KDE or K Desktop Environment is a graphical user interface (GUI) for

Linux. In lay terms it is a program which runs on Linux and gives it a

Windows look and feel. Here we will look at the different programs that

come with KDE. This review was done under Caldera's Open Linux 2.4

System Tools in KDE

Kcontrol: The KDE control center is the first stop in fine tuning your

Linux machine. You can change the way your desktop looks in Desktop. COAS

is used to make system changes. You will have to log in as root for this.

Young spoke about "growing the Linux pond", in which he believes Red Hat has become a big fish. A self-confessed salesman, Bob Young says that it's not about selling software, it's about getting more people using Linux.

Quite a bit of press has been dedicated to the GNOME desktop environment on Linux. This article explains what GNOME is and how it differs from typical window managers. There is also a guide to installing and configuring it on a FreeBSD 4.0 system.

While the idea behind VB is good, MS VB is NOT a good language at its core. It isn't object-oriented, it's object-based. There is no inheritance, and its implementation of interfaces leaves much to be desired. Python is fully object-oriented and cross platform.

I would say it's better than the previous release, but it's a bit sloppy. Don't get me wrong, this is a very promising distro. It just seems to have teething troubles. Despite that, I've been using it for over a week now and it's been very stable.

Many key Unix vendors are beginning to declare a future in which Unix and Linux coexist. By running Linux application binaries on Unix as the host OS, vendors want to extend the life of Unix as an enterprise mission-critical environment while capitalizing on the increasing momentum of Linux applications development.

From a plummeting stock price to exaggerated reports of buggy code to growing outcry over the company's perceived attempts to set itself apart from the rest of the Linux distributor community, Red Hat has been buffeted by nothing but bad news in recent weeks.

The complexity of managing updates and patches is only one of the issues that the Linux community needs to deal with if it wants to make lasting friendships in commercial organisations.

Product: SuSE 6.4 ( Evaluation Copy )

Test Machine Specs: HP Brio PIII 500MHz 64MB SDRAM Matrox MGA G200 8MB

Total Installation Time: 43 mins.

Number of reboots: 1

New Features: USB support, Crystal Fusion Sound Card Support, ReiserFS.

"A piece of cake" that's how easy installation of an Operating System should

be. Try reading this installation guide, after that, installing SuSE might

be like eating chocolate cake.

Booting via CD

Bob Young, Chairman of the Board for Red Hat has written

an open letter to the Community, in response to some of the

recent criticism of Red Hat 7. If you've been following these

stories at all, or the Linux scene, this is worth checking out.