LinuxProgramming: “Pango-0.15 has been released. Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. It forms
the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.0.”

LinuxProgramming has the details for the latest release of Bonobo.

Brian Lloyd (via LinuxProgramming): “Zope 2.3.2b1 contains fixes for several issues that have come up
with 2.3.1, including several Catalog and FTP related fixes.
Unless something really important comes up, we expect to make
no further changes between this beta and the 2.3.2 final release.

For more information on what is new in this release, see the
CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release.”

LinuxProgramming has the change and download information for the latest version of GTK+.

Owen Taylor (via LinuxProgramming): “GLib-1.3.4 has been released. This is a preview release of the unstable branch of GLib and is
meant for: Those interested in the development of GLib or GTK+; and people planning to port to the upcoming GTK+-2.0 version of GTK+. Note: this is a tentative API-freeze release, major API changes beyond the remaining open ‘2.0 API freeze’ bugs in bugzilla are unlikely to occur before GLib-2.0 is released.”

Bob Techentin (as posted to LinuxProgramming): “I am pleased to announce the availability of version 1.0 of the units
conversion library. The library is available from SourceForge at http://units.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/units/.”

TechnologyReview.org: “Some people consider Debian not for the faint of heart. It does not include many “hold-your-hand” type configuration tools.
Which means you will have to learn it the hard way, but believe me using Debian helps you to learn the ins and outs of Linux very
quickly, and I think much better than a Redhat or Mandrake.”

“Mentry is a library package for Tcl/Tk version 8.0 or higher, written
in pure Tcl/Tk code. It contains the implementation of the multi-entry mega-widget “mentry”,
including a general utility module for mega-widgets; procedures that facilitate the use of multi-entry widgets,” and other goodies. More information at LinuxProgramming.com.”

The Standard reports: “In the midst of poor financial results for
many tech companies, IBM met Wall
Street’s expectations Wednesday,
reporting first-quarter earnings per share
of 98 cents and predicting that it would
meet expectations for the full year as well.

Big Blue’s earnings per share were up 18
percent from last year’s 83 cents per
share, while first-quarter net income of
$1.75 billion was up 15 percent and
revenues of $21 billion were up 14 percent
compared to last year.”

ZDNet News: “Handheld maker Palm began making large-scale job cuts Wednesday and,
according to internal documents, has been detailing other ways it will cut
costs.”