ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org. This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre – treat this one with care, it may
not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made

2.4.5-ac21
o       Fix pnpbios compile failure and add docking     (me)
        station hotplug (/sbin/hotplug dock)
o       Fix make xconfig failure                        (Keith Owens)
o       Fix cciss pci device table                      (Marcus Meissner)
o       Fix bogus math.h include in iphase driver       (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Reiserfs vm deadlock fix                        (Chris Mason)
o       Make the i810 tco disable info clearer          (Andrey Panin)
o       Correct bzImage size limit check                (Pavel Machek)
o       Next lvm patch                                  (Joe Thornber)
o       Fix toshoboe for pm api change                  (me)

Kelly McNeill writes “In the latest legal action aimed at Microsoft Corp., a digital-rights technology company has expanded its lawsuit against the software giant, alleging “willful infringement” of its patent in the Microsoft Windows Media Player and the Microsoft XP operating system.”

LinuxPR: ” Mission Critical Linux, Inc., the
industry leading Linux solutions and services company, and PowerQuest
Corporation, a provider of proven solutions for storage management, today
announced that they have cooperatively developed a storage protection and
recovery solution for the enterprise. The technology incorporates a Linux kernel
with PowerQuest’s imaging and recovery technology. This advance will allow
companies to back-up any server directly to DVD-RAM — enabling more
reliable backups and faster recovery than is available with tape backup.”

LinuxPR: “Digital Spinner, a web design and
development company, announced today the fourth release candidate of the
GroupIT Engine, a PHP-based content management and
group collaboration system capable of powering the next generation of web sites,
intranets and extranets. Notable new features include an improved installation
script, dynamic questionnaires, a re-designed default theme and a suite of
management conveniences. The entire source code for the GroupIT Engine is
available for download at http://www.groupit.org.”

LinuxPR: “In its first year, Great Bridge, the leading
provider of business solutions based on the PostgreSQL open source database,
has opened four regional offices, launched a ten-stop nationwide seminar tour
and logged tens of thousands of downloads of its enhanced version of
PostgreSQL, the company announced today.”

Kelly McNeill writes “It’s been a year since Be, Inc. was talking about some upcoming releases. Yet the releases have yet to surface. Instead, Be has now announced a “focus shift” that will supposedly change the company’s direction toward the Internet appliance market.”

“IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the availability of a series of Linux technologies
developed in conjunction with the open source community to enhance the enterprise capabilities of Linux. Today’s announcement
will further enable Linux for mainstream business uses.” Full press release at LinuxPR.

“Today, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for the 32-bit architecture by Intel was awarded the status “Generally
Available for mySAP.com”. This certification now enables companies all over the world to utilize mySAP.com on SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server and take advantage of services and support from SAP AG.” More at Enterprise Linux Today.

Check out the photo galleries, audio files, and text reports from the recently-concluded Yet Another Perl Conference::North America that took place this year from June 13 – 15 in Montreal. All the juicy details are online at the yapc.org Web site.

“Gordano, Ltd. Thursday released a Linux version of GLMail, its high-performance, Unix-based mail server.

“Requests for Unix versions of our award winning products were becoming more frequent, and we do respond to
our customers’ suggestions whenever possible. Due to our design architecture and its independence from any one
operating system, we were able to create a product for the Linux platform very quickly,” Gordano Managing
Director, Brian Dorricott said in a prepared statement.” Full story at ServerWatch.