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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   29 Mar 2001  17:11:42
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]April 2, 1998 LWN): Alan Cox joined Red Hat,
    where he remains to this day.
    
    The Mozilla source was released, as covered on this week's front page.
    
    As a direct result of Netscape's release of the Mozilla source code, a
    [16]grassroots coalition was formed in Australia to create a
    cross-platform Web browser by adding the full-strength cryptography
    provided by SSLeay.
    
    Inter@ctive Week ran [17]25 unsung heroes of the net. Tim O'Reilly was
    number 19 and Linus is number 23 on the list. Neither is quite so
    unsung anymore.
    
    TechWeb News covered Corel's plans for [18]a Linux-based network
    computer. "Corel could begin seeing revenue from its forthcoming
    network computer as soon as its next fiscal quarter, said CEO Michael
    Cowpland on Thursday."
    
    Linus [19]declared a feature freeze for 2.2 kernel release - which
    turned out to be almost a year away still.
    
    Orders were being taken for S.u.S.E. 5.2.
    
    Kevin Forge on the seul-dev-apps group mentioned the project underway
    to create a free QT Widgetset. The Harmony project planned to cover
    the subset of QT used by KDE, hopefully stopping the "Troll" wars.
    Harmony never did reach completion, of course, but it was part of the
    environment that brought an end to that conflict anyway.
    
    Michael Hammel announced his site [20]graphics-muse.org, dedicated to
    graphics tools for Linux. We wrote: If you do anything with graphics,
    you will probably learn something from a visit with the Muse. That is
    still true even though we keep him pretty busy on LWN.
    
    Two years ago ([21]April 1, 1999 LWN): Eric Raymond [22]threatened to
    quit after being flamed a few too many times. As a follow-up to his
    memo, called "Take My Job, Please!", he wrote [23]Understand My Job,
    Please! Eric has, in fact, remained on the job.
    
    Neal Stephenson wrote a lengthy piece about free software, entitled
    [24]In the Beginning was the Command Line.
    
    The current kernel release was 2.2.5. In [25]the announcement for the
    release, Linus stated his intention to take a two-week vacation.
    
    The official Dutch KDE website was [26]announced by the Dutch
    Documentation Team. The address for the site is [27]http://www.kde.nl.
    
    VA Research announced it was outsourcing most of its manufacturing,
    due to the fact that it could not keep up with the demand for their
    systems. C|Net's News.com [28]covered the news.
    
      VA has benefited from this boom, quadrupling its staff in the last
      four months to more than 60. The Mountain View, California, company
      also is in the process of moving to new headquarters with four
      times the floor space. The last stage of the move, transferring the
      computer assembly operation, is scheduled for completion April 17.
      
    VA Research, of course, later changed its name to VA Linux Systems.
    
    Bill Gates came out with a new book that was [29]reviewed by Salon:
    
      The one person at Microsoft who doesn't seem to have received the
      bad news is Gates himself. Last week, he dismissed Linux with these
      words: ''There has certainly been a lot of free software out there
      for the last 20 years. The main thing that has held that back is
      that because it's free software there's no central point of
      control. So what you see with Linux, and other things, is you get
      proliferations of different versions and everybody can go into the
      source code, and everybody does.''
      
    Some things never change.
    
    One year ago ([30]March 30, 2000 LWN): LWN [31]announced its
    acquisition by Tucows.com. We closed April 4, 2000. It's been a great
    year for us and, we hope, for you too.
    
    The UCITA ("shrink-wrap software") bill passed in Virginia, and was
    headed toward Maryland. Fortunately, it appears to have slowed down
    considerably since then.
    
    LWN was also getting ready for the Colorado Linux Info Quest (CLIQ) on
    April 1. LWN team members Jonathan Corbet, Rebecca Sobol, Dennis
    Tenney and Forrest Cook shared booth duty. Liz Coolbaugh ran the talks
    and BOFs. Michael Hammel managed CLIQ 2000. Of course he wasn't a LWN
    senior editor yet. [32]CLIQ 2001 is on March 30.
    
    The current development kernel release was 2.3.99-pre3. Jay Fenlason
    posted a note to Bugtraq covering a [33]local denial-of-service attack
    that impacted both the 2.2.14 and the 2.3.99-pre2 kernels. Alexey
    Kuznetsov responded with [34]a patch for 2.3 for the problem.
    
    The Timpanogas Research Group [35]announced the release of its NWFS
    2.2 NetWare file system under the GPL.
    
    Russian software distributor CPS announced a Corel Linux Download
    special edition and Corel Linux [36]received this glowing review on
    Technofile.
    
    We reported that [37]LinuxPPC developer Jason Haas was in a
    [38]serious car accident. He was released from the hospital on May 1
    and by early August was able to spend a few hours every day on the
    computer.
    
    Red Hat 6.2 was officially released. Also Red Hat reported its fourth
    quarter results. Last year it reported revenue of $13.1 million, this
    year the company [39]reported fourth quarter revenue of $27 million.
    Red Hat does continue moving toward profitably.
    
    Linuxcare was reviewing an application a week. The [40]application for
    that week was the Gnumeric spreadsheet. "This application looks sharp
    and functions pretty well for my current needs. Given the momentum
    behind the GNOME project, Gnumeric is on its way to becoming a
    convincing alternative to similar proprietary applications."
    
    March 29, 2001
    
    
    
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   20. http://www.graphics-muse.org/
   21. http://lwn.net/1999/0401/
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   36. http://www.twcny.rr.com/technofile/texts/tec032600.html
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   39. http://lwn.net/2001/0329/a/rh-breakeven.php3
   40. http://www.linuxcare.com/viewpoints/ap-of-the-wk/03-24-00.epl
   41. http://lwn.net/2001/0329/letters.php3
   42. http://www.eklektix.com/
   43. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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