Kernel release: 2.6.8-rc1, Jul 11, 2004

2.6.8-rc1 has been released today.
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A pilot project in Africa that aims to provide a single computer that can be used by four students simultaneously has stumbled across one of the business world's basic facts of life.

Why make a cheap machine when customers in the developed world will pay good money for a more expensive one?

The question hangs over efforts being made by American computer-maker Hewlett Packard, which in the last two weeks introduced the Multi-user 441 desktop, a computer based on the open-source Linux operating system.

The crackers currently have the whip hand over Windows, and Microsoft's assertion that Internet Explorer is now part of the operating system shows its flawed reasoning.

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