LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 18, 2011

Posted Aug 18, 2011 1:21 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 18, 2011 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: Service design; Android and the GPLv2 death penalty; Developments in Mozilla-land.
Security: Unpredictable sequence numbers; New vulnerabilities in isc-dhcp, libmodplug, libxfont, Mozilla products ...
Kernel: Sharing buffers between devices; Avoiding the OS abstraction trap; Transcendent memory in a nutshell.
Distributions: Six years of RHEL 4 security; SmartOS, Debian, CentOS, ...
Development: Plasma Active; Cilk Plus, Firefox, ...
Announcements: Google to buy Motorola mobility, MPL 2.0-rc1, the mobile patent mess, ...