LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 3, 2009
Posted Dec 3, 2009 1:23 UTC (Thu)
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 3, 2009 is available.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition
- Front: Between Fedora 12 and 13; UDS from an embedded hacker's perspective; Tomboy and Gnote.
- Security: On the importance of return codes; New vulnerabilities in awstats, bind, kdelibs, php,...
- Kernel: Utrace; Eliminating rwlocks and IRQF_DISABLED; Kernel support for infrared receivers.
- Distributions: Ubuntu 9.10: the koala is facing the cloud; new releases of FreeBSD, Linux Mint, Mandriva Flash, Tiny Core; Debian 6.0 to be released in summer 2010?; Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package; distribution mini-conf at FOSDEM; reviews of Linux Mint and RedHawk.
- Development: Pyspread - a Python-based Spreadsheet application, KDE activities, new versions of libshcodecs, Moblin Toolkit, VirtualBox, KDE, pcb, Jackbeat, PianoBooster, BleachBit, ciss.
- Announcements: EC caves on interoperability, CELF looking for projects to fund, Linux and astronomy, Dell releases Chrome OS, Senate pushes Sun acquisition to EU, LAC cfp, PGCon cfp, GUADEC schedule, L2Ork performance, UKUUG conf, disappearance Of Phil Agre.
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