The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2009 is available.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition
Front: FOSDEM09: "Aggressive" Linux power management; Python ponders release numbering; KRunner and GNOME Do; Public data for OpenStreetMap.
Security: Forcing updates; New vulnerabilities in gnumeric, gstreamer-plugins, mod_auth_mysql, squid,...
Kernel: How patches get into the mainline; Wakelocks and the embedded problem; DazukoFS.
Distributions: KNOPPIX 6.0; Jaunty Alpha 4; Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.8; Dedicating Lenny to Thiemo; Fedora 11 alpha; Jarro Negro; From the archives: the best distros of 2000.
Development: The EeePC as a low-power music player, KDE Tokamak II meeting, new versions of JACK, PostgreSQL, FreeRTOS, RPM, OpenSIPS, Ecasound, OpenERP, python-graph, SQL-Ledger, AnyScreen, QJackMMC, Stellarium, Firefox, Virtaal, GNU Classpath, SciPy, Arduino, eric, LDTP, GIT.
Press: Reflections on the hardware industry, Camp KDE coverage, Microsoft's war against Linux, Monty Widenius leaves Sun, Red Hat State of the Union, Olivier Fourdan interview, Colin Turner interview, container articles, Linux CRM Roundup, Combining GPL and Proprietary Software, HP's Mini 1000 Mi netbook, Krita and Miro reviews, the Compiz Council.
Announcements: Ardour loses funding, EFF on DRM, GNOME Desktop Testing team, Python 2.6 Quick Ref, EuroDjangoCon cfp, Cloud Slam conf, DOSHSC, LibrePlanet meeting, PyCon registration, SOA in Healthcare conf, uCon Security Conf, UKUUG grants, OpenProofs Wiki.