News from LWN [LWN.net]

We'll start with the most fun news: the LWN.net 2002 Linux Timeline is now available. For the fifth straight year, we have gone through and pulled out the most interesting news from the last twelve months. The result is a concise, and, we hope, fun summary of what's been going on.

And...there's more! As some of you may know, LWN.net will turn five years old next month. In a bit of early celebration, we have put together the the LWN.net Five-Year Timeline, giving a condensed view of what has happened while LWN has been watching.

There are now just over 2400 individual LWN.net subscribers. The number continues its slow, steady growth despite an increase in the number of expiring subscriptions. With luck, that trend will continue, but we remain distant from our short-term goal of 4000 subscribers. (Meanwhile, the kind soul who subscribed "cypherpunks" needs to renew, as it has expired...).

This is the last LWN Weekly Edition for 2002; there will be no Weekly Edition during the Christmas week. We will return to our regular schedule on January 2, 2003 (the front page will continue to be updated during this time). Hopefully our readers will forgive us if we're still a little hung over at the time.

This has been a challenging year, to say the least. Through all of our ups and downs, we have continued producing LWN because we have such a great set of readers. Best wishes to all of you for great holidays and a happy new year from the folks at LWN.

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Thank you LWN

Posted Dec 19, 2002 14:10 UTC (Thu) by dayers (guest, #1602) [Link]

Congratulations to LWN for 5 good years of service to the Linux community from one whose week wouldn't be quite right without his LWN fix. Like many others (I suspect) I am 80% Linux user and 20% Linux hacker, not needing news in great technical detail, but very interested in what is going on in the Linux world. Your content meets my need.

May all of you overworked and underpaid LWN staffers look forward to a solid year of growth in 2003.

Dave Ayers
Quincy, Illinois, USA

News from LWN

Posted Dec 20, 2002 14:36 UTC (Fri) by ortalo (guest, #4654) [Link]

Happy new year to all of you! Especially those who are no more in the LWN boat. What happened to the staff that could not pursue the adventure with LWN?

Hint for next year: I think LWN.net security page *should* be a part of the paying edition.
As you have noted before, the average mean time to wait before applying a security patch is between 1 and 3 weeks. So delaying your security warnings synthesis will not affect security. On the other hands, any security consultant taking advantage of your (valuable) information analysis should be required to pay (IMHO).

I wish you all the best for next year. Especially health and happiness. :-)

Rodolphe