AllAfrica.com is reporting that the newly formed GNOME Foundation will have a “significant impact” on the South African IT industry.

From new site KDE Dot News: “Corel has been
working for months on a Qt port of Mozilla. The results are reportedly
impressive with QtMozilla turning out to be more stable than the official Linux
GTK version. Corel plans to port QtMozilla to KParts so it won’t be long
before you can embed even that in Konqueror. Honorable mention goes to
Roberto Alsina who had begun his own Mozilla port the weekend before.”

From an eWeek review: “System managers who are responsible for distributing Linux to large numbers of machines have a limited number of tools at their disposal. However, new technology and new takes on current ideas will expand those options, eWeek Labs believes.”

Increased security and ease of use are some changes Red Hat is promising in its 7.0 release due out Sept. 25. Maximum Linux has a preview.

Reuters has a follow-up story on some Open Source advocates boycotting the $10,000 secure music challenge, sponsored by the
Secure Digital Music Initiative. The “big five” major record labels
are all founding members of SDMI.

theKompany.com, a producer of Linux developer software including
the second-tier developer distribution PowerPlant, announces
the availability of Kugar v1.0, a business report generation and viewer tool for KDE. The
press release is at LinuxPR.

Linuks.net has a chat about Cisco patenting NAT. “It turns out that Cisco has a patent on a security system for network address translation
systems. Depending on your reading of the patent and what it really covers, this could be one
of the more threatening software patents to come along yet. NAT has been a feature of Linux networking for years … “

Slashdot readers discuss a report that some Microsoft employees are
unhappy that the Myth servers ran on Linux, after Myth-maker Bungie Studios was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year. The original article is at InsideMacGames.com.

MandrakeSoft, the publisher of the
Linux-Mandrake operating system, announced that it intends to
reinforce its image to both individual and corporate users. In order to offer
them the most suitable solutions, MandrakeSoft will be launching strategic
partner programs designed for different market players including software
and hardware vendors, as well as with systems integrators. Check out the press release at LinuxPR.

The Linux Journal has a how-to article on “tweaking old Tux for fun,
performance and a better knowledge of the innards of your Linux system.”