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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 July 2, 2009
(One big page)
- Front: C# and Mono; RealtimeKit and the audio problem; VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds.
- Security: Mozilla's Content Security Policy; New vulnerabilities in git, kdelibs, moodle, pam_krb5, ...
- Kernel: Soft updates, hard problems; Perfcounters; The fanotify API.
- Distributions: Ubuntu archive reorganization; openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 and YDL v6.2 released
- Development: VA API slowly -- but surely -- making progress, gcc-in-cxx phase 1, new versions of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Nagare, SuperCollider, Firefox, PHP, Python, Pycairo, bzr.
- Press: NetworkManager and ConnMan, How Linux News gets buried, talk by Jim Zemlin, Nvidia chooses Windows CE, Berlin art colleges choose Linux, reviews of Ksplice, KTechLab, Shuttle XS29f, Sugar on a Stick, AndroidFox speculation.
- Announcements: GNOME election results, Open Database License, LCA cfp, PostgreSQL conf cfp, LinuxCon program, Ohio Linux Fest, pyArkansas, SciPy student sponsorships.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 25, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: Amarok 2.1; Valencia moves to free software; OpenAerialMap
- Security: Apache attacked by a "slow loris"; New vulnerabilities in ctorrent, gforge, moin, vlc,...
- Kernel: 2.6.31 merge window, week 2; PRAMFS; Kernel design patterns - part 3
- Distributions: GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10; Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1; Fedora Board election results; openSUSE Factory is open; openArtist.
- Development: Interview with Frank Wierzbicki from the Jython project, ConnMan.net launched, XInput 2 blog, about:mozilla, new versions of BusyBox, Samba, libnfnetlink, Karrigell, GNOME, Sugar on a Stick, Wine, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Numexpr, bzr, git, libfiu.
- Press: Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much?, Why Parrot is Important, coverage of ODF Plugfest and Open Video Conf, OpenSource World keynotes, uncovering SCO's buyer, Linux on supercomputers, ScummVM vs. Atari, benchmarking Fedora, Android review.
- Announcements: EFF sues DOJ, FSFE announces new execs, Cisco's Wireless-N router, Intel and Nokia partner, Trophees du Libre, PSF Community Awards, Social Desktop Contest, CHASE cfp, InsideMobile cfp, ISOI cfp, XDC cfp, LCA keynote, OpenSource World keynotes, UKUUG conf, FreedomHEC videos.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 18, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: FreedomHEC Taipei 2009; Python and ipaddr.py; openSUSE readies for community contributions
- Security: Dealing with weakness in SHA-1; New vulnerabilities in acroread, coccinelle, firefox, tomcat,...
- Kernel: Merge window, part 1; Chunkfs; Avoiding a read-only filesystem on errors; Kernel design patterns, part 2
- Distributions: NixOS: purely functional system configuration management; new releases from Ubunty, Fedora Electronic Lab, and LXDE Fedora Remix; Fedora 9 eol; TITAN LEV.
- Development: Rob Savoye on the Cygnal rich media server, Android Scripting Environment, new versions of MySQL, py-postgresql, SQLite, Samba, bobo, lv2fil, samurai-x, pdfrecycle, cairo, PyQt, openopt, Moovida, a2jmidid, zynjacku, Firefox, Parrot, Jython, SIP.
- Press: Linux first to offer USB 3.0, KOffice Sprint, Network Manager Sprint, SCO rises, Android and Linux adoption, Pankaj Kedia interview, hacking the Palm Pre, Linux Foundation's online training.
- Announcements: EFF on wiretapping, subdomain patent and ACTA, Gnash Summer Bash, Kineo supports Moodle, ODBMS.ORG awards, Linux on mainframes growth, XtreemOS Summer School, LCA miniconf call, NLUUG cfp, PostgreSQL JP cfp, DebConf9 keysigning, Flash Memory Summit, Desktop Summit keynotes.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: The LGPL and video codecs; OpenMoko; PiTiVi video editor; Sugar moves from the shadow of OLPC
- Security: Passive OS fingerprinting; New vulnerabilities in apr-util, ecryptfs-utils, file, kernel,...
- Kernel: Runtime power management; Poke-a-hole and friends; Linux Kernel Design Patterns - Part 1
- Distributions: Linux Mint 7 "Gloria"; Fedora 11; Source Mage Cauldron 0.10.0; StormOS beta; Fedora elections.
