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News from Dec 15, 2005

Kernel release: 2.6.13.5, Dec 15, 2005

2.6.13.5 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.
Files added: 0
Files changed: 57
Files removed: 0

IBM elevates Novell and Red Hat to highest tier partner status, Dec 15, 2005

IBM, a long time contributor and supporter of the Linux and open source movement, today bestowed its highest tier partner status on commercial Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell Inc.

Firefox swings to the rescue, Dec 15, 2005

Firefox's tale is a curious one. The closer one looks, the more it appears to be a cooler, hipper, and safer incarnation of the allegedly deceased Netscape.

CIO praises move to Dell, Linux servers, Dec 15, 2005

"In the end, it was a really successful project for us, and we ended up deploying it into production -- a high-availability cluster of Dell servers with Red Hat Linux -- and we saved a bunch of money doing it that way," Drouin said.

Penguinistas power Palm PDA, phone, Dec 15, 2005

A pair of Palm OS based consumer electronic devices are well on the way toward running Linux. Matthew Mastracci's "Treo Linux" project has achieved a BusyBox prompt on a Palm Treo 650 smartphone, while Alex Osborne's LD Progress project has a QPE-based Linux environment running on a Palm LifeDrive.

Superior Linux Technology not Stopping Microsoft - Time to Call Uncle Sam, Dec 15, 2005

Imagine if IBM couldn't control their own strategies when it came to PC operating systems, how could they or any other PC manufacturer bring you Linux? Microsoft's tenacles reach in and around many people within the PC world to the extent they represent a pandemic. To extricate them, requires government intervention.

Quanta Building MIT's $100 Laptops, Dec 15, 2005

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab has announced that Taiwanese device maker Quanta Computer Inc. has been selected to design and build the $100 computers planned as part of the school's One Laptop per Child initiative.

Red Hat shares climb on analyst upgrade, Dec 15, 2005

Shares of Red Hat Inc. jumped Wednesday after an analyst upgraded the stock and predicted penetration of the company's Linux-based operating system will grow.

Panasonic dumps GSM for 3G Linux, Dec 15, 2005

Panasonic is ending development of GSM mobile phones and will concentrate instead on 3G Linux-based phones, which are already popular in Asia.

Business Objects keeps finger on open source pulse, Dec 15, 2005

Business intelligence software maker Business Objects SA continues to keep an eye on developments in the open source world after expanding an existing partnership with Swedish open source database firm MySQL AB.

Kernel release: 2.6.14.4, Dec 15, 2005

2.6.14.4 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.
Files added: 1
Files changed: 76
Files removed: 0

A year in the life of open source in South Africa, Dec 15, 2005

It's been a long, bad year for politicians, petrol prices and proprietary software. But 2005 was an exceptional year for open source software. It really found its feet this year, and I think it also started to cement a new façade that will serve it well for years to come.

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