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Linux Weekly News for May 16, 2002

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
May 17, 2002

Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:

  • Front Page: Banks and browsers; Time to ban markers; The
    digital consumer’s bill of rights; No dismissal in Elcomsoft
    case
  • Security: Superworms; Nessus; dhcp and netfilter
    vulnerabilities; tcpdump correction
  • Kernel: Kernel web servers; per-driver filesystems; a different
    approach to asynchronous I/O.
  • Distributions: ALT Linux; Aleph ARM Linux returns.
  • Development: The FOX Toolkit, Mini SQL 3.0 Pre 4.1, WaveSurfer
    1.4, Mozilla 1.0 RC2, FLTK 1.1.0rc2, Wine 20020509, AbiWord 1.0.1,
    Ask Perl 6, PHP 4.2.1, Phpmole 1.3.
  • Commerce: Free software in the Spanish administration; Red Hat
    opens new facility.
  • Letters: Commercial use of GPL software; total cost of
    ownership.

Complete Story

JC

Jonathan Corbet

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