Kernel release: 2.6.17-rc6, Jun 05, 2006

2.6.17-rc6 has been released today.
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2.6.16.20 has been released today.
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In a move calculated to expand Carrier Grade Linux's (CGL's) developer and user communities, HP has registered Debian's "Sarge" distribution with version 2.02 of the OSDL's CGL specification, and started a Carrier Grade subproject within Debian. Debian-CGL offers an intermediary choice between commercial CGL distributions and "rolling your own," according to the OSDL.

The government-run Central Trust of China has mandated for the first time that all desktop computers purchased from now on must be Linux-compatible, demonstrating the government's desire to widen the nation's usage of open source software.

The One Laptop per Child project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory.

Mugshot, unveiled Wednesday, places Red Hat in an Internet world favored by teenagers and young adults on sites like MySpace, rather than the company's usual haunts of corporate IT.

Perhaps the most widely anticipated Linux distribution of the year finally arrived on June 1: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Service), aka Dapper Drake.

How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school's Department of Chemical Engineering.

The most popular desktop Linux distribution, Ubuntu, released its latest version – Ubuntu 6.06 LTS – this week. The "LTS" stands for "long-term support", as overseeing company Canonical plans to take this version into the workplace.

In geek speak; Knoppix is a Linux Live CD. That means it runs the Linux operating system directly from the CD, bypassing the hard drive making it a useful very useful tool.

Computer maker Lenovo will not install or support the Linux operating system on any of its PCs, including ThinkPads and a series of new notebooks, the company said this week.

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