LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 2, 2012 [LWN.net]

LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 2, 2012

Posted Aug 2, 2012 0:46 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 2, 2012 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: Open "stuff"; Skeltrack; Nexus 7 review.
Security: The leap second of doom; New vulnerabilities in bind9, icedtea-web, krb5, wireshark, ...
Kernel: 3.6 Merge window part 2; ACCESS_ONCE(); TCP fast open.
Distributions: CeroWrt: Bufferbloat, IPv6, and more; Debian, Fedora, ...
Development: Generic atomic operations; KDE 4.9; OpenStreetMap waypoints; Otte and the abyss; ...
Announcements: FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy; books, events, ...