LWN.net Weekly Edition Archives [LWN.net]

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:

All guest articles, indexed by author.
The Grumpy Editor series of software reviews.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 8, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Rietveld; How not to sell embedded Linux; Blizzard tests the reach of copyright law.
Security: Cryptographic splicing makes for a Wordpress vulnerability; New vulnerabilities in b2evolution, emacs, kernel (several), and wordpress
Kernel: The last things through the 2.6.26 merge window; Time to slow down?; Read-only bind mounts.
Distributions: Looking ahead to Mandriva Linux 2009; new releases: easys GNU/Linux 4.1, F9 beta for ia64, Fedora 8 Updated Re-Spin, gNewSense 2.0, Mandriva 2008 Spring Xfce, OpenBSD 4.3, OpenSolaris 2008.05, openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2, Slackware 12.1
Development: Pygments - the Python Syntax Highlighter, a look at Qt 4.4, Wine release countdown, new versions of pgDesigner, sendmail, libprngwrap, OSSEC HIDS, nginx, Mandriva Directory Server, KDE, Wine, Rosegarden, PHP, Sphinx, eric, Bazaar.
Press: A Brief History of Sun, LJ Readers' Choice Awards, Linux Fest Northwest coverage, Dell is Vista-only in .au, A Brief History of Sun, Ekiga developers interviewed, ruggedized PDA.
Announcements: EFF on border searches, Perl Foundation grant proposals, Samba volunteer jobs, Adobe's Open Screen Project, OpenEMR training, Akademy cfp extended, OOoCon cfp, OSDC cfp, PyOhio cfp, PyPy sprint, openSUSE blog platform.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 1, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Large educational Linux deployment for Brazil; Sun and corporate open source; On the conviction of Hans Reiser.
Security: The Tahoe secure filesystem; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, kdelibs, ldm, wordpress,...
Kernel: The 2.6.26 merge window, part 2; Restricting root with per-process securebits; Ksplice.
Distributions: Distributions in the Summer of Code; The Heron has landed; Slackware 12.1 RC3; Gentoo 2008.0_beta2; Fedora 7 End of Life; Ubuntu Open Week
Development: Stream video and audio with Boxtream, GNOME 2.24 roadmap, Python stdlib reorg, subversion's future, new versions of Firebird, FreeIPA, Wubi, GARNOME, GnuCash, OpenCards, UFO:Alien Invasion, FLTK, jack-smf-utils.
Press: Stallman: Can we rescue OLPC from Windows?, Linux and Formula One, Linux training in Italy, ten arguments for switching to Linux, Linux is top embedded OS, interviews with Sung Jae, Donald Knuth, Joe Miller and Walter Bender, open-source video streaming, Phoronix Test Suite.
Announcements: LWN guest author index, KDE for 52M Brazilian students, Linux Incompatibility List needs help, OLPC photos, GSoC projects, CadSoft Eagle 5.0, OpenLogic hits 400 package mark, VIA driver development portal, OSSCoNF cfp, YAPC::NA schedule, Paul McKenney on Realtime Linux.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 24, 2008 (One big page)

Front: The Grumpy Editor encounters the Hardy Heron; ELC: A taste of the conference; OLPC at a turning point.
Security: Image handling vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in clamav, cups, firefox, openoffice.org,...
Kernel: The 2.6.26 merge window opens; 4K stacks by default?; ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community; Dyntick and preemptable RCU.
Distributions: Distribution-friendly projects Part 3; Fedora 9 Preview; openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1; RedHawk Linux 5.1; Slackware 12.1 RC2; Ubuntu 8.04 LTS; Vyatta Community Edition 4; Ubuntu your way from 64 Studio Ltd; Webconverger; Ubuntu Live 2008
Development: Firebird adds new features with version 2.1, OO.o security release, new versions of SQLite, BusyBox, Cooperative Linux, mod_perl, SMPL, SBLIM, Renoise, GNOME, Scribus, Ember, Wine, Claws Mail, ladosc, Strasheela, eSpeak, Ubuntuzilla, GJDoc, OpenXava, SBCL, GIT.
Press: OLPC shakeup, Curl supports Ubuntu, Microsoft and Novell to sell Linux in China, Linux vs Windows reliability, Daisuke Kameda interview, Benchmarking Linux filesystems with software RAID.
Announcements: NLnet supports KOffice, Walter Bender leaves OLPC, OSI board election, experimental CrossOver builds, O'Reilly InPractice, DeepSec cfp, GUADEC/Akademy cfp, FreedomHEC, GUADEMY program, monotone Developer Summit, RailsConf registration, Rockbox EU Devcon.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 17, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Turnitin and fair use; ELC: Trends in embedded Linux; Notes from the Collaboration Summit.
Security: GCC and pointer overflows; New vulnerabilities in libpng, python, rsync, squid, ...
Kernel: TOMOYO Linux and pathname-based security; e1000 v. e1000e; OMFS and the value of obscure filesystems; Bisection.
Distributions: An LWN.net Distribution List update; BeleniX 0.7; Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated; Update to openSUSE Build Service; AltimatOS is seeking developers...; Draco GNU/Linux
Development: The Cairo Project reaches a new milestone, new versions of ClamAV, KontrolPack, NanoStack, Zenoss, RPM, mnoGoSearch, Ardour, Sweep, Azureus Vuze, Fred, GNOME, Qucs, Strasheela, puppy, monotone, Concur memory allocator.
Press: My kid hates Linux, Android talk at LugRadio Live, Kate Developer Meeting, RSA 2008 conf, Google App Engine, HP launches Mini-Note PC, Sun committed to Linux in LAMP, Linux based Cisco routers, Firebird for ARM, ASP.NET AJAX for Linux, Top Open Source Software for Medical Pros.
Announcements: Open source and SaaS, PlayOgg.org campaign, UKUUG opposes fast-tracking of OOXML, MIPS Hot Spot kernel analyzer, SUSE appliance program, Qt Centre Programming Contest, CCRMA Summer Workshop, Cyber Defense Competition, Django events, LF Legal Summit, Mobile Computing Conf, OSCON registration, WebGUI Users Conf.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 10, 2008 (One big page)

