Kernel release: 2.4.33.2, Aug 22, 2006

2.4.33.2 has been released today.
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2.6.17.10 has been released today.
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GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) is underway, with twice the number of projects originally scheduled, thanks to Google's generosity. The program has not only brought a few more women into the GNOME fold, but it seems to have jump-started efforts to actively recruit female developers within other open source projects as well.

"I think the enterprise stable kernel model doesn't work," said Greg Kroah-Hartman, who works closely with Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton, the keepers of the Linux kernel and its development.

Based on the successes of the tuXlabs schools Linux project in South Africa, the team members have started a company to continue the work.

Last week at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM officials announced a "fundamental expansion" of what the company is doing around open source -- software whose code is "open" to alterations from users.

Disagreements over what should be included in the free software license's next version have pitted the movement's leaders against each other

At the Linux World conference in downtown San Francisco this week, the world’s leading cell phone manufacturers, Nokia and Motorola, took a decidedly different approach to embracing the Penguin. Motorola took the stage – Nokia chose a back seat.

For years, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has offered the most important basic Linux worker certification, the LPIC. On August 16 at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, the organization launched a new employment and contract matching service for open-source workers who are registered on LPI's internal exam candidate database.

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