Aaron J. Seigo posts the latest summary of information gleaned from KDE mailing lists. Hot topics in this edition: “KDE League: Questions and answers” … “Music applications for KDE” … “KDE2beta1 freeze.”

Linux Today: “This is an interesting enough development: the SDK license agreement for Microsoft’s Mobile
Internet Toolkit (Beta 2) reiterates Microsoft’s opposition to open source/Free Software (with the
notable exception of the BSD license), claiming that they’ll “create, or purport to create, obligations
for Microsoft with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any
rights to or immunities under Microsoft’s intellectual property or proprietary rights in the Software. ”
This includes not being allowed to use open source/Free Software development tools in
conjunction with the SDK, according to this EULA.”

IBM recently updated their Linux Itanium developer kit. Release update notes: “The Developer Kit has been rebuilt to support glibc 2.2 and the latest releases from RedHat
(7.1) and TurboLinux (OS 7).”

Bloomberg: “Transmeta Corp., a start-up chipmaker that
competes with Intel Corp., reduced its second-quarter sales forecast by almost half as the Japanese
economy slows and computer makers there scale back purchases.”

LinuxPR: “Phoenix Object Basic is a fully object-oriented, visual programming environment
for Linux. It combines expressive power with ease of use and a short learning
curve. In its design (which traces its roots back to 1996), Phoenix is quite similar
to VB.NET.”

“Filanet Corporation, a leading provider of innovative and
integrated platforms and services for small and remote office networking, announced today the
availability of the software development kit (SDK) for the InterJak family of Internet service
appliances. Filanet’s SDK allows developers and OEM partners to create and customize services and
solutions to enhance the networking environments of small and remote offices. The Filanet InterJak
platform is an embedded system based on the Linux operating system. The InterJak SDK provides
the appropriate tools, API’s, source code and documentation to enable porting third-party
applications, device drivers and customized web pages to the InterJak.” Read more in the press release at LinuxPR.

“Filanet Corporation, a leading provider of innovative and
integrated platforms and services for small and remote office networking, announced today the
availability of the software development kit (SDK) for the InterJak family of Internet service
appliances. Filanet’s SDK allows developers and OEM partners to create and customize services and
solutions to enhance the networking environments of small and remote offices. The Filanet InterJak
platform is an embedded system based on the Linux operating system. The InterJak SDK provides
the appropriate tools, API’s, source code and documentation to enable porting third-party
applications, device drivers and customized web pages to the InterJak.” Read more in the press release at LinuxPR.

From the press release at LinuxPR: “Finite State Machine Labs: the RTLinux[tm]
Company, has announced that RTLinux and the RTLinux Development Kit are now
available for several PowerPC 860 evaluation boards. Stress tests of the boards
show worst case measured periodic jitter times of less than 14 microseconds.
Context switch times have been measured at four microseconds worst case.”

From the press release at LinuxPR: “NuSphere Corporation today announced its
new product NuSphere(R) PHPEd(TM) Advantage, a comprehensive set of editing
tools to speed development of database-driven web applications using PHP.”

Information Week: “Legislators on Capitol Hill continue to push for improved
online privacy for consumers, but many federal agency
Web sites are setting a bad example.

At least 23 agency sites still have more than 300 cookies,
one year after the Office of Management and Budget
restricted the use of tracking technologies on public
government sites. Those are the findings of a study
compiled from the reports of 51 inspectors general–part
of a mandate from Congress that arose after the General
Accounting Office reported last October that at least 13
agencies were using cookies.”