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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   31 Aug 2001  15:53:09
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Five years ago: Pacific HiTech [15]released "Turbo Linux 96: Slackware
    Edition."
    
    Three years ago ([16]September 3, 1998 LWN): The world was trying to
    figure out what to make of Corel's jump into Linux.
    
      "I expect Corel to making tens of millions of dollars in the Linux
      space within the next 12 months," says Robert Young, president of
      North Carolina-based Red Hat Software Inc., a leading distributor
      of Linux software. "It's got some very well known software brands
      and there is a lot of demand among Linux users for more advanced
      software," he adds.
      ([17]Ottawa Citizen, August 26, 1998).
      
    Oh well. Three years later, Corel did evidently bring in $2 million by
    selling its Linux operation...
    
    Salon Magazine, meanwhile, [18]talked with Richard Stallman:
    
      Never mind that Stallman started the free software movement, or
      that thousands of lines of code that he personally authored are an
      integral part of what most people today call "Linux." To the new
      generation, Stallman is an embarrassment and a hindrance who must,
      at all costs, be trundled into a back room before he scares off the
      investors.
      
    The Debian Project released "[19]Hamm-JP", its first shot at a
    Japanese version of its distribution.
    
    Caldera split into two companies: Caldera Systems and a thing called
    Caldera Thin Clients, which handled the DR-DOS/embedded systems
    business. Caldera Thin Clients would eventually rename itself Lineo.
    Caldera Systems later became Caldera International (as it merged in
    parts of the former SCO).
    
    But the big news, of course, was that LWN adopted a new, multi-page
    format, leaving behind the "one big page" except for the hard core
    that refused to do without it....
    
    Two years ago ([20]September 2, 1999 LWN): Red Hat parted ways with a
    company called LASER5, which had been doing all of Red Hat's
    localization work in Japan. LASER5 stated its intent to go into the
    business on its own and dominate the Japanese Linux market. Two years
    later the company is still around and even has [21]a 7.1 release
    available, but is not quite the market force it had hoped to be.
    
    Sun's purchase of StarDivision was made official. Sun also announced
    plans to release StarOffice under the Sun Community Source License,
    which did not raise a great deal of enthusiasm. Sun's plans also
    included something called "StarPortal", which never went much of
    anywhere.
    
    Linux stocks were defined by some as "exuberant", but both Applix and
    Corel were down, supposedly because of Sun's acquisition of
    StarOffice.
    
      Sun Microsystems' adoption of a new office software suite might be
      a good thing for Linux users, but it hasn't been so good for the
      makers of competing products.
      -- [22]News.com.
      
    It certainly didn't help.
    
    Sm@rt Reseller asked [23]Is Linux falling apart? and answered "No", in
    a surprising change from the usual 'Linux will fragment' articles.
    
      Don't get me wrong; there will be nasty wars between the Linux
      vendors. With money talking, the warm 'we brave band of brothers'
      feeling of the early days of Linux is going to erode. But, the cold
      legal facts of Linux's foundations will keep Linux from ever
      shattering into incompatible versions that made Unix application
      reselling such a pain in the neck.
      
    Linux still seems in no danger of fragmenting. Those "nasty wars"
    haven't broken out yet, either.
    
    One year ago ([24]August 31, 2000 LWN): IBM announced the release of
    the Andrew Filesystem (AFS) this week. The AFS was released under the
    [25]IBM Public License, which, according to the FSF's license list,
    was not compatible with the GPL.
    
    The [26]Galeon web browser, then at version 0.7.3, made a big splash.
    It was reviewed on LWN's front page and in this [27]LinuxToday
    article. LWN proclaimed Galeon about 90% there with a about 90% left
    to go. Today's Galeon is at version 0.12 as of August 18, 2001, and is
    heavily used by some LWN staff.
    
    The [28]Open Source Development Lab was created. Well the idea and a
    the mission statement were introduced, anyway, along with several
    initial sponsors.
    
      The companies were vague on details, like the size of the lab, how
      much it would cost and how much the project's backers would invest.
      The backers said the lab would be run by an independent director
      who would essentially choose which projects would be emphasized and
      which software would be tested, although they suggested that the
      laboratories would be accessible to Linux developers at large.
      ([29] New York Times)
      
    Since then they have created the actual computing lab in Portland,
    Ore. and added some new sponsors. There now are proposed projects,
    active projects and even one completed project. Not bad for its first
    year.
    
    Corel [30]talked about its Linux plans:
    
      Also next year, we intend to release a server edition of Corel
      LINUX OS, followed by an enterprise edition. The enterprise edition
      will allow small to medium-sized enterprises to deploy Linux,
      Windows and UNIX-based applications throughout their organizations
      with ease.
      
    Oh well.
    
    Section Editor: [31]Rebecca Sobol.
    August 30, 2001
    
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