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From KDE Dot News: “David Faure, the new KDE release coordinator, has set forth the release schedule
for KDE 2.0.1, a bugfix and translation release, and KDE 2.1. KDE 2.0.1 should be
available on December 4, and the first KDE 2.1 beta two weeks later on December
18.”

Indenticalsoftware.com has a story about Bt Builder: “Maybe the release of Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition caused a feedback loop or perhaps the eternally delayed Lunar 2: Eternal Blue is the source
of the problem. For whatever reason role-playing games (RPGs) have been foremost in my thoughts. Searches into the open source RPGs has been
somewhat disappointing although not that surprising.”

Linux Planet has a column on using Network File System: “From a basic point of view, NFS and Samba are very similar. Both have a client and server application. Both allow a server
to share files with clients. Both have clients and servers on almost every platform. The big difference is the Windows PCs
have Samba-compatible clients and servers as part of their default network support and Windows requires third party
software to support NFS. Conversely, UNIX systems usually come with and use NFS by default with Samba being used to
provide file sharing with Windows PCs.”

Slashdotters discuss an article from Tomshardware questioning the site’s MPEG-4 benchmark results.

ZD Net UK reports that Hewlett-Packard has been forced by a court in Germany to shell out
an undisclosed amount of money for manufacturing hardware that allows users to
burn copyright protected music to CDs.

The internet is chock full of them! While some are a little buggy at present, the internet houses some top notch tools. In fact, Some of these tools either meet or exceed commercially available tools in quality. So what’s the catch! In one word, “documentation.” This seems to be a weak area in a lot of free projects on the web. While some projects are addressing this problem, the majority aren’t. So you might have to dig a little to find some information on certain projects. But with that all said, there still is a lot of great free development tools to be had. So below is links to the best free development tools. Read more at osfaq.com. -Anonymous Reader

InfoWorld reports on what’s being billed as the first exposition of human partner robots in Japan.

Our friends at Linux.com have a story on webs of trust: “When we hear of Users Groups participating in new, different and exciting activities, we
feel the need to get the word out for anyone else who may like to join them in the
endeavor or try it for him or herself.
One such activity is the Web of Trust. Darxus with PhillyLUG wrote in to tell us about
PLUG’s venture with PADS. Both groups have come together to develop a Web of
Trust. At the end of each of their respective meetings, they gather for keysigning
parties.”

The Debian project has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the recently created Gnome Foundation. The Advisory Board is a forum for
organizations and companies that have an interest in Gnome to communicate with the Board of the Foundation and work together to support Gnome. The announcement is posted at Linux Today.

Yomiuri.com.jp reports that three people were arrested in Japan Thursday “on suspicion of illegally obtaining IDs and passwords and using them to invade Web sites belonging to a university and a tourism association.

It is the nation’s first bust of a hacker group on suspicion of violating the law on
illegally accessing computers.”