Kernel release: 2.4.33-rc1, Jun 16, 2006

2.4.33-rc1 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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Files removed: 0

The Women's Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) will accept three developers, and pay a stipend of $3,000 to each developer for a project to be completed by September.

Microsoft may actually be especially vulnerable to a fall. Steve Ballmer may have been president and CEO since January 2000, but to the outside world at least Bill Gates has continued to be Microsoft's face.

For the forthcoming SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10, Novell went back to the drawing board to rethink what makes a good desktop. The result is extremely impressive.

A petition, from Linux Australia, is asking the government to uphold consumer and competition rights when drafting anti-circumvention laws, which will tighten the reins on copying protected materials.

Today Bill Gates announced that he was going to leave Microsoft and focus on the philanthropic part of his life saying that he wants to give back to society. The over-riding question is: what does it mean to Microsoft's future?

The University of Southampton has opted for Windows over Linux to run a clustered computing project to investigate vehicle aerodynamics.

After a recent pullback in Novell shares and meetings with company management, Banc of America Securities analyst Kirk Materne suggested that the time is right for a new chief executive officer.

A group of the world's mobile operators and handset makers said on Thursday they are to join together to develop an open-source Linux-based operating system that could to be used in phones by the end of 2007.

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