Jon gives a very nice blog post about the things to look forward to if F9…
Personally I Can’t Wait… 
Jon Said:
“The first distro to include KDE 4 by default, PackageKit, NetworkManager working CDMA and GSM cards out of the box, support for installing to encrypted partitions, persistent, custom live USB sticks…”
here are some inkscape wallpapers that i have put together from the sticker designs that i did a few months ago for the inkscape sticker contest. The SVG’s are available from my deviantart site that the thumbs below are linked to.
Red Hat has asked the federal court in the US to limit software patents due to the negative effect on open source development and innovation:
Quote from the Red Hat news page:
Today, Red Hat took a public stand challenging the standards for patenting software. In the Biliski case that is now before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, this patent issue is ripe for consideration. In a friend of the court brief submitted to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in the Bilski case today, Red Hat describes the special problems that patents pose for open source and seeks modification of the standards for patentable subject matter that take open source into account.
The Libre Graphics Meeting brings together developers and users of free software graphics applications, such as the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, the Open Clip Art Library and more. This year the conference is in Wroclaw, Poland and we need to raise money to support travel for all these (often unpaid) Open Source developers to attend.
One of the super handy new features that is currently in the development version of Inkscape and will be in the 0.46 release will be the ability to Dock Dialog boxes to the side of your inkscape window. This screencast demonstrates the new docking ability. for more information on this new featue, read the inkscape 0.46 release notes… (the screencast looks a lot better when watched in blip.tv’s fullscreen mode….)
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