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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   06 Dec 2001  17:12:00
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([14]December 10, 1998 LWN): IBM released its "Jikes"
    Java compiler under an almost-open-source license. The first DB2 beta
    was also put up for free download. Sun announced its support for Linux
    on the Sparc, SGI announced support for Samba, and joined Linux
    International as well.
    
    Linus Torvalds was a guest of honor in the Finnish Presidential Palace
    for the Independence Day celebration. [15]This photo of Linus and Tove
    is still available online.
    
    ZDNet [16]shows us that some things never change...
    
      Linux is awesome in many ways, but no matter how you slice it, it's
      still basically an evolved port of a 20+ year-old operating system,
      and with that age comes a certain amount of baggage. Linux may be
      far more efficient than Windows, but it still carries the past on
      its shoulders, and (more importantly) lacks many of the futuristic
      technologies built into BeOS from the start.
      
    Two years ago ([17]December 9, 1999 LWN): Andover.Net went public on
    December 8, at an initial price of $18 per share; it quickly rose to
    $63. When the December 9 LWN hit the press, the VA Linux Systems IPO
    was still looming; check this space next week if you don't know what
    happened.
    
      Sometime later this week, another Linux-related company, called VA
      Linux Systems, will go public under the ticker symbol LNUX. It will
      probably double or triple in price while market pundits criticize
      it for being another overhyped IPO.
      -- [18]Business Week.
      
    Both Cosource.com and SourceXchange officially launched. One year
    later both were still around. Now both are gone.
    
    Corel found itself at the center of a controversy again when it
    refused to allow minors to download its distribution.
    
    Sun [19]announced the release of Java 2 for Linux. The announcement
    contained no mention of the Blackdown Linux team, which actually did
    most of the work for this release.
    
    KDevelop 1.0 was released. The XFree86 team announced that XFree86 4.0
    would not be out before the end of the year.
    
    Red Hat announced more deals with Dell, including one in which Dell
    systems would come with 90 days of Red Hat support - which replaced
    the Linuxcare support that Dell was offering before. O'Reilly,
    meanwhile, launched [20]the O'Reilly Network.
    
    One year ago ([21]December 7, 2001 LWN) looked at a few examples of
    how misrepresentations of Linux reflect a misunderstanding of what we
    are about, and how they can be damaging. First there was this
    [22]story in Wired News about a Windows virus that told its victims to
    run Linux.
    
      It also creates a text file "c:messageforu.txt," that contains the
      following words of wisdom: "Hi, guess you have got the message. I
      have kept a list of files that I have infected under this. If you
      are smart enough just reverse back the process. I could have done
      far better damage, I could have even completely wiped your hard
      disk. Remember this is a warning & get it sound and clear... -- The
      Penguin"
      
      "The worm's pro-Linux message isn't a huge surprise," said Pirkka
      Palomaki, director of product marketing at F-Secure. "Most people
      who are capable of programming a virus are also Linux fans. Which
      is not to say that all Linux users are computer crackers.
      
    Whew! It's nice to know that we are not all crackers.
    
    This [23]News.com article criticized Red Hat for dropping Sparc
    support in version 7.0, comparing the Linux provider with Microsoft.
    It doesn't bother to mention the many other flavors of Linux with
    continuing Sparc support.
    
      The move parallels the gradual decline in the number of CPUs that
      can run Windows NT. Initially, Microsoft's higher-end operating
      system was intended to run on PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha and Intel CPUs,
      but minimal interest led Microsoft to cut back just to Intel chips.
      
    Bruce Perens got a new job with Hewlett-Packard. The Meta Group called
    it "cheap insurance" in this [24]News.com article.
    
      Hewlett-Packard is taking out cheap insurance with its hiring of
      open-source advocate Bruce Perens, just in case Linux becomes more
      of a force in the marketplace than anyone expects. Users
      negotiating with HP can use this new commitment to Linux as a ploy
      in negotiations, but they should not expect HP to develop Linux
      into a replacement for HP-UX.
      
    Conectiva Linux 6.0 was released.
    
    Mandrake Linux moved to the 2.4 kernel in its Cooker (development)
    version. An official 2.4 had not yet been released, of course. The
    latest version was 2.4.0-test12-pre7.
    
    Section Editor: [25]Rebecca Sobol.
    December 6, 2001
    
    LWN Linux Timelines
    [26]1998 In Review
    [27]1999 In Review
    [28]2000 In Review
    
    
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    Linux (R) is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
 
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   19. http://java.sun.com/pr/1999/12/pr991207-05.html
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   30. http://www.eklektix.com/
   31. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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