Linux Weekly News for June 6, 2002

Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:

• Front Page: Fun with software patents; Red Hat and software
  patents; ADEOS – Avoiding real-time Linux patents; UnitedLinux
  makes its launch; The new LWN.net site.
• Security: US TurboLinux Security Severely Out of Date;
  Fragroute contaminated; OpenSSH 3.2.3; Ethereal 0.9.4 and lots of
  vulnerabilities and resources.
• Kernel: Block queue plugging; splitting the stack; kbuild 2.5;
  negative dentries; /dev/port
• Distributions: The AGNULA project; Scyld Beowolf.
• Development: Mozilla 1.0, OpenSSH 3.2.3, gFTP 2.0.12, Omni
  0.7.0, mnoGoSearch 3.2.5, new mod_perls, WaveSurfer 1.4.1, KDE
  3.0.1, AbiWord 1.0.2, LyX 1.2.0, Apocalypse 5, perl 5.8.0 RC 1,
  Jext 3.1pre4.
• Commerce: Coalition Asks European Parliament to Vote Against
  Data Retention; SOT, MySQL and EFFI Team up to Oppose Software
  Patents.
• Press: Open Source at the Pentagon, United Linux, German
  Government and Linux.
• Announcements: Open Source Health Care Alliance, Boston GNOME
  Summit, German Zope Users Group
• Letters: Software liability, GNU/Linux

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