Kernel release: 2.6.12-rc3, Apr 20, 2005

2.6.12-rc3 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 362
Files changed: 4622
Files removed: 135

SCO came close to being delisted from the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, but it's back to trading as usual as the company has been in told that it's back in full compliance with the Nasdaq filing requirements.

Red Hat, which claims “95 per cent” market share in the Linux-based server segment in India, launched version 4 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software in Bengali on Tuesday.

Servers running PHP are vulnerable to a number of serious security exploits, including some which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code, as well as denial-of-service exploits, according to the PHP Group.

A dispute between a prominent open-source developer and the maker of the software used to manage Linux kernel development has forced Linux creator Linus Torvalds to embark on a new software project of his own, in addition to the Linux kernel.

Red Flag Software, the largest Chinese operating systems company in China, has announced its collaboration with Resolvo to integrate Resolvo’s Windows-to-Linux migration tool MoveOver into Red Flag’s Linux Desktop.

Continental Airlines encountered a bit of turbulence last year when it decided to shift the ticket-reissue application it had built for Unix-based servers to a full open-source software stack with a 64-bit database server

In some ways, it is the scrappy contender versus the tested old-timer, as PHP and Perl duke it out to win developer attention. But more often, the two scripting languages get along just fine, thank you, and developers are glad to have both.

Opera Software moved back into the limelight today with the release of the final version of Opera 8 for Windows and Linux, and a beta of 8 for Mac also available.

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