ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/ – Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.

2.4.9-ac5
o       Make pae i386 compile again                     (Russell King)
o       Add MODULE_LICENSE tagging                      (me)
o       Clean up aztcd (phase 1)                        (me)
o       Fix aztcd subchannel error reporting bug        (me)
o       Reformat cdu31a pending cleanups                (me)
o       Reformat cm206 pending cleanups                 (me)
o       Reformat gscd pending cleanups                  (me)
o       Reformat isp16 pending cleanups                 (me)
o       Reformat sjcd pending cleanups                  (me)
o       Reformat tpqic02 pending cleanups               (me)
o       Add tags in drivers upto and including drivers/char/*
        | lots more to add yet...
o       pl2303 oops fix                                 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o       Sony clie updates for clie OS 4.0               (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o       Fix elf loader for prelink binaries             (Jakub Jelinek)
o       Make xconfig fix                                (Robert Love)
o       Add reparent_to_init, fix pnp and 8139 zombies  (Andrew Morton)
o       Update Configure.help                           (Steven Cole)

2.4.9-ac4
o       ns83820 driver fixes and updates                (Ben LaHaise)
o       Configure.help updates                          (Steven Cole)
o       Add generic pgtable_cache_init()                (Russell King)
        | and remove pae ifdefs from init/main.c
o       Fix X.75 with new hisax drivers and an isdn     (Kai Germaschewski)
        disconnect race
o       Remove now defunct directory offset cast        (me)
o       Make several vm behaviours tunable for now      (Rik van Riel)
        | This is so we can study behaviour patterns not for
        | the long term
o       Merge an additional ide-floppy fix              (Sam Varshavchik)
        | Fixed the ide floppy I/O error funny on some drives
o       Pull dac/adc rate setting into ac97_codec.c     (me)
o       Update mips64 makefiles                         (Ralf Baechle)
o       Complete the missing bits of the proc           (Ralf Baechle)
        infrastructure using constant HZ to userspace
        | This has been partial for a long time, with the mips tree
        | it actually needs to be completed...
o       Avoid oops in rivafb when using 15bit depth     (Steve DuChene)
        on riva128
o       Indent seagate scsi into linux format           (me)
        | Changes pending so do this in two steps..
o       pl2303 updates                                  (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o       Orinoco update                                  (David Gibson)
o       IRQ stack value fix                             (John Byrne)
o       Enable DMA on 20268R                            (Zygo Blaxell)
o       Add missing -EFAULT return to se401             (Pavel Machek)
o       Voodoo 1/2 frame buffer console                 (Ghozlane Toumi)
o       Update cache size reporting errata              (Dave Jones)
o       Fix nasty oops and deadlock in i810_audio       (me)

2.4.9-ac3
o       Fix config glitch in drivers/video/Config.in    (Steven Cole)
o       Kaweth endian fixes                             (Brad Hards)
o       Update the MPT fusion drivers                   (Steve Ralston)
o       Possible floppy probe fix                       (Paul Gortmaker)
o       Add the KT266 agp to the table                  (Kris Kersey)
o       Start convering ia32 and x86_64 mtrr code       (Dave Jones)
o       Account ramdisk in out of memory code           (Russell King)
o       Possible fix for cardbus allocation failures    (Andreas Bombe)
o       Clean up other cases of const initdata          (Dave Jones)
o       Update the keyboard rate code to be more        (Dave Miller)
        flexible (needed for sparc)
o       Configure.help fixes                            (Steven Cole)
o       Pegasus USB driver fixes                        (Petko Manolov)
o       Fix i810 audio pops on speed changes            (Scott Herod)
o       GPIO driver for the ITE board                   (Hai-Pao Fan)
o       Philips Nino port update                (Steven Hill, Pavel Machek)

2.4.9-ac2
o       Last small bits of the PPC merge                (Paul Mackerras)
o       Fix compile bugs in airport driver              (David Gibson)
o       ITE8172 ide updates                             (Steve L)
o       Add i2c drivers for the ITE board               (Hai-Pao Fan)
o       AC97 register naming fix                        (Ralf Baechle)
o       TI 3912 serial driver                   (Harald Koerfgen, Jim Pick,
                                                         Steven Hill)
o       ITE general updates                             (P Popov)
o       Remove double init of SGI streamable device     (Ralf Baechle)
o       Update SGI indy drivers                         (Ralf Baechle)
o       Qtronix keyboard driver updates                 (P Popov)
o       Add tx3192 frame buffer support                 (Steven Hill)
o       MIPS frame buffer updates                       (Ralf Baechle)
o       Move vino.h into driver directory               (Ralf Baechle)
o       Ocelot updates                  (Jun Sun, G Lonnon, S Kranz, Steve J)
o       DDB5 updates                                    (Jun Sun)
o       MIPS jazz update                                (Ralf Baechle)
o       SGI wd33c93 update                              (Ralf Baechle)
o       Baget updates                                   (Ralf Baechle)
o       SNI updates                                     (Ralf Baechle)
o       Alchemy Au1000 support                          (P Popov)
o       MIPS eval board updates         (Ralf Baechle, Carsten Langgaard)
o       Update Decstation serial support                (Maciej W. Rozycki)
o       NEC Vrc5477 audio driver                        (Steve L)
o       General MIPS32 updates          (Jun Sun, Ralf Baechle, Matt Porter,
                                         Kevin Kissell, Carsten Langgaard,
                                         Jan-Benedict Glaw)
o       MIPS scsi updates                               (Ralf Baechle)
o       Notifier signal oops fix                (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)

