Linux Weekly News for June 21, 2001 | Linux Today

Linux Weekly News for June 21, 2001

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
Jun 21, 2001

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 21, 2001 has been
published.

Inside this week’s Linux Weekly News:

  • Front Page: Red Hat makes a profit – sort of; GnuCash and
    library dependencies, again. Security: The Danger of Posting
    Images, a look into the world of 13 year old hackers, new
    vulnerabilities in fetchmail, rxvt and more.
  • Kernel: Linux Device Drivers 2nd Edition; API changes in stable
    kernels; FOLK.
  • Distributions: Agenda-VR, Sentry Firewall CD, the Mandrake
    Cooker Weekly News.
  • On the Desktop: Netscape 6.1, XFree86 reviewed, Ogg Vorbis and
    yet more on pilot-link.
  • Development: GCC 3.0 announced, Ogg Vorbis decode RC1, Stallman
    on scientific publishing, mod_lisp 2.0, GHC 5.00.2.
  • Commerce: Compaq initiatives, Goldbox.
  • History: Software patents, Handhelds.org and “open sores”.
  • …plus the usual array of reports, updates, and
    announcements.

Complete Story

JC

Jonathan Corbet

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