Kernel release: 2.6.14-rc3-git7, Oct 07, 2005

2.6.14-rc3-git7 has been released today.
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"I think in ten years you will see Microsoft become a major opponent of patents and we will see very large software vendors turn around their position on patents," [Ubuntu founder Mark] Shuttleworth said.

Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux Kernel and well-known open source advocate, picked up a lifetime achievement award at the LinuxWorld awards in London on Wednesday night.

Speaking at a private dinner with select captains of German industry on Wednesday, Steven Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, may have felt a small sense of triumph in his company's battle against open source software.

What makes a software project "grown-up," in short, is the same thing that makes a person grown-up. A lot of it boils down to priorities. When you're young, you have the luxury of being free to engage in very idealistic or radicalized thinking. As you mature, however, other concerns take precedence.

The desktop Linux vendor claims to be gaining traction in the enterprise, including a pilot project at a company that has 'hundreds of thousands' of desktops

Without any fanfare, Novell Inc. has released the latest version of its flagship Linux distribution: SuSE Linux 10.

A Chinese software vendor has won a contract to deliver one of the nation's biggest Linux deployments to date, including more than 140,000 desktop PCs.

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