Kernel release: 2.4.28-pre4, Oct 08, 2004

2.4.28-pre4 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 31
Files changed: 598
Files removed: 2

As con men these two pitiful rascals made their living by pretending to be what they were not, and then charging the gullible to share the illusion. A cynic might see parallels to Red Hat here: pretending to open source ideals while actually charging the MSCE community for the privilege of sharing the illusion.

Momentum or coincidence? You decide. The pressure on Redmond seems to be intensifying, following a week-long string of "Is-there-life-after-Microsoft?" headlines: Gartner declaring Windows' permanent beta status, Ballmer acknowledging StarOffice challenges in Europe, IE-only developers lamenting their futures, plus a lot of pro-Firefox coverage.

Software company Netline claims its decision to go open source with the latest version of its e-mail server platform has reduced the development time for the new release by a factor of 10.

Version 0.7.3 of the company's Open-Xchange e-mail server went to beta testing on Wednesday following the decision to publish the source code under a GPL license six weeks ago.

Will SMEs ever get the Open Source platform they deserve? The Great Linux debate.

At a panel discussion at Linuxworld Coference and Expo in London yesterday, executives from IBM, HP, Novell, Red Hat and Samba argued over whether Linux was meeting business needs.

While most agreed that the Open Source operating system was doing a reasonable job, many saw the future as a mixed landscape between closed and open source programs running on a Linux platform.

IBM today laid out a new road map for its mainframe computing platform, which over the next year will include adoption of the Common Information Model (CIM) standard allowing different systems to exchange information.

RealNetworks, said today it has released its award-winning RealPlayer® 10 for Linux in nine new European and Asian languages, and RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X in four new language versions, thereby extending RealPlayer’s role as the platform enabling content creators to reach consumers via the greatest variety of operating systems and devices.

Ever since Microsoft executives began discussing Longhorn several years ago, members of the open source community have been trying to figure out how they will compete with some of the product's key feature enhancements. Late in August, however, Microsoft said it would push back one of those features, the WinFS file system, while the Avalon graphical interface and Indigo Web communications framework will be released as upgrades to Windows XP

IBM has partnered with a computing organization and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.

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