LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 8, 2009

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 8, 2009 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: The Grumpy Editor's guide to 2009; Debates on the future of Compiz; The Android Dev Phone 1.
• Security: Filesystem capabilities in Fedora 10; New vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, samba, xen, xterm,...
• Kernel: 2.6.29 merge window, part 1; The future for grsecurity; Btrfs aims for the mainline
• Distributions: Social networking and the Linux distribution; Fedora Unity F9 respins; FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE; GNUmed Live CD 0.3.8; Lunar Linux 1.6.4; Tin Hat 20081229; Debian votes to move forward with Lenny release; Debian FOSDEM talks!
• Development: BleachBit: Does GNU/Linux need the equivalent of a Windows registry cleaner?, Firebird Roadmap, AMD releases R600/700 3D code, GNOME DVCS survey, finance apps for Linux, new versions of PyGreSQL, BusyBox, Samba, Hosts3D, Twisted, matplotlib, gEDA/gaf, SQL-Ledger, Lepton, Wine, binutils, RFIDIOt, Valgrind, Mercurial, monotone.
• Press: 2009 predictions, a look at 2008, Palm to unveil Linux-based Nova, screen videos with Linux, NEPOMUK Project review, Splashtop review, Android on the netbook.
• Announcements: vxVistA open-sourced, FSFE New Year's Resolution Fellowship campaign, OLPC changes, Openmoko in 2009, Metasploit eXploits contest, UK Perl tutorials, Python training, audio compilation cfw, FOSDEM GNOME Devroom cfp, LAC cfp, OpenSource World cfp, SeacureIT cfp, uCon cfp, Belgian Perl, FOSS Nigeria, LCA miniconfs.