Linux Weekly News for January 24, 2002 | Linux Today

Linux Weekly News for January 24, 2002

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
Jan 24, 2002

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 24, 2002 has been
published.

Inside this LWN.net Weekly Edition:

  • Front: Miss the Bubble Days?; Lindows; Microsoft remedy.
  • Security: Seeking the RST.b virus; a Mozilla Cookie
    Exploit
  • Kernel: Reverse mapping VM; the Athlon bug; needing ACPI.
  • Distributions: Distributions Lost and Found.
  • Development: XFree86 4.2.0, heartbeat 0.4.9a, DigiTemp 2.3,
    Audacity 0.98, GNOME 2.0 alpha, Xfce 3.8.14, Gnumeric 1.0.3, SBCL
    0.7.0, Apocalypse 4, glibc 2.2.5.
  • Commerce: Lineo’s embedded application migration tools;
    MontaVista announcements; LinuxWorld announcements.
  • History: New Alpha and Sparc versions of Linux and glibc 2.0;
    the birth of Mozilla; the long-awaited 2.2.0 kernel release.
  • Letters: Loadable modules and security; why a Red Hat
    acquisition would matter.

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

Complete Story

JC

Jonathan Corbet

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