LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 11, 2012

Posted Oct 11, 2012 0:41 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 11, 2012 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: Udev and firmware; CIA.vc shuts down; Linux and automotive computing security.
Security: Loading modules from file descriptors; New vulnerabilities in bind, libxslt, Mozilla products, php, ...
Kernel: 3.7 merge window part 2; New visibility of RCU processing; An f2fs teardown
Distributions: Canonical courts financial contributions; Debian, Fedora, ...
Development: getauxval(); KDE Manifesto; xpra; Open Hardware Summit; ...
Announcements: FSF certified printer, The Patent, Used as a Sword, Jolla's MeeGo phone, ...