How google used wine to modify their windows codebase to create a linux port.
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-May/047806.html
May 30, 2006
How Microsoft Could Crush Google Overnight Legally & Free
http://www.theperilofweb20.com/?p=5
http://digg.com/technology/_How_Microsoft_Could_Crush_Google_Overnight_Legally_Free
Basically, Microsoft could offer an ad blocking plugin to Internet Explorer. This may hurt Microsoft and would probably get a lawsuit from Google, but, wow, what a blow it would be to Google.
Problems with Ubuntu Dapper 686-smp
When I try booting into a Dapper kernel (currently 2.6.15-23), I get a silent reboot after seeing the Ubuntu splash screen. Apparently there was something wrong in the libc6 package that affects the initramfs. It has nothing to do with smp.
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/prelink/+bug/31347 Linux kernel bug report
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/prelink/+bug/31135 Prelink bug report
