Kernel release: 2.6.20.17, Aug 25, 2007

2.6.20.17 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 2
Files changed: 424
Files removed: 0

Business users of open source software should review their Open Source licensing agreements, audit their use of Open Source and create formal policies for managing source code, especially mixed-source code.

Adobe's Penguin.SWF blog has announced the availability of Flash Player 9 Update 3 beta 2 for Linux, which includes support for H.264 and hardware-accelerated video playback.

Ubuntu developers have taken the wraps off the fifth update to the upcoming "Gutsy Gibbon" version, a major release that will include significant additions to the Linux distribution.

DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux, has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users in the past year.

Linux-based application platform vendor Trolltech expects a higher growth rate in the second half than the first six months but said growth for the full year may fall below the approximately 40% recorded for each of the three previous years.

Mobile Linux is gaining support as a cellular operating system from the handset industry, according to market watcher IMS Research.

What's the real reason for closed, proprietary code? Embarrassment.

Heise is reporting now that there is an uproar over how the OOXML vote was handled in Germany. That happened in Switzerland too, where two formal objections have been filed. Portugal was a bit of a mess too, from reports we've heard. Now the same kinds of complaints are being heard from Germany.

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