Linux Weekly News for May 31, 2001

Inside this week's Linux Weekly News:

• Front Page: Linux costs less to insure, auditing of free software, IPFilter followup, and Linux TV's.
• Security: European Parliament recommends encryption and Open Source software, new vulnerabilities in
• gnupg, Webmin, and TWIG. More distribution updates.
• Kernel: 2.4.5, the Stanford checker returns; 2.4 virtual memory stability.
• Distributions: Red Hat, SuSE and Turbolinux announce Itanium ports, Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 ships, Lanthan
• Linux added to the list.
• On the Desktop: Printing issues but skip the tissues (the desktop is not dead)
• Development: Wavsurfer, new PostgreSQL and mnoGoSearch, an Animation Editor, the GNet network library,
• FHS 2.2, Java 3d and JMF.
• Commerce: Here comes the Itanium.
• History: "Lignux", the importance of faith, Python's first move.
• Letters: GPL boundaries, software bloat, desktop page

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