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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 May 16, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: XBMC on/for Android; DRM in HTML5 published; PyPy 2.0
  • Security: Linux web servers pushing malware; New vulnerabilities in gpsd, httpd, java, kernel, ...
  • Kernel: copy_range(); 3.10 merge window conclusion; Smarter shrinkers; User-space page fault handling.
  • Distributions: Always-releasable Debian; Fedora, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta; Packetfence 4.0; Go 1.1; Tahoe-LAFS 1.10; ...
  • Announcements: Linux Foundation New Members; no software patents in New Zealand, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 9, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles; Miro 6, video, and the web; A $99 supercomputer.
  • Security: IBM's homomorphic encryption library; New vulnerabilities in kernel, mesa, phpmyadmin, xen, ...
  • Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 2; Full tickless; LLVMLinux.
  • Distributions: Defining the Fedora user base; Debian, openSUSE Edu Li-f-e, ...
  • Development: Glibc; Adobe's CFF rasterizer; Geary crowdfunding; spreading the word about your code; ...
  • Announcements: OSI Board Changes, VP8 Patent Cross-license Agreement, Flock, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 2, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Outreach Program for Women; Google Test Automation Conference; The value of FOSS fiscal sponsorship.
  • Security: Code authenticity checking; New vulnerabilities in clamav, kernel, qemu, strongswan, ...
  • Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 1; Wait/wound mutexes; LSFMM coverage complete.
  • Distributions: x32 ABI support by distributions; DragonFly, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, ...
  • Development: Go and Rust; GDB 7.6; Open Build Service 2.4; OpenShot fundraising update; ...
  • Announcements: SFC to create accounting software, FSF certifies ThinkPenguin, events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 25, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Font development trends; More Libre Graphics Meeting coverage; GPLv3 in automobiles.
  • Security: Ubuntu app confinement; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, mysql, xen, ...
  • Kernel: Narrow bitmasks; Nonvolatile memory devices; LSFMM Summit 2013.
  • Distributions: Fedora 19 alpha; Debian, ROSA ABF, ...
  • Development: Dynamic linking and derivative works; The $12 Gongkai Phone; MySQL 5.7.1; Feed reading on the open web; ...
  • Announcements: Germany and software patents, SkySQL and Monty Program, SFC appoints new director, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Collaboration and animation at LGM; Surveying open source licenses; Current challenges in the free software ecosystem; GNOME 3.8.
  • Security: Mixed web content; New vulnerabilities in curl, kernel, krb5, xen, ...
  • Kernel: 3.9 Development statistics; Memory power management.
  • Distributions: Upstart for user sessions; Fuduntu, openSUSE, Pardus, ...
  • Development: Rust; The future of Python 2; Freedesktop summit; KlyDE; ...
  • Announcements: Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project, IFOSSLR 5.1 available, OPW, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 11, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Mozilla's trademark enforcement experience; Legal issues from a radical community angle; Vulnerability handling in the PostgreSQL project.
  • Security: Entropy Broker; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, kernel, postgresql, samba, ...
  • Kernel: Retrying revoke(); Randomizing the kernel; Toward a more power-efficient scheduler.
  • Distributions: Tanglu: bringing Debian testing to the masses; Ubuntu, Fedora, ...
  • Development: Python IDLE; Persona beta 2; Emacs Conference videos; xkbcommon; ...
  • Announcements: OASIS gains ANSI accreditation, the OpenDaylight Project, GSoC mentoring organizations, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 4, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Python Software Foundation; VP8 patent wars; PyDAW.
  • Security: Exploiting digital cameras; New vulnerabilities in bind, glibc, mantis, moodle, ...
  • Kernel: Per-process reclaim; A VFS deadlock post-mortem; In-kernel memory compression.
  • Distributions: Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming; Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, Firefox OS, ...
  • Development: Python bytecodes; crowdfunding Geary; new browser engines; C++14 papers; ...
  • Announcements: Subsurface mourns Jan Schubert, software patents, 15 years of Mozilla, crowdfunding and the JOBS Act, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 28, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io; Protecting communities; Evangelizing Python.
  • Security: OpenSSH 6.2; New vulnerabilities in gnome-online-accounts, kernel, libxml2, privoxy, ...
  • Kernel: Breaking GlusterFS; Widening ext4's readdir() cookie; Multipath TCP.
  • Distributions: GNOME, Fedora, and login-screen logos; Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, ...
  • Development: Asynchronous I/O in Python; GNOME 3.8; C and C++ speed in GCC; replacing Google Reader; ...
  • Announcements: Awards for Bassel Khartabil and the TAZ, LF EEU report, videos for PyCon and devconf.cz, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 21, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Upholding first sale; Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi; When does the FSF own your code?
  • Security: Mozilla Persona; New vulnerabilities in chromium, clamav, poppler, wireshark, ...
  • Kernel: The trouble with DMA masks; Anatomy of a user namespaces vulnerability.
  • Distributions: Debian Project Leader election draws near; Debian, Tanglu, ...
  • Development: GCC 4.8.0 approaching; Open Badges 1.0; Geary 0.3; FreeDV Robustness; ...
  • Announcements: Goodbye Malcolm Tredinnick, GSoC mentors, PSF ends trademark dispute, Tor report, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 14, 2013 (One big page)
  • Front: Linaro Connect; Facebook contemplates ARM servers; The life and times of the AGPL.
  • Security: Hockeypuck key server; New vulnerabilities in gksu-polkit, kernel, openshift, puppet, ...
  • Kernel: SO_REUSEPORT; The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO; Android upstreaming.
  • Distributions: A look at openSUSE 12.3; CentOS, Kali, ubermix, wmlive, ...
  • Development: GCC's move to C++; Ardour 3.0; Emacs 24.3; feature proposals for GNOME 3.10; ...
  • Announcements: VP8 and MPEG LA, Open Source at CeBIT, LinuxGizmos, ...

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