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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]April 9, 1998 LWN): All Things Considered, a
    premier news program on the United States' publicly funded National
    Public Radio (NPR), broadcast a report on Linux, Wednesday, April 8th.
    The program spotlighted Linus Torvalds and the work he's done. It also
    touched on the Beowulf clusters at NASA and spoke with Richard
    Stallman. Overall, the piece was very positive and as technically
    correct as any newspiece trying to explain Linux to a mass audience is
    likely to be. It did indicate that Linux was primarily for highly
    technical people, "for now".
    
    Many leaders of the free software movement met on April 7th at a
    [16]free software summit sponsored by O'Reilly. Participants included
    Linus Torvalds, Eric Allman, Phil Zimmerman, Guido Van Rossum, Paul
    Vixie, and others.
    
    A number of articles resulted from Mark Andreessen's claim that
    Mozilla+Linux will be the platform that defeats Microsoft. ZDNet ran
    one titled [17]The next battleground: Linux vs. Windows? and an
    [18]opinion column as well. C|Net said [19]Linux is a top priority for
    Netscape, talks about challenges to NT, but raises the old support
    issues.
    
      "Linux is great, but what kind of support is there?" asked Joel
      Graves, director of client solutions at the biopharmaceutical
      division of Chiron. "It makes managers nervous when there's no
      1-800 number to call."
      
    There was also [20]an article in TechWeb News.
    
      Andreessen outlined a scenario in which Mozilla, as the
      Communicator code is called, becomes the GUI that runs on top of a
      Linux operating system.
      
    Within 15 hours of the release of the source code for Netscape 5.0,
    the Mozilla Crypto Group made available "cryptozilla", a mozilla (free
    netscape) with SSL enabled. A Wired News article on this work can
    still be found [21]here.
    
    The XFree86 project [22]announced that it would not follow The Open
    Group in its attempt to impose a more restrictive license on X11R6.4.
    XFree86 won - The Open Group backed down.
    
    The announcement of the 2.1 feature freeze brought a number of
    proposed additions out of the woodwork. Some of the things that people
    wanted to see included before 2.2 were: Plug and Play support,
    compression in the ext2 filesystem, and a BSD-like securelevel
    capability.
    
    There were also a few people that requested that the 2.3 development
    cycle be rather shorter than 2.1 had been. There seemed to be
    universal consensus on that point; Linus stated that he would try for
    a shorter period ("half the length or less") before 2.4 comes out.
    
    Debian leader Ian Jackson officially appointed Brian Bassett as
    Project Secretary, who was assigned the task of counting exact number
    of Debian developers. Brian numbered them at 313, using the Debian PGP
    keyring.
    
    Linux Focus got its own domain: [23]linuxfocus.org. This site still
    produces a high-quality, multi-lingual Linux magazine.
    
    Two years ago ([24]April 8, 1999 LWN): Mozilla's one-year anniversary
    celebration was marred by the [25]resignation of Jamie Zawinski from
    the project. For Jamie, the fact that Netscape 5.0 had not shipped
    after an entire year meant that the project had failed.
    
    Dell made an investment in Red Hat, announced new (Red Hat)
    Linux-installed systems and announced that they would deliver 1250
    (Red Hat) Linux-installed systems to the Burlington Coat Factory for
    deployment in their stores. Dell's Linux offerings are still difficult
    to find from the company's [26]main web site. People who want to buy
    factory installed Linux systems from Dell need to go to
    [27]www.dell.com/linux/ instead.
    
    Al Gore's presidential campaign staff announced that his web site was
    "open source".
    
    Cygnus announced an open source Java compiler, complete with a set of
    class libraries.
    
    Salon Magazine reworked itself as [28]Salon.com. In their press
    release they announced that their new setup was running on Linux.
    
      "...Linux will provide a solid technical backbone to support
      Salon's move from a magazine-based model to a network of web sites.
      The site redesign needs the versatility and power of Linux to keep
      pace with its growing business and e-commerce needs."
      
    A publication called "Windows NT Systems" published [29]an article on
    Linux. They didn't like it.
    
      "The problem with Linux is that it is just another unadulterated
      version of Unix. Your choices of graphical user interfaces are the
      Unix command shell or X Window, a primitive windowing system
      designed more than 15 years ago."
      
