Kernel release: 2.6.21-rc4, Mar 16, 2007

2.6.21-rc4 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 599
Files changed: 6363
Files removed: 262

The information ministry [of Pakistan] has trained more than 500 professionals in four major open-source applications under a programme launched to reduce software piracy in the country.

The Conservatives will place more reliance on open source software in government IT if they win the next General Election.

Open-source specialist Red Hat claims that it is doubling the amount of research and development investment in JBoss -- the open-source application server company it acquired last June.

Symantec has announced Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server, and Veritas NetBackup will be available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5).

With this decision to refocus the Mozilla project and build Firefox, [Blake] Ross did much more than just create a stand-alone browser version of Mozilla.

As Novell kicks off its annual user conference, customers are enthusiastic about their transitions from the legacy NetWare operating system to Linux. There’s discord, however, among Novell users regarding the company’s controversial technology pact with Microsoft.

FOSS desktop video editing still has a long way to go before it can be taken seriously by people who need to turn out high-quality video productions on tight deadlines.

In a bid to help customers improve efficiency, IBM and Red Hat have declared that developers at the companies' Linux labs have joined forces to integrate new technologies in the Linux kernel.

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