LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 4, 2008

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 4, 2008 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: Feature removal sparks Git flamewar; DRI, BSD, and Linux; The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals.
• Security: Find SQL injection vulnerabilities with sqlmap; New vulnerabilities in ruby, slash, wordnet.
• Kernel: Linux 3.0?; High-resolution timeouts; SCHED_FIFO and realtime throttling.
• Distributions: Spinning Fedora; PLD Live 2.0 beta3; Webconverger update; Tin Hat Linux
• Development: Cinelerra 4 arrives, KDE development changes, Google Chrome comic book, Kuchling on Python 2.6, new versions of Rivendell, rsplib, MySQL Admin Tools, SQLite, ClamAV, oVirt, Apache Lenya, Senayan 3, Jokosher, Openbravo POS, KDE, Elisa, VMPK, SABnzbdPlus, Roundup, GCC, ftputil, LEO.
• Press: Strip mining of open source, CSI Stick grabs cell phone data, Intel acquires Opened Hand, interviews with Krita developers and Sam Ramji, reviews of Fermi Linux, iRex iLiad and Linux Twitter clients, Red Hat's Perl bug.
• Announcements: GNU Project's 25th anniversary, Perl Summer of Code status, Perl Grant results, World Day Against Software Patents, Novell and SGI financials, MySQL Conf cfp, LF end user summit, MontaVista Vision 2008.