Linux Weekly News for September 6, 2001 | Linux Today

Linux Weekly News for September 6, 2001

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
Sep 6, 2001

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 6, 2001 has been
published.

Inside this LWN.net Weekly Edition:

  • Front Page: Linux in education; hard times for Linux
    businesses; GFS goes shared source; Sklyarov update.
  • Security: Apache SQL authentication vulnerabilities; the X.C
    worm.
  • Kernel: MODULE_LICENSE, block ioctl numbers, page aging doesn’t
    work?
  • Distributions: Embedded distributions: Hard Hat Linux, BlueCat
    Linux, and REDICE-Linux.
  • On the Desktop: Hancom merges with theKompany, KDE Best of Show
    and KMail “B2K”?
  • Development: Red Hat’s embedded Linux and Mozilla minus
    Netscape.
  • Commerce: HP to buy Compaq; Books, Books, Books!
  • History: American Concrete Cutting Corporation; Oracle
    announced its first set of marketing partnerships; Trolltech
    releases Qt 2.2 under GPL.
  • Letters: VA Linux and SourceForge; fighting the DMCA.

…plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.

Complete Story

JC

Jonathan Corbet

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