LinuxGram: “Oops. While we weren’t looking Progeny Linux Systems, the outfit started by Debian founder Ian Murdock, got boxed copies
of Progeny Debian out the door on April 23 at $50 a pop.”

LinuxGram: “Oops. While we weren’t looking Progeny Linux Systems, the outfit started by Debian founder Ian Murdock, got boxed copies
of Progeny Debian out the door on April 23 at $50 a pop.”

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ — Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org. Alan Cox: “Please test this code **carefully** if using an HPT366/370 IDE controller as
there are driver changes there. Otherwise its mostly just catching up with
the bugfixes.”

2.4.4-ac5
o       Fix DMA setup on hpt366/370                     (Tim Hockin)
o       DRM memory alloc failure checks                 (Akash Jain)
o       Remove bogus fs/buffer.c diff                   (Ben LaHaise)
o       cs46xx update - adds Hercules Game Theatre XP   (Thomas Woller)
o       Fix menuconfig breakage with ()         (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o       Updated multithreaded core dump support         (Don Dugger)
o       Remove dead ibmtr.h include                     (Mike Phillips)
o       Fix misplaced letters in koi8-u                 (Andriy Rysin)
o       Further alpha module locking fix                (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Keyspan bitwidth fixes                          (Hugh Blemings)
o       usb-uhci oops fix                               (Pete Zaitcev)
o       Add ability to specify preferred minor on       (Gerd Knorr)
        video/radio4linux devices
o       Further IPX updates                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o       Further IRDA updates                            (Dag Brattli)
o       Make x86 ptrace framesize a define (code clean) (Pavel Machek)
o       Moxa serial tidy                                (Tim Hockin)
o       Fix tiny select race                            (Rusty Russell)
o       Update aic7xxx to 6.1.12                        (Justin Gibbs)
o       Alpha was missing rwlock_init                   (Reto Baettig)
o       Alpha SCHED_YIELD was broken on UP              (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Allow IRQ sharingon more PCI ide                (Pete Zaitcev)
o       Fix capable checks found by Stanford analyser   (me)
        for cciss/cpqarray
o       List more devices in sysrq table        (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o       Run uml exit callbacks reverse to init          (Andrew Morton)
o       Fix SMP resched_idle pre-emption bug            (Nigel Gamble)
o       Work around config problem with menuconfig
        and USB                                 (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o       Fix nasty bug in Alpha PCI mapping              (Hyung Min SEO)
        | Nautilus specific stuff not applied yet
o       SBLive endianness fixes (output only so far)    (Ira Weiny)
o       Move sblive pci_enable earlier                  (Marcus Meissner)
o       Merge IBM ServeRAID 4.72 driver                 (Keith Mitchell)
o       Fix affs races                                  (Roman Zippel)
o       Fix cdrom unload crash                  (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)

2.4.4-ac4
o       Fix future domain scsi                          (Carlo Prelz)
o       Merge Linux 2.4.5pre1
o       Fix ipx without sysctl compile                  (Pavel Roskin)
o       Revert fork changes to match Linus 2.4.5pre1
o       Drop the threaded core dump code
        | It can go back in when it works
o       Drop pa-risc work - it'll be easier to resync
        just once as pa has moved on a lot
o       Add spin_lock_prefetch to get_empty_inode       (me)
        | Experimenting
o       Kbuild has moved                                (Keith Owens)
o       Update kernel docs on memory barriers           (Rusty Russell)
o       Move es1370 pci_enable and do some cleanup      (Marcus Meissner)
o       Fix netfilter overuse of __exit                 (Rusty Russell)
o       Fix alpha build bug                             (Michal Jaegermann)
o       Fix tigon1 build                                (Olivier Galibert)
o       Fix tmpfs deadlocks writing into a file from    (Christoph Rohland)
        an mmap of itself
o       Fix missing (but harmless) return in vmtruncate (Al Viro)