- Development: Interview with the GNU Radio project's Johnathan Corgan, Garrett on the Palm Pre, Seigo on building brand, SPARK toolsuite GPL'ed, new versions of MySQL, Slony1-ctl, squeal, Page Speed, Webware for Python, Gnucap+, Quadra, Wine, Moovida, jsonlib2, Arduino, GIT.
- Press: Knuth on software patents, George Greve on software branding, Unix turns 40, Moblin at Computex, Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems, SAP's open-source motives, reviews of CrunchPad, Acer Aspire One D150, Fedora 11, Ubuntu Studio, Anti-ODF campaign.
- Announcements: mimio joins LF, Where 2.0 Conf report, DeepSec cfp, EC2ND cfp, LPC cfp, Desktop Summit Platinum sponsors, LinuxCon offers LPC discount, EFF launches TOSBack.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 4, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions; Vala and Clojure; Waiting for Google Chrome.
- Security: Google's Native Client; New vulnerabilities in drupal, kernel, libsndfile, php-smart,...
- Kernel: How many page flags do we really have?; Xen again; Page sanitization, part 2.
- Distributions: An interview with openSUSE community manager Joe Brockmeier; openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2; OpenSolaris 2009.06; Fedora 11 slips again; Some openSUSE Factory changes.
- Development: Jetpack: Firefox extensions as they should be, new versions of MySQL, PowerConsole, BusyBox, TurboGears, SUMMON, GNOME, KDE, Butterfly FPGA, VMPK, HylaFAX, KOffice, IcedTea, Rakudo Perl 6, SLV2.
- Press: Free software in the recession, IBM's Linux mainframe push, Microsoft and Firefox extensions, Novel profits, UN promotes Linux for schools, Python Web Frameworks, Xorg's LLVM, Google Chromium alpha review, multi-core SoC, Nilfs2 filesystem review.
- Announcements: FSF's AdBard, Openmoko's future, PLplot's 10K milestone, USRP v2, 26C3 cfp, ACSAC cfp extended, FRHACK cfp extended, SELinux Summit cfp, DebConf11 call for location, EuroSciPy presentations, LPI's 10th at LinuxTag, PyPy EU Sprints, savannah.gnu.org RAID failure, Bilski goes to Supreme Court.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: New rules for software contracts; Activities and the move to context-oriented desktops; OpenSMTPD.
- Security: Sanitizing kernel memory; New vulnerabilities in apache, cscope, openssl, pidgin,...
- Kernel: Developer statistics for 2.6.30; Compcache; An updated guide to debugfs.
- Distributions: Nexenta Core Platform 2: OpenSolaris for human beings; Linux Mint 7; CentOS-5.3 i386 live CD; Ekaaty Linux; NixOS.
- Development: Debating icon names and ad-hoc specifications, Haskell report, new versions of rsplib, SQLite, LIRC, GNOME, GNU Radio, Wine, SquirrelMail, PiTiVi, Parrot, CodeInvestigator, Pydev, bzr.
- Press: Free Software Will Kill Redmond, Ubuntu/Android integration, Intel does software, Nokia Maemo 5, Vancouver uses Linux, WiiFit interface, Riccardo Calixte wins in court, Red Hat Sues Switzerland, Berrange and Poettering interviews, reviews of Ksimus and Ubicom router.
- Announcements: Wikipedia license change, FSF awards, White Camel Award nominations, desktop Linux survey, RailsConf coverage, Linux-Kongress cfp, Power Management Mini-Summit, openSUSE Conf cfp, PostgreSQL Conf JP cfp, ICOODB 2009, LinuxCon speakers, VMware's Racetrack Repository.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: EGLIBC; Transmageddon and Arista; GNOME's Javascript bindings.
- Security: Enabling DRM in the kernel?; New vulnerabilities in cyrus-sasl, drupal, ipsec-tools, kernel, ...
- Kernel: This week's reflink() API; Block layer request queue API changes; Being nicer to executable pages.
- Distributions: Rescue and recovery distributions; new releases of Foresight Linux, jibbed, Mandriva Pulse, Moblin, Red Hat, Slackware64, Tin Hat and Ubuntu.
- Development: PIM Data Synchronization: Why is it so hard?, AxTk: speech for wxWidgets, liburcu relicensed, Open Source misconceptions, new versions of SQLite, SQLObject, web2py, Xen, nginx, Audacious, TkEca, rst2pdf, pyFltk, wxPython.
