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Hancom Linux aims to crack Middle Eastern market with new distribution, productivity suite

New distribution seeks to leverage Hancom Linux’s double-byte distribution, Arab reluctance to buy American.

Opera 6 beta 2 for Linux is released

New beta drop offers improved cosmetics, as well as enhanced plugin and Unicode support.

Marcelo Tosatti, Linux-2.4 kernel maintainer, deported by U.S.

Eighteen-year-old Marcelo says it was a visa mixup that will be corrected.

Mosfet releases Liquid style for KDE3

After some early bumps, the popular theme that offers transparent menus and other features is finally available.

Ogg player for Zaurus is announced

When released this week, it makes the Zaurus the world’s first pocket-sized Ogg Vorbis player.

CBDTPA is hand-in-glove with new Microsoft patent

The CBDTPA, previously known as the SSSCA, appears to require technology over which Microsoft was granted a patent in December.

Linus Resigns; KDE goes text-based

Torvalds leaves Linux development, Transmeta; KDE revived by move to console.

GNOME 2 beta 3 released

Full instructions for acquiring, testing, and reporting bugs on newest non-CVS GNOME.

ESR’s wife, Cathy, becomes de facto KDE User Advocate

In a far-ranging discussion that goes to the heart of whether developers know — or care — what users want, Catherine Olanich Raymond took her concerns to a succession of KDE developer mailing lists, with sadly unsurprising results.

Game Over for Loki

This is the week that Loki Software, Inc., the once-promising Linux games company that came to resemble Enron writ small, was to have disappeared beneath the waves forever. But the company gained a postponement until April 8 of what appears to be the inevitable when Loki’s president, Scott Draeker, failed to show up for the hearing.

Mosfet Gives Thumbs Down to KDE3

Daniel M. Duley, who under the nom de code Mosfet produced much of early versions of KDE and who went on to develop the Pixie image management application and the popular “Liquid” theme for KDE, says that the libraries for KDE3 are too much of a moving target to make it worth his while to port his work to the new version of the leading Linux desktop.

Opera 6 Honors Opera 5 Licenses, Eyes Anti-Aliasing in New Version

Registered users of the highly regarded Opera 5 web browser for Linux will be able to upgrade to version 6 and use their existing licenses to block the banner advertisements that are part of the free version, the company has announced and LinuxandMain.com has confirmed. Additionally, Opera programmers say they’re looking into a way to offer anti-aliasing with the new version 6, now in its first public beta.