The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 8, 2008 is available.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition
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.