LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2008

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2008 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: One week of infrastructure issues; Standards, the kernel, and Postfix; Why the JMRI decision matters.
• Security: Injunction lifted against MIT students; New vulnerabilities in amarok, postfix, yum-rhn-plugin
• Kernel: Triggers: less busy busy-waiting; Regulating wireless devices; Tangled up in threads.
• Distributions: In defense of Ubuntu; Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4AS U7; Intrepid Ibex Alpha-4; Debian news; Fedora issues; EOL for SUSE Linux 10.1
• Development: Desktop talks from LinuxWorld 2008 Conference, new versions of libnetfilter_log, PorkBind, Ecasound, Mercator, Pogolyn, Elisa, CLAM, Task Coach, ETS, AgileTrack, Tail, dlib, Parrot, bbfreeze, HDF5 for Python, PyUseCase, TextTest, GIT, Mercurial.
• Press: What Linux Will Look Like In 2012, Akademy mobile and embedded day, LinuxWorld coverage, IBM's Software Appliance Initiatives, interviews with Torvalds, Debian leaders, Corbet, Pyne and van Rossum, improving Firefox Find, greener IT departments, Dell's latest laptops.
• Announcements: Lessig on the model train decision, MIT Students ungagged, Canonical joins LF, Perl Foundationon Jacobsen v. Katzer, SFLC Guide to GPL Compliance, Fedora scholarship program, Microsoft and Novell renew agreement, RailsConf report, PostgreSQL West cfp, FOSS.IN/2008, Linux Plumbers speakers, pyArkansas, Java Game Tome.