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The LWN.net 2002 Linux Timeline - June

[Posted December 14, 2002 by corbet]

  <== May Timeline home July ==> 

It is a sad day when a fully tested and documented system that is faster and, above all, more accurate, cannot get into the kernel. Linus is judging kbuild 2.5 on its popularity and on personalities, not on its technical merits.

-- Keith Owens gets frustrated

The new LWN.net site launches to decidedly mixed reviews.

Sherwin-Williams deploys Linux in over 2500 stores (IBM press release).

Oracle begins its "unbreakable Linux" campaign (press release).

Alexis de Tocqueville Institution claims that open source may aid terrorists in a ridiculous press release.

The German government starts moving to Linux (another IBM press release).

Hell froze over in the geek community yesterday as Mozilla 1.0 was finally released. After nearly five years of work by thousands of developers, there was much rejoicing among the expectant fans and pigs were seen cruising at well over 1,000ft.

-- James Middleton, vnunet

Mozilla 1.0 is released, at last (announcement).

The NSA's Security Enhanced Linux distribution turns out to have patent problems.

The Debian Project launches a new security build architecture, intended to help the project produce better, faster security updates (announcement).

Gentoo Linux 1.2 is released (announcement).

Due to the general nature of open-source and its openness, the virtual organizations behind the projects do not have an ability to enforce strict confidentiality. By notifying the open source project, its nature is that the information is quickly spread in the wild disregarding any type of quiet period. ISS X-Force minimizes the quiet period and delay of protecting customers by providing a security patch.

-- ISS tries to explain itself

Disney buys a bunch of Linux systems from HP, despite the fact that the Disney-backed CBDTPA would make Linux illegal (HP press release).

The Apache "chunk handling" vulnerability exposes web servers worldwide; the situation is not helped when ISS issues an advisory with an incorrect patch before the Apache group can react.

MobiliX wins its trademark dispute and can continue using that name.

Slackware Linux 8.1 is released (announcement). [Lindows]

Walmart starts selling Lindows-based systems (Lindows press release).

PostNuke lead developer Greg Allan dies in a motorcycle accident (article). [Kernel Summit]

The 2002 Linux Kernel Developers' Summit is held in Ottawa (LWN coverage: Day one and Day two).

More security problems in OpenSSH force the hurried release of version 3.4, while the withholding of information on the vulnerability creates controversy (announcement).

GNOME 2.0 is released (announcement).

[LSB] EnGarde Secure Linux 1.2 Professional is released.

Version 1.2 of the Linux Standard Base is released (announcement).

  <== May Timeline home July ==> 
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