DesktopLinux.com founder and executive editor Rick Lehrbaum speaks with Gaël Duval, Founder of Mandrake Linux. Duval relates the history of Mandrake, explains what makes Mandrake unique, discusses the company\'s market focus, describes Mandrake\'s philosophy with respect to open source, and offers his vision of the future of the Desktop Linux Market and what will help its success.

Qt Palmtop, the new application suite from Trolltech for embedded systems, has been available for some time under the GPL license. It is now in its final stages of development and will be released as Qt Palmtop 2.0. The new version of Qt Palmtop will be dual-licensed to support both open-source and commercial interests.

Looking to dispel what it claims are false notions about it\'s philosophy on Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., led by President and COO Ed Zander, held a conference call early Thursday morning before its analyst conference in San Francisco to discuss its future plans for the open-source operating system.

It began with eyecandy. I like eyecandy. In that category, there is nothing better in Linux than Jamie Zawinski\'s XScreenSaver, and there has never been a better version of XScreenSaver than the newish 4.0. Within 4.0, there are no screensaver modules more visually pleasing than the GLX ones -- the 3-D, OpenGL modules -- as long as you have hardware support.

According to a LinuxDevices.com reader, the Bangalore Times, supplement to the Time of India, this morning had a piece about a new palmtop, called \"Kaii - Tamil\" (for \"hand\"), designed and developed in Bangalore by Infomart.

My goals with Mono are very specific, and I will address those shortly, but for the sake of getting things done, please forget everything you have heard about .NET.

Lindows, the start-up that is promising to merge the worlds of Windows and Linux to create an alternative to Microsoft software, has released a preview that has left some Linux customers and analysts with more questions than answers.

Can one operating system fit all your needs? Or is it a matter of mixing and matching to the tasks at hand?

A surprised and dismayed Richard M Stallman says Gnome project founder Miguel de Icaza owes the community an explanation for comments made to The Register, last week, in which de Icaza advocated basing the project on Microsoft.NET APIs.

German Linux seller SuSE was thwarted in its first attempt to go public, but Chief Executive Gerhard Burtscher believes a reorganization has laid the groundwork for a second try.