The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 24, 2009 is available.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition
Front: A 2009 retrospective; EtherPad; 2009 Linux and free software timeline
Security: Linux malware: an incident and some solutions; New vulnerabilities in condor, drupal, ganeti, rails,...
Kernel: Two that didn't make it; Writing an ACPI driver - an introduction; Debugging the kernel using Ftrace - part 2.
Distributions: A quick and grumpy look at ChromeOS; Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha2; openSUSE: Linux for Education; Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 RC; Fedora 10 End of Life; Red Hat to Drop Itanium Support; Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul.
Development: FreeNAS 0.7; The Free Firewire Audio Drivers reach version 2.0, PostgreSQL to get Hot Standby, new versions of ALSA, MySQL, VirtualBox, Midgard2, GNOME, GnuPG, Wine, FluidSynth, MusE, Roundup, digiKam, Moonlight 2, Parrot, Perl, PHP, GDB, bzr, Git.
Announcements: FAI turns 10, Shuttleworth stepping down, Moonlight covenant text, 10 Linux developments, GPL Compliance Engineering Guide, copyright assignment, meaning of open, FOSS intro, FUDCon survey, OSCON cfp, TLF cfp, MySQL Conf, LLVM Blog.
