Kernel release: 2.6.28.9-rc1, Mar 20, 2009

2.6.28.9-rc1 has been released today.
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2.6.27.21-rc1 has been released today.
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As much as Microsoft loves to grinch about Linux, they've made significant changes over the years to compete with it--and will abandon it altogether to maintain their competitive edge. Windows 7 will be the last Windows product.

TomTom, sued earlier by Microsoft for patent infringement related to GPS technology and TomTom's implementation of Microsoft's FAT, or file allocation table, technology in Linux, is fighting back. Unfortunately, its countersuit relates to four of its GPS patents that it claims Microsoft infringes, not the Linux patents that have the open-source community up in arms.

GPS maker TomTom hit back at Microsoft yesterday by issuing a countersuit against the software giant with a patent claim of its own.

Microsoft's dismissive attitude of VDI, or virtual desktop infrastructure, is very similar to Red Hat's stance toward the desktop as a viable Linux commercial offering. Red Hat has said it has yet to figure out how to capitalise on the Linux desktop as a product, but now seems to be finding a way with its recent desktop virtualisation agreement with Microsoft.

Even though the netbook market is one of the few bright spots in the PC market and also even the mobile computing sector, its rapid growth will not necessarily ensure the development of Linux in the mobile arena despite most netbooks offering Linux as the entry level choice of operating system.

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