LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 15, 2008

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 15, 2008 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: Debian, OpenSSL, and a lack of cooperation; Release synchronization; Distributed bug tracking.
• Security: Debian vulnerability has widespread effects; New vulnerabilities in bugzilla, openssl, php5, xen,...
• Kernel: The big kernel lock strikes again; Getting a handle on caching; Extending system calls.
• Distributions: A Talk with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields; New releases: Fedora 9, BLFS-6.3-rc1; Red Hat Appointments Harald Hoyer to Fedora Board
• Development: The Freedom of Fork; new versions of LIRC, BusyBox, BencHTTP, OpenKM, YaMA, GNOME SlackBuild, LyX, Buddi, KMyMoney, Accelerator, Task Coach, Pyrex, Paver, Pydev.
• Press: Matthew Garrett on power saving, Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi, Microsoft cuts XP prices, Red Hat's JBoss ON 2.0, interviews with AbiWord team, Ian Murdock and Neil Young, small business on Linux, KDE 4 review, Mirth popularity.
• Announcements: US/EU patent treaty, GPL wins in Germany, OWASP sponsors projects, Adaptec RAID controllers, Wind River Joins OpenSAF, SourceForge adds OpenID, Zenoss sponsors Twisted, Akademy Embedded and Mobile cfp, ELC videos.