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A new branch has been created for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. The new branch, forked from the existing 1.7 branch, will be used for all future milestone releases of Firefox and Thunderbird until the 1.0 versions. Read the full article for more details from Benjamin Smedberg.

On 20 May 2004, I posted a statement refuting the claim of Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, that Linus Torvalds didn't write Linux. My statement was mentioned on Slashdot, Groklaw, and many other Internet news sites. This attention resulted in over 150,000 requests to our server in less than a day, which is still standing despite yesterday being a national holiday with no one there to stand next to it saying "You can do it. You can do it." Kudos to Sun Microsystems and the folks who built Apache. My statement was mirrored all over the Internet, so the number of true hits to it is probably a substantial multiple of that. There were also quite a few comments at Slashdot, Groklaw, and other sites, many of them about me. I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

This article, excerpted from the recently published book Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration, 2nd Edition, introduces xinitd, init scripts, and the chkconfig utility.

Last issue, I mentioned that some readers said the reason why they haven't migrated off of NT 4 is because they are investigating moving to Linux as an alternative to upgrading to Windows Server 2003 (or even Windows 2000 Server).

Indisputably, though, Linux and the vast array of free software surrounding it have emerged as a viable desktop computing alternative — for those willing to

Editors: Linus Torvalds has posted the following RFD (Request for Discussion) to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. In it, he suggests new measures to prevent another SCO-like attack.

xinetd is started on bootup, and listens on ports designated in /etc/xinetd.conf for incoming network connections. When a new connection is made, xinetd starts up the corresponding network service.

This article presents key findings from an embedded Linux developer survey written by Dr. Joachim Henkel and student Mark Tins of the University of Munich, with input from MIT's Eric von Hippel. The survey was posted at LinuxDevices.com and elsewhere in late 2003/early 2004.

Michael Cunningham, a former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, has joined Red Hat as its general counsel. Cunningham has also served as associate general counsel at IBM. He held an associate general counsel position at PWC.

The latest stage in Microsoft's quest to establish The Facts regarding open source software is a series of seminars to be held throughout the UK, and tantalisingly billed as "Microsoft Windows and Linux - An open and honest technology discussion." Feedback The Register has received from (admittedly partisan) spies at previous Microsoft attempts to engage the subject suggest that they might perhaps have been just a tad less than open and honest, so it's nice to see that Microsoft UK must have been getting the same message from its own feedback.

HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Trustix (trustix.com), developer of the Linux-based server System is a key component of the company's digital certification services.