LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 4, 2012

Posted Oct 4, 2012 4:05 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 4, 2012 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: With Madison it's not just a bill; Programming languages for X application development; Tent pitches a new social networking protocol.
Security: Security modules and RPM; New vulnerabilities in apache, kernel, moodle, tor, ...
Kernel: Questioning link restrictions; 3.7 merge window part 1; LSM stacking; How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL.
Distributions: Interview: Fedora's new cloud manager; Slackware, Open webOS, openSUSE, ...
Development: OpenGL futures; wlterm; Python 3.3; Brian Kernighan; ...
Announcements: The Document Foundation, LPI, lots of events.