2006 Linux and free software timeline: August [LWN.net]

fwiw, I recently took a position with Google.

-- Andrew Morton releases 2.6.18-rc3-mm1

The 64 Studio distribution launches (announcement).

Software in the Public Interest elects a new board (announcement).

SCO stock falls to $2.28/share - below its pre-lawsuit value.

We now think the benefits of accelerating innovation, opening new markets and opportunities, and fostering creativity that the open source model brings now outweigh the risks to compatibility. These risks are real, but at Sun, we believe that the wisdom of the community has evolved to where the market and developer community itself will act to demand compatibility as a bedrock feature of any implementations based on Java technology.

-- Sun Microsystems thinks we have grown up

Sun announces plans to open-source Java at last.

EnterpriseDB gets $20 million in venture capital for its PostgreSQL-related business (press release).

Freespire 1.0 is released (press release).

Distributors start to move away from cdrtools in response to a licensing mess there (article).

Novell's "community" distribution is renamed openSUSE (press release).

Fedora engages in a licensing audit to get all non-free code out of Core.

RealPlayer and MySQL obtain Linux Standard Base certification; they are the first applications to do so (press release).

Fast forward a year plus, and here we are. We're in a position where we have, essentially, forked RPM -- and no one is willing to admit it. No one is willing to take ownership of what we've done.

-- Greg DeKoenigsberg

An ill-advised X.org patch breaks Ubuntu 6.06, not quite the long-term support users had in mind (Shuttleworth apology).

NetBSD founder Charles Hannum questions the future of the project (posting).

Gentoo Linux 2006.1 is released (announcement).

The gNewSense distribution launches as a version of Ubuntu with binary blobs removed (press release).

July

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