Let the Linux music play, Jul 25, 2006

With digital music formats becoming ever more popular, the demand for different ways to play music files has also escalated.

Even if there's no stampede among businesses to embrace desktop Linux, there is a lot of interest in it, said Fred Hock, president of the Illinois Information Technology Association.

The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution which will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch'.

Xen is the flavor of the month in the tech world. Not only is the open-source technology supported in the new release of Novell's Suse Enterprise Linux distribution, but Microsoft pledged to support Xen-virtualized Linux with its forthcoming Longhorn server virtualization technology. And don't forget about IBM.

Currently, the list has no African milestones. This is not due to the fact that there are no significant Linux and free software initiatives in South Africa, or the continent

2.6.17.7 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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