From kernel hacker Alan Cox. It’s at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.
Cox says, “This isn’t a proper release as such, it should just deal with most of
the compile failure/symbol failure problems.”

2.4.3-ac14
o Merge read-only veritas VxFS support (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix missing return in broken_apm_power (Alex Riesen)
o Remove bogus rwsem hacks from usbdevice_fs.h (Alex Riesen)
o Fix umount/sync_inodes race (Al Viro)
o Make new xircom driver report when promisc used (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix acenic PCI flag set up (Phil Copeland)
o Make nfs smart about passing max file sizes (Trond Myklebust)
o Add initrd support to User Mode Linux (Jeff Dike)
o Fix timer irq race in User Mode Linux (Jeff Dike)
o Fix UML for semaphore changes (Jeff Dike)
o Update thw W9966 parallel port camera driver (Jakob Kemi)
o Further dmfe SMP fixups (Tobias Ringstrom)
o Kernel manual pages in man9 (Tim Waugh)
o Work around BIOSes that implement E801 sizing
but don’t implement the CX/DX values part (Michael Miller)
o Fix atp driver build (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix irda poll handling (Dag Brattli)
o Remove unused buggy pdc202xx code (Arjan van de Ven)
o Clean up iphase ATM (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Setup slave PDC20265 controller on fasttrak (Arjan van de Ven)
as normal IDE
o Add __init/__initdata to most net driver (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
version info
o SDDR09 config entry was missing (Phil Stracchino)
o Configure.help NFS updates (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Netfilter updates (Rusty Russell and co)
o Update 2.4 ipconfig to support dhcp (Eric Biederman)
o es1371 setup updates/error check/pci bits (Marcus Meissner)
o Fix buzzing ymfpci (Nick Brown)
o Update nm256 audio driver (Marcus Meissner)
o Blacklist updates (Arjan van de Ven)

From Business Wire via Wide Open News: OpenTV, the world’s leading interactive television and media solutions company,
today announced an expansion of its technology roadmap — the availability of its core technology products tied to the
Linux operating system. OpenTV’s technology group announced their commitment to make available the company’s key
embedded products to integrate with the Linux operating system, including OpenTV’s proven interactive television
middleware solution; OpenTV’s Device Mosaic browser technology; and OpenTV’s MHP implementation that is
under development.

The Linux Journal interviews Ted Ts’o on the Linux kernel team’s plans for version 2.5. LJ asks, what’s going to be really cool in 2.5, and what’s going to be really hard in 2.5?

Ts’o answers: “Zero-copy in the networking and block device layers. Better scalability in the block device layer in general. No more two terabyte
limitations, which is a good thing given that it might not be long before it becomes a real, fundamental limitation, even for ‘normal’ systems.”

Sm@rt Partner has more information on IBM’s aquisition of the Informix database. IBM will partner with Ascential Software, Informix’s remaining subsidiary, by marketing the company’s database management tools. More from InfoWorld.

The announcement is at Progeny.com. Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. announces the
release of the first edition of Progeny Debian. The download edition is available now at
www.progeny.com/download. The box set will be available on April 23rd.

Slashdotters discuss a report at Scientific American saying that 15,817 scientists have threatened to boycott all journals that
refuse to provide free public online access to their articles.

Anonymous Reader writes, “Red Hat’s latest release is here with the much improved 2.4 kernel. Its new features make it a compelling upgrade for both server and workstation installation. In addition, there has been more of an emphasis on security in this release than in previous Red Hat releases.” The story’s at OSFaq.

An anonymous reader tipped us off to this ZDNet item on Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft’s Silicon Valley-area evangelist. With strong name recognition from a 25 year career that included stints at Apple and NeXT, Lewin “provides a familiar face that can open doors in Silicon Valley, making him quite a catch for Microsoft” as the software company embarks on its quest to make .Net a computing standard.

Brian Vincent posts the latest summary of discussions and news of interest to Wine users and developers.

LinuxProgramming.com: “pydoc.el is an Emacs/XEmacs/InfoDock interface to the Python pydoc system.
It provides convenient integration with powerful programming editors,
speeding both Python learning and day-to-day access of reference
documentation while programming.”