It's definitely not cooked yet, but the folks working on ReactOS have released version 0.1.1 of the Open Source operating system aimed at creating a "stable and open" platform that is compatible with Windows NT 4. This is an OS, not the windowing system, although the front page …

Mozilla.org has announced that a new project has been formed, called Minotaur, to build a Mail (and News) only client based on the mail program inside of Mozilla. It is aimed at creating a cleaner and more user-configurable user interface.

According to an article on The Register, Fujitsu, the Japanese electronics and equipment manufacturer, is preparing a consumer robot with an Open Source API. The robot, called HOAP-2 for Humanoid Open Architecture Platform, has a standard USB 1.1 interface and an optional 802.11b interface for programming and control …

Sometimes, the gnu readline stuff is useful. To install it: Download the latest readlines source A mod must be made to compensate for a file location change in 10.2 which affects the 4.3 makefile. To fix this, edit support/shobj-conf to change line 151 from SHLIB_LIBS='-lSystem' to …

According to an article on Yahoo, the Japanese government is continuing to invest money in supporting developers who are working on open source solutions for consumer electronics and government desktops.

An excellent article on CNet details Apple's choice of the KHTML web back-end as well as describing the Mozilla reaction to it.