Front: OpenSSH bug falls through the cracks; Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit; Video forums for free software
Security: Backscatter increase clogs inboxes; New vulnerabilities in alsaplayer, flash-plugin, pdns-recursor, PolicyKit,...
Kernel: Memory allocation failures and scary warnings; Improving syncookies; vringfd()
Distributions: Distribution-friendly projects Part 2; Fedora Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot; GNUstep CD 1.6; Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring; openSUSE-Education 1.0 RC2 for openSUSE 10.3; Slackware 12.1 RC1; Ulteo Application System Beta; Debian release update
Development: Design simple menus with Cursed Menu, GCJ Eclipse improvements, new versions of phpPgAdmin, ZRM, Mandriva Directory Server, CUPS, OpenSSH, Apache-SSL, jack_capture, TPM Manager, xpra, libwfut, Wine, wineasio, Strasheela, pytagsfs, OpenSwing, Python, libfishsound, MathGL, Test-Run, GIT.
Press: Too Much about Hate, Not Enough about Pride, Linux Collaboration Summit, Adobe releases AIR, Sun and Ubuntu, Swiss schools dump dual-boot for Linux, looking for a open-source savvy lawyers, reviews of CHDK, HP mini-PC and SanDisk Sansa.
Announcements: ESP briefs Court in Bilski case, health expert collaboration, MyMiniPC launched, KDE and Wikimedia collaborate, Microsoft releases more protocol docs, VIA' driver development initiative, report on Australian open source industry, EuroPython cfp, Recon cfp, Libre Graphics Meeting, Mobile Linux Conf, NYC AppSec, Ruby hackfest.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 3, 2008 (One big page)