2.4.9-ac1
o       Merge the fat and iso changes from 2.4.9
o       Merge the sunrpc changes from 2.4.9
o       Merge (hopefully correctly) the nfs changes
o       Switch to the 2.4.9 emu10k1 driver
o       Merge vfs directory type changes
o       Merge other oddments
        - This leaves min/max and the vm/buffer changes
          both of which are pretty dubious anyway
o       lock_kiovec page unwind fix                     (Velizar B)
o       do_swap_page recheck pte before failing         (Linus, Jeremy Linton)
o       do_swap_page doesn't mkwrite when deleting      (Linus)
        | From 2.4.9 with extra comments etc            (Hugh Dickins)

Posted at Business Wire: “IDG World Expo has announced the winners of awards recognizing achievements by the open source
community at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The awards included the $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community
Award, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards, and the OSDL Enterprise Achievement Award.”

From the Boston Globe: “Linux’s victory is still far from complete. It’s barely made a scratch on
the desktops of the world. Early this month, Dell Computer Corp.
stopped offering its customers Linux-based PCs as an alternative to
Microsoft Corp.’s Windows — there just wasn’t enough demand for
them. And Loki Software Inc., which creates Linux versions of popular
computer games, just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But in corporate America, as Microsoft steadily ratchets up the cost of
each new upgrade, Linux looks better every day. And so does the
development model that created it. Torvalds helped create a culture,
not just an operating system.”

From BetaNews: “Set for a public beta in earlier October and release some time in the first quarter of 2002, StarOffice has undergone numerous changes since version 5.2. Sun has
made good on it promise to target key areas cited by user feedback, and has opted to remove the much maligned integrated desktop.

Additionally, performance has been enhanced through componentization. The entire suite will not load when users simply wish to perform a routine task – leading
to quicker load times and a lower utilization of system resources. According to Sun, an assortment of bugs and code optimizations were taken on by the open
source community — contributing to the overall quality of the product.”

From a press release posted at Enterprise Linux Today: “The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), an independent, vendor-neutral, non-profit
organization dedicated to enabling Linux for enterprise and carrier-class functionality, today presented the first OSDL Enterprise
Achievement Award to Heinz Mauelshagen, a German software developer.

Tim Witham, OSDL lab director, awarded Mauelshagen the $25,000 prize at LinuxWorld Expo before a packed audience of Linux
enthusiasts and community leaders as well as corporate Linux users.”

“Once the province of rebel programmers that championed the free software, these
days Linux is supported by profit-oriented, blue-chip companies. The semiannual
LinuxWorld Expo showcases booths from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Compaq
Computer, among others.

“Linux is moving into the mainstream,” said Ross Mauri, a vice president at IBM,
which plans to spend a billion dollars this year developing and deploying Linux
and Linux-based applications.” Read the full story at SiliconValley.com.

From Wired News: “In the past, LinuxWorld has had a refreshing lightheartedness to it. Since the open-source people who usually flock to Linux
events are more carefree than the marketing types who clog other Internet events, the conferences have been, at the very least, tolerable.

This year the marketers have attacked. Now, it’s virtually impossible to walk around LinuxWorld without hearing pitches from company reps extolling the
benefits of Linux for “mission-critical applications in the enterprise,” or some such drivel.

Everyone’s saying that it’s time for Linux to grow up — that it’s no longer a hacker OS, that it’s moved beyond serving geeky programmers and
hermetic server admins and that Linux now belongs smack in the middle of world commerce.”

Reuters: “The number of Internet companies
closing up shop fell slightly in August from July — the fourth straight
monthly decline — hinting the worst may be over for the beaten down
dot-com industry, though there may be a rise in shutdowns in the
near-term as companies and investors start year-end housecleaning, a
report on Thursday said.

Internet shutdowns totaled 38 in August, a “relatively modest” number
and down from 39 in July, according to the report by San
Francisco-based Webmergers.com.”

From the Wall Street Journal (via ZDNet): “In another potential blow to online publishing, a U.S. programmer
says he has developed software that defeats the most advanced encryption features of
Microsoft’s Reader, a software program for distributing electronic books.

The programmer’s claim was reported Thursday on the Web site of MIT Technology Review, a
publication of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.”

UnixReview.com takes a look at Bob Toxen’s Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery: “The only complaint I have about the book is the use of skulls for the danger level. One skull indicates a minor effect or risk, while five
skulls means the risk is too dangerous. It is often hard to discern whether the skulls refer to the topic just mentioned, or the subsequent
one.

While many of the threats and vulnerabilities in the book indeed have five skulls, Real World Linux Security deserves five stars. It is an
excellent reference about Linux security — a topic that, while timely, does not always get the respect it deserves.”