Alan Cox posts Linux kernel 2.4.4-ac11. Read on for the changelog:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

                 Intermediate diffs are available from
                       http://www.bzimage.org


2.4.4-ac11
o       Fix hang after "Freeing unused.." on S/390      (Dick Hitt)
o       Fix ramfs accounting bug                        (Christoph Rohland)
o       Raw HID access interface for USB                (Brad Hards)
o       Fix missing release_region on QlogicFAS         (Marcus Meissner)
o       Fix missing release region in NCR53c406 code    (Marcus Meissner)
o       Make trident use the new pm callbacks           (Pavel Roskin)
o       Fix dmi ident handling                          (Arjan van de Ven)
o       dc2xx locking fixes                             (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o       Fix overrun on the acm driver                   (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o       Sitecom workarounds for mct-u232                (Stelian Pop)
o       Makefile fixes                                  (Al Viro)
o       Make hgafb show logo if non modular only like   (me)
        the rest
o       Merge back the invalidate_device changes into   (me)
        the new cciss/cpqarray
o       Rio and sx serial driver updates                (Rogier Wolff)
o       Add another SB AWE 32 variant to the tables     (Jeremy Manson)
o       Fix serial.c warning                            (Jesper Juhl)
o       Basic maestro dock support                      (Ben Pfaff)
o       Add defines for testing prefetch                (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Protect nls.h from repeat include               (Anton Altaparmakov)
o       Clean up resource handling in esssolo1          (Marcus Meissner)
o       Fix mysnc on /dev/fb                            (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Further IBM token ring updates                  (Mike Phillips)
o       Fix usermode Linux makefile problem             (Andrew Morton)
o       Merge first block of LVM changes                (Heinz & others)
o       Forward port 2.2 syncppp flags features         (Paul Fulghum)
o       Merge lp486e driver for 2.4                     (Andries Brouwer)
        | Experimental...
o       Merge new cmpci driver                          (ChenLi Tien)
o       & remove 2.2 back compat gunge, modem gunge     (me)
o       Update frame buffer project/mailing list data   (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o       Fix m68k bitops                                 (Roman Zippel)
o       Add w83877f watchdog driver                     (Scott Jennings)
o       Merge A2232 serial driver                       (Enver Haase)
o       Fix wrong memory free in isdn_ppp               (Christopher Kanaan)

Chicago Tribune: “A 20-year-old Chicago man today admitted spray
painting IBM Corp. advertising symbols on a
Lincoln Park sidewalk and was sentenced to a year
of supervision and 30 hours of community service.

Additionally, IBM said today it has paid the city
more than $18,000 to cover the cost of removing
the “peace, love and Linux” ads from 105 sidewalks
in the Lincoln Park, Hyde Park, Wicker Park and
Lakeview neighborhoods.”

Alan Cox releases Linux kernel 2.4.4-ac10. Read on for the changelog.

ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.4-ac/

Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org

Ok we are back on kernel.org

2.4.4-ac10
o       Move cs46xx docs into the right spot            (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Merge Linus 2.4.5pre3
        - switch to Linus page fault race fixes
        - switch to Linus arch/ppc
        - merged serial driver cli fixes but also
          added an extra missing moxa check
        - used -ac better version of comx fix
        - used -ac better version of scsi fix
        - now 2.4.5pre vm seems sane dump other vmscan
          experiments
        [not merged; rage-xl code]

From a press release at Teledynamics: “OpenCola is proud to announce the launch of Swarmcast Beta 0.9 and the release of the Swarmcast source code (under the GPL).
Swarmcast is high-speed content distribution system for large files. It enables the publishers of very popular, very large content
files to distribute those files to many users, scaling instantly while saving significant bandwidth costs. For the end user, Swarmcast
provides a faster download experience as it saturates your download capacity by downloading simultaneously from multiple nodes.”

From a post at KDE News: “I was browsing SourceForge today and stumbled across the KDE on Cygwin project.
Apparently, they have ported Qt 2.3.0 for X11, Qt 1.45 and KDE 1.1.2 to use the CygWin
tools and CygWin/XFree86, respectively ports of the popular GNU platform and XFree86 to
Windows. Although this is a big step towards making KDE applications useable on Windows
machines, it might be interesting to get rid of the X server requirements as Simon Haussman has done with
Konqueror/Embedded.”

ZDNet’s Evan Leibovitch says: “In the explanation of why the APSL is non-free, the FSF notes that many previous objections to
the APSL have been dealt with by the current version, but that one deal-breaker remains.
Clause 2.2 of the APSL requires you to publish (and register with Apple) not only code that you
change and redistribute, but code that you change and only use internally.

The FSF says that this is an invasion of your privacy, and that you should have the right to keep
private any modifications that you don’t redistribute. The definition of “open source,” however,
doesn’t say anything about privacy.”

Wall Street Journal (via ZDNet): An ugly green ogre named Shrek may make an impression when he arrives in
theaters nationwide Friday. He might also spook some people in the computer
industry.

The ornery, mud-loving creature morphs into a romantic hero through some of the richest digital
animation yet created. Producer DreamWorks SKG gives considerable credit for the performance
to another transformation — animators’ use of the free Linux operating system instead of software
from the likes of Microsoft Corp. and Silicon Graphics Inc.”

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Posted at LWN.net: Updated gnupg packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7, and 7.1.
These updates address a potential vulnerability which could allow an
attacker to compute a user’s secret key.

LWN,net has a report from a LUG meeting where Shane O’Donnell, project manager for the OpenNMS project, explained his project.