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 May 24, 2012
(One big page )
Front : Tizen 1.0 developer device; "Community" Mandriva; uTouch architecture
Security : openSUSE security policy; New vulnerabilities in chromium, libxml2, pidgin-otr, sudo, ...
Kernel : The 3.5 merge window opens; Preparing for nonvolatile RAM; Removing four bytes from the kernel ABI.
Distributions : Moving on; Debian, Mageia, Mandriva, ...
Development : Different intentions toward web intents; libgit2, LLVM, ownCloud, printerd, ...
Announcements : Google wins patent case, Ada Initiative granted tax-exempt status, Make Play Live Partner Network, openSUSE conference.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 17, 2012
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One big page )
Front : GIMP at LGM; Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich; Highlights from the PostgreSQL 9.2 beta.
Security : A ".secure" top-level domain; New vulnerabilities in chromium, connman, ffmpeg, roundcubemail, ...
Kernel : Ext* user and group mount options; printk() tweaks; A bcache update.
Distributions : Stable distributions and unstable software; Debian, Red Hat, ...
Development : Unusual typography; ConnMan, Kdenlive, Symphony, tig, ...
Announcements : LF T-shirt design contest, new books, and lots of events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 10, 2012
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One big page )
Front : Who owns your data?; Reporting from the Tizen Developer Conference; Accounting systems.
Security : Internet censorship and OONI; New vulnerabilities in argyllcms, kernel, php, python3, ...
Kernel : The CoDel queue management algorithm; Statistics from the 3.4 development cycle; Supporting multi-platform ARM kernels.
Distributions : Who should maintain Python for Debian?; Fedora, Mandriva, ...
Development : LGM: Inkscape quietly evolves into a development platform; Apache OpenOffice, GIMP, nPth, sigrok, ...
Announcements : GNOME's outreach program for women, TDF Certification program, Oracle v. Google, SAS v. WPL, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 3, 2012
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One big page )
Front : An uphill battle for LibreOffice; The plumbing layer as the new kernel; A report from the Linux Audio Conference.
Security : Cybersecurity and CISPA; New vulnerabilities in bugzilla, imagemagick, nginx, samba, ...
Kernel : Better active/inactive list balancing; TCP connection repair; Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI.
Distributions : Kubuntu gets a new sponsor, OpenBSD, Tails, Tizen, Ubuntu, Yocto, ...
Development : X11R7.7; Ceres solver, ODB, OpenShift Origin, ...
Announcements : ColorHug, LAC videos, Oracle v. Google, open hardware, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 26, 2012
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One big page )
Front : LLVM and Linux; GCC and static analysis; The return of the Unix wars?; LWN's new editor.
Security : Quantum random numbers; New vulnerabilities in dropbear, kernel, Mozilla products, wicd, ...
Kernel : O_HOT and O_COLD; Toward a safer fput(); A library for seccomp filters.
Distributions : Mageia nears its second release; Fedora architecture promotion requirements adopted, Red Hat, Scientific Linux, Swift Linux, ...
Development : The first Calligra release; dwz, gitolite, openssh, symphony, ...
Announcements : Linus Torvalds a finalist for MTP, LAC 2012 proceedings, LPI "Linux Essentials", Peru's OLPC Implementation, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 19, 2012
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One big page )
Front : OIN's Linux System Definition; The future of GLIBC; Lightspark and Gnash.
Security : The perils of desktop tracking; New vulnerabilities in gajim, kernel, moodle, swftools, ...
Kernel : Uninitialized file blocks; Toward more reliable logging; Release bureaucracy; LTTng part 2.
Distributions : Whither Mandriva?; Fedora, FreeBSD, ...
Development : MythTV 0.25; Bzr, Calligra, LV2, PacketFence, ...
Announcements : LF Collaboration Summit videos and slides, MapOSMatic, Linux Security Summit, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 12, 2012
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One big page )
Front : Trademarks for free software projects; Bug reports: information or spam?; LFCS 2012: The kernel panel.
Security : SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default; New vulnerabilities in chromium, puppet, samba, tiff, ...
Kernel : SCHED_DEADLINE; User namespaces; Finding the right evolutionary niche; LTTng 2.0 part 1.
Distributions : Webconverger 12; Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, ...
Development : X and Wayland; DEAP, Pan, PostGIS, ...
Announcements : OLPC in Peru, Linux for electric cars, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 5, 2012
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One big page )
Front : Why bother supporting ARM?; An update on Oracle v. Google; Runtime filesystem consistency checking.
Security : Libsecret revealed; New vulnerabilities in chromium, freeradius, phpmyadmin, rpm, ...
Kernel : 3.4 Merge window part 3; Extensive Linux storage, filesystem, and memory management summit coverage.
Distributions : DuckDuck Debian?; Debian, Gentoo, OmniOS, ...
Development : Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser; Leo, libam7xxx, netsniff-ng, ...
Announcements : Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft, FSF Free Software Award winners, Project Gado, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 29, 2012
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One big page )
Front : ZeroMQ and Crossroads I/O; Fedora release naming; A turning point for GNU libc.
Security : OpenOffice and document encryption portability; New vulnerabilities in chromium, freetype, openssl, php, ...
Kernel : 3.4 Merge window part 2; IMA appraisal extension; AutoNUMA.
Distributions : Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A distribution for education; Scientific Linux, Vector, ...
Development : Taskwarrior 2.0; Cairo, Django, Go, glibc, ...
Announcements : Collaborative editing in LibreOffice, Enforcing the GPL, Nonprofit open source organizations, software patents, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 22, 2012
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One big page )
Front : Fedora mulls ARM as a primary architecture; Mozilla reconsiders H.264; The N9: what MeeGo could have been.
Security : Shadow hardening; New vulnerabilities in chromium, kernel, libpng, systemd, ...
Kernel : Linsched; 3.4 Merge window part 1; The perils of pr_info(); Toward better NUMA scheduling.
Distributions : Distributions looking at LLVM; Anonymous OS, Bodhi, Fedora, GNU Linux-libre, Mythbuntu, ...
Development : Perl 5.16 and beyond; Crossroads I/O, Git, notmuch, xpra, ...
Announcements : Seigo: Spark becomes Vivaldi, Greg KH interview, Openmobility conference, LSM, LPC, ...
