Kernel release: 2.6.14-rc5-git7, Oct 27, 2005

2.6.14-rc5-git7 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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Last week, Microsoft announced a set of new Shared Source licenses. Normally, new Microsoft licenses wouldn't be cause for the open source community to pay attention, but the new Shared Source Licenses have gotten praise from open source proponents such as Tim O'Reilly, and even the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has weighed in with positive comments.

IBM and eight other storage vendors have formed a new open-source organisation to develop storage software.

When it comes to digitizing books, two stories appear to be unfolding: One is about open source, and the other, Google.

A working exploit for last week's Snort vulnerability has been released, a security vendor said Wednesday, but any attack should be short-lived and probably feeble.

CodeWeavers Inc has launched version 5.0 of its CrossOver Office product, enabling Office 2003 applications to run on the Linux operating system, and introducing a new Windows virtualization technology

A highly critical security vulnerability has been discovered in various flavours of the Skype IP telephony software.

Google may not be releasing an open-source operating system or a desktop suite, but the company is promoting, supporting and using open-source software.

Computing customers increasingly are rejecting proprietary products that lock them to a particular technology supplier, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said Wednesday.

In October this year Apache passed another milestone, with over 50 million sites recorded by the Netcraft survey, up from 40 million in February.

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