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LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2009

LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2009
Posted Feb 26, 2009 2:47 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2009 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

  • Front: Increasing Rawhide testing; The trouble with OpenBTS; SCALE7x: Courts have new "teeth" to limit software patents; SCALE7x: Open source in an economic downturn.
  • Security: Desktop malware risk gets raised and patched; New vulnerabilities in git, kernel, php, trickle,...
  • Kernel: Speeding up the page allocator; Checkpoint/restart; Managing the Video4Linux subsystem tree.
  • Distributions: Test driving pre-releases of Ubuntu, Fedora and SimplyMEPIS; NexentaCore Platform 2.0 Beta2 released; New Debian Project Secretary; An open letter to the openSUSE Community; Introducing the Karmic Koala
  • Development: Bash 4.0 brings new capabilities, new versions of initramfs-tools, Samba, conntrack-tools, web2py, OpenHPI, systemtap, Kicad, python-graph, compiz, GNOME, GnuCash, KMyMoney, NovaRS, wxPython, OpenELIS, MLDonkey, OpenSSH, Hypy, Miros, Pydev.
  • Press: HP to support Ubuntu, business success of open-source, Cell Phones vs PCs, Jay Sullivan interview, Jimmy Wales interview, Anatomy of ext4, OO.o Base, ALP 3.0, Google Android intro, HP Mini 1000 Mi, Marvell SheevaPlug.
  • Announcements: EndSoftwarePatents.org-II, Red Hat's virtualization strategy, World of Goo, Coverity's app analysis site, European Free Tech Academy, EuroBSDCon cfp, DebConf10 NYC, FOSS Health early registration, O'Reilly launches Ignite Show.
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