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Submission + - 2006 Board Games Gift Guide

Submitted by SlantyBard on Thursday December 14, 2006 @10:58PM

SlantyBard writes: As per previous years, the Morning News has published their annual guide to "Good Gift Games". You can also always check out BoardGameGeek's gift guide to boardgames or Funagain's all time top bestseller list for great gifts for your family and friends.

Submission + - Overhaul of the RPM

Submitted by

hdparm

on Thursday December 14, 2006 @10:53PM

hdparm writes: "Earlier today, Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack has made an announcement on fedora-announce mailing list about the big cleanup of the codebase and reorganisation of the maintenance for Red Hat Package Manager, better known as RPM.

Whatever people think about RPM, or Red Hat for that matter, turns out Red Hat is again doing the right thing. They have again acted in the best interest of the FLOSS community and released to it software critical to Linux development and wider addoption. Kudos and another round of respect go to Red Hat. They deserve it for true leadership and the fact that they care.

More information can be found on the new project's site. Project is hosted by Duke University."

Submission + - Linux Kernel To "Ban" Non-GPL Modules By 2

Submitted by Bootsy Collins on Thursday December 14, 2006 @12:38AM

Bootsy Collins writes: In a discussion today on the LKML, Greg Kroah-Hartman has agreed with opinions in favor of having the Linux kernel load only GPL-tagged modules, and has put forward a patch which will start warning users loading "tainted" modules into the kernel that such loading will no longer be possible in kernels released after 1 January 2008. The intent is to give companies time to GPL their modules, release hardware specifications so that others can write GPL'ed modules, or otherwise respond to the restriction. Later in the discussion, Linus Torvalds has voiced his opposition to this move.

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