LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 21, 2012

Posted Nov 21, 2012 20:49 UTC (Wed)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 21, 2012 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway; Relicensing VLC; Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts.
Security: A rootkit dissected; New vulnerabilities in Java, Mozilla products, MySQL, Xen, ...
Kernel: Checkpoint/restore in user space; VFS hot-data tracking; Module signing.
Distributions: Gentoo's udev fork; Mint, ...
Development: Random numbers; GNOME 3; Color Management Hackfest; UEFI bugs; ...
Announcements: FSFE and secure boot; Mozilla Foundation annual report; Bottomley on UEFI signing; Apple patents; open standards in Portugal; ...