Kernel release: 2.6.17.14, Oct 13, 2006

2.6.17.14 has been released today.
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Files added: 0
Files changed: 188
Files removed: 0

2.6.19-rc2 has been released today.
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Files added: 1063
Files changed: 7601
Files removed: 349

Seems like this case will never, ever grind to a conclusion. And not a month goes by without something weird or pathetic or inadvertently hilarious happening.

Sun says its OpenSparc initiative, to promote the development of Linux on Sun processor technology, is gaining steam.

... we are delaying the full archive freeze for a few days. We haven't chosen a date yet, but you can still expect it to happen in October or early November.

The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008.

A few weeks ago, Gael Duval lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding his new project a little bit by 'leaking' some screenshots and information. Obviously, a lot of questions remained, and hence we contacted Gael Duval in order to ask him some basic questions about Ulteo. Read on for the mini-interview.

Ext3 has become one of the most popular Linux filesystems. However, with hard drives sneaking up on a terabyte, concerns exist that ext3 won't be able to handle 21st-century storage requirements. With this in mind, the Linux kernel developers have just released the first real-world test version of ext4.

Basic real-time support is now in the mainline Linux kernel, making it easier for developers to build embedded Linux applications.

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