Kernel release: 2.6.14-rc4-git1, Oct 12, 2005

2.6.14-rc4-git1 has been released today.
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The Chinese government is embracing the penguin. It awarded a $42.7 million contract last week to Sun Wah Linux Ltd. for 141,000 desktop PCs running the open-source operating system for primary and secondary schools in Jiangsu Province

The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.4.2 for Linux and Unix operating systems.

Jeff Squyres had used Linux to quell chaos in a high-performance computing lab, so he had no qualms about wielding that weapon again in his volunteer IT job.

Cuestas saw in the marketplace what he considered a convergence of Dell, Red Hat, and Oracle, so he made what he calls the "logical decision" and unified the shop onto Red Hat.

Enterprise Linux software maker Red Hat Inc. Tuesday announced that it has appointed Brian Stevens as its new chief technology officer and vice president of engineering.

"We're not talking about open brand here, this is open source. Companies can say they're offer training and consulting for JBoss. What they cannot do is use the JBoss trademark in their brand name. A lot of people offer support for JBoss without being a partner," said Fleury

"To stand any chance of establishing a following in the Linux world you have to make the product free and Open Source, so despite the risks involved, that's what we're doing"

Zend, a company that commercializes PHP, released a version on Tuesday that works with Oracle's database.

A Stanford-designed robotic car has driven away with the $2M prize in the second DARPA Challenge, a 175-mile race for autonomous vehicles held this weekend in the Mojava desert south of Las Vegas. Four of 23 vehicles completed the course, including several that used Linux.

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