Linux Weekly News for June 13, 2002

Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:

• Front Page: SELinux and patents; Deersoft announces its
  existence; The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution report.
• Security: The virtues of mature software; Debian Security Build
  Infrastructure; cross-platform viruses; maliciously crafted
  stylesheets and mozilla 1.0
• Kernel: The Stanford Checker returns; DMA buffers and
  incoherent systems; solving initialization order problems.
• Distributions: Something Different
• Development: Mini SQL 3.0 Pre 5, CUPS v1.1.15, LPRng 3.8.12,
  Quixote 0.5, Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20020607, WaveSurfer
  1.4.1, GLAME 0.6.3, Audacity 1.0.0 and 1.1.0, Mozilla 1.1 alpha,
  Galeon 1.2.5, FLTK 1.1.0rc3, TinyCOBOL 0.58.
• Commerce: MITRE Report – A Business Case Study of Open Source
  Software
• Press: Alexis de Tocqueville whitepaper shredded, Oracle 9i,
  UnitedLinux, TiVo hacking
• Announcements: MySQL resources, Encoding with Vorbis, Perl
  events, Libre Software Meeting.
• Letters: Security of open source; GNU/Linux still

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