Kernel release: 2.6.20.3, Mar 13, 2007

2.6.20.3 has been released today.
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While the U.S. courts recently reaffirmed Microsoft's FAT (File Allocation Table) patents, the German Patent Federal Court has just dismissed the patent for use in Germany.

Linux New Media, a European magazine publisher decided to set up its North American office on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence. The company chose Lawrence above other cities including New York and San Francisco.

The International Standards Organization (ISO) agreed Saturday to put Open XML, the document format created and championed by Microsoft Corp., on a fast-track approval process that could see Open XML ratified as an international standard by August.

Home Automation projects can always use tiny, silent PCs, and here's a new one. The little disk-less Linutop PC is around £230 and runs Xubuntu from a USB stick

IBM VP Scott Handy describes strategy and priority for Linux and open-source initiatives.

In short, the absence of high-performance commercial desktop software hurts Linux.

It's free! You can tailor it to your own needs! There's a distro for every need! Sure, Linux is tempting, but getting started isn't so easy. eWEEK Labs offers advice for getting your head, and your organization, around Linux.

The OpenOffice Project has sent a letter to Michael Dell, showering praise on Dell Inc.'s chairman and CEO and asking him to consider pre-loading OpenOffice onto PCs.

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