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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   01 Nov 2001  17:11:40
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Thirteen years ago: The [14]Internet Worm was released, rendering the
    entire Internet unusable for two or three days.
    
    Three years ago ([15]November 5, 1998 LWN): The first of the infamous
    Halloween memos from Microsoft was leaked to the public. See [16]this
    week's front page for more details.
    
    The Linux 2.2 kernel was poised for release, but the NFS
    implementation was known to be substandard. This problem has plagued
    Linux for a long time. That problem was finally corrected - two years
    later.
    
    Matthew Szulik became President of Red Hat. That was the beginning of
    the change of guard, with the gradual departure of most of the Red Hat
    founders from the very top. Here's the [17]current Red Hat Executive
    bios.
    
    Red Hat 5.2 was announced. [18]LWN's impressions of the release were
    mostly positive, but it contained so many security-related bugs and
    unnecessary setuid programs that Chris Evans set up [19]a website just
    to track them and harass Red Hat to fix them. That website survived
    through the Red Hat 6.0 release and its subsequent series of updates,
    but now reports "no known issues".
    
    The Debian 2.1 freeze began. Debian 2.1 was finally released four
    months later, in early March, 1999.
    
    Supercomputing 1998 hosted Beowulf talks for the first time. This year
    [20]SC 2001 begins on November 10, 2001 with the 3rd Annual Beowulf
    Bash on November 12th.
    
    And, not to be forgotten, [21]Worldforge, a project to develop a
    complete system for massive multiplayer on-line role-playing games,
    came into being. They celebrated their [22]first birthday a year
    later.
    
    Two years ago ([23]November 4, 1999 LWN): The [24]DeCSS source code
    was made publicly available. The repercussions from this are ongoing.
    The curtailment of free speech peaked with a federal judge ruling that
    linking to a site that contained the source code was also prohibited
    by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Things have not really
    improved on that front.
    
    Last year, Don Marti and others organized [25]Burn All GIFs day, an
    event planned to eliminate all GIFs on the Internet, in protest of the
    Unisys patent. Many GIFs went away, including some on the LWN site,
    but many, many more remain. Unisys has never tried to enforce its
    patent.
    
    64GB memory on the IA-32 became a reality! Support for up to 64GB of
    memory slipped into the 2.3 kernel series, courtesy of Ingo Molnar.
    This removed an embarrassing limitation of the Linux kernel. Each
    individual process, though, can only use up to 4GB of virtual memory.
    
    Red Hat announced the [26]Red Hat Center for Open Source. Money for
    the new center was donated, in cash and stock, by Red Hat and three of
    the initial founders. The Red Hat Center has focused primarily on
    awarding grants for activities to entities such as the Electronic
    Frontier Foundation. While Red Hat's Bob Young and Marc Ewing remain
    on the current board, the renamed [27]Center for the Public Domain is
    somewhat divorced from Red Hat.
    
    Slackware 7.0 was announced. Patrick Volkerding also [28]explained his
    decision to "join the crowd" and jump Slackware from 4.0 to 7.0.
    
    The planned feature freeze for Debian 2.2 was postponed, finally
    occurring almost three months later, in January of 2000. The official
    release of Debian 2.2 happened eight months after that, in August this
    year.
    
    [29]LinuxDevices.com was launched. LinuxDevices celebrates with this
    [30]2001 Halloween Memo.
    
      At the time when LinuxDevices.com was launched, the use of Linux as
      an embedded operating system was virtually unheard of. Lineo,
      MontaVista, and Zentropix (who all participated in the announcement
      of the site's launch) had barely announced themselves as sources of
      embeddable versions of Linux, and Embedded Linux hadn't yet arrived
      on the radar screens of embedded market analysts like VDC, IDC, and
      EDC.
      
      In short, two years ago the "Embedded Linux Market" simply didn't
      exist.
      
    One year ago ([31]November 2, 2000 LWN): The Python team got out from
    under BeOpen's corporate umbrella and [32]moved to Digital Creations.
    Digital Creations, now called [33]Zope Corporation, has proved to be a
    good home for Python Labs. After all, Zope Corporation's premier
    product, Zope, is the Python-based, open source web application. Zope
    Corp. remains the sponsor of Python Labs, but with the move, a newly
    formed non-profit organization (the "Python Software Foundation") was
    also created to hold the copyrights to the core Python code.
    
    Turbolinux Inc. filed for IPO, however they remain a privately held
    company.
    
    The current development kernel release was 2.4.0-test10. A 2.4.0
    kernel seemed as close then as a 2.5.0 kernel seems now.
    
    A Princeton team cracked SDMI.
    
      Q. Still, wouldn't it have been better for opponents of SDMI if you
      let SDMI go ahead and deploy a flawed technology, so music lovers
      could teach them a lesson by copying music despite the technology?
      
      Of course not. This is scientific research: it is not our goal to
      engage in tactics such as tricking the industry into choosing a
      flawed system. Our goal is simply to analyze security systems and
      share our results openly with the scientific community.
      
      Again, researchers who crack cryptosystems and security systems are
      not motivated by a desire to exploit these flaws later. They are
      merely subjecting systems to analysis, motivated instead by a
      desire to increase the existing body of knowledge about security
      systems.
      
      Secondly, if the technology is cracked in deployment, rather than
      on the drawing board, everyone loses to some extent. The recording
      industry obviously, device manufacturers most certainly, but even
      opponents of SDMI. Even pirates! To an opponent of SDMI, even a
      broken, circumventable SDMI system is worse than no SDMI system at
      all.
      
      Finally, see below. The DMCA may have prohibited analysis outside
      the challenge deadline.
      -- [34]Princeton team FAQ
      
    The first Progeny Linux Beta shipped.
    
    Trolltech announced they were going to add GPL licensing to
    Qt/Embedded.
    
    Section Editor: [35]Rebecca Sobol.
    November 1, 2001
    
    LWN Linux Timelines
    [36]1998 In Review
    [37]1999 In Review
    [38]2000 In Review
    
    
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   33. http://www.zope.com/
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   39. http://lwn.net/2001/1101/letters.php3
   40. http://www.eklektix.com/
   41. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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