2.4.4-ac3
o       Fix hang on boot with SMP                       (Andrea Arcangeli)
        | and fixes a few more uglies too
o       freevxfs module name was wrong (should be       (me)
        freevxfs.o)
o       Update alloc_etherdev docs                      (Erik Mouw)
o       Remove dead funcs, put back ip_set_manually     (David Miller,
        in the ipconfig code                    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o       Fix SA_ONSTACK standards violation (for x86)    (Christian Ehrhardt)
        | Other arch maintainers should check..
o       Add another species of SB AWE 32                (Bill Nottingham)
o       SE401 USB camera driver                         (Jeroen Vreeken)
o       Correct MAX_HD and make stuff static in ps2esdi (Hal Duston)
o       Fix inode-nr corruption                         (Al Viro)
o       Fix pgd_alloc for user mode linux               (Jeff Dike)
o       Fix UML hostfs for get_hardsect_size            (Jeff Dike)
o       Tidy up APM options setting, add module opts    (Stephen Rothwell)
o       Fix acm open race                               (Oliver Neukum)
o       Further bounce buffer fixes                     (Arjan van de Ven)
o       ACPI updates                                    (Andrew Grover)
o       Move pci_enable_device earlier on via audio     (Arjan van de Ven)

2.4.4-ac2
o       Remove some spurious whitespace differences     (me)
        between trees
o       Make the VIA timer reload check test avoid      (me)
        tripping on a timer as it rolls back to zero
o       Drop dasdfmt man page changes (dos ^M noise)    (me)
o       Drop experimental iee1284 pnp module loading    (me)
o       Revert pcnet32 chance causing compile errors    (me)
o       Remove wrong __init in sunhme                   (Dave Miller)
o       Fix overlarge udely in aironet4500              (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Remove non existant parameter from aironet4500  (Keith Owens)
o       Kill duplicate aic7xxx include          (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o       Fix pci2220i scsi compile bug                   (Matt Domsch)
o       Fix module exception race on Alpha              (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Disable broken large vmalloc support on Alpha   (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Remove dead ia64 config entries                 (Steven Cole)
o       Add kbuild list info to MAINTAINERS             (Steven Cole)
o       linux appletalk list has moved          (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o       Revert wrong mount changes in 2.4.4             (Andries Brouwer)
o       Revert drivers/scsi/scsi.c change in 2.4.4      (me)
        that subtly broke about 15 drivers
o       Fix typo in slab.h                              (Pavel Machek)
o       More correct child favouring fork behaviour     (Peter Österlund)
o       Only apply pci fixups if there is a VIA 686B    (Charl Botha)
o       Fix GDT padding error introduced by PnPBIOS     (Brian Gerst)
        support
o       Fix UML build without CONFIG_PT_PROXY           (Jeff Dike)
o       dmfe wasnt calling dev_alloc_skb                (Tobias Ringstrom)
o       Further Configure.help fixups                   (Steven Cole)
o       Move pci_enable_device earlier in trident       (Marcus Meissner)

2.4.4-ac1
o       Merge with Linus 2.4.4
        | This wasnt entirely trivial so this is the only
        | stuff in this patch
        | The following stuff has been switched to the Linus branch
        | in the merge: uhci, dcache atomicity, raw I/O

– By Dan Berkes –
In spite of Thursday’s mad cash grab, the markets continued their ascent. Microsoft’s fear-mongering a “non-event,” and Red Hat gets sued for its IPO — again.After a bumpy ride on Thursday, Wall Street settled down, allowing the major stock indexes to post a few modest gains. The Nasdaq continued its upward trend to close at 2,191.52, up 116 points from last Friday. The Dow climbed to 10.951.24, posting a 141-point gain from last week’s close.

Skittish investors looking to make a profit on long-held tech stocks caused the market to shake, rattle, and roll on Thursday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq bore the brunt of the attack, closing at 2,220.60 on Wednesday, then falling to 2,146.20 at the close of business the next day. The Dow’s decline wasn’t qute as steep, dropping 80 points to 10,796 on Thursday.

“Bargain-hunting investors aren’t going to forget the lessons of the past nine months,” said James Philburn, an independent market analyst. “If you picked up stock at $1.50, then you might think that a $2 jump in price is as good as it’s going to get. I think the market is going to continue a slow and steady climb, and so will the companies that hang on. Buyers will eventually get used to hanging on to their stocks again.”

