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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 February 4, 2010
(One big page)
- Front: Mozilla and CNNIC; HTML5 video; Samba with Active Directory; Piwik.
- Security: Security in the 20-teens; New vulnerabilities in bltk, kernel, moodle, zabbix,...
- Kernel: Improving readahead; The x86_64 DOS hole; Lockdep-RCU
- Distributions: Fedora's privilege escalation policy proposal; new releases from Debian, openSUSE, Owl, Tiny Core and Ubuntu; Noteworthy Mandriva Cooker changes; Jono Bacon: Connecting The Opportunistic Dots.
- Development: Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable, new versions of MySQL, BusyBox, Tahoe, Apache, flashrom, Non DAW and Non Mixer, GNOME, Claws Mail, KMid2, Lashstudio, Minicomputer, HipHop, Cython, Scripy, Arduino, libfishsound, Mercurial.
- Announcements: iPad and freedom, ATI Catalyst 10.1 drivers, Oracle's plans, Lessig on copyright, FSF on Google Book Search, IFOSLR, Android and kernel mods, Shuttleworth on copyright assignment, Free Technology Academy, Akademy cfp, Collaboration Summit cfp, GUADEC volunteers, Panama MiniDebConf.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2010
( One big page)
- Front: LCA special: Overview; Static analysis with GCC plugins; HackAbility.
- Security: Encrypting users' web data with Grendel; New vulnerabilities in acroread, dokuwiki, kernel, phpgroupware,...
- Kernel: fincore(); Graphics drivers; Back to the drawing board for utrace?; Replacing ptrace().
- Distributions: Fedora launches Cloud SIG; Debian Edu lenny rc1; Guitar-ZyX LiveOS 0.4.1; EOL for Debian 4.0; Brockmeier leaves Novell, new community manager wanted; Ubuntu changes to Yahoo; ArchCon2010.
- Development: Numerical computations with Scilab 5.2, GNOME in 2010, KDE Tech Talks new versions of SpamAssassin, Kamailio, Apache Lenya, Ardour, Mozilla Lightning, Veusz, KDE, PyQt, SIP, Urwid, Wine, GNUmed, Pyspread, Firefox, GCC, IcedTea6, Parrot, simavr, LDTP, Git.
- Announcements: Opensource.com launch, Red Hat state of union, EU clears Oracle/Sun, MS sues TiVo, Kindle Dev Kit, SUSE Appliance Toolkit, Operating System Tracing, LSE migrates to Linux, Misa Guitar, GUADEC cfp, OSCON cfp, Cloud Computing Forum, FTC Privacy Roundtable, Global Ignite Week, Python Ireland, SCALE schedule, Thailand MiniDebCamp.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 21, 2010
( One big page)
- Front: LCA: How to destroy your community; Getting things done in Linux; Disney and Sony release 3-D modeling utilities
- Security: BackTrack 4: the security professional's toolbox; New vulnerabilities in bind, glibc, gzip, kernel,...
- Kernel: LCA: Why filesystems are hard; Uprobes: not quite there yet; Secrets of the Ftrace function tracer
- Distributions: LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data; new releases of AV Linux, openSUSE Build Service, Open Xange, Pardus Linux, Puredyne, and Ubuntu 'Lucid'.
- Development: 0MQ: A new approach to messaging, Android development overview, Camp KDE report, new versions of mpd, Samba, moin, Tinyproxy, CoffeeSaint, SystemTap, Audacity, GNOME, SQL-Ledger, MusE, Qtractor, Perl, py.test, LDTP, monotone.
- Announcements: EFF petitions FCC on net neutrality, Ted Ts'o changes jobs, linux.conf.au live feeds, AthCon cfp, Power Management cfp, Collaboration Summit cfp, Linux Foundation 2010 Events, Debian Developer Japan/BSP conf, OOoCon 2011 call for location, Linux.com job board.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 14, 2010
( One big page)
- Front: When does a bug turn into a feature?; The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review; RawTherapee.
