The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2009 is available.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition
Front: Apple's touch-screen patent; PostgreSQL's review bottleneck, episode 3; Aleutia E2; Much hot air over blinking cursors.
Security: Android application security; New vulnerabilities in firefox, moin, phpMyAdmin, sudo,...
Kernel: Dracut; Online defragmentation for ext4; Taming the OOM killer.
Distributions: Sabayon Linux 4; K12Linux F10 Live Server; Mandriva Linux MIB-Live 2009; Debian Lenny release planned for February 14.
Development: Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run", new Compiz Council, Inside Zero and Shark, new versions of rsplib, CrunchyFrog, Samba, dradis, Zope, liblouis, Audacity, jack_capture, Kicad, AVC, wine, Firefox, SimPy, GCC, IcedTea6, Pyflakes, RFIDIOt, GIT.
Press: OLPC reorg plans, Linux Defenders fight patent trolls, Brad Hards' lca talk, Active Directory coming to Linux, WoW bot violates DMCA, Dario Freddi interview, Recovering hard drives, Build a Read-Only Linux System, Defense Dept's project repository, OO.o health check, Linus' desktop environment, KDE Lokalize funded.
Announcements: EFF cell phone freedom petition, Trophees du Libre call, BruCON cfp, LinuxCon cfp, Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop cfp, PyCon-IT cfp, Red Hat Summit/JBoss World cfp, OO.o at FOSDEM, SAHANA conf, UKUUG conf Where 2.0 conf, FSFE Free PDF Readers campaign, ELC-EU videos.
