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News from Feb 24, 2005

Kernel release: 2.6.11-rc5, Feb 24, 2005

2.6.11-rc5 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.
Files added: 679
Files changed: 5649
Files removed: 172

Second-tier Linux sellers agree to merge, Feb 24, 2005

Mandrakesoft has agreed to acquire Conectiva, a move to combine the weight of two Linux sellers that individually have failed to achieve the dominance of Red Hat or Novell's SuSE

Open Source not running short of developers, Feb 24, 2005

Open-source has gained so much momentum of late that one might ask where all the developers needed for these new projects are coming from.

Adobe's Linux challenge, Feb 24, 2005

But Chisen, who took over as CEO from company founder John Warnock back in 2000, has a plan. He spoke with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com about industry consolidation and Linux on the desktop.

Linux cuts costs for finance firm, Feb 24, 2005

City firm Close Premium Finance has migrated its main transactional systems to Linux-based commodity hardware, cutting £100,000 a year from its IT costs.

Wine maker relaxed over Microsoft's 'blockade', Feb 24, 2005

A company that sells products based on Wine, an open source application that allows users to run Windows applications under Linux, said it isn't worried that Microsoft's anti-piracy application appears to be blocking the emulation software.

Still holding onto that SCO stock?, Feb 24, 2005

Last week, Nasdaq told The SCO Group that it might be de-listed from the tech-heavy stock exchange because the company has yet to file an annual report (or 10-K form) for its 2004 fiscal year, which ended on Oct. 31, 2004.

Red Hat Opens Federal Unit, Feb 24, 2005

Red Hat, one of the major distributors of the open-source Linux operating system, has formally launched a federal government division.

Self-hosting on a user-mode Linux virtual machine, Feb 24, 2005

Anyway, these days there is another alternative: some hosting services now provide "virtual machines" that run user-mode Linux. In a nutshell, user-mode Linux enables an actual physical machine to sort of be "partitioned" into several virtual machines. That's what I have my site set up on.

Linux Isn't Moving The Revenue Needle Much For Novell, Feb 24, 2005

Linux remained a small part of Novell's sales in its most-recent quarter, which got a big cash boost from settling with Microsoft.

Tiny IP PBX serves 50 users, runs embedded Linux, Feb 24, 2005

This extremely compact Linux-based IP PBX from Snom Technology accommodates as many as 50 users in a small- to medium-sized enterprise, providing both a SIP proxy and media server with a full PBX feature set, plus voice messaging,

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