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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.

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LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 25, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Speech recognition; Fundraising; Magic Lantern.
  • Security: CyanogenMod's incognito mode; New vulnerabilities in chromium, kernel, mysql, qemu-kvm, ...
  • Kernel: Device tree troubles; The exfiltrated exFAT driver; What's missing from our changelogs.
  • Distributions: A look at Mer; Android, CyanogenMod, ...
  • Development: Kolab 3.1; Razor and LXDE-Qt merge; The Virgil 3D virtual GPU for qemu; ...
  • Announcements: The H is shutting down, HeliOS Project fundraising drive, Ubuntu Edge, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 18, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Plasma 2; Why was this package updated?; QUIC.
  • Security: NSA surveillance and "foreigners"; New vulnerabilities in apache, libxml2, libzrtpcpp, php, ...
  • Kernel: The 3.11 merge window closes; Some stable tree grumbles; On kernel mailing list behavior.
  • Distributions: Fedora wrestles with ARM as a primary architecture; Fedora, RebeccaBlackOS, Slackware, ...
  • Development: Mock objects in C; Wayland and Weston 1.2; Why mobile web apps are slow; GitHub's license chooser; ...
  • Announcements: Videos from Linaro Connect, FSF joins EFF against NSA, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 11, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Four KDE releases per year?; Hard lessons about migration; Python in 20 years.
  • Security: Subverting Android package verification; New vulnerabilites in kernel, nagios, reviewboard, xorg-x11-server, ...
  • Kernel: 3.11 merge window part 2; Ethernet polling and patch-pulling latency; Is the whole system idle?
  • Distributions: Debian, Berkeley DB, and AGPLv3; SUSE, ...
  • Development: HTTP 2.0; LXDE-Qt; Harlan; A Year of the Linux Desktop; ...
  • Announcements: Seth Vidal RIP, CfP, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 4, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Merging lock elision into glibc; "Good enough" is good enough; Philosophy and "for" loops.
  • Security: Mayhem finds 1200 bugs; New vulnerabilities in ffmpeg, openstack, ruby, wordpress, ...
  • Kernel: The 3.11 merge window opens; KVM on ARM; When the kernel ABI has to change.
  • Distributions: Fedora 19 and Apple hardware; DoudouLinux, Fedora, GNU Linux-libre, ...
  • Development: FOSSology 2.2.0; Qt 5.1; Google and XMPP; FirefoxOS; ...
  • Announcements: AMD joins TDF advisory board, Bruce Schneier Joins EFF Board of Directors, Doug Engelbart RIP, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 27, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Mozilla vs. the cookie monster; File sharing with WebRTC; The Knight Foundation and open government
  • Security: Verifying the source code for binaries; New vulnerabilities in java, mozilla, python-swift, xen, ...
  • Kernel: 3.10 statistics; Tracing triggers; Polling block drivers
  • Distributions: Which bug tracker?; Xen4ContOS, ...
  • Development: Naming, shaming, and patch review; Daala; systemd and control groups; Firefox 22; ...
  • Announcements: FANTEC guilty of GPL infringement in Germany, KACST joins TDF advisory board, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 20, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Trying out the Raspberry Pi; Dividing the Linux desktop; The many forks of Pencil
  • Security: Tor Browser Bundle 3.0; New vulnerabilities in kernel, perl-Module-Signature, puppet, xen, ...
  • Kernel: Power-aware scheduling; Tags and IDs; Merging Allwinner support
  • Distributions: A Debian GNU/Hurd snapshot; Debian, openSUSE, RHEL.
  • Development: The Places API for Firefox; Subversion 1.8.0; LLVM 3.3; LibreOffice progress under the hood; ...
  • Announcements: SCO v. IBM reopened, TDF welcomes MIMO, OSI elections, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 13, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: A report from pgCon; Topics from LinuxCon Japan; RSS reading in Firefox
  • Security: Tizen content scanning and app obfuscation; New vulnerabilities in cgit, chromium, kernel, php, ...
  • Kernel: Skiplists API and benchmarks; Hot adding and removing memory; OPW—kernel edition
  • Distributions: Tizen compliance; FreeBSD, ...
  • Development: Little things in language design; Facts about X vs Wayland; The achievements of embedded Linux; Debian's systemd survey; ...
  • Announcements: German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents on software, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 6, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: OpenStack; Trusting upstream projects; Diversity and recruiting developers.
  • Security: Smack for Tizen; New vulnerabilities in kernel, mesa, wireshark, xmp, ...
  • Kernel: The multiqueue block layer; Reliable user-space OOM handling; Power-aware scheduling.
  • Distributions: Debian, Iceweasel, and security; Arch, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, ...
  • Development: Mobile health initiatives; PulseAudio 4.0; PyTables 3.0; Source code CSS; ...
  • Announcements: RIP Atul Chitnis, events, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 31, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: The open source talent war; Linus and Dirk at LinuxCon Japan; Reserved font names.
  • Security: Pondering the X client vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in chromium, kvm, moodle, owncloud, ...
  • Kernel: IPC and kdbus; Atomic I/O operations; Kernel skiplists.
  • Distributions: TDC: A runnable Linux IVI image; Boot to Qt, Fedora, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: IVI audio routing in Tizen; Elpy 1.0; OpenRelativity; GSoc 2013 projects announced; ...
  • Announcements: Linux Foundation New Members, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 23, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Google's draft VP8 patent license; Moodle 2.5.
  • Security: DeadDrop and Strongbox; New vulnerabilities in kernel, openswan, openvpn, thunderbird, ...
  • Kernel: Ktap; Low-latency Ethernet device polling; An unexpected perf feature.
  • Distributions: Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance; Debian GNU/Hurd, Mageia, NetBSD, Pidora, ...
  • Development: An "enum" for Python 3; Python and implicit string concatenation; QEMU 1.5.0; Blender for 3D printing; ...
  • Announcements: Ten years of Groklaw, Sony opens up the Xperia Tablet Z, events...

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