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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   19 Apr 2001  17:11:49
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]April 23, 1998 LWN): Linus [16]announced "Linus
    3.0". A girl, 3270g (7lb 3oz), otherwise known as "Daniela."
    
    Netscape, Sun, Oracle, and others formed a group called "ProComp" to
    "promote" competition in the computer business - by bringing down
    Microsoft. Those famous high-tech figures Robert Bork and Bob Dole
    were brought in to help.
    
      But before Bork sits down in an attempt to rewrite the law, he will
      need to brush up on his knowledge of the Internet. "I am going to
      have to analyze something about this technology," he said at
      Monday's news conference. "My wife gets on the Internet, but she'll
      have to teach me about it."
      -- [17]Wired News.
      
    Three years ago, LWN editorialized that the best thing to do about
    Microsoft was to ignore it and build the best free system we could. In
    the year 2001, it's easy to believe that Linux has done more for
    competition in the software world than Bork and Dole ever did.
    
    Two years ago ([18]April 22, 1999 LWN): Caldera released OpenLinux
    2.2, becoming the first major distribution to come out with the 2.2
    kernel. Nicholas Petreley [19]raved about it in InfoWorld. He
    predicted that this version would challenge Linux on the desktop,
    mostly by making it easier for Windows users to install Caldera
    OpenLinux without losing Windows.
    
      Caldera isn't the perfect answer to Linux on the desktop. But even
      with a minor flaw or two, Caldera OpenLinux is at least 51 weeks
      closer to being perfect than I ever would have imagined. In short,
      Bill had better get out of the way. Because it looks like an
      18-wheeler is unexpectedly barreling down the road in his
      direction.
      
    In spite of Mr. Petreley's predictions, Linux remains under-utilized
    on the desktop.
    
    Corel announced that its upcoming distribution would be based on
    Debian and KDE.
    
    The gcc and egcs projects agreed to merge, bringing an end to a long
    and sometimes destructive fork in one of the more important free
    software projects. The end result is called "gcc," but was based
    mainly on the egcs code base.
    
    The birth of Evolution? Miguel de Icaza [20]posted this note exploring
    the need for a truly powerful mail client.
    
    The Mindcraft benchmark (mentioned in [21]last week's history page)
    spawned a flurry of articles, mostly defending Linux. Mindcraft
    admitted that its Linux system was not tuned at all, while its NT
    system was tuned very well for the test. In this [22]ZDNet article
    looked at some of the reasons that NT was able to beat Linux in this
    test and what Linux needed to do to improve in the future.
    
      For one thing, there's a useful lesson here for Linux resellers and
      integrators. Linux tuning information is hard to gather up. Yes,
      it's there. But, it really requires an expert Linux user to find
      it. If Linux is to win commercially, information known only to
      Linux gurus and hidden away in a dozen Web sites needs to be
      gathered together and made more readable and approachable. For new
      users, learning advanced Linux is still much too difficult.
      
    Tuning information may be no easier to find two years later, but one
    important thing has changed: far less tuning is required, in many
    cases, to get Linux to perform well.
    
    Jesse Berst wrote [23]this ZDNet article. He accuses Linus Torvalds of
    taunting Microsoft during a Spring Comdex keynote in which Linus
    predicted Linux would crush Microsoft. Later on Jesse writes:
    
      Peer past the posturing and PR boasting on both sides, and here's
      what's really going on: Linux is making steady progress on the
      server side, especially for must-stay-up installations. But it's
      making no dent in Windows NT's growth as the standard OS for
      departmental servers. And it is light years away from being a
      threat to anybody on the desktop.
      
    Well Linux has made a serious dent into server market now, and while
    not quite "there" on the desktop, "light years away" seems like quite
    an exaggeration.
    
    Tim O'Reilly had a somewhat different point of view. During an
    interview he said,
    
      If the open-source community doesn't get it, they are going to end
      up fighting the old battle trying to win on the desktop. But you
      know, who cares about the desktop? The web is the platform. What
      you want to be is like 'Intel inside' - you want to be like 'open
      source inside' for the next generation.
      
