Leading items and editorials: The janitors get organized,
Singapore Linux Conference/LinuxWorld Singapore 2001 and Three
years of Mozilla.
“The janitors get organized. The last few months have seen a
flurry of activity from a group of developers known, informally, as
“kernel janitors.” As suggested by their name, the janitors make it
their job to clean up messes in the kernel code base; much of their
recent work can be seen in the “ac” series of kernel patches.
Recent contributions include fixing a mass of erroneous user space
pointer dereferences, straightening out inconsistent treatment of
kernel locks, and even hundreds of spelling fixes….”
“Writeup: Singapore Linux Conference/LinuxWorld Singapore 2001.
While the rest of us were dealing with Colorado snow, LWN editor
Liz Coolbaugh attended the Singapore Linux Conference/LinuxWorld
Singapore 2001. She has now posted an extensive writeup of the
event, including a report from Donald Becker’s keynote and many
pictures….”
“Three years of Mozilla. Three years ago, with great fanfare,
Netscape released the Mozilla source to the world. It was one of
the defining moments in the history of free software: a large,
proprietary product was being freed as a response to competition
from Microsoft. To many, it was the event that brought free
software (or “open source,” a term which was born in the middle of
all this) out into the open. It was a sign that the corporate world
was beginning to see the value in free software….”