Linux Weekly News for July 26, 2001
Jul 26, 2001, 12:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Michael J. Hammel, Jonathan Corbet, Elizabeth O. Coolbaugh)
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 26, 2001 has been
published.
Inside this LWN.net Weekly Edition:
- Front Page: Dmitry Skylarov: geeks learn political
activism.
- Security: NT-based Code Red worm, Adobe PDF security model, new
vulnerabilities in procmail, BSD telnetd, Horde IMP, squid, and
more.
- Kernel: Finding single-use pages, what's that new process in
2.4.7?
- Distributions: DeMuDi, MandrakeSoft's IPO, new distributions
Tomukas and Sorcerer GNU Linux.
- On the Desktop: More on Java, the GNOME Installation Guide, and
open source tools for guitarists.
- Development: Open Source Directory in XML, Linux guitar apps,
Evolution 1.0b1, Choosing a database type, Python 2.1.1.
- Commerce: O'Reilly Conference, HP and Sun; new president at
LPI.
- History: The future of the Linux community; rumors of IBM
support; Ted Ts'o takes over (as kernel status list
maintainer).
- Letters: Adobe and the DMCA; failed applets; history; The GPL
and Commercial Developement, redux.
...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.
Complete Story
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