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Last 2.5.x Linux Kernel Released
Kourino writes "Today on LKML,
Linus released 2.5.75, which he said will be "the last 2.5.x kernel from me", and that he and Andrew Morton are going to start a 2.6-pre series soon. While this certainly does mean things could get interesting soon, don't hold your breath about seeing the actual 2.6 for a while; there are still many areas that need work. This essentially means that the development branch is going into maintenance mode, and new features probably won't get in after this point. Changes of note in 2.5.75 include a merge of the anticipatory scheduler from Andrew Morton's -mm tree and updates from several architectures."
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Bah. You're just jealous. Asshat.
interesting..
I wonder why this hasn't been posted yet though
Sun expands Unix deal with SCO
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 10, 2003, 1:19 PM PT
A previously secret licensee of SCO Group's Unix intellectual property has revealed its identity: Unix leader Sun Microsystems.
SCO's Unix licensing plan got a major boost of publicity in May when Microsoft announced its decision to license Unix from SCO, but Sun actually was the first company to sign on. SCO and Sun confirmed the licensing deal on Wednesday.
The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the rights Sun acquired in 1994 to use Unix in its Solaris operating system. But there's more to the relationship: SCO also granted Sun a warrant to buy as many as 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share as part of the licensing deal, according to a regulatory document filed Tuesday.
Sun, the No. 1 seller of Unix servers, declined to comment on the option to take a stake in SCO Group. Fortune on Monday published news of the expanded Sun contract.
Sun's expanded license permits Sun to use some software from Unix System V Release 4 for software components called drivers, which let computers use hard drives, network cards and other devices. Sun needed the software for its version of Solaris that runs on Intel servers, Sun spokesman Brett Smith said. A source familiar with the deal said the new contract was signed in February, but neither Sun nor SCO would comment.
SCO, which hasn't had much success selling its own Unix products and which has pulled the plug on its Linux products, is trying to generate more money from its Unix intellectual property. The highest-profile result of that effort has been an SCO lawsuit against IBM that alleges IBM misappropriated SCO trade secrets and violated its Unix contracts, for which SCO now is seeking more than $3 billion.
Sun hasn't been ashamed to try to profit from the effects of that suit. It jumped at the chance to declare itself a safe haven for spooked technology buyers: "Sun's complete line of Solaris and Linux products...are covered by Sun's portfolio of Unix licensing agreements. Solaris and Sun Linux represent safe choices for those companies that develop and deploy services based on Unix systems," Sun declared the day SCO filed suit against IBM.
"Now we know why Sun was so absolutely confident about where they stand in this whole thing that they were essentially able to turn it into some marketing and sales FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) of their own," Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said.
Sun's Smith said the company is being careful to ensure that its Unix intellectual property is "very clean."
"We've always made sure we're very aboveboard," Smith said. "We've made sure the i's are dotted, the t's are crossed." Before the newest contract was signed, Sun had spent $82 million acquiring rights to use Unix, Smith said. Among Sun's privileges is the right to show Solaris' underlying source code to customers, SCO said.
One thing has changed in Sun's Linux position, though. Its first Linux products used Sun's own version of the operating system, but at the end of March, the company decided instead to form partnerships with Linux sellers such as Red Hat. Smith said Sun doesn't know yet if the legal protections of its Unix licenses extend to other companies' versions of Linux.
SCO declined to comment on terms of the license deals with Sun and Microsoft, but SCO said in May that it earned $8.3 million in revenue in the quarter ended April 30 as a result of the licenses. In the Tuesday regulatory filing, SCO said the two licenses will generate an additional $5 million in the three quarters after that, for a total of $13.3 million.
In addition, Microsoft has the option to expand its licensing rights in the future, a move that would mean additional payments to SCO, the filing said.
Although Sun has broader rights than
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of the installers). I gave her my number and we got into a year long
relationship. She later confessed she was shy of making the first
move. What was that you were saying again?
Yes, it is still possible to get work without recruiters. And it has the same fresh clean taste as air does when you quit smoking.
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a beowulf cluster of this.. :)