VMware developer Christian Hammond provides a nice overview of new features in Workstation 6

An < http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/17/1958231 article > at Linux.com discusses < http://o3spaces.com/ O3Spaces >, a Microsoft SharePoint alternative for OpenOffice.org. Currently available as a commercial hosted service, the source code is scheduled for public release in 2007.

The French government < http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7508&pagtype=all plans > to create an open source advocacy center in Paris in order to promote open source software development in private industry.

The Fedora Legacy Project is in a state of transition and has < http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3649081 discontinued > support for older Fedora Core Releases.

Created by two Ubuntu users, Deluge is a new BitTorrent client written with Python and GTK.

< http://www.buzztard.org Buzztard > 0.1 has been < http://www.advogato.org/person/ensonic/diary.html?start=52 released >. Buzztard is a modular music production environment for Linux.

Slackware 11 has been < http://www.slackware.com/announce/11.0.php released >. With your choice of either the 2.4.33.3 or 2.6.18 kernel, Xorg 7, KDE 3.5.4, and an assortment of popular GTK applications, Slackware 11 is ready for use.

A nice < http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/49/tinymail-evolution-and-intelligent-design article > in the GNOME Journal introduces < http://tinymail.org/ Tinymail >, a compact framework developed by < http://pvanhoof.be/ Philip Van Hoof > for making e-mail applications for mobile platforms. I've been reading Philip's blog entries on Plant GNOME to keep up with the development process, but the article at GNOME Journal is a good overview for those that aren't familiar with it yet. Nokia and the OLPC project have both expressed in interest in the framework, and it looks like it has a lot of potential.

Boudewijn Rempt (author of the < http://www.valdyas.org/python/book.html PyQt book >) has written a helpful little < http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/software/image_libraries.html?seemore=y comparison > of open source graphics libraries.