The commercial Xara vector graphics package released as Open Source to aid
porting to Mac and Linux platforms, following a reduction in market players:
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Linux distro released. An incremental improvement on
5.04, smoother install for new users. Updates guaranteed for 18 months:
http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/05/10/10/204207.shtml?tid=127
OpenOffice 2.0 final release is delayed due to a problem with disappearing
transparent graphics. Another 3 minor issues will be fixed before full release:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1870613,00.asp
IBM to contribute a chunk of the IBM Rational Unified Process to the Open Source
community:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/sdsd6h3qcr?OpenDocument&Site=rationalnews
The Gimp 2.4 Image editor has a sneak preview here. Note the amazing foreground extractor and the import of SVG from the clipboard:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/1345228
Fuel cell manufacturers say their devices work, and work well, but will not be
brought to market because they can't be taken on board an aeroplane:
http://computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,105235,00.html
And finally. The results of the Ig Nobel prizes are out, for research that can't
or should not be replicated. The winner measured penguin poop exit velocities:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8108
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.