"This past year has been quite eventful in the open-source and *nix world. The greatest advances in the *nix world in 2004 have been in the realm of the desktop. Very shortly before the start of the year, Linus released kernel version 2.6.0 to the world, bringing substantial improvements to interactive and throughput-oriented performance alike, vaster support for hardware devices and new and improved features to Linux users. This was closely followed by rapidly improving support for mobile technologies such as IEEE 802.11g (54 Mbit/s wireless LAN) devices and the Centrino IPW2000 series wireless devices. Distributions were quick to pick up the new releases, with SUSE, Fedora and Mandrake leading the way with SUSE 9.1 and 9.2, Fedora Core 2 and 3 and Mandrake 10..."
