Linux Weekly News for August 9, 2001
Aug 11, 2001, 01:59 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jonathan Corbet, Elizabeth O. Coolbaugh, Michael J. Hammel)
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 9, 2001 has been
published.
Inside this LWN.net Weekly Edition:
- Front Page: Lineo licenses RTLinux patent, Sklyarov freed - for
now, and the long arm of the DeCSS case.
- Security: Silly (McAfee) patents, flawed 802.11, and
executables in PDFs.
- Kernel: Buried in VMAs; the VM battle continues; synchronous
directory operations.
- Distributions: Linux for IBM eServer iSeries, Roswell from Red
Hat, ELinOS from SYSGO.
- On the Desktop: Calendaring on Linux, Dell vs. Dell, and the
Evolution draws closer.
- Development: OpenML 1.0 spec, BusyBox 0.60.0, State of Midgard,
Roundup issue tracker, DBI abstraction layer in C.
- Commerce: Partnerships: Lineo and MP3, MontaVista and
Concurrent, IBM and U.K. Computing and Data Grid.
- History: TurboLinux 1.0; OSI; Journaling Flash Filesystem in
2.4 kernel.
- Letters: LinuxToday, ssh, Dmitry, active responses to
attacks.
...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.
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