Kernel release: 2.4.29-pre3, Dec 22, 2004

2.4.29-pre3 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 45
Files changed: 631
Files removed: 8

A European court on Wednesday dealt a blow to Microsoft, ordering the company to start offering a version of Windows without a bundled-in media player.

Our Free Software guru looks at new software for his Gnome desktop--some of which he can run, some of which he can't.

A leading sporting goods manufacturer is switching to Linux after seeing the need to consolidate platforms among its many divisions.

The SCO Group, a company engaged in complicated litigation regarding Unix and Linux, reported another quarter of financial losses on Tuesday, spurred by dwindling software and licensing revenue.

From sports to gossip to business, it is a time-honored New Year's tradition for columnists to prognosticate on what we can expect in the coming year.

The following is a partial transcript of the resulting exchange between BS&T's Ivan Schneider and Microsoft's Martin Taylor, general manager, platform strategy, on the topics of TCO, indemnification, and flexibility in IT deployments.

Torvalds discussed Solaris, his improvisational programming style and other issues in an interview with CNET News.com.

The European Union (E.U.) delayed approving rules on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions until 2005 at the earliest, after Poland asked for more time to ensure that the draft rules did not allow software to be patented.

CSP Inc. (CSPI) MultiComputer Division has shipped a ruggedized, embedded Linux-based COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) cluster system to a major defense contractor.

The preview release of OpenOffice 2.0 claims to have improved compatability with Microsoft Office, which could encourage businesses to migrate to the open source application

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