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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   25 Oct 2001  16:46:01
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Six years ago the [14]OpenBSD project was started.
    
    Three years ago ([15]October 29, 1998 LWN): The Red Escolar (Scholar
    Net) project was announced. This was a plan to install Linux
    throughout 140,000 schools in Mexico and was led by Arturo Espinosa.
    Nowadays, after gaining experience improving Gnome for the Red Escolar
    project, Arturo continued his work on Gnome in the United States,
    working for Helix Code (now Ximian). The [16]Red Escolar project has
    been bogged down in politics and is suffering from a lack of funds and
    a lack of knowledgeable people.
    
    There was a development kernel release 2.1.126. However the release
    had a number of compilation and lockup problems, so most avoided it
    and waited for 2.1.127.
    
    Debian got congratulations on their port of Debian to the Netwinder
    two years ago. The Netwinder, however, has remained an infrequently
    used device, not quite living up to the promise we thought it had back
    then.
    
    Corel announced its support for the Wine project, choosing it as a
    platform to bring their products to Linux and promising an infusion of
    new developers to the project as well. Although Corel has since gone
    over to the dark side, Wine is flourishing. The latest release is
    dated October 4, 2001.
    
    Opera Software was having trouble creating a Linux version of its
    browser using volunteer developers for a proprietary project.
    
      "If they wanted to tap into all that enthusiasm, opening up the
      source is the only way I know how to do that," said Eric Raymond,
      whose pioneering work in open-source development helped spur
      Netscape into freeing the source code of its Communicator browser.
      -- [17]Wired News
      
    Fortunately Opera has since resolved those problems and Opera for
    Linux is now available.
    
    Two years ago ([18]October 28, 1999 LWN): To no one's surprise,
    licensing problems between Qt and the GPL were in the spotlight two
    years ago, with Corel's development as the catalyst. Corel liked using
    Qt for developing the software they added to the Corel Linux
    distribution, but their developers were much less likely to be aware
    of potential licensing conflicts when mixing the Qt with GPL'ed code
    from Debian. Of course, such problems have now been largely eliminated
    by the dual-licensing of Qt under the GPL, a possibility not even
    under discussion then.
    
    Comdex has had a standing policy of not admitting any person under the
    age of eighteen to the exhibit floor. That policy came under scrutiny,
    spawning much debate.
    
      "There are some realities in this marketplace that Comdex is
      ignoring," said Lavers, a long-time Microsoft contractor who
      recently signed on as an equal partner at Matrixcubed, which son
      Mike launched at age 14 (a programmer at 3, he already had 11 years
      experience, explains Lavers the elder).
      
      "Today's Internet marketplace includes active participation,
      contributions, and leadership from younger and younger people."
      -- [19]Wired News
      
    This year's [20]Comdex registration page says "Note: No one under 16
    is admitted." Other computer conferences have successfully removed
    such age restrictions, and events such as this do have much to offer
    interested teens, but Comdex seems to be moving in the wrong
    direction.
    
    Miguel de Icaza quit his job in Mexico and moved to the United States,
    to build the company called Helix Code, with Nat Friedman and "secret
    investors". Today [21]Ximian (the renamed Helix Code) is doing well
    producing GNOME and other applications.
    
    One year ago ([22]October 26, 2000 LWN): Ajuba Solutions was acquired
    by Interwoven. Ajuba was the corporate champion of the scripting
    language Tcl/Tk, and put in a large part of the total development
    effort. Some Ajuba (Tcl/Tk) developers stayed at Ajuba, doing
    proprietary XML stuff for Interwoven, who had no interest in Tcl/Tk
    and no plans to support it. ActiveState has taken over [23]Tcl/Tk
    sponsorship. Then as now, [24]Dr. Dobb's Journal is sponsoring the
    "Tcl-URL!" project.
    
    KDE 2.0 was released.
    
    Cliff and Iris Miller, the founders of TurboLinux, left that company
    and started [25]Mountain View Data, where they remain.
    
    LynuxWorks filed for an IPO. They are still a privately held company
    however.
    
    A new site called [26]KernelTrap showed up on the Web. It remains a
    good source of information about (Linux) kernel hacking.
    
    Section Editor: [27]Rebecca Sobol.
    October 25, 2001
    
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   20. http://www.key3media.com/comdex/fall2001/exhibition/register.html
   21. http://www.ximian.com/
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   31. http://lwn.net/2001/1025/letters.php3
   32. http://www.eklektix.com/
   33. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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