LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2008

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2008 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: Some views from Vision; Plugging into GCC; Accessibility in Linux systems
• Security: Partial disclosure; New vulnerabilities in kernel, lighttpd, mplayer, php5,...
• Kernel: 2.6.27 development statistics; Btrfs to the mainline?; Threaded interrupt handlers
• Distributions: New Release Season; ALT Linux 4.1 Desktop, Fedora 9 Re-spins, openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2, PDK 0.9.6, Ubuntu 8.10 Beta, VC4.1
• Development: Python 2.6 makes its debut, GNOME 2.25 release schedule, Theora 1.0 in testing, new versions of PulseAudio, SoftlabsAV, Midgard, rrdtool, Veusz, KDE, M2Crypto, phpDiplomacy, Albow, Mono, Claws Mail, Elisa, MMA, OpenSwing, TymeacSE, Pyjamas, PyYAML, PS/Tk, Pydev, cgit.
• Press: Stallman vs. Clouds, Takeover attempt of ODF, Red Hat's HPC platform, KPackageKit developers interview, PocketMac for Blackberry review, Fedora and Ubuntu reviews, Mono 2 review, 11 Linux productivity tools, issues with 6 month distribution releases.
• Announcements: New FSF High Priority list, Untangle Joins LF, call for Perl Grant Proposals, Top Ten Open Source Software Support Issues, OO.o Community Innovation Program winners, Ubuntu Server Survey, LCA Open Mobile cfp, SCALE call for non-profits, NLUUG and ELC-UU colocate, OpenSource World SF, IPTables video.