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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   22 Mar 2001  18:11:44
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Four years ago: The first Atlanta Linux Showcase was [15]announced.
    
    Three years ago ([16]March 26, 1998 LWN): John Kirch's paper,
    [17]Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX, was first published.
    This paper, written by a Microsoft-certified engineer, calmly and
    persuasively argued that Unix-based systems, and Linux in particular,
    were a far superior solution for many businesses. We all knew that, of
    course, but this paper reached a wide audience; it certainly deserves
    some of the credit for the explosion of interest in Linux in 1998.
    
    The first draft of the Debian constitution was posted by Ian Jackson.
    
    Why should a person who has never gotten beyond a GUI interface care
    about source code? Eric Kidd ran a survey of uses people have made of
    source code. You can find some [18]interesting results here.
    
    The current development kernel release was 2.1.90, with a big
    pre-patch for 2.1.91 adding things like BSD process accounting, a
    number of obscure file systems (including Solaris x86), and an
    unbelievable number of fixes.
    
    Two years ago ([19]March 25, 1999 LWN): CeBIT '99 was the leading
    event of the week. [20]CeBIT is a massive tradeshow held in Hannover,
    Germany. KDE and the Linux community both won awards at the show, KDE
    receiving Ziff-Davis' "Software Innovation of the Year Award for
    1998/99" (see their [21]announcement), and the Linux Community
    receiving the CeBIT "Highlight" award for Software, one of four
    categories of their Highlight awards. This year's CeBIT runs March 22
    - March 28, 2001.
    
    LWN was the subject of [22]a feature in the Daily Camera, our hometown
    (Boulder, CO USA) newspaper.
    
    ZDNet [23]took exception to Red Hat's business practices:
    
      But some critics contend that Red Hat's business practices, under
      CEO Robert Young, are becoming heavy-handed and bad for the
      open-source industry. Most controversial, perhaps, is the company's
      decision to kick-start a Red Hat-specific Linux training and
      certification program, while community-developed efforts are
      growing in the hopper. Further flustering the hornet's nest is Red
      Hat's unenthusiastic reception of Linux standards, including a
      Linux Standard Base (LSB) project designed to keep various
      open-source flavors from diverging.
      
    Kernel version [24]2.2.4 was released.
    
    "Starbuck" was the code name for the not-quite-stable test version of
    Red Hat's 6.0 platform. Slackware 4.0.0-pre-beta was released.
    
    Georg Greve's [25]Brave GNU World column was [26]launched.
    
    The first (and last) annual ExtremeLinux track was announced for the
    Linux Expo in May 1999.
    
    One year ago ([27]March 23, 2000 LWN): Caldera Systems went public,
    with its shares doubling in price (to $29) on the first day. At the
    same time, VA Linux dropped below $80 and Red Hat below $60 - prices
    that looked relatively low at the time.
    
      Despite the performance differences, Caldera plans to follow in the
      footsteps of other publicly traded Linux companies that have used
      their high stock valuations to acquire other firms in an effort to
      expand as quickly as possible...
      -- [28]News.com.
      
    Clusters were the news of the week. IBM announced the installation of
    a cluster, claimed to be the world's largest, at the University of New
    Mexico. LWN, meanwhile, [29]got a look at the Jet cluster installed at
    the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory in Boulder.
    
    [30]MaxOS Linux was mentioned for the first time in LWN. It rated a
    feature article, [31]MaxOS: A New Linux Distribution from the Ground
    Up.
    
    Pavel Machek posted a note to BugTraq about [32]possible process
    hiding in the 2.3.X development kernel series. Meanwhile a Technocrat
    posting raised fears that 2.4.0 would be a "brown paper bag" release.
    
      However, major packages won't compile on it. UDF has serious bugs,
      causing kernel hangs. In the 2.3.99 stage, the entire filesystem
      directory tree and initialisation code is being heavily re-written.
      The kernel configuration code is being re-organised. That is NOT
      where a program needs to be, when it's just about to be released as
      a stable package.
      
    Little did Technocrat know that the 2.4 release was still rather
    distant; when it did come out, very few brown paper bags were
    needed...
    
    As mentioned, the Red Hat 6.0 beta was code named Starbuck. This year
    people were playing around with 'piglet', Red Hat's 6.2 beta.
    Turbolinux, meanwhile, released the first version of its distribution
    for the IA-64 platform... which still is not available...
    
    Upside [33]profiled MandrakeSoft:
    
      MandrakeSoft, the company Duval, Lemarois and a few other inside
      developers built up to take advantage of this phenomenon, has
      followed a similar trajectory, adding 50 employees in the less than
      a year. If anything, the company's quick ascent is a sobering
      indication that the Linux operating system market may be the
      easiest online marketplace to crash since amateur pornography.
      
    The rumors were finally confirmed: Linux Expo was not going to happen
    in 2000. After many years as the premier Linux event, it had been
    overshadowed by the many other Linux conferences that had popped up.
    See [34]Donnie Barnes' explanation for a good history of Linux Expo,
    and the reasons for its demise.
    March 22, 2001
    
    
    
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   12. http://lwn.net/2001/0322/letters.php3
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   18. http://www.pobox.com/~emk/freesw/survey.html
   19. http://lwn.net/1999/0325/
   20. http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e?channel=1
   21. http://lwn.net/1999/0325/kde-cebit.html
   22. http://www.bouldernews.com/business/21bekle.html
   23. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2229091,00.html
   24. http://lwn.net/1999/0325/a/224.html
   25. http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.html
   26. http://lwn.net/1999/0325/bravegnu.html
   27. http://lwn.net/2000/0323/
   28. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1580477.html
   29. http://gb.lwn.net/2000/features/FSLCluster/
   30. http://www.maxos.com/
   31. http://lwn.net/2000/features/maxos.phtml
   32. http://lwn.net/2000/0323/a/processhiding.html
   33. http://upside.com/Open_Season/38d7b0c80.html
   34. http://www.linuxexpo.org/explanation.html
   35. http://lwn.net/2001/0322/letters.php3
   36. http://www.eklektix.com/
   37. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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