Linux Weekly News for February 7, 2002 | Linux Today

Linux Weekly News for February 7, 2002

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
Feb 7, 2002

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 7, 2002 has been
published.

Inside this LWN.net Weekly Edition:

  • Front: GNOME and .NET; Who is really the most secure?
  • Security: Checking for root kits; Sardonix security auditing
    portal
  • Kernel: Linus tries BitKeeper; the radix tree page cache.
  • Distributions: Lists Again; Three not-so-new Japanese
    distributions.
  • Development: PostgreSQL 7.2, Ogg Vorbis RC3, AFPL Ghostscript
    7.04, ht://Dig 3.1.6, Galeon 1.0.3 and 1.1.3, GNOME 2.0 Desktop
    Alpha 2, GARNOME Preview 1, Samba 2.2.3, Gnumeric 1.0.4.
  • Commerce: Edward Felten drops DMCA case; LinuxWorld
    awards.
  • Letters: Lindows coverage; Linux Standard Base

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

Complete Story

JC

Jonathan Corbet

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