Kernel release: 2.4.31-pre1, Apr 25, 2005

2.4.31-pre1 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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For the first time in my life, I want to thank Larry McVoy. He recently eliminated a major weakness of the free software community, by announcing the end of his campaign to entice free software projects to use and promote his non-free software.

Spinsters at Novell have been pushing the latest version of Suse 9.3 Linux as suitable for home users. However after a frustrating weekend, I can safely report that there is no chance of it ever being remotely useful for home users for some years to come.

Holool has introduced its bilingual version of the Linux operating system, HOST, to the Saudi Arabian market today.

Samba developer Andrew Tridgell has released the source code to a tool that interoperates with Bitkeeper, the proprietary tool used by waddling Finn Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel until last week.

Taking a page from Microsoft's playbook, MontaVista today announced an embedded Linux platform aimed specifically at mobile phones. "Mobilinux" is based on a 2.6 kernel with real-time and power-management enhancements, and targets "feature-phones" as well as the higher-end devices targeted by Microsoft with its Windows Mobile for Smartphones offering.

Two Powerful New Altus Servers, AMD Opteron Processor's Second Anniversary Highlight Growth of High Performance Computing Market

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