Linux Weekly News for May 2, 2002

Written By
JC
Jonathan Corbet
May 3, 2002

Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:

  • Front Page: European Union’s Sixth Framework Program,
    OpenOffice 1.0 released, Linux corporate news, Samba and the CIFS
    Specification.
  • Security: Mozilla flaw; sudo root exploit; another DNS based
    vulnerability
  • Kernel: Block driver work; kbuild is ready; kernel books.
  • Distributions: More about RunOnCD, EvilEntity Linux, Server
    optimized Linux.
  • Development: The future of omniORB; OpenNMS 1.0, ghostscript,
    etc.
  • Commerce: D. H. Brown Linux Study; Dell and Oracle will deliver
    database solutions with Linux.
  • Letters: BitKeeper, OpenCD.

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JC

Jonathan Corbet

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