Linux Weekly News for April 4, 2002 | Linux Today

Linux Weekly News for April 4, 2002

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
Apr 4, 2002

Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:

  • Front Page: A new interview with RMS; the Anti-Unix campaign
    debacle; Counterpoint to iSCSI editorial.
  • Security: Introduction to msec; Caldera updates; CVE has 2000+
    entries
  • Kernel: Jon’s on vacation, Stable kernel prepatch 2.4.19-pre5,
    Stable kernel prepatch 2.2.21-rc3.
  • Distributions: New thin client distributions; Reviews of OEone
    HomeBase, bootable business cards, Mandrake 8.2, Red Hat Advanced
    Server, SuSE 8.0 beta and some very small distributions..
  • Development: LibAfterImage PosgreSQL 7.2.1, GnuCap 0.30,
    PowerDNS, WaveSurfer 1.3.1 GNOME 2.0b3, AbiWord 0.99.3, OpenOffice
    641d, Mozbot 3.0, SBCL 0.7.2, Exegesis 4
  • Commerce: Prentice Hall PTR Publishes the Premiere Guide to
    Linux Administration; Free Standards Group and Tokyo University of
    Foreign Study Launch Major Project.
  • Letters: close() and the kernel; iSCSI and SRP; Programming and
    security; CBDTPA; 2nd Linux Accessibility Conference.

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

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