Friday’s Nasdaq and Dow gains came on the Street’s expectations that the Federal Reserve Bank will once again lower interest rates. This anticipation folows the release of a U.S. government report on April’s unemployment numbers, noting that more than 200,000 workers lost their jobs last month.

It didn’t appear that investors were much swayed by the Microsoft attack on Open Source, delivered this Thursday in New York by senior vice president Craig Mundie. Most Open Source stocks continued a slow but steady climb. “Other than a few buyers who haven’t done their homework, the Mundie speech was really a non-event. You have to wonder how longer Microsoft can get away with trashing other companies before it starts affecting Microsoft’s bottom line,” said Philburn.

Here’s how selected Open Source and related stocks did this week:

Company Name	Symbol	5/4 Close	4/27 Close
Apple	AAPL	25.75	26.20
Caldera	CALD	2.04	1.87
IBM	IBM	115.86	116.20
Red Hat	RHAT	6.41	5.26
Sun Microsystems	SUNW	19.75	17.38
VA Linux Systems	LNUX	4.88	2.87
Wind River Systems	WIND	25.52	27.84

Lawsuit watch
In a story at Yahoo, we learn that another class action lawsuit has been filed against Red Hat. According to the blurb, the lawsuit contends that Red Hat and its officers and directors provided “materially false and misleading information in SEC filings.” The lawsuit is part of a gold rush of claims against several tech companies that had IPOs in the same time frame and used underwriter Credit Suisse First Boston (including NewsForge owner VA Linux). CSFB is being investigated for how it handled sales of stock in those IPOs.

Anonymous Reader writes, “Software is something all computers rely on, from huge servers to small hand held computers, it is what makes them run programs, play games, browse the web, listen to digital audio, and chat.
But why such a dispute over the software that makes our systems do their jobs? The Software that powers the whole Internet, from the tiniest microcomputer to the bohemeth servers that occupy mission critical data centers…”
More at www.LinuxFreak.org.

From The Register: “The Cult of the Dear Leader proceeds apace at Microsoft, as yesterday’s
stage-managed piece of source-mongering by Craig Mundie amply testifies. In his
preamble to his Shared Source presentation, Craig tips the hat to His Billness, who
seems now to all intents and purposes the inventor of the Internet …”

It’s at LWN.net. Among the items: “German language Midgard users have been organizing a user group
specifically to serve the German Midgard community. Suggestions have
included a German language list-serve. At the same time the new community
awareness has led to a number of offers of support for the Linuxtage show in
Stuttgart.
There is a great deal for the whole community to gain from coherent local
organizations; resources for local language translation, local business
support as well as the potential for face to face programmer support. Henri
Berius has suggested that there could be a place on the project’s website
for local information and news, local language documentation and local
events listings.”

The BBC reports on the browser project planned by the Cult of the Dead Cow. “A group of hackers are developing a web browser that it claims will
make it easier for people to circumvent censorship and avoid the
attentions of law enforcers.

The software, which is due to be unveiled in July, uses a combination
of encryption and a Gnutella-like network to avoid any of the limits
corporations and governments are trying to place on anyone using
the web.”

Avatar writes, “The Evil3D team is proud to announce its first game review has been posted today. The productivity destroyer: Hyperion’s Linux port of Shogo: Moblie Armored Division. Coverage includes single and multiplayer, weaponry, the 3D engine, and more. Here is a small snip: “The first person shooter game genre has been around for quite awhile now. It started with Wolfenstien 3D, and exploded with the likes of Doom, Doom II, and the Quake legacy. Then came the modifications, mods for short, which enabled game play beyond what was originally intended by the developer. Anime too has been around a long time, and has gained a sizable following. However, in Shogo: MAD the two giants have been put together. And well put together I might add.” The review can be found at Evil3D.net.

InfoWorld reports that two Air Force researchers have published a paper that is very critical of a Microsoft Outlook 2000 email patch.