Inside this week’s Linux Weekly News:
- Front Page: Mandrake shakeup and licensing vigilance.
- Security: Code scanners, defacements get too numerous and SDMI
faulters. - Kernel: ioctl considered harmful; open-time options; ext3 on
2.4. - Distributions: Caldera Professional Services Offerings; New US
Linux market figures. - On the Desktop: Automated installers, icon removal and KDE
corrections. - Development: Python Documentation, a new LyX, Using Stunnel,
Apache 1.3.20, GCC 3.0 coming soon, - Perl and the :CueCat.
- Commerce: GNOME 1.4 for Solaris; VA Linux posts third-quarter
loss. - History: Three years ago – LSB proposed; two years ago –
Mandrake’s future; one year ago – Lineo files - for IPO.
- Letters: Linux backup solutions; desktop icons.