LinuxProgramming.com posts a mailing list message from Martin Baulig, explaining how to compile GNOME from CVS.

tjhanson pointed us to an interesting letter from Eric S. Raymond: “A few hours ago, a friendly journalist tipped me that Craig Mundie of
Microsoft is going to make a major speech in New York tomorrow attacking
open-source software — specifically, attacking the GNU General Public
License. This speech is probably intended to define Microsoft’s party line
on open source, and to shift the terms of the debate over it to one that
Microsoft thinks it can win.” Read the rest at Linux Weekly News.

Zack Brown posts the latest summary of news and traffic from the Debian mailing lists.

XFCE’s Olivier Fourdan answers questions from users and developers, at MoonGroup.com.

“New bonobo release codenamed ‘Focused Bonobo’, this [ in conjunction with a new Gtk+ ] fixes some
rather serious focus problem that have been affecting cross process GUI components.” Available soon from ftp.gnome.org.

ITworld.com: “Douglas Miller, the director of competitive strategy in Microsoft’s Windows Server marketing group, talks
to Danny Kalev about Microsoft’s OS strategy and server ambitions.” Among other duties, Miller can be found at Linux trade shows spreading the Microsoft gospel. He’ll answer any questions posed by readers in the ITworld forum.

“Bonobo-Media is a set of Bonobo interfaces and a GTK+/libbonobo-based implementation for the the control of
generic multimedia playback. It currently supports audio and video streams. Support for tuners is also planned. It is not a solution for actually delivering the media content to the end-user. You should use other infrastructures
like the GNOME Multimedia Framework for that, ideally, from a Bonobo-Media stream provider.” Grab the latest copy from http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/bonobo-media.

ZDNet: “Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World
Wide Web Consortium, opened the tenth annual
International World Wide Web Conference here
Wednesday by officially releasing the Extensible Markup
Language Schema specification.”

“The The Open-Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) is an effort to develop an open standard method of
performing security tests. Dave Wreski and Rich Jankowski interview Pete Herzog, the creator of the project to gain insight to
the development efforts and the hope for adoption into the industry.” More at LinuxSecurity.com.

Sander Vesk writes “I’m happy to announce the latest OpenOffice.org snapshot (627) has been released. 627 is – apart from enhancements to the spreadsheet and database components and CJK support – a snapshot the major feature of which is stability, especially over snapshot 625. Available for download are binaries for Linux/x86, Windows, Solaris/sparc and Solaris/x86. As usual, source and build output trees are also available.”