LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 28, 2008

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 28, 2008 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: Django nears 1.0 milestone; Fedora, Red Hat, and distributor security; EFF continues fight for rights and freedoms.
• Security: Firefox 3 SSL certificate warnings; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, openoffice, tomcat,...
• Kernel: AXFS; Sysfs and namespaces; TALPA moves forward.
• Distributions: A new "contrib" repository for openSUSE; new released from AntiX, BLFS-6.3, Debian Live, Fedora Unity, Mandriva and openSUSE
• Development: The SCons build tool reaches the 1.0 milestone, KOffice Summer of Code Ends, Mozilla Ubiquity, new versions of BusyBox, Samba, Pyro, mod_wsgi, Quixote, Tinyproxy, Ecasound, pyspread, YaMA, jCAE, yPlot, KDE, GNU Radio, Kicad, ESS, LedgerSMB, Wine, Elisa, Amuc, Pyrex, Emacs, Pydev, VXL, Bazaar.
• Press: Linux photographic tools, A compilation of Linux text editors, SCO fined in Germany, interviews with Richard Hulse and Jim Zemlin, the kerneloops project, reviews of Acer Aspire One and Intel's Classmate PC.
• Announcements: FSFE on KDE's switch to FLA, Essentia joins OSA, Aptana acquires Pydev, Linux growth rate slows in China, analysis of global Linux usage, Antonio Pizzigati prize nominations, OpenVAS vulnerability contest, Hackers 2 Hackers Conf cfp, IMF cfp, PacSec cfp, Novell Hack Week, Launchpad hosting service, Microsoft patents Page Up/Page Down.