Kernel release: 2.6.21.2, May 23, 2007

2.6.21.2 has been released today.
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Patent claims against Linux notwithstanding, Microsoft is working with a startup to ensure a key security initiative includes support for the open-source operating system on client computers.

The San Diego Unified School District has tapped education solution provider Arey Jones and PC maker Lenovo to provide Linux-powered notebooks for students, standardizing on Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 operating system in the first phase of a districtwide deployment, according to officials there.

Microsoft is not the real patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, said Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. In fact, the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years, Shuttleworth predicted.

Software patents favor only large corporations such as Microsoft, who can afford to apply for them and to maintain a battery of lawyers to enforce them. Small developers cannot, and would be forced to pay license fees to develop the most basic of programs.

You have to take a look at Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog today. He has pledged the company will use its patents to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu.

Munich's KDE distribution LiMux has been certified to meet the international usability standard ISO 9241. The use of KDE 3 as an "effective, efficient and satisfactory" working environment is named as a decisive factor for passing the certification.

Linspire, the company behind desktop Linux operating systems Linspire and Freespire, has announced the availability of its Win4Lin Pro Desktop.

... they sent out emails to 354 programmers, some of whom are never going to use the GPL anyway, like the Apache developers, who are great guys but they already have their own license. 332 emails reached their targets. Only 11% of those asked even responded. And of that number, 32 of the 34 said pretty much what Microsoft must have hoped they'd say

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes.

In an unconventional request, some users of Linux and other open-source software are inviting Microsoft Corp. to sue them.

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