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LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 24, 2008
(Subscribers only)

Front: GNOME 3.0 worries; Anticipating the Sunset; Interview: Wind River's John Bruggeman.

Security: Deep packet inspection; New vulnerabilities in the bacula, kernel, mantis, ruby, ...

Kernel: The 2.6.27 merge window, part 2; linux-next meets the merge window; Tracing: no shortage of options.

Distributions: Various notes from the Fedora project.

Development: The Elisa Media Center project, Drizzle: a lighter MySQL, KDE 4.1 rc, KOffice 2.0 adds new capabilities, new versions of Bloxsom, Elixir, Allmydata.org, pam_mount, TestDisk and PhotoRec, WSFuzzer, Segue CMS, OpenSSH, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, wxPython, Qtractor, Firefox, fancyLWNComments, GIT, once:radix.

Press: The Death of Google's Patents, Linux or GPL a disruptive technology, Judge Kimball rules on SCO, Google's Android not open enough, Linus Torvalds interview, Miguel de Icaza on the future of GTK+.

Announcements: BusyBox suit against Extreme Networks, Openmoko partners with Koolu, Indamixx audio workstation, Webreach and Medsphere partner, ActiveState on open-source software myths, Hack Tahoe! contest, September PyWeek contest, new look for LPI at LinuxWorld, Linux Plumbers Conf cfp, ekoparty - Buenos Aires, FUDCon Brno.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 17, 2008
(Freely available)

Front: Ubuntu, security response, and community contributions; Fedora and distributed source packages; What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to.

Security: Trust and mirrors; New vulnerabilities in apache, drupal, firefox, java,...

Kernel: 2.6.27: what's coming; Block layer: integrity checking and extended partitions; Handling kernel security problems.

Distributions: Gentoo: New release, "new" leadership; BLAG 90000 Released; Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 released; Intrepid Alpha 2 released; package management vulnerabilities; Ubuntu quality assurance

Development: Control model railroads with JMRI, database replication wiht Postgres-R, new versions of BusyBox, FCKeditor.Java, YaBB, Ardour, Sonic Visualiser, Vamp plugin SDK, Mnemosyne, Urwid, Wine, Qsynth, Rubber Band, Firefox, OpenSwing, Common Lisp Reasoner, Python NetAddr lib, GIT.

Press: The current state of Gentoo, debunking Myths About KDE 4, looking at Xandros' purchase of Linspire, Brian Proffitt interview, plans for GNOME 3.0, Motorola's Linux smartphone, OO.o 3.0 review, Ubuntu photo applications, Joe Barr dies.

Announcements: Support the Django Software Foundation, In Memory of Uwe Thiem, ODBMS.ORG releases new reports, Pizzigati Prize applications, mod_perl Users Survey, ClubHack cfp, Linux-Kongress cfp, Django coding sprints, Akademy and GUADEC on Gran Canaria, EuroSciPy slides, LWE openSUSE Day.