LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 5, 2010 [LWN.net]

LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 5, 2010

Posted Aug 5, 2010 1:59 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 5, 2010 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: A message from the GNOME release team; Balancing accessibility and software freedom; Promoting a free software project.
Security: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop; New vulnerabilities in freetype, kernel, kvirc, libwebkit, ...
Kernel: Whack-a-droid; 2.6.36 merge window part 1; Data temperature in Btrfs; The IRMOS realtime scheduler.
Distributions: Membership structures in Debian and Ubuntu; MeeGo; Jolicloud; Illumos; FUDCon Tempe; RHEL 3 EOL.
Development: Wayfinder and EurekaStreams; GNOME census, OCRFeeder, pyvm, ...
Announcements: BusyBox and the GPL; Debian Book; Stallman interview; Wesnoth; Desktop Summit.