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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.

See also: separate index pages for:

LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 3, 2013 (One big page)

  • Front: The history of Mesa; TT-RSS makes a comeback; Some tidbits from XDC
  • Security: Integrity and embedded devices; New vulnerabilities in chicken, glibc, kernel, sudo, ...
  • Kernel: Transactional memory in the dentry cache; How much memory power management is useful?; NUMA scheduling.
  • Distributions: Fedora and bug tracking; Debian Edu, GNU, FreeBSD, NetBSD, RHEL, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: AppData; VLC 2.1.0; Rust 0.8; Ten years working on Krita; ...
  • Announcements: 30 years of GNU, events, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 26, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Free drivers for ARM graphics; A gathering of kernel developers; A SPDX case study
  • Security: Encouraging a wider view; New vulnerabilities in chromium, kernel, policykit, tiff, ...
  • Kernel: Split PMD locks; A perf ABI fix.
  • Distributions: Fedora 20 takes shape; openSUSE, SteamOS, Tails.
  • Development: OpenGL debugging; Lightning 2.6; GStreamer 1.2; GNOME 3.10; ...
  • Announcements: Studio Storti joins TDF, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 19, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: LinuxCon special: Steam on Linux, Asteroid mining, WebKit and Blink
  • Security: The post-PRISM internet; New vulnerabilities in kernel, libzypp, mediawiki, mozilla, ...
  • Kernel: The 3.12 merge window closes; Random number generation; Copy offload with splice().
  • Distributions: Rethinking the guest operating system; Slackware, ...
  • Development: edX welcomes Google; Qt WebEngine; Firefox 24; Calendar and contact data in the smartphone era; ...
  • Announcements: CyanogenMod Inc., IBM invests in Linux, CloudOn joins TDF, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 12, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Toward healthy paranoia; Intel and XMir.
  • Security: Using vulnerabilities instead of new laws; New vulnerabilities in django, gdm, kernel, subversion, ...
  • Kernel: 3.12 merge window, part 2; Security bug handling; BSD-style securelevel.
  • Distributions: Debian gets dgit; LFS, ...
  • Development: Birdfont; PostgreSQL 9.3.0; Slony 2.2.0; Patchfield audio server; ...
  • Announcements: FSF on iPhone, Defective By Design FAQ, fostering collaboration, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 6, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Firefox OS on the ZTE Open; The Linux Foundation ventures in a new direction; Mailpile targets webmail
  • Security: Blocking DPI with Dust; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, foreman, imagemagick, mysql, ...
  • Kernel: 3.12 merge window; Lockrefs; Integrating the ION memory allocator.
  • Distributions: Fedora mining for COPR; GNU Linux-libre 3.11, RebeccaBlackOS, ...
  • Development: Ubuntu's Click app format; Cassandra 2.0; MediaGoblin 0.5; the ALERT Project concludes; ...
  • Announcements: SUSE's LibreOffice team moves to Collabora, Microsoft plus Nokia, Thoughts on the CC Summit, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 29, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Adobe's open source font experience; Chromatic fonts; Calibre 1.0.
  • Security: Binary "diversity"; New vulnerabilities in chromium, glibc, kernel, wireshark, ...
  • Kernel: flink() flunks; TSO sizing and the FQ scheduler; Device namespaces; Cramming more into struct page.
  • Distributions: Debian LTS?; NetBSD, openSUSE, OSTree, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: An updated K-9 Mail; Upstart 1.10; PHP's evolution; GNOME 3.10 sighting; ...
  • Announcements: Biotech Startups Join Linux Foundation, Ubuntu Edge, Ada Initiative, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 22, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: SourceForge and adware installers; Scribus 1.4.3.
  • Security: Security software verifiability; New vulnerabilities in kernel, libtiff, puppet, putty, ...
  • Kernel: Deferring mtime and ctime updates; Some numbers from the 3.11 development cycle; The return of nftables.
  • Distributions: Ubuntu introduces phased updates; Elementary OS releases "Luna"; GNU Radio Live DVD, Fedora, ...
  • Development: CyanogenMod Account; QEMU 1.6; Laidout Folder for the web; Callbacks as our generation's GOTO; ...
  • Announcements: Groklaw shutting down, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 15, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: GTK++, stability, and the uncluttered future; The seven deadly sins of software deployment.
  • Security: Prompt-free security for GNOME; New vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin, putty, strongswan, vlc, ...
  • Kernel: Pondering 2038; KPortReserve and the multi-LSM problem; Optimizing preemption.
  • Distributions: Of rings and things; Elementary OS, Debian, Fedora, ...
  • Development: GNOME usability research; glibc 2.18; Plasma 4.11; a dither; ...
  • Announcements: Conference videos, GitHub, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 8, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: New GNOME components; Apps for GNOME desktops; Tor and browser vulnerabilities.
  • Security: Subverting HTTPS with BREACH; New vulnerabilities in chromium, gksu-polkit, mozilla, samba, ...
  • Kernel: A survey of memory management patches; Unreviewed code in 3.11.
  • Distributions: Changes brewing for openSUSE?; Jean-Baptiste Quéru quits AOSP, ...
  • Development: High-resolution displays in GNOME; Calligra 2.7; Bison 3.0; Firefox 23; ...
  • Announcements: News from FSF and FSFE; events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 1, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Fairphone; Non-profits, foundations, and umbrella organizations; Sailfish OS, Qt, and open source.
  • Security: Mozilla PiCL; New vulnerabilities in bind9, gnupg, java, mysql, ...
  • Kernel: I/O Hook; Transparent decompression for ext4; Device trees as ABI.
  • Distributions: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now; Fedora, RHEL, ...
  • Development: Guix brings GNU packages to you; LibreOffice 4.1; Lua turns 20; CyanogenMod's Focal app; ...
  • Announcements: Trolling Effects; the Replicant project; videos from the GNU Tools Cauldron; reports from Ada Initiative, FSFE, and MIT, ...

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