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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   28 Jun 2001  17:11:47
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]July 2, 1998 LWN): John Kirch published his paper
    on the [16]superiority of Unix over NT. Nowadays, the [17]Unix versus
    NT website continues his mission. [18]OpenContent.org started looking
    at how to apply free software licensing principles to documentation
    and other non-software content.
    
    On the news end, Bill Gates [19]claimed, "I've never had a customer
    mention Linux to me". He probably wishes he could still say that.
    
    Caldera made its Netware server available on OpenLinux.
    
    This nifty little [20]Software Wars map was a link of the week. It has
    been recently updated, and merits another look.
    
    Two years ago ([21]July 1, 1999 LWN): Eric Raymond released [22]The
    Magic Cauldron. A [23]Linux-powered telephone was announced. The
    Mindcraft benchmarks were re-run, this time with Linux performing much
    better (but still losing).
    
    Hard Hat Linux was first [24]announced. So was [25]KRUD (Kevin's Red
    Hat Uber Distribution).
    
    The Apache Software Foundation [26]was formed to provide
    organizational, legal and financial support for Apache.
    
    Slashdot was acquired by Andover.net. News.com [27]talked with Rob
    "CmdrTaco" Malda.
    
      Linux has conquered the server market, and desktop computers are
      next, he said. "That's become pretty apparent," he said, although
      many in the computing world would disagree.
      
      In the longer term, the open-source movement will expand from
      operating systems to another Microsoft stronghold, desktop
      applications, he predicted.
      
    Close, but not quite. The desktop was not next. Linux moved down into
    embedded devices and branched out into high-availability
    super-computing before conquering the desktop.
    
    MandrakeSoft [28]made its "Cooker" development distribution available
    to brave souls worldwide.
    
    Linux-related IPO's were the subject of [29]this USA Today article,
    but the focus shifted at the end, to a view of Linux from the
    Microsoft perspective. MS was embroiled in anti-trust trials and
    citing Linux as evidence that there was no monopoly. MS had also just
    invited Eric S. Raymond to speak to a group of engineers at the
    Redmond complex.
    
      Microsoft also has an unspecified number of engineers studying
      Linux. On Monday, one of the leading Linux proponents met with
      about 100 Microsoft employees.
      
      "Our job is to understand our competitors and do a good job meeting
      the demands of our customers," says Microsoft's Ed Muth, a group
      product manager in the division developing the next version of
      Windows for corporate computers. However, Muth says Linux is more
      of a competitor to the various versions of UNIX, not Windows.
      
    Of course, we don't hear much from Ed Muth anymore...
    
    One year ago ([30]June 29, 2000 LWN): MySQL was re-licensed under the
    GPL, becoming free software at last.
    
    The development kernel release, 2.4.0-test2 was [31]announced by
    Linus.
    
      Normally, when you integrate almost 5MB of patches, bad things
      happen. This time, a miracle occurred. As I uploaded the resultant
      kernel, a specter of the holy penguin appeared before me, and said
      "It is Good. It is Bugfree".
      
    In spite of the assurances by the holy penguin, the patch was somewhat
    less than perfect, and the first prepatch for test3 was out in short
    order.
    
    [32]Only Two Linux Companies Really Matter said Joseph C. Panettieri,
    in this ZDNet article.
    
      Like it or not, major hardware vendors and corporate America don't
      want to support five or more flavors of Linux. It's just too darned
      expensive and troublesome to deal with multiple operating-system
      vendors.
      
    What seems to be increasingly common is to see hardware vendors pick
    specific distributions for specific products. IBM ThinkPads come with
    Caldera, while SuSE is common choice for IBM mainframes. Hardware
    vendors don't have to support all the Linux distributions, just a
    small subset with the qualities they feel will best complement their
    product. That's one of the reasons that the total number of Linux
    distributions continues to grow.
    
    Slackware 7.1 was released.
    
    Mission Critical Linux, Inc. released the source code for its
    high-availability Kimberlite cluster technology under the GPL.
    
    June 28, 2001
    
    LWN Linux Timelines
    [33]1998 In Review
    [34]1999 In Review
    [35]2000 In Review
    
    
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    all rights reserved
    Linux (R) is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
 
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