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Linux Weekly News 2004 Timeline

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-that-time-of-year-again dept.

Ridgelift writes "Linux Weekly News has made their annual 2004 Timeline available free to the general public. " Much happens in the Linux world over the course of a year. 2004 saw ongoing legal and political fights, new distributions, big releases of major applications, a new mode for kernel development, and more. This timeline is our attempt to separate out the most significant developments of the year and present them in a concise and enjoyable format. It continues an annual LWN tradition; it is the seventh in the series.""

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  1. Re:DeCSS, DVD Jon, Bunner by ecliptik · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes it does, since DeCSS is a known way of playing DVD's on a GNU/Linux machine in the abscence of commercial DVD software.

    and yes, I am aware of such offerings, but DeCSS still lets developers create their own open DVD playing software.

  2. LWN not only kernel news by greppling · · Score: 2, Informative
    While covering news related to the kernel development (with lots of good technical articles that make it well worth to subscribe if you are interested that) is certainly the core of "Linux Weekly News", it isn't restricted to that. It roughly covers what a GNU/Linux-based free software developer or technically interested users would want to know about. That includes software patent issues, IP issues as far as they related to free software, everything concerning security of GNU/Linux systems, platform-independant free software etc.

    And this is not a Linux kernel timeline, but an LWN timeline.