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LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2009

LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2009
Posted Jan 29, 2009 2:44 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2009 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

  • Front: linux.conf.au 2009; Catching up with X.org; The new GCC runtime library exemption; KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software.
  • Security: Book Review: Hacking VoIP; New vulnerabilities in dia, kernel, ktorrent, tor,...
  • Kernel: LCA: A new approach to asynchronous I/O; Snet and the LSM API; A SystemTap update.
  • Distributions: Fedora looks to prevent upgrade disasters; KNOPPIX 6.0, Tin Hat 20090119, Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS; Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11
  • Development: The long road to a working Cheese, new versions of Eventum, Firebird, Clonezilla, Samba, conntrack-tools, nginx, Sector, unattended-gui, Invada plugins, Azureus, xTuple, GNOME, KDE, Asymptote, UOX3, Elisa, MediaInfo, Denemo, Filterclavier, OO.o, Pyevolve, BleachBit, GCC.
  • Press: US Supreme Court and software patents, location-aware tools, Sun vs Red Hat, Open-source software in education, using CloneZilla, Java resources, Mozilla Test Pilot and SUSE Studio reviews, Scott McNealy picked by Obama administration.
  • Announcements: Wikipedia license change, new FSFE software guide, Radeon R6/R7 reference, We're Linux video contest, EuroDjangoCon cfp, IMF cfp, Collab Summit cfp, PostgreSQL Conf cfp, Cloud Summit registration, DOHCS conf, FOSS in Healthcare, RailsConf.
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