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Developer Linux News for Jan 17, 2002
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FOSDEM.org: Philip Hazel, Author of Exim (2002-01-17 23:06:57)
"Exim is written in standard C. It is not an ideal language
because it is so easy to write code with loopholes. Just think how
many buffer overflow exploits have existed in networking
applications over the years. I would have preferred to use a
language that has more checks for this kind of error. However,
given that I wanted to write a program that was portable to a lot
of systems, and which was efficient, C was the only realistic
choice."
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FOSDEM.org: Richard Dale, author of KDE Bindings (2002-01-17 22:04:48)
"I wrote a utility called 'kalyptus' by adapting the kdoc
documentation tool so that it generates apis, rather than
documenting them. It accepts C++ headers directly, there is no need
to massage the intput first into a suitable format. As the parser
reads and parses all the headers into an abstract syntax tree
before generating any output, there is full access to the class
hierarchy, and any inherited methods."
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LinuxPR: Gnustep, Mozilla, KDE, PHP and Gnome to hold developers meetings during FOSDEM Conference (2002-01-17 21:58:18)
"The FOSDEM orgnization is pleased to announce that the Gnustep,
Mozilla, KDE, PHP and Gnome will have developers meetings in
Brussels during the FOSDEM meeting that will take place 16 and 17
February 2002."
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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Alpha: "Rolig Liten Hattgubbe" (First Public Testing Release of GNOME 2.0) (2002-01-17 19:46:22)
"Due for general consumption in March, the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is
a greatly improved user environment for existing GNOME
applications. Enhancements include anti-aliased text and first
class internationalisation support, new accessibility features for
disabled users, and many improvements throughout GNOME's highly
regarded user interface."
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Linux Journal: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter (2002-01-17 09:18:55)
"Now we are going to follow the trip of a packet from its very
ingress into the computer to its delivery to user land at the
socket level. We first consider the general case of a plain (i.e.,
not PF_PACKET) socket. Our analysis at link layer level is based on
Ethernet, since this is the most widespread and representative LAN
technology."
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Advogato: A tale of two licences (2002-01-17 01:28:13)
"This is the tale of how two software projects with different
free licences learned to live happily together. It covers the
different commercial reasons why Jtrix chose the LGPL and Mckoi
chose the GPL, the pluses and minuses of each, and how they can
interoperate without compromising principles or commercials."
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Andre Hedrick: 'DO NOT USE IT (Re: linux-2.5.3-pre1 and IDE Driver Trouble) FATAL' (2002-01-17 00:11:43)
A timely reminder regarding life on the bleeding edge of kernel
development: "The only kernel in the development series known to
work is 2.5.1. However it appears that several people can not
successfully use this CodeBase either."
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