Kernel release: 2.6.20.4-rc1, Mar 19, 2007

2.6.20.4-rc1 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 0
Files changed: 38
Files removed: 0

According to Groklaw, 326 lines represents the "mountain of code" that SCO's CEO Darl McBride has been banging on about since 2003.

Microsoft’s formerly tame blogger has bitten the software company that made his name when it employed him as a “technology evangelist”.

Digital rights management and the General Public License cause a lot of "hot air" to be exchanged, but they are not a "big deal", according to the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds.

Deval Patrick, the Commonwealth's new governor, yesterday introduced a $1.47 billion "emergency" bonding bill, intended to cover a broad range of local and statewide projects, including a measure of funding for the upgrading of the state's IT infrastructure.

Open-source systems may be gaining credibility in government circles because they are increasingly associated with large, well-respected suppliers such as IBM, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys.

Some of [Mark Shuttleworth] assertions as to why it is difficult to buy a PC with GNU/Linux installed (and not pre-installed which would mean installed before being installed, a ludicrous suggestion and as gross an abuse of the English language as I have ever seen) strike me as rather questionable.

When used as a replacement for conventional window managers like KWin or Metacity, Beryl adds a lot of exciting new functionality and amazing 3D effects to standard Linux desktop environments.

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