The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 6, 2001 has been
published.
Inside this LWN.net Weekly Edition:
- Front: Linux Kongress; Evolution and proprietary software; Bad
news in DMCA cases. - Security: Fun with wu-ftpd; OpenSSH updates.
- Kernel: Thrashing the block I/O layer; integrating kbuild and
ALSA. - Distributions: A mini review of KRUD 7.2; SnapGear offers
uClinux distribution. - Development: The Python IAQ, Pear::DB, Snort 1.8.3, WaveSurfer
1.2, Mpg321 0.2.3, 4st Attack 1.0, Python Checkbook Manager 0.5,
Pan 0.11.1 Newsreader, TinyCOBOL 0.55, Jython 2.1b1, GDB 5.1. - Commerce: Richard Stallman wins Takeda Award; LinuxWorld NY
conference program; HP’s blade server announcement. - History: “Jikes”; Linus Torvalds guest of honor in Finnish
Presidential Palace; Andover.Net went public. - Letters: Evolution; SourceForge.