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Linux Weekly News for June 21, 2001

By Jonathan Corbet

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.

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