Friday, July 6, 2007 
Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has declared more publicity would be generated for open source software if the three large desktop projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org agreed on <A HREF="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134199-pg,1/article.html">a common and regular release cycle.</A>
During his keynote address at this year's aKademy KDE conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Shuttleworth suggested that KDE move to a more predictable, preferably six-month, release schedule.
