Linux Weekly News for June 28, 2001
Jun 28, 2001, 12:37 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jonathan Corbet, Elizabeth O. Coolbaugh, Michael J. Hammel)
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 28, 2001 has been
published.
Inside this week's Linux Weekly News:
- Security: Samba remote root exploit, new vulnerabilities in
pmpost, ePerl, w3m, cfingerd, ntping and more.
- Kernel: 2.5 is coming; kbuild transition; a couple of
approaches to memory management improvements.
- Distributions: OpenLinux Workstation 3.1, LNX-BBC, many Red Hat
updates.
- On the Desktop: Office options, chess interfaces and new
games
- Development: Linux Clusters, embedded contest, net monitoring
tools, Gnome Basic (GB), debugging Perl, Python 2.0.1, Kawa.
- Commerce: VA Linux Systems bails out of the hardware business;
IPOs in the news.
- History: Software wars map; The Magic Caldron, Hard Hat and
KRUD; MySQL goes GPL.
- Letters: 'On the desktop' critics reconsider; shared library
dependencies.
Complete Story
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