- Press: OpenSSH security hole, Moblin review, Fedora's naming scheme, MySQL openness, Open Database Alliance.
- Announcements: Gnash V9 Summer Bash, GNOME foundation elections, Linux Foundation and Microsoft, OpenMoko gta02, SciPy cfp, BugCON postponed, Cyber Warfare Conf registration, LPC keynotes, OpenMoko phones for DebConf, Python Concurrency list, ESP wiki, Rails 3.0 webcast.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: On GNOME and its Foundation: an interview with Luis Villa; Open fonts; NLUUG: The bright future of Linux filesystems.
- Security: Random numbers for ASLR; New vulnerabilities in gnutls, kernel, ldns, squirrelmail,...
- Kernel: Seccomp and sandboxing; TuxOnIce: in from the cold?; Which I/O controller is the fairest of them all?
- Distributions: Looking forward to Fedora 11; Frields: Is this your stop?; Kongoni GNU Linux; Ubuntu is the Linux Usability Leader (LinuxPlanet)
- Development: The KDE Social Desktop's first appearance, Qt goes public, new versions of SQLite, SQLObject, sqlparse, TestDisk, Pyzor, Jopr, psutil, Zenoss, GNOME, Inforama, Whirlygig USB RNG, Wine, SquirrelMail, GNUmed, OO.o, JUnique, SfePy, SyncML, LDTP, GIT, monotone.
- Press: Trademarks: The Hidden Menace, LAC coverage, Dekoenigsberg interview, Hervey interview, Jyrinki interview, facts about ODF, Ubuntu One cloud service.
- Announcements: 2020 FLOSS roadmap call for contribution, FSF free software activist internship program, Gnash needs donations, Intel and Nokia partner on oFono, MontaVista Linux 6, new rPath CEO, R6xx/R7xx 3D guide, open-source awards, Black Hat Vegas, openSUSE Community Week, PHP TestFest, Linux.com relaunched.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: Updating and rebuilding Android; Unladen swallow: accelerating Python; Tomboy, Gnote, and the limits of forks.
- Security: The Firefox extension war; New vulnerabilities in apache, kernel, libwmf, memcached,...
- Kernel: The return of devfs; Long discussions about long names; The two sides of reflink().
- Distributions: NetBSD 5.0; new releases from Mandriva, openSUSE, hackable:1 and several *BSD; Debian switching to EGLIBC; No deltarpms in Fedora 11.
- Development: SchoolTool Finishes Its Foundations, ODF Spreadsheet Interop update, Xesam Spec, new versions of MySQL, python-ldap, flashrom, python-graph, SchoolTool, Qucs, Jackbeat, midish, KDE, Emacs, SLV2, bzr.
- Press: Mozilla Firefox extensions battle, SCO goes Chapter 7, Sen. Rockefeller promotes open-source health care, Using the Facebook stream API, ten favorite development tools, Whatever Happened to OOXML?.
- Announcements: GNOME Foundation seeks help, Springsource acquires Hyperic, Linux cloud computing whitepaper, Community RFB protocol spec, LJ Readers' Choice Award, ELC-EU cfp, Hack.lu cfp, Piksel09 cfp, CONFidence trainings, OSCON registration, End Software Patents wiki, My developerWorks.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 30, 2009
( One big page)
- Front: Visualizing memory usage with smem; Shell and Zeitgeist: the future of GNOME?; Eucalyptus and Ubuntu.
- Security: Linux ASLR vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in clamav, firefox, freetype, MySQL,...
- Kernel: USB and fast booting; On the value of static tracepoints; KSM tries again.
- Distributions: Can you hear me now?; Ubuntu 9.04 released; openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1 released; Fedora 11 preview release; Linux-libre for Debian Lenny; Karmic Koala open for development; wattOS
- Development: Reopening iFolder, Packard on the state of Linux graphics, new versions of Embedded Xen, Midgard, XMMS2, Scribus, Ember, Inkscape, eLynx SDK, Wine, OpenQReg, Elisa, Firefox, HylaFAX, Parrot, Rakudo Perl 6, PyPy, JUnit, bzr.
- Press: Microsoft's TomTom patents posted for patent review, Steve Wozniak interview, Music Notation Software part 2, Android being ported to MIPS, Minix research funding extended.
- Announcements: Wiki operator sues Apple, Ulteo's OVD, Android 1.5 firmware, RTLWS cfp, WOOT cfp, Linux Audio Conference videos.
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