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News from Nov 21, 2003

Kernel release: 2.4.23-rc3, Nov 21, 2003

2.4.23-rc3 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.
Files added: 201
Files changed: 1543
Files removed: 13

U.S. Courts hires vendor to migrate to Linux/Intel platform, Nov 21, 2003

PEC will support the transition of the judiciary's case management, finance and accounting, probation and pretrial services and case-tracking management systems to the Linux standard.

Is Microsoft Linux in the Wind?, Nov 21, 2003

Speculation that Microsoft might build a flavor of Linux into Windows Server 2003 has been rife since May, when the company said it was licensing the Unix source code and patent from the SCO Group. That action followed SCO's infamous US$1 billion lawsuit, filed in March, which accuses IBM of improperly lifting copyrighted Unix technology and building it into Linux.
The Microsoft-Linux speculation has been fueled by Linux' increasing prominence on the enterprise server level, largely thanks to IBM, and Microsoft's historical willingness to react to competitive threats by creating its own versions of rival products.
Still, despite the speculation, there is considerable doubt that Microsoft will develop or distribute its own version of Linux anytime soon.

Home Users Leap to Linux, Nov 21, 2003

Less than two years ago, Lynanne Fowle, a Holly Springs charter high school director and mother of five, made the switch. She said that security and costs were the two main reasons she jumped ship from Microsoft.

Researchers dispute Red Hat's Fedora trademark, Nov 21, 2003

There may be one hat too many in the open source world. Concerned that they will be forced to drop the name of their five year-old open source project, researchers at Cornell University and the University of Virginia (UVA) are readying a challenge to Red Hat Inc.'s Fedora trademark, currently pending review by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Fedora is Red Hat's experimental Linux project that was launched as a community-developed alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux last September.
Unfortunately, it is also the name of Cornell and UVA's digital management system, which is being developed to manage all of UVA's digital libraries. The software has been downloaded by more than a thousand users since version 1.0 was released in May this year, the university researchers said.

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