Linus Torvalds announced the release of the first Linux 2.4 "test kernel", to be maintained by Alan Cox for the time being.

README

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/README-2.4

And Gnome 1.2.0 is finally available.

Gnome packages:
ftp://195.92.249.252/pub/linux/helix/distributions/

Gnome source:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/

References by Slashdot.com.