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News from Apr 12, 2006

Kernel release: 2.6.16.5, Apr 12, 2006

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

FUDCon and folding the Fedora Foundation, Apr 12, 2006

Last Friday, after the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, I sat in on the fifth Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) at the Boston University School of Management.

RealNetworks rep to Linux: DRM or die!, Apr 12, 2006

A RealNetworks vice president voiced a few inflammatory opinions during LinuxWorld Boston last Tuesday. The RealNetworks rep in question, Jeff Ayars, said that Linux as a consumer platform would be dead unless DRM capabilities are built into the OS itself.

KOffice 1.5 Released, Apr 12, 2006

The KDE Project today announced the final release of KOffice 1.5.

SimplyMEPIS 6.0-alpha1 Linux Release, Apr 12, 2006

MEPIS has announced the alpha1 release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. The ISO image is available for download and testing in the mepis 'testing' subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and public mirrors.

Ushering in a new era of angst at Microsoft, Apr 12, 2006

Few would disagree that Microsoft dominates the markets for desktop operating systems and office suites. But it wasn't always this way.

Look out world, here comes Red Hat, Apr 12, 2006

Red Hat acquiring JBoss is big news for the open-source world. It may be even bigger news for the entire software world, though.

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