Montreal, Canada, August 21, 2007 — Matrox Graphics, the leading manufacturer of multi-display graphics solutions for professionals, introduces new 1.4.5 Linux drivers providing enhanced features and additional support to its Matrox EpicA TC2 and EpicA TC4 multi-display graphics cards for thin computing. These new drivers include support for 32- and 64-bit RedHat and SUSE distributions, X.Org up to version 7.2.0, and kernel versions up to 2.6.20. These drivers also include compatibility with rdesktop 1.4.1 and Citrix ICA Client 9.x and 10.x for Linux. Additionally, an enhanced graphical user interface (GUI) application that facilitates multi-display configuration is now available for HP t5725 thin clients integrated with EpicA TC2 or EpicA TC4 graphics cards.

On the occasion of aKademy 2007, the annual conference of KDE
developers and users, Mandriva is proud to announce together with the
NEPOMUK partners and the KDE community that the NEPOMUK-KDE project it
leads is poised to deliver a sea change in the Linux desktop
experience. NEPOMUK-KDE introduces semantic capabilities to the
upcoming release of the K Desktop Environment (KDE 4), providing an
interoperable framework that can be harnessed by all KDE applications
to allow annotating and interlinking any and all desktop objects.

Trolltech is proud to sponsor the Qtopia Greenphone™ Innovation Grant Program. The intent of the program is to put Trolltech’s Greenphone, a Linux mobile development device open for unlimited software innovation, into the hands of top developers and have cutting edge, best of breed applications delivered.

Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Corporate Desktop 4.0, the brand new version of its enterprise-dedicated work station.

nPulse Networks LLC, a leading integrator of hardware acceleration and open-source tools for network security and monitoring applications, is contributing a new Linux distribution to the public domain.

Sun Microsystems yesterday unveiled Sun Studio 12, the latest version of its developer toolset for C, C++, and FORTRAN developers. Studio 12 provides full support for both Linux and Solaris (tools and compilers), and comes with tool technologies designed to leverage multi-core chip architectures.

Today Microsoft Corp. and Linux platform provider Xandros Inc. announced a broad collaboration agreement based on a set of technical, business, marketing and intellectual property commitments. These commitments provide customers with enhanced interoperability, more effective systems management solutions, and intellectual property assurances, all of which extend a bridge between open source and commercial software and deliver customers real value in mixed systems environments.

After three long years, and countless all-nighters, we are proud to announce that the official release of Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge (EMR) v3.0 is now available for download. EMR 3.0 is a unique scenario that uses the Aleph One game engine, providing huge improvements over all past versions.

Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced today that Nero Linux 3 is now available worldwide. The first Linux application to offer Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD data burning support, Nero Linux 3 has been redesigned to maximize ease of use, efficiency, and speed with next-generation disc formats.

May 22, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project.

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