LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 13, 2008

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 13, 2008 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: Fedora release cycles: longer or shorter?; Two NLUUG/ELCE talks on embedded systems and free software.
• Security: Storm botnet used to study spam; New vulnerabilities in acroread, flash-plugin, gnutls, wordpress,...
• Kernel: Tracking of testers and bug reporters - a status report; /dev/ksm: dynamic memory sharing; The sad story of the em28xx driver.
• Distributions: The shape of Fedora to come; OpenSolaris 2008.11 RC1; Debian Pure Blends
• Development: The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform, new versions of oVirt, FlameRobin, Hibernate, BusyBox, NASPRO, SoX, GNOME, LyX, Wine, MediaInfo, guitarix, Tapeutape, PeaZip, Task Coach, EMC, TakeNote, LLVM, TCPDF, RPyC, XPL editor, dlib, bzr, GIT.
• Press: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation, Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers, EC FOSS procurement guidelines, Bilski decision analyzed, Booting Debian in 14 seconds, Specialty Linuxes reviewed, Smolt review.
• Announcements: Fixstars acquires Terra Soft, Movial releases Browser D-Bus Bridge, Novell's transition program, Cisco AXP dev contest, TPF Hague Grants, O'Reilly Java certificates, DOCHS cfp, FOSDEM cfp, SCALE cfp, UKUUG cfp, ERP5 World Forum, ETech 2009 program, LAC 2009 - Italy, Pure Data - France.