LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 23, 2012

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 23, 2012 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

• Front: GNOME OS conversations at GUADEC; Removable device filesystems; Mobile patent wars: Google goes on the attack.
• Security: Forward secure sealing; New vulnerabilities in emacs, gdb, gimp, glibc, ...
• Kernel: Power-aware scheduling; Link-time optimization; Ask a kernel developer: maintainer workflow.
• Distributions: Debian looks at OpenRC; AV Linux, Firefox OS.
• Development: GNOME development; Git; grep and coreutils; MariaDB; ...
• Announcements: Help Ken Starks, A Generation Lost in the Bazaar, lots of events, ...