LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 13, 2012 [LWN.net]

LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 13, 2012

Posted Dec 13, 2012 2:42 UTC (Thu)

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 13, 2012 is available.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition

Front: A simulated FirefoxOS experience; Book sprints; 2012 Timeline Q3.
Security: FreeIPA: centralized identity management for Linux; New vulnerabilities in bind9, cups, gimp, libtiff, tor, ...
Kernel: 3.8 Merge window part 1; User namespaces; JFFS2, UBIFS, and the growth of flash storage.
Distributions: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware; Slax, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, ...
Development: Ekiga 4.0; SparkleShare 1.0; Samba 4.0; RE2; ...
Announcements: ROSA join AGL; LLVM Developers' Meeting videos; FSFE on unitary patent; ...