Kernel release: 2.6.22.5, Aug 22, 2007

2.6.22.5 has been released today.
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2.6.20.17-rc1 has been released today.
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Somebody toss me a Che Guevara T-shirt. Google and Microsoft have gone to war over open source software.

Asustek Computer will begin shipping its ultra low-cost notebook, the Eee PC, simultaneously to clients in the US, Europe, China as well as Taiwan, in mid-September, with the first-round shipments targeting 20,000 units, according to sources at the company.

Linux smartphone pioneer E28 says one of its handsets supports VCC 7.0 (voice call continuity) when used with infrastructure equipment from NewStep Networks. The Linux-based E2832 handset is said to have completed interoperability testing with NewStep's Converged Services Node (CSN) equipment for enterprise and carrier networks.

Is this a joke? I only recently started paying attention to Windows Home Server, since I tend to focus more on desktop operating systems and enterprise server systems. So I didn't realize until now that WHS is really just a vanilla file server.

The Tile64 chip is not based on any existing processor cores and their associated instruction sets, but rather is a new core developed from the ground up to take advantage of mesh networking on each core to create a large pool of compute resources that can be dedicated to running a single instance of Linux and its applications or carved up on the fly into virtual Linux images, each isolated from other virtualized slices.

Technalign, developers of both the community and commercial Pioneer Linux operating systems, recently announced the release of Pioneer Explorer 1.0 and the Programs folder.

The Ark Linux team have announced the release of Ark Linux 2007.1, the latest version of its multi-purpose desktop operating system.

The open source openSUSE development project behind Novell's commercial SUSE Linux distributions has its second birthday this month, and Novell is celebrating by touting its improved build service for openSUSE and by shipping the first beta of openSUSE 10.3.

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