LOS ANGELES--In a technical session on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication that it is planning on getting Windows 7 completed in time to run on PCs that ship for next year's holiday buying season.

In a presentation on its somewhat secretive Velocity program to improve PC quality, Microsoft director Doug Howe showed a slide saying that the Vista Velocity program would continue through next spring as Microsoft worked to improve Vista machines that ship in next year's back-to-school time frame. He went on to say that Microsoft would continue the Velocity effort with Windows 7.

Read more at http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10084486-75.html

Windows Tools, Help & Guides and Windows Forums is running a competition to find ‘The Best Windows Customization website’. A few months ago, Winvistaclub held a competition to find the best Windows Vista site. This was a great opportunity to bring some good websites out of obscurity; this competition aims to do the same.

More Info: http://mintywhite.com/tech/announcements/best-windows-customization-website-competition-over-100-in-prizes/

Fedora 10 Snapshot 1 Released.

Snapshot being released is of Rawhide and in Live Form.

Presently available only via torrents.

Jesse Keating on fedora-announce-list said:

Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid

Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of
Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are
important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get
the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally
important to you!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com

Do your part to make Fedora 10 that much better.

Rigorous Third-Party Testing Validates the Security and Reliability of Good’s S/MIME Solution

Santa Clara, CA – September 29, 2008 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that its Good™ Mobile Messaging Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Good S/MIME) has passed the rigors of the Army’s Authority to Operate (ATO) certification process. Designed specifically for the federal government, Good S/MIME provides secure messaging for mobile devices with common access card (CAC) authentication, email and attachment encryption and signing, and over-the-air synchronization of all certificates. It is compatible with a variety of the most popular Windows Mobile smartphone devices, including the MOTO Q and Q9 families using DOD-certified common access card (CAC) readers.

Jesse Keating announced on fedora-announce-list:

Due to needing some more time for new features to mature a bit before we
cut our Beta, we've decided to move the Beta release date back to

This announcement was made by Jeroen van Meeuwen in Fedora announcement mailing list-

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One more Software Freedom Day well spent ;-)

I'm proud to announce a new minor player in the world of insignificant
clones of major, important Free and Open Source Linux Distributions,

      *bling*  Orange Sombrero - /based on Fedora/ *bling*

Orange Sombrero starts with releasing version number 9 - the same
version number as the upstream distribution, Fedora, to avoid confusion.

Has anything been changed?

Yeah, a patch to anaconda[1,2] that didn't make it in in time for the
Fedora 10 Beta freeze has been applied to compose this release -which is
sort of the entire use case behind the patch anyway. Also, a different
branch of Revisor has been used that uses the patch to anaconda[3].

Since I've got limited bandwidth and disk space, this is a 1 CD
distribution. If I had bandwidth and disk space, I might have thrown in
a mid-release Everything Spin but I couldn't. Also, given that this is a
1 CD distribution, I've added an install class to anaconda so that it
selects the correct groups of packages. Who needs "Office &
Productivity" if there's only @core and @base, right? "Base System" FTW!
It was fun, it took me 4 koji scratch builds of anaconda and another
number of composes to get it "right".

Note that despite these changes the installed system will behave just
the same as Fedora. In fact, if you look really hard, there's the
occasional "Fedora" in there, still -maybe that's because I used
fedora-release, which I should be able to do without trademark
violations, even though /etc/fedora-release still says "Fedora" ;-)

Why bother?

Trademark guidelines right now say a derivative distribution cannot use
"based on Fedora" -which is bad, and Orange Sombrero is now raising some
red flags about it. Work is well on it's way to improve that
situation[4] though, for which I thank everyone involved. I hope soon,
very soon, derivative's of Fedora pop up everywhere, like mushrooms in
autumn.

Where is it?

http://orangesombrero.org (torrents)

On behalf of the entire Orange Sombrero Community (e.g. ~1 person)

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So there another Linux distro up here. Its a derivative of Fedora 9. If somebody has used it please mail your review to "contact@itech7.com" with subject "Orange Sombrero 9 Review".

The article will be posted with your link.