Kernel release: 2.4.34-rc2, Dec 14, 2006

2.4.34-rc2 has been released today.
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2.4.33.5 has been released today.
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2.6.20-rc1 has been released today.
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Telemarketing calls: we hate them. But the business of calling people at inopportune moments is big business; the so-called outbound dialing market will reach over $200 million by 2011, Frost & Sullivan predicts.

I'm writing this post using Fedora Core 6 on my new laptop. I've been running some flavor of Linux for a while now and I think I've finally settled on Fedora Core since it's doing such a nice job with both multimedia and office productivity tasks.

Linux has been mentioned as a potentially leading platform for mobile devices for as long as there have been mobile devices. However, mobile Linux is still largely missing in action.

direct appeal to those concerned with ethics and social issues. Yet, in practice, it rarely does.

Debian users who depend on MySQL for support need have no worries.

If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask? I spent an hour today with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the company's Redmond campus. I chose to ask Bill about Microsoft's intellectual property stance against Linux and its open source developers, from the SCO Group's litigation against IBM to Steve Ballmer's recent claim Linux infringes on Microsoft patents after signing a patent indemnity with Novell.

Community radio stations in Sierra Leone and in other emerging democracies may well soon be powered by Campcaster 1.1, free and open source software that turns a PC running the free Linux operating system into an essential tool for radio broadcasting.

Linux in all its forms has come such a long way. And when we have an otherwise less than mainstream distribution showing us that offering something that most family households want anyway (parental controls), the total avoidance of this in "beginner-friendly" distributions completely blows my mind.

Red Hat has had something of a bumpy ride in the last two months. First, Oracle launched a competitive threat to the open-source supplier, then Microsoft inked a deal with Linux distributor Novell.

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