Linux Weekly News for December 20, 2001

Dec 20, 2001, 12:54 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jonathan Corbet)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 20, 2001 has been published.

Inside this LWN.net Weekly Edition:

Front: Dmitry Sklyarov goes home; 2001 Timeline and a look back.
Security: Closed source rumor vulnerability; the FBI at work; security resources, reports and updates
Kernel: 2.4 fixes in 2.5; kill() semantics; memory pool design.
Distributions: Distributions in Review - Part 1; Dettu[Xx].
Development: MayaVi data visualizer, LPRng 3.8.3, GNOME 2.0 API, 3D Game Apps, GStreamer 0.3.0, AbiWord 0.9.6, Python 2.2c1, XML Schema languages.
Commerce: The Open K-12 petition drive; DaimlerChrysler's new Linux cluster; IBM's iSeries test drive.
History: GNOME 0.99.0 was released; software patents strike again; The Art of Unix Programming.
Letters: RMS and Dmitry; Microsoft; mutt and large folders.

...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.

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