Kernel release: 2.6.27.20-rc1, Mar 13, 2009

2.6.27.20-rc1 has been released today.
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With cost cutting being the main agenda of the corporate sector now, web based companies have been thankful, for the boon of open source software and cloud computing.

Red Hat, Inc. has released a beta build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.8, the fully-supported legacy line of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution.

If you want to see where the technology industry is heading in the next few years, a quick review of the past might be useful. The personal computer industry was born in the pain of the 1980s economic recession.

There are small Linux distributions, and then there are tiny Linux distributions. In what must be one of the smallest Linux versions ever, Tiny Core Linux is a portable Linux desktop that is just 10MB in size. With the 10MB disk image in hand users can run it from a CD, USB drive or just as a minimal hard drive installation.

The good news is the deployment of open source is growing. The bad news is that policies managing those projects are an afterthought. Among the biggest concerns keeping both large and small developers up at night are licensing and support.

When Dell started selling mainstream PCs with pre-installed Ubuntu Linux, they were the first to break the Microsoft line. Other companies, like Asus with the first netbook, Lenovo with its ThinkPads, and, finally, HP started shipping mass-market PCs and notebooks with Linux too. Well. Sort of. You see, except for Dell, everyone makes it a pain to get their Linux-enabled PCs.

From the introduction of the internet through the dot.com crash, this article reviews the defining moments in web history. A significant portion are related to open source software.

While Microsoft Office is actively used by roughly 50 percent of U.S. Internet users, according to a 2,400-strong survey administered by ClickStream Technologies, 5 percent of U.S. Web users also actively use the open-source productivity suite OpenOffice.org.

A February survey of IT managers by IDC indicated that hard times are accelerating the adoption of Linux. The open source operating system will emerge from the recession in a stronger data center position than before, concluded an IDC white paper.

When it comes to building supercomputers, Linux is usually the first choice of operating system. But while Linux powers the biggest hardware, it is also well suited to smaller hardware and there are many versions of the operating system that have minuscule footprints.

2.6.29-rc8 has been released today.
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