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Interview With BitlBee developers
xiando writes "LinuxReviews has interviewed the BitlBee developer team: Wilmer van der Gaast, Maurits Dijkstra and Jelmer Vernooij, with a word from former developer Sjoerd Hemminga. Find out what new cool features will be available in v1.0, what features have been implemented so far and what visions these bright young men have for the future of BitlBee and the Open Source community." BitlBee is a daemon which does the necessary black magic to translate IRC messages to those of various instant message networks, letting a user use emacs (for instance) as an MSN messenger client. -
Krita/KOffice Preview Version and Video Available
xiando writes "Developers aim at making Krita a user-friendly image manipulation program where users with no computer experience or slim experience with other light-duty image programs like Paint Shop Pro should feel right at home. LinuxReviews has a 5.5 MB preview video by developer Bart Coppens available, showing how the app looks and feels. Check it out or download the source preview packages by Daniel Molkentin to try it yourself. Developers hope to make Krita a part of the KDE office suite KOffice 1.4, scheduled spring 2005." -
Impress Your Friends With A 3D Desktop Pager
xiando writes "3D-Desktop is a window pager for Linux. It works with any window manager and the screenshots look very impressive. The idea is to allow you to look at all your virtual desktops in different 3D views."