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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 November 8, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: Linux networking challenges; Systemd two years on; 21st-century Csound
  • Security: PAM face-recognition authentication; New vulnerabilities in drupal, kernel, munin, mysql, ...
  • Kernel: Volatile ranges; Secure boot kernel restrictions; NILFS2
  • Distributions: Slipping or skipping Fedora 18; DragonFly, Fedora ARM, OpenBSD, openSUSE ARM, ...
  • Development: Modeling systems with Alloy; Asterisk; Enlightenment; LibreOffice numbers; ...
  • Announcements: Linaro Enterprise Group announced, Apple v Motorola, RMS on software patents, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 1, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: Realtime Linux for aircraft; Collide; Selfstarter.
  • Security: Holes in SSL certificate validation; New vulnerabilities in exim, java, kdelibs, mozilla, ...
  • Kernel: NUMA scheduling; Relocating RCU callbacks; Thoughts on the ext4 panic.
  • Distributions: Fedora and LVM; Yocto, Linaro, sposkpat, ...
  • Development: Processing 2.0; Motif; Opened Captions; ARM64 OpenJDK; ...
  • Announcements: Jailbreaking legal for smartphones, not tablets; Privacy in Ubuntu 12,.10; LPC 2013; ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 25, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: CCNx; GNOME and/or systemd; The Boxee Box: too free to live?.
  • Security: Privacyfix; New vulnerabilities in gitolite, haproxy, java, viewvc, ...
  • Kernel: Ext4 corruption; Small-task packing; Realtime minisummit; API design.
  • Distributions: Debian Python followup; Ubuntu 12.10, ...
  • Development: MIDI sequencers; OpenOffice; Wayland 1.0; Arduino Due; ...
  • Announcements: Nominations for Free Software Awards, Fellowship Interview with Hugo Roy, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 18, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: Wikitravel and Wikimedia; Another approach to UEFI secure boot; The first Korea Linux Forum.
  • Security: Do Not Track Does Not Conquer; New vulnerabilities in cxf, firefox, java, phpmyadmin, ...
  • Kernel: 3.7 Merge window summary; EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE; Software interrupts and realtime.
  • Distributions: Whonix for anonymity; NetBSD, OpenELEC, ...
  • Development: Accessibility on the desktop; Plasma Active; gnutls; Wayland; ...
  • Announcements: FSF campaigns, open source software in Portugal, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 11, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: Udev and firmware; CIA.vc shuts down; Linux and automotive computing security.
  • Security: Loading modules from file descriptors; New vulnerabilities in bind, libxslt, Mozilla products, php, ...
  • Kernel: 3.7 merge window part 2; New visibility of RCU processing; An f2fs teardown
  • Distributions: Canonical courts financial contributions; Debian, Fedora, ...
  • Development: getauxval(); KDE Manifesto; xpra; Open Hardware Summit; ...
  • Announcements: FSF certified printer, The Patent, Used as a Sword, Jolla's MeeGo phone, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 4, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: With Madison it's not just a bill; Programming languages for X application development; Tent pitches a new social networking protocol.
  • Security: Security modules and RPM; New vulnerabilities in apache, kernel, moodle, tor, ...
  • Kernel: Questioning link restrictions; 3.7 merge window part 1; LSM stacking; How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL.
  • Distributions: Interview: Fedora's new cloud manager; Slackware, Open webOS, openSUSE, ...
  • Development: OpenGL futures; wlterm; Python 3.3; Brian Kernighan; ...
  • Announcements: The Document Foundation, LPI, lots of events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 27, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: The tragedy of the commons gatekeepers; Actual code from the automotive industry; XDC2012.
  • Security: LSS: Kernel security subsystem reports; New vulnerabilities in kernel, munin, qpid, transmission, ...
  • Kernel: Adding a huge zero page; Supervisor mode access prevention; Where the 3.6 kernel came from.
  • Distributions: ALS: Automotive Grade Linux; GeeXboX, openSUSE, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: XDC: Graphics stack security; GStreamer 1.0; GNOME 3.6; Firefox OS UX; ...
  • Announcements: Ada Initiative fundraiser, patent trolls, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 20, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: Dragons and penguins in space; Throwing one away; PostBooks.
  • Security: LSS: DNSSEC; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, chromium, dbus, kernel, ...
  • Kernel: Integrity for directories and special files; Extensive memory management minisummit coverage.
  • Distributions: Twin Peaks v. Red Hat; Fedora, Frugalware, Mandriva, ...
  • Development: Keeping up with Kdenlive; Cinnamon 1.6; Vivaldi; KWin; ...
  • Announcements: Automotive Grade Linux workgroup, LibreOffice Localization, LPC videos, OpenStack, OpenStreetMap, Raspberry Pi Supercomputer, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 13, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: The coming robot apocalypse; Open hardware for open hardware; Engine Yard and PostgreSQL.
  • Security: LSS: Secure Boot; New vulnerabilities in freeradius, ghostscript, trousers, xen, ...
  • Kernel: Kernel summit; LPC realtime microconference.
  • Distributions: Bedrock Linux; Ubuntu, Debian.
  • Development: Bazaar on the slow track; PostgreSQL 9.2, Opus 1.0, Cinelerra; ...
  • Announcements: Unitary patent threat; Linux Scholarship Winners; events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 7, 2012 (One big page)
  • Front: The road ahead for GStreamer; Funding free software development; Preparing for UEFI secure boot.
  • Security: LSS: Secure Linux containers; New vulnerabilities in gimp, java, mesa, qemu-kvm, ...
  • Kernel: Lots more kernel summit coverage: regression testing, Android upstreaming, Module signing, ARM minisummit, ...
  • Distributions: Improving Ubuntu's application upload process; Buildroot, LFS, openSUSE, Open webOS, Qubes, ...
  • Development: Linux media subsystems; QEMU; IcedTea-Web; command-line Firefox; ...
  • Announcements: Document Foundation joins OASIS, events, ...

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