    These days we do see 'open source inside' for a large segment of the
    web, and in many other spaces as well.
    
    One year ago ([24]April 20, 2000 LWN): A back door was found in
    Microsoft's FrontPage server software. It was apparently deliberately
    inserted by a Microsoft engineer and had been there for years. Eric
    Raymond [25]had some things to say about it.
    
      Webmasters all over the world are going to be pulling all-nighters
      and tearing their hair out over this one. That is, webmasters who
      are unlucky enough to work for bosses who bought Microsoft. At the
      over 60% of sites running the open-source Apache webserver,
      webmasters will be kicking back and smiling -- because they know
      that Apache will *never* have a back door like this one.
      
    "Never" was, perhaps, a bit strong. There have been a couple of "back
    door" issues with free software recently, but they tend to be the sort
    of exception that provies the rule. Consider, for example, the back
    door found in InterBase shortly after the code was released.
    
    Brendan Shea became the first new Debian maintainer in a long time,
    showing that the new maintainer process was finally working again.
    
    The ugly stock market hit in force when several Linux stocks,
    including VA Linux Systems, Caldera, and Andover.Net, fell below their
    initial offering prices for the first time. Of course, people holding
    those stocks now would see the prices of a year ago as a very nice
    thing...
    
      VA Linux, which traded at $320 a share following its IPO in
      December, went into a freefall almost immediately and hit a low of
      $26.88 last week. Thats below its IPO asking price of $30. Larry
      Augustin, chief executive of VA Linux, which makes Linux-based
      computers, has seen his personal wealth plummet from a post-IPO $2
      billion to just over $200 million. That doesn't even get you a
      table near the kitchen in Silicon Valley.
      -- [26]Forbes.
      
    Corel's Linux distribution was selling well. The company had just
    released Corel Linux with German, French and Dutch support. The press
    release claimed that this was the "First Multilingual Linux O.S.",
    which was not true. In a ZDNet story about [27]Corel's chances of
    survival a variety of factors from plunging stock prices to
    allegetions of insider trading by then CEO Michael Cowpland.
    
      [CTO Derek] Burney says Corel pretty much owns the Linux desktop
      market, though there is competition. Both Caldera Systems and
      Macmillan USA, for example, sell Linux for the desktop on retail
      shelves for $10 to $20 less than Corel's Linux.
      
    Mentioned too, is the expected merger between Corel and Inprise, which
    never happened. The general conclusion was that Corel would survive if
    it could make Linux work for them. While Corel still supports Linux
    for some software, the company (with funding from Microsoft), has
    headed back to its Microsoft roots, sans the beleaguered Cowpland.
    
    The Linux Standard Base project [28]announced the release of version
    2.1 of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
    
    April 19, 2001
    
    
    
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    3. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/
    4. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/security.php3
    5. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/kernel.php3
    6. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/dists.php3
    7. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/desktop.php3
    8. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/devel.php3
    9. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/commerce.php3
   10. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/press.php3
   11. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/announce.php3
   12. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/letters.php3
   13. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/bigpage.php3
   14. http://lwn.net/2001/0412/history.php3
   15. http://lwn.net/1998/0423/
   16. http://lwn.net/1998/0423/a/LinusKid.html
   17. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,11798,00.html
   18. http://lwn.net/1999/0422/
   19. http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/petrel/990419np.htm
   20. http://lwn.net/1999/0422/a/gnomemail.html
   21. http://lwn.net/2001/0412/history.php3
   22. http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2242246,00.html
   23. http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3307.html
   24. http://lwn.net/2000/0420/
   25. http://lwn.net/2000/0420/a/esr-fp.html
   26. http://www.forbes.com/2000/04/17/mu3.html
   27. http://www4.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2550448,00.html
   28. http://lwn.net/2000/0420/a/fhs.html
   29. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/letters.php3
   30. http://www.eklektix.com/
   31. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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