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LWN.net Weekly Edition Archives

Here is a simple (for now) archive listing for the LWN.net Weekly Edition. Note that this archive begins on June 6, 2002; please see the old site archives for editions prior to that date.

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LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 13, 2013 (One big page)

  • Front: A report from pgCon; Topics from LinuxCon Japan; RSS reading in Firefox
  • Security: Tizen content scanning and app obfuscation; New vulnerabilities in cgit, chromium, kernel, php, ...
  • Kernel: Skiplists API and benchmarks; Hot adding and removing memory; OPW—kernel edition
  • Distributions: Tizen compliance; FreeBSD, ...
  • Development: Little things in language design; Facts about X vs Wayland; The achievements of embedded Linux; Debian's systemd survey; ...
  • Announcements: German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents on software, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 6, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: OpenStack; Trusting upstream projects; Diversity and recruiting developers.
  • Security: Smack for Tizen; New vulnerabilities in kernel, mesa, wireshark, xmp, ...
  • Kernel: The multiqueue block layer; Reliable user-space OOM handling; Power-aware scheduling.
  • Distributions: Debian, Iceweasel, and security; Arch, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, ...
  • Development: Mobile health initiatives; PulseAudio 4.0; PyTables 3.0; Source code CSS; ...
  • Announcements: RIP Atul Chitnis, events, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 31, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: The open source talent war; Linus and Dirk at LinuxCon Japan; Reserved font names.
  • Security: Pondering the X client vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in chromium, kvm, moodle, owncloud, ...
  • Kernel: IPC and kdbus; Atomic I/O operations; Kernel skiplists.
  • Distributions: TDC: A runnable Linux IVI image; Boot to Qt, Fedora, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: IVI audio routing in Tizen; Elpy 1.0; OpenRelativity; GSoc 2013 projects announced; ...
  • Announcements: Linux Foundation New Members, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 23, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Google's draft VP8 patent license; Moodle 2.5.
  • Security: DeadDrop and Strongbox; New vulnerabilities in kernel, openswan, openvpn, thunderbird, ...
  • Kernel: Ktap; Low-latency Ethernet device polling; An unexpected perf feature.
  • Distributions: Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance; Debian GNU/Hurd, Mageia, NetBSD, Pidora, ...
  • Development: An "enum" for Python 3; Python and implicit string concatenation; QEMU 1.5.0; Blender for 3D printing; ...
  • Announcements: Ten years of Groklaw, Sony opens up the Xperia Tablet Z, events...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 16, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: XBMC on/for Android; DRM in HTML5 published; PyPy 2.0
  • Security: Linux web servers pushing malware; New vulnerabilities in gpsd, httpd, java, kernel, ...
  • Kernel: copy_range(); 3.10 merge window conclusion; Smarter shrinkers; User-space page fault handling.
  • Distributions: Always-releasable Debian; Fedora, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta; Packetfence 4.0; Go 1.1; Tahoe-LAFS 1.10; ...
  • Announcements: Linux Foundation New Members; no software patents in New Zealand, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 9, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles; Miro 6, video, and the web; A $99 supercomputer.
  • Security: IBM's homomorphic encryption library; New vulnerabilities in kernel, mesa, phpmyadmin, xen, ...
  • Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 2; Full tickless; LLVMLinux.
  • Distributions: Defining the Fedora user base; Debian, openSUSE Edu Li-f-e, ...
  • Development: Glibc; Adobe's CFF rasterizer; Geary crowdfunding; spreading the word about your code; ...
  • Announcements: OSI Board Changes, VP8 Patent Cross-license Agreement, Flock, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 2, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Outreach Program for Women; Google Test Automation Conference; The value of FOSS fiscal sponsorship.
  • Security: Code authenticity checking; New vulnerabilities in clamav, kernel, qemu, strongswan, ...
  • Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 1; Wait/wound mutexes; LSFMM coverage complete.
  • Distributions: x32 ABI support by distributions; DragonFly, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: Go and Rust; GDB 7.6; Open Build Service 2.4; OpenShot fundraising update; ...
  • Announcements: SFC to create accounting software, FSF certifies ThinkPenguin, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 25, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Font development trends; More Libre Graphics Meeting coverage; GPLv3 in automobiles.
  • Security: Ubuntu app confinement; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, mysql, xen, ...
  • Kernel: Narrow bitmasks; Nonvolatile memory devices; LSFMM Summit 2013.
  • Distributions: Fedora 19 alpha; Debian, ROSA ABF, ...
  • Development: Dynamic linking and derivative works; The $12 Gongkai Phone; MySQL 5.7.1; Feed reading on the open web; ...
  • Announcements: Germany and software patents, SkySQL and Monty Program, SFC appoints new director, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Collaboration and animation at LGM; Surveying open source licenses; Current challenges in the free software ecosystem; GNOME 3.8.
  • Security: Mixed web content; New vulnerabilities in curl, kernel, krb5, xen, ...
  • Kernel: 3.9 Development statistics; Memory power management.
  • Distributions: Upstart for user sessions; Fuduntu, openSUSE, Pardus, ...
  • Development: Rust; The future of Python 2; Freedesktop summit; KlyDE; ...
  • Announcements: Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project, IFOSSLR 5.1 available, OPW, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 11, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Mozilla's trademark enforcement experience; Legal issues from a radical community angle; Vulnerability handling in the PostgreSQL project.
  • Security: Entropy Broker; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, kernel, postgresql, samba, ...
  • Kernel: Retrying revoke(); Randomizing the kernel; Toward a more power-efficient scheduler.
  • Distributions: Tanglu: bringing Debian testing to the masses; Ubuntu, Fedora, ...
  • Development: Python IDLE; Persona beta 2; Emacs Conference videos; xkbcommon; ...
  • Announcements: OASIS gains ANSI accreditation, the OpenDaylight Project, GSoC mentoring organizations, ...

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