Testing Linux and Open Source for Y2K

Stephen Hurrell asks: "I'm interested in getting feedback about how people and/or sites running Linux with all the usual applications like apache, samba, perl, php, jdk's, postgresql, oracle, X, etc. are handling the Y2K problem. Particularly how they are Y2K testing and communicating results in order to ease management's open source concerns. What do you do and what did you find? There may be a silver lining in Linux that in fact most applications may be using UNIX time structures and that the open source community may be able to respond quicker than Brand M for patches and fixes. Hopefully this may result in increased trust and usage of open source products. What do you think?"

Comments

Red Hat paid for independent testing

[Booker]

If you want to point to outside certification, take a look at http://www.redhat.com/legal/y2k_statement.html

In it, they say:

We are pleased to disclose that the core system components of Red Hat Linux, versions 5.2 and 6.0, on Intel architecture have been independently certified as Year 2000 compliant.

and they define "core" as:

1.Commands

after
at
hwclock
convdate
crontab
date
ftpshut
ls
rdate
sleep
touch
usradd
hwclock
telnet
ftp

2.Daemons

httpd
ftpd
telnetd
inted
atd
crond

3.libc

strptime
asctime
gmtime
mktime
int time_t
struct tm

Not exactly the entire distribution... but at least most of the time-related functions...
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