Front: OOXML gets ISO approval; WebKit rising; A creative example of the value of free drivers.
Security: Biometrics for identification; New vulnerabilities in capp-lspp-config, cups, gnome-screensaver, xine-lib
Kernel: Toward better direct I/O scalability; UBIFS; Where 2.6.25 came from.
Distributions: Debian Project Leader Election 2008; Gentoo 2008.0_beta1; Fedora 8 Re-Spin from Fedora Unity; Fedora Rawhide snapshot; openSUSE Board election proposal; UbuntuHCL.org; Myrinix
Development: SDCC, the Small Device C Compiler, How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?, Akonadi Sprint, new versions of GPB, libdomainkeys, PowerDNS Recursor, Twisted, OpenSSH, Ardour, xmonad, Inkscape, gEDA Binary Suite, GnuPG, eWorld, Csound, AbiWord, OO.o, CodeInvestigator, GNU Emacs, GIT.
Press: Aaron Seigo interview, Linux survives hacking contest, Asian Linux user groups, UK embedded conf, the Future of the OS, Adobe joins Linux Foundation, Oracle to give away clustering software, GNOME 2.22 review, ten years of browsing, Groklaw on Microsoft's OSP.
Announcements: Google Summer of Code announcements, OSA launches European chapter, running old browsers, Volantis releases Mobility Server, Linux Foundation kernel development paper, shareware redistribution of free software, LPI Security exam, Nordic Perl Workshop cfp, The Mobile Future conf, PHP TestFest, Ruby conf, intellectual property symposium.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 27, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Striking gold in binutils; Toward a free metaverse; Bruce Perens and the OSI board.
Security: Voting machine integrity through transparency; New vulnerabilities in firefox, openssh, xine-lib, xwine,...
Kernel: Kernel markers and binary-only modules; Predictive ELF bitmaps; Atomic context and kernel API design.
Distributions: Distribution-friendly projects - Part 1; Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta; Fedora 9 beta; Fifteen years of NetBSD; 2 linux-libre kernels; SliTaz GNULinux
Development: Introducing Sphinx, the Python documentation toolchain, Free Telephony Project ports to Blackfin, new versions of BusyBox, xsel, GNU Radio, GnuPG, Semeir, SQL-Ledger, Games for Eclipse, Fraqtive, Wine, HOgg, Chandler, PyKeylogger, JOSSO, Parrot, Bazaar, Mercurial.
Press: Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It, a look at the patent reform bill, India cans OOXML, the story of Meraki, reviews of KDE 4.1, Xenomai/SOLO, AlertMe.
Announcements: Curl turns 10, Document Freedom Day, GSoC announcements, CrossOver Games, Microsoft open source lab tour, Groklaw gets FSF award, AMK on PyCon 2008, ELC 2008, LinuxWorld's Linux Garage.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 20, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Python gears up for major releases; Who maintains dpkg?; Installfest generates 350 Linux computers for schools.
Security: Breaking CAPTCHA; New vulnerabilities in cups, krb5, smarty, unzip,...
Kernel: Generic semaphores; The return of authoritative hooks; A new suspend/hibernate infrastructure.
Distributions: Electing the openSUSE board; 64 Studio 2.1rc1, Debian Installer Lenny Beta1, Foresight 2.0, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 2, Ulteo Application System Beta1; Clonezilla Live
Development: The Banshee Music Management and Playback Utility, new XCB socket handoff mechanism, GNOME and Python release schedules, new versions of DbUnit, PostgreSQL, SQLite, umtsmon, allmydata.org, FreeNAS, Midgard, Audacious, eSpeak, pytagsfs, GNOME, GARNOME, jack-keyboard, pAny2DVD, binutils, Libtool.
Press: Flash vs. hard drive battle, Sequoia voting machine audit halted, Novell's plans for SLES 11, interviews with Matthias Ettrich, Jim Zemlin, Tobias König, Komodo Edit review.
Announcements: BusyBox/Verizon suit ended, GSoC announcements, Ivan K. leaves OLPC, US PostgreSQL Assn launched, USENIX opens proceedings, Funambol promotes AGPLv3, Linspire and Fluendo partner, Packt Publishing donates $100K, FOSDEM videos online.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 13, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Emacs chooses Bazaar; MP3 players; Still waiting for Flash.
Security: Extended Validation certificates and cross-site scripting; New vulnerabilities in java, joomla, lighttpd, phpMyAdmin,...
Kernel: A better DMA memory allocator; How to use a terabyte of RAM; GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug.
Distributions: News from the Debian security team; 64 Studio 2.1rc1; Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 6; Debian armel port; Fedora BugZappers; Eric Sandeen on ext4 implementation
Development: Monitor disks with the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools, the first Gnash beta, memory usage in Firefox 3, new versions of SE-PostgreSQL, libnfnetlink, lighttpd, Synfig, FET, XCircuit, Wine, Elisa, Dirac, GCC, MonoDevelop, CSSBox, GNU Classpath, CodeInvestigator, GIT.
Press: Top 10 Linux Desktop Hurdles, World Domination for the Wrong Reasons, KDE at CeBIT, Miguel de Icaza on Microsoft patent deal, Red Hat adds IP lawyers, Wal-Mart stops selling Linux machines, Linux forensic live-CD, OLPC to run XP soon, Samba 4 reaches alpha.
Announcements: BusyBox settles lawsuit, Google Summer of Code 2008, new OO.o license, Microsoft's Document Interoperability Initiative, Clean Room Design Practice, Flash Memory cfp, LinuxWorld BOF cfp, Global Open Source Conf, GoOOoCon - Prague, KVM developer forum, Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, PTPW 2008, PyCon begins, LCA Gaming videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 6, 2008 (One big page)

Front: File monitoring with Mortadelo; Ryzom returns?; NDISwrapper dodges another bullet.
Security: Authentication bypass in routers; New vulnerabilities in dbus, evolution, kernel, thunderbird,...
Kernel: Realtime adaptive locks; An object debugging infrastructure; The rest of the vmsplice() exploit story.
Distributions: A draft proposal for Fedora spins; FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE; Kubuntu-KDE4 Alpha; Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 1
Development: The GNOME Foundation launches an accessibility outreach program, what's happening in the VCS world, new versions of SQuirreL SQL, Samizdat, SBLIM, pyjackctl, Vamp, SQL-Ledger, Tuhi Video Game System, FLTK, AJAX Chat, Claws Mail, MediaInfo, Amuc, PalOOCa, Retrotranslator, xmote.
Press: Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash, KDE at FOSDEM 2008, Adobe Integrated Runtime for Linux, Sun Hires Python Experts, Fedora at NASA, PlayStation supercomputer, Germany Restricts Internet Surveillance, Vint Cerf interview, Thunderbird 3.0 review, OOXML fails to get approval at BRM.
Announcements: GNOME and Mozilla Foundations cooperate, Google donates to FSFE, Novell 1Q results, OpenMoko unlocks Neo Phone, EFF Pioneer Awards, Akademy cfp, Google Summer of Code launched, GUADEC 2008 - Istanbul, SAGE-AU cfp, FSF associate member meeting, OO.o conf - Beijing, PostgreSQL Conf East.

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