Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 16, 2025
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop: a newish distribution focused on BSD-style tools.
- The state of Vim: what is happening with the Vim project after the loss of its longtime maintainer.
- Page-table hardening with memory protection keys: an attempt to use a hardware memory-protection feature to make page tables harder for an attacker to corrupt.
- Modifying another process's system calls: a proposed ptrace() extension to allow for architecture-independent modification of system-call arguments and return values.
- Ghostty 1.0 has been summoned: yet another new terminal emulator.
- The slow death of TuxFamily: a longstanding host for free-software development is fading away.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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