- Security: SSH: passwords or keys?; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kernel, pdns-recursor, sendmail,...
- Kernel: sys_membarrier(); FBAC-LSM; Speculating on page faults.
- Distributions: Ubuntu Women Project; Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring alpha1; Fedora Advisory Board; Ubuntu Developer Week.
- Development: Log message classification with syslog-ng, libvirt examined, location aware search, new versions of SQLObject, Samba, RPM, Amarok, Klactoveedsedstene, GPGME, Wine, Claws Mail, Jato.
- Announcements: CodePlex Foundation's first 100 days, Stallman on GPL exceptions, DRM and video standards, California ok's open-source, Jim Whitehurst interview, Moblin and Linux at CES, LAC call for music, Linux-Kongress cfp, Netbook Summit cfp, sambaXP cfp, OpenClinica, PGCon.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 7, 2010
( One big page)
- Front: The SAY2K10 bug; CS education and free software; Looking forward to 2010
- Security: GSM encryption crack made public; New vulnerabilities in automake, kernel, NetworkManager, wireshark,...
- Kernel: Restricting the network; Memory compaction; RCU strings.
- Distributions: XtreemOS; news from Debian, Mandriva and Ubuntu.
- Development: A look at Thunderbird 3, Getting to Samba 4, KDE in 2009, new versons of mpd, MySQL, SQLite, OpenChange, sendmail, conntrack-tools, stdeb, Midgard, JackEQ, jcgui, GNOME, MapOSMatic, SPTK, Scilab, ams, HylaFAX, Firefox, Forban, Numpy, Git, Mercurial, GNU patch.
- Announcements: Red Hat results, MySQL campaign, sonos experience, Childsplay review, Linux Gazette returns, Kernel performance tracking, OLPC 2012, Bossa Conf cfp, OSCON cfp, OSDC.TW cfp, FOSDEM interviews, LibrePlanet conf.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 24, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: A 2009 retrospective; EtherPad; 2009 Linux and free software timeline
- Security: Linux malware: an incident and some solutions; New vulnerabilities in condor, drupal, ganeti, rails,...
- Kernel: Two that didn't make it; Writing an ACPI driver - an introduction; Debugging the kernel using Ftrace - part 2.
- Distributions: A quick and grumpy look at ChromeOS; Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha2; openSUSE: Linux for Education; Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 RC; Fedora 10 End of Life; Red Hat to Drop Itanium Support; Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul.
- Development: FreeNAS 0.7; The Free Firewire Audio Drivers reach version 2.0, PostgreSQL to get Hot Standby, new versions of ALSA, MySQL, VirtualBox, Midgard2, GNOME, GnuPG, Wine, FluidSynth, MusE, Roundup, digiKam, Moonlight 2, Parrot, Perl, PHP, GDB, bzr, Git.
- Announcements: FAI turns 10, Shuttleworth stepping down, Moonlight covenant text, 10 Linux developments, GPL Compliance Engineering Guide, copyright assignment, meaning of open, FOSS intro, FUDCon survey, OSCON cfp, TLF cfp, MySQL Conf, LLVM Blog.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 17, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: GNOME ponders its code of conduct; Openmoko's WikiReader; Some thoughts on MySQL and Oracle.
- Security: TCP cookie transactions; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, cacti, firefox, kernel,...
- Kernel: 2.6.33 merge window part 2; Redesigning asynchronous suspend/resume; The abrupt merging of Nouveau.
- Distributions: Sidux 2009-03 "Momos"; new releases: GNUSTEP CD 2.0, Jolicloud beta, Omega and Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 1; Unity Linux.
- Development: Backup and restore PostgreSQL with pg-rman, hacking the Nook, exploring Nepomuk, new versions of Gluster, MySQL, BusyBox, pysensor, Karrigell, jack_mixer, python-graph, Libgcrypt, Distribute, GIT, security releases of PostgreSQL, Firefox and Seamonkey.
