A quiet release, with a few small changes geared for Netware and Perl users.

A quiet release, with a few small changes geared for Netware and Perl users.

ESR queries:

"What comes next after the classic Unix environment variables

PAGER, MAILER, and EDITOR?" and introduces

"

The BROWSER Project" an effort to promulgate a

convention for expressing your browser preference to

programs which must call browsers to view URLs. Nowadays

many programs must do this; mailer user agents and on-line

help systems are just two of the most obvious application

classes.

One of the first two projects is a scalability project designed to enhance the Linux kernel to support 16 64-bit processors with near-linear performance improvement. The other, identified with the Jabber open source instant messaging project, is focused on increasing Linux TCP/IP concurrent connection support from 20,000 to greater than 64,000.

In a dramatic US military endorsement of free software's security strengths, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is beginning a research program to develop future high-security information technology systems based on today's open-source operating systems.

In a dramatic US military endorsement of free software's security strengths, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is beginning a research program to develop future high-security information technology systems based on today's open-source operating systems.

In an unprecedented race to GPL freedom, Loki Software, Inc. released the latest in their long line of open source projects: a complete set of end-user and developer tools for managing software releases.

In an unprecedented race to GPL freedom, Loki Software, Inc. released the latest in their long line of open source projects: a complete set of end-user and developer tools for managing software releases.

Sun Microsystems has put in $5 million of a $24 million investment in Tripwire, a further display of the company's support for the open-source software model.

Sun Microsystems has put in $5 million of a $24 million investment in Tripwire, a further display of the company's support for the open-source software model.