Linux Weekly News for May 23, 2002

Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:

• Front Page: The War Requires Closed Source?; Software and
  Warranties; 2600 Case Appeal Denied.
• Security: Goodbye rlogind; fingerprint scanners; OpenSSH and
  Mailman releases
• Kernel: New quota code; the end of /dev/port, misusing
  copy_*_user.
• Distributions: Clustering and the Linux distribution;
  ClosedBSD.
• Development: GCC 3.1, MnoGoSearch 3.2.4, Analog 5.23, Guikachu
  1.2.0, OpenSSH 3.2.2, AlsaPlayer 0.99.70, WaveSurfer 1.4, Netscape
  7.0 Preview Release 1.
• Commerce: FSF Files Brief Amicus Curiae in Eldred v. Aschroft
  Supreme Court Case; Ericsson Joins Open Source Development
  Lab.
• Letters: Outlawing markers; RMS and GNU/Linux.

Complete Story