their sessions. In this post, I'll cover five free open source and freeware applications you can use to lock down your sessions.