LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 16, 2008

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 16, 2008 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: OpenOffice.org releases 3.0; LK2008: Embedded and Mobile Linux; Fedora EKG; LK2008: The values of the Linux community
• Security: SELinux permissive domains; New vulnerabilities in cups, kernel, portage, ruby,...
• Kernel: Merged for 2.6.28; Block layer: solid-state storage, timeouts, affinity, and more.
• Distributions: What is Ulteo?; Mandriva Linux 2009, Fedora 10 Snapshot 1, XO Software Release 8.2.0; RPM Fusion
• Development: Connecting to Microsoft Exchange with OpenChange, GNU Radio app support, uDig GIS review, new versions of VIFF, LIRC, NTFS-3G, managesieve, CUPS, Plone, mp3splt, Chandler, Openbravo, Sweet Home 3D, DISLIN, M2Crypto, Humerus, Wine, Claws Mail, Elisa, VMPK, Task Coach, OO.o 3.0, mpmath, Gnash, dlib, Whiteoak, ZK, BOUML.
• Press: Linux delivers Windows' promise, Livin' La Vida Linux, Linux Summit presentation preview, Linux netbook trends, Linux in The Economic Meltdown, Brazilian Linux voting machines, Proprietary formats harm business, Miguel de Icaza interview, Chromium on Ubuntu, Multi-Head medical systems, Creative Heat Recycling, Top Agenda Setters.
• Announcements: EFF challenges music files patent, LF FOSSBazaar doubles members, Apache Tuscany 1.3.2, uIPv6 protocol stack, GarageGames to expand, SourceForge launches Hosted Apps, Timesys ARM ReadyKits, LSB 4.0 beta, USAID Open Source Development Challenge, CISSE cfp, FOSS.IN cfp, LCA Linuxchix cfp, RailsConf 2009, Where 2.0 cfp, MySQL European Customer Conferences, European PGDay, Web 2.0 EU, KDE Forum launched.