- Announcements: Oracle on MySQL, SPICE virtualization open-sourced, BusyBox lawsuit, MS licenses exFAT, Open Source Hardware guide, French military uses Thunderbird, Open Color Standard, GMA500 graphics issues, Red Hat Virtual Experience coverage, FOSDEM/GNOME cfp, PGconf cfp, Global Ignite Week.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 10, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: A look at Qt 4.6; SELinux and PostgreSQL: a worthwhile union?; 2009 Timeline Q2
- Security: Pogoplug makes internet data sharing easy; New vulnerabilities in grub2, kernel, kvm, ntp,...
- Kernel: 2.6.33 merge window part 1; Minimizing instrumentation impacts; Debugging the kernel using Ftrace - part 1
- Distributions: FreeBSD 8: an evolutionary release of the unknown giant; new releases of AV Linux 3.0, Calculate Linux 10.0, Fedora 12 LXDE Spin and SimplyMEPIS 8.5 beta1; Interview with Klaus Knopper; ClearOS review.
- Development: The Twisted networking framework version 9.0.0, Mobile Firefox, Systemtap meets Python, new versions of rsplib, SQLite, moin, GNOME, LyX, Cyphesis, Wine, Thunderbird, Patchage, Pyro, Git.
- Announcements: Google Public DNS, Artifex sues Palm, Anatomy of a GPL Violation, LAM Best of 2009, Intel 48 core processor, Sugar on a Stick v2, Graphics Survey Results, DjangoSki cfp, PostgreSQL/FOSDEM cfp, Django Sprint, L2Ork debut track.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 3, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: Between Fedora 12 and 13; UDS from an embedded hacker's perspective; Tomboy and Gnote.
- Security: On the importance of return codes; New vulnerabilities in awstats, bind, kdelibs, php,...
- Kernel: Utrace; Eliminating rwlocks and IRQF_DISABLED; Kernel support for infrared receivers.
- Distributions: Ubuntu 9.10: the koala is facing the cloud; new releases of FreeBSD, Linux Mint, Mandriva Flash, Tiny Core; Debian 6.0 to be released in summer 2010?; Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package; distribution mini-conf at FOSDEM; reviews of Linux Mint and RedHawk.
- Development: Pyspread - a Python-based Spreadsheet application, KDE activities, new versions of libshcodecs, Moblin Toolkit, VirtualBox, KDE, pcb, Jackbeat, PianoBooster, BleachBit, ciss.
- Announcements: EC caves on interoperability, CELF looking for projects to fund, Linux and astronomy, Dell releases Chrome OS, Senate pushes Sun acquisition to EU, LAC cfp, PGCon cfp, GUADEC schedule, L2Ork performance, UKUUG conf, disappearance Of Phil Agre.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 26, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review; Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation; The 2009 Linux and free software timeline - Q1.
- Security: Firefox locks down the components directory; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, opera, php, qemu,...
- Kernel: Who wrote 2.6.32; Journal-guided RAID resync; Videobuf.
- Distributions: Fedora 12: a conversation with Paul Frields; new releases of Chromium OS, KNOPPIX, Owl, and SimplyMEPIS; Fedora 12 updates PackageKit; Nouveau To Enter The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Kernel.
- Development: digiKam approaches 1.0, Moblin UI design, Haskell report, new versions of JACK, mpd, PulseAudio, Caribou, MySQL, Exim, lighttpd, ControlTier, GNOME, Inkscape, SfePy, KOffice, Perl, PHP, Cython, Tcl/Tk, tig.
- Announcements: FSFE feast, FSF works with PayPal, new LPI partners, State of Mozilla, GTLL on open standards, Sony Ericsson's WebSDK, Chrome OS press event, Free Technology Academy, FOMS cfp, LAC cfp, DrupalSouth, PostgreSQL vs MySQL.
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