Kernel release: 2.6.23, Oct 09, 2007

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

Files added: 770
Files changed: 7203
Files removed: 651

Linux has doubled its share of the desktop market over the past year, but has still to reach even 1% of computers according to the latest figures from Net Applications.

Can Google's application development prowess be transformed into a next-generation mobile operating system?

I was taking a walk with my wife the other day, talking about all the kooky-nuttiness that is the Linux and Open Source world sometimes. I think I was harping on a certain company in Washington State and their recent "attempts" to "open source" some of their code.

These days when you download a Linux distribution and burn it to CD, you would expect that it would not take too much of an effort to have a look at it. Unless, of course, it's one of three distributions which are aimed at so-called geeks - Gentoo, Debian and Slackware.

Guest columnist Howard Fosdick has previously used Puppy Linux to successfully revive "mature" PCs. Now, he takes a broader, deeper look at the parsimonious distribution and its potential value on normal desktop PCs, covering its features, flexibility, capability to peacefully coexist with Windows, ease of use, and limitations.

Regardless of why, the very idea of being forbidden from using one OS over another seems completely insane, if not immoral

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