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The GNOME Desktop Project has announced the release of GNOME 3.0, the latest version of its desktop environment, and a "significant redesign."

The next chapter in the three-cornered public stoush between the GNOME Desktop Project, the KDE Project and Canonical, the maker of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has just been kicked off by GNOME Foundation board member Dave Neary.

A royal spat has developed between the GNOME and KDE desktop projects, following a discussion of the relationship between GNOME and Canonical by Dave Neary of the GNOME Foundation.

A bid by Canonical to profit from the inclusion of the Mono-dependent music player Banshee in its next Ubuntu release has failed.

The GNOME Desktop Project has announced that it has scheduled the release of GNOME 3 on April 6 this year.

The kerfuffle over Microsoft Office OOXML, that began when the Australian Government Information Management Office released a draft document recently stating that it would be the document format for all of government, is quite similar to that which occurred a little more than three years ago.

The next version of Ubuntu, to be released in April 2011, will have a new interface which has been designed by Canonical, the company behind the GNU/Linux distribution.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is top of the class when it comes to producing a GNU/Linux distribution that appeals to newcomers and caters to their needs.

Ask anyone which GNU/Linux distribution one should recommend to would-be users and the answer is generally always one word: Ubuntu.

A major revision of the GNOME desktop environment, planned for release as version 3.0 in September, has been put off to March next year.

One of the great plus points about running GNU/Linux used to be the continuous process of improvement going on - and the fact that one did not have to wait very long to sample those improvements if one wished to do so.

The KDE Desktop Project has hit upon the idea of having the American socialite Kim Kardashian promote its next release.

As the year ends, it is fair to say there have been many free and open source software organisations that have made rapid strides, not merely in 2009 but right through the noughties. But one organisation badly needs to get its act together.

A senior member of the GNOME Desktop Project has proposed that the project hold a vote on whether it should remain a part of the GNU Project.