From TheDot: “Waldo Bastian, the KDE 2.x release coordinator, has announced that KDE 2.2.1 was packaged as a tarball yesterday and will be officially released on September 17, 2001. Those of you expecting the release this Monday will be happy to know that the extra week was used to squash bugs. At about the same time, Dirk Mueller, the new KDE 3.x release coordinator (thanks, Dirk!), posted the projected KDE 3.0 release schedule.”

frodo writes “userlocal.com has an article explaining how to install kde 2.2 from source (which can be tricky these days) on Slackware Linux 8. The reason this is a important article is that there are no official kde 2.2 packages from the Slackware developers.”

From IBM’s Developer Works: “Bonobo is the component object model of the GNOME (Gnu Network Object Model Environments) project (it is also a monkey — see Resources). Bonobo provides a COM-like model, using CORBA as a location-transparent transport. It is the foundation of the GNOME vision to provide a fully Free Gnu Network Object Model Environment. In this series of three articles, we’ll examine Bonobo in more detail.”

Saint writes, “Open source medical software is clearly a viable way to improve patient care, education and reduce costs. However, open source software isn’t ‘magic pixie dust’ and there are real people doing real, often difficult work to make medicine’s free software future a reality. Linux Medical News would like to honor the individul who has accomplished the most towards the goal of improving medical education and practice through open source medical software. Therefore, LinuxMedNews announces the first annual Linux Medical News Open Source Achievement Award to honor that individual. Complete story.”

Slashdotters discuss the critique by Brett Glass, in which he says the OAL may “give away too much.”

Amir Michail writes, “GUISearch uses the application GUI as a way to cluster its methods/functions in
a way that naturally reflects its key features (e.g., specification). Specifically, the cluster centers are the GUI callbacks — which represent fundamental entry points into the application code — while every other method/function is an element of each cluster from which it is called directly/indirectly by the corresponding cluster center.
This clustering of application methods can be used to browse the source code of
unfamiliar applications by proceeding from fundamental callback methods towards
methods deeper down in the implementation. Moreover, the clustering provides a natural way to rank application methods during a search so that more fundamental
methods are shown first. You can find a demo that includes the entire KDE CVS repository
at http://guisearch.sf.net.
Feedback is welcome.”

From TechWeb: “Since its debut in 1991, Linux has continued to quickly evolve as a desktop alternative operating system, as well as an alternative network OS. We looked at four popular Linux distributions — Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1, Mandrake ProSuite 8.0, Red Hat Professional Server 7.1 and SuSE Linux Professional 7.2 — to see how they worked alongside Windows NT, the technology most likely to be used on the same class of hardware as that used for most Linux installations.”

Wired has more coverage of the recent Unix clock rollover to 1 billion seconds: “Early Sunday morning in Greenwich, England, the clock that keeps Universal Time will strike 01:46:40 — the 40th second of the 46th minute in the second hour of Sept. 9, 2001. That instant will be an anniversary for the Unix operating system: It marks one billion seconds since midnight on Jan. 1, 1970, which is the moment Unix computers recognize as zero-time.”

From TheRegister: “The P4 chipset phoney war is over: let the fighting begin. In the red corner is Intel, which yesterday filed suit against VIA in the Delaware courts. The chip giant alleges that its Taiwanese rival and customer has infringed five P4 patents with its P4X266 and P4M266 chipsets. It wants damages and is seeking an injunction, presumably to halt manufacture.”

From Slashdot: “If you thought the DMCA was a nightmare, wait ’til you find out what Congress is planning this fall. The sequel is called the “Security Systems Standards and Certification Act,” and it requires PCs and consumer electronic devices to support “certified security technologies” to be approved by the Commerce Department.”