BinaryFreedom.com has a feature on GNU Privacy Guard, or GPG, the OpenPGP-compliant encryption tool. “Since it is designed to be fully compliant with current standards, it also works
with Network Associates’ PGP desktop suite of applications. It can encrypt data, and also sign data.”

Slashdotters discuss rumors that Linux is being ported to the Playstation 2. There’s a link on Slashdot, but it’s in Japanese.

“Well, it’s fashionable to announce release schedules proposals those days,
so here’s one more:”

From: David Faure 
To: kde-core-devel@kde.org,  koffice@kde.org,  koffice-devel@kde.org
Cc: kde-i18n-doc@kde.org,  kde-devel@kde.org
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:08:41 +0000

KOffice 1.1 Release Plan
====================

The following is the outline for our KOffice 1.1 release schedule.

We aim for the following improvements among others: 

- Many features added to KSpread, KPresenter and KIllustrator 
- Rewrite of KWord using Qt's richtext engine 
- Much improved mathematical formula support 
- Addition of Kivio (Flowcharting program) 
- Improvements to the filters, especially the MSOffice import filters 
- [Addition of Krayon ? What about Kugar, Rekall ?]

KOffice 1.1 will be released independent from KDE 2.2.


KOffice 1.1 Beta 1


Thursday April 12
==============

KOffice is temporarily frozen : bugfix commits only. 

Wednesday April 18
================

Tarballs are made out of KOffice, for KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation
of binary packages. KOffice is open for commits again. 

Monday April 23
=============

Announce KOffice 1.1 Beta 1.


KOffice 1.1 Beta 2


Thursday May 10
==============
KOffice is temporarily frozen : bugfix commits only. 

Wednesday May 16
================
Tarballs are made out of KOffice, for KOffice 1.1 Beta 2
They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation
of binary packages. KOffice is open for commits again. 

Monday May 21
=============
Announce KOffice 1.1 Beta 2.

The rest of the release schedule is undetermined until further notice.

Comments welcome - and development help, even more !

PS: if possible, I suggest that discussions take place on koffice@kde.org,
don't cc all lists.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today

 

ZDNet News reports that Gateway is reconsidering its entry into the Internet appliance market. This may include the cancellation of the company’s proposed Web tablet, a wireless touch pad device. Gateway’s consumer division heads now believe “that most standalone Internet appliances are overpriced and underpowered,” and have decided that their market value at this time is “questionable.” While not mentioned within this report, the tablet and other proposed Gateway devices were built to run on embedded versions of Linux.

Handheld giant Palm, Inc. released its replacement for the Palm IIIxe on Tuesday. The new m105 sports 8MB of storage memory, and a serial cradle for easy computer/handheld sync operations. The units sell for $199 MSRP. CNET News.com has the full story.

“Qwest Communications International is recalling 11,000 cell phones because some of the units could emit radiation that exceeds federal standards, according to a report.” Full report at CNET News.com.

IDG reports that crackers have stolen roughly 98,000 customer records, including credit card numbers, from rare book seller and Amazon subsidiary Bibliofind.com. Intruders had access to customer records from October 2000 through February 2001.

From PR Newswire: “At the ninth Python Conference,
Guido van Rossum announced the launch of the Python Software Foundation (PSF).
Modeled after the successful Apache Software Foundation, the PSF’s mandate is
to provide educational, legal and financial resources to the Python community.
Responsible for holding Python’s intellectual property, the PSF will also act
as an educational resource, maintain the Python website, and foster Python
user groups.”

From PR Newswire: “ActiveState, the leader in open
source programming languages, and O’Reilly & Associates Inc., the premier
technology book publisher, have partnered on the first of its kind
collaborative programming book, the Python Cookbook. The cookbook will be a
repository of rigorously reviewed Python recipes that have been contributed by
the Python community for the community, which will be freely available for
download.”

CNET News.com reports: “Lineo has bolstered its effort to push its version of Linux into set-top boxes and other nontraditional computing devices, announcing a plan to acquire Convergence Integrated Media.”