2004 Linux Timeline: May

[Posted December 29, 2004 by corbet]

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<fedora_rh> So, there will be the following features in the next release of Fedora Core.

<oss_crowd> Uh... Hold on. Who gets to decide?

<rh_sales> We do. That stuff will be neato for RHEL-4.

-- Fedora and the community talk

OpenBSD 3.5 is released (announcement).

Google files for an IPO.

The Royal Bank of Canada dumps its investment in SCO, selling most of it to BayStar.

The 2.6.6 kernel is released (announcement).

SUSE Linux 9.1 Professional is released (announcement).

KNOPPIX 3.4 is released.

I recently spent the better part of a week working with the latest version of the open-source GNOME graphical desktop environment on Linux. I've decided that the only way to explain the regression of GNOME over the years is that Microsoft and/or SCO moles have infiltrated the GNOME leadership in a covert effort to destroy any possibility that Linux could compete with Windows on the desktop.

-- Nicholas Petreley

Novell releases Ximian Connector as free software (press release).

The EU Council dumps the EU Parliament's patent directive, restoring a text which allows software patents in Europe (FFII alert).

[FSF] The FSF posts a subpoena from SCO and claims that SCO attacked the kernel instead of GNU because of FSF's copyright assignment rules (posting).

Fedora Core 2 is released (announcement).

Debian developers Manuel Estrada Sainz and Andrés García are killed in a car accident (Debian release).

My conclusion is that Ken Brown doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. I also have grave questions about his methodology.

-- Andrew Tanenbaum

The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute publishes a book by Ken Brown claiming that Linus stole Linux from Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix. The claims do not hold up for long.

Kernel developers start adding Signed-off-by headers to patches to help in fighting future SCO-like problems (RFC).

The Grokline project launches as an attempt to establish a kernel development timeline (web site).

Debian kernel maintainer Herbert Xu resigns as a protest for Debian's apparent support of an independent Taiwan. William Lee Irwin and Al Viro head a new kernel team (announcement).

Computer Associates releases Ingres under a free license (press release).

The Creative Commons releases version 2.0 of its licenses (announcement).

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