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I note that in the interview, McBride mentions that back then they had "a commitment to bring Microsoft into the picture", he was close to Noorda when they did the purchase from USL in '93, and his problem with Linux is that he wants it to be a paid item, like bottled water, that you "buy now, buy often".

I want to do a systematic, comprehensive, and carefully documented history timeline relating to Unix and Linux, based, with his kind permission, on Eric Levenez's Unix History timeline chart, but from the perspective of tracing the code by copyright, patents, trade secret, and trademark.

If you have ever wondered how the kernel is built...

"Steve Kemp from the GNU/Linux audit project discovered a problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game, in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program uses several environment variables as inputs but doesn't apply a size check before copying one of them into a fixed size buffer."

"In short, it's not working quite well enough to push out yet," Red Hat developer Bill Nottingham said on Sunday on a mailing list about the test1 version of Fedora Core 2.

Can someone explain to me how Red Hat got to be the most popular Linux distribution in the U.S.? Technology isn't the answer; other distros have tangible advantages there. If good marketing is the answer, Red Hat's days at the top are numbered; with Novell behind it, SUSE is going to kick Red Hat's crown.

"Aleph One is shipping a one-ounce, one-watt, 206MHz StrongARM-based single-board computer (SBC) that comes pre-installed with embedded Linux and features an 'open source' hardware design. Aleph One encourages device designers to freely use the design, and contribute back implementation details useful to others."

"Industry watcher Rob Enderle no longer responds to angry e-mails from Linux supporters. The principal analyst for the Enderle Group (San Jose, Calif.) says he replied to the first thousand or so. But after that, the anger and profanities that many of the missives contained began to wear on him."

"Just released, Linux Netwosix is a powerful and optimized Linux distribution for servers and network-security related jobs. It can be also used for special operations as penetration test with its big collection of software and sources security oriented."

"Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) today announced that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), the world's largest telecommunications company, has joined OSDL and will participate in the Lab's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux working group initiatives."

"The compay has launched its Certified Linux Engineer (CLE) program, including the CLE Practicum exam, and the SUSE Certified Linux Professional certification, which recognizes expertise on the SUSE LINUX distribution."

"Sun's upcoming 3D desktop environment, codenamed Project Looking Glass, drew lots of glances at LinuxWorld last month, largely because of advance demos by Computer Associates (CA). However, Sun is planning not just one, but three new offerings in the overall desktop space." [ Seen on DesktopLinux

[Humor] "Riot police have finally managed to beat back the milling throng of displaced Visual Basic programmers who attacked the courthouse after Judge Cotter Kathelly announced that Linux was not an illegal monopoly and that neither Linus Torvalds nor his company, Linux Development, Inc, owed damages to former employees and shareholders of now-bankrupt Microsoft or to any of its business partners."

"The purpose of this new development process is to provide the highest level of new features, as well as maximizing the quality of new products. This new release road map will be effective for the upcoming Mandrake Linux 10.0."

"Lindows is an intuitive operating system that just makes so much sense everyone should give it a try, seriously, everyone. I am using Lindows now as my primary operating system and am developing software with it. Lindows also does not coerce or tell you what to do, you are finally in control of your own computer. So what are you waiting for, goto lindows.com and check out the exciting changes that are going on; buy Lindows."

"Updated NetPBM packages are available that fix a number of temporary file vulnerabilities in the netpbm libraries."

"Updated mc packages that resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability are now available."

"In some situations, the login program could use a pointer that had been freed and reallocated. This could cause unintentional data leakage."

"Lycoris to create Linux-based replacement OS for ARM-based handhelds"

FEBRUARY 02, 2004 ( INFOWORLD ) - The Linux kernel development process is akin to a game of leapfrog. Even-numbered kernels (v2.0 Java Desktop in the business world at least, is giving Microsoft a run for its money.