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.