    April foolery brought us the [30]Tuxissa Virus Report. It's still good
    for a chuckle or two.
    
    For more foolery, LinuxWorld gathered up all the Linux-related
    [31]April Fool's Day pranks that they could find.
    
    One year ago ([32]April 6, 2000 LWN): LWN was acquired by Tucows.com,
    Inc. For those who didn't see it, here's [33]our announcement.
    
    The United States District Court for the District of Columbia
    [34]ruled that Microsoft had violated the Sherman act.
    
    Miguel de Icaza made [35]this statement on the Microsoft ruling.
    
      "Microsoft has held a proprietary grip on the software industry
      both economically and developmentally. As a result every 18 months
      hardware doubles in speed and drops in price while the complete
      opposite is true of the software that runs on top of it. Very
      simply, consumers will always lose with proprietary software."
      
    Cryptographic freedom scored some [36]good news when the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit published their decision
    regarding Peter Junger's challenge to the Export Administration
    Regulations.
    
      "Because computer source code is an expressive means for the
      exchange of information and ideas about computer programming, we
      hold that it is protected by the First Amendment."
      
    Wichert Akkerman took over as Debian Project Leader. For those of you
    who like gory details, here are the [37]final election results.
    
    Linux-Mandrake for Alpha was [38]announced. This was the 7.0
    distribution for the Alpha processor. The port was "not intended for
    production use yet."
    
    Red Hat 6.2 received a [39]glowing review from Tucows and somewhat
    less glowing one from [40]LinuxPlanet.
    
    Slackware had just added its [41]Support section to the website.
    
    In the April Fool's Day tradition, Yellow Dog Linux [42]announced
    "Yellow Dog Linux adds Klingon support".
    
    Netscape 6 preview release 1 was announced.
    
      "Netscape 6 reverses the trend of continuously increasing the size
      of software with new releases. The new Netscape Navigator browser
      is a light 5.5MB download, about half the size of Navigator 4.08.
      Also, because Netscape 6 is based on Netscape Gecko, which speeds
      up the browsing experience for users, tables display much faster,
      pages resize instantly, and text information appears more quickly
      so users can start reading content on the page sooner."
      
    Mozilla had just turned two, so MozillaZine [43]posted a Mozilla
    timeline, complete with screenshots and photos.
    
    [44]The Linux Professional Institute announced the completion of the
    development of [45]exam 102, the second of two exams required to
    obtain Level 1 certification.
    
    [46]Pliant - release 34 was announced. One year later, the [47]2nd
    Annual Symposium on Pliant Implementation and Concepts is coming up on
    20 April, 2001.
    
    Rackspace.com had filed for an initial public offering of stock.
    [48]Rackspace is still a large-scale web hosting provider. They
    provide a dedicated box for every customer and most of those boxes run
    Linux. However Rackspace [49]withdrew its registration statement for
    IPO on March 19, 2001, citing: "current unfavorable conditions in the
    public equity market."
    
    Atipa Linux Solutions had just acquired DCG Computer Corp. At the time
    Atipa expected DCG to enhance Atipa's line with the addition of
    high-performance and clustered systems. Note that this week Atipa sold
    its hardware division (covered on the [50]commerce page).
    
    Apple released Darwin 1.0, the predecessor of Mac OS X. This release
    also included an open source version of its QuickTime streaming server
    software.
    
    Alta Technology announced the founding of [51]LinuxNetworX, a company
    which specializes in high performance, Linux-based systems.
    
    The New York Times claimed [52]Linux's Open-Door Policy Could Let
    Hackers Right In and they dug up some security experts to support the
    notion that security through obscurity is a better bet.
    
      "'This is a double-edged sword,' says Scott Hissam, a member of
      Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute. 'The bad guys
      have access to the same code as the creators. They can use that
      information to exploit the code and make it do what they want it to
      do.'"
      
    (Registration is required to access the article).
    
    Internet Stock News reported on the recent downturn in Technology and
    Internet stocks.
    
      "... a significant amount of money was taken out of the technology
      and Internet sector and placed back into the "old economy" stocks
      of the Dow."
      
    The LWN Stock Page showed that our index had dropped below 100 for the
    first time since November, 1999. Of course, 100 looks pretty good
    now...
    
    April 5, 2001
    
    
    
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