Kernel release: 2.6.10-rc3-to-final, Dec 24, 2004

2.6.10-rc3-to-final has been released today.
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Files added: 48
Files changed: 510
Files removed: 16

2.6.10 has been released today.
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Files added: 471
Files changed: 5384
Files removed: 336

Modernization is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

Red Hat, a leading proponent of open source programming platform Linux that swears by Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy, is looking to create a stronger presence in India.

Novell will make available a public beta of its Open Enterprise Server (OES) beta within days.

Investors punished shares of Red Hat Thursday after the Linux vendor's third-quarter sales failed to meet analyst targets and the company warned of more soft revenue on the horizon.

In political campaigns, flexibility, speed, and cost really are killer apps. Candidates are more interested in results than process. Strangely enough, open source solutions really fit well into this kind of environment.

Opera Software has released the first public beta of version 8 of its popular Opera browser, which adds voice input/output and a host of other niceties.

Perhaps IBM (IBM) got out of the PC business just in time. More companies will adopt Linux desktops or thin-client terminal technologies, saving themselves the headaches of administering Windows desktops.

iDEFENSE has discovered a flaw in Xpdf, an open-source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files included in most Linux distros.

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