Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 18, 2017

[Posted May 17, 2017 by corbet]

This week's edition has a wide variety of feature articles:

Entering the mosh pit: in which your editor finally gets around to playing with the Mosh shell.
OpenStack faces the challenges of cloud backups: what do backups mean in the cloud environment, and how well are backup needs met by available free tools?
Vulnerability hoarding and Wcry: a few observations on this week's malware mess.
The end of the 4.12 merge window: a summary of the new features included in the final 1,000 changesets merged for the 4.12 development cycle.
Randomizing structure layout: a look at the randstruct GCC plugin.
Restricting pathname resolution with AT_NO_JUMPS: a proposed system-call enhancement that would help applications sandbox their filesystem accesses.
IPv6 segment routing: a look at a new networking feature added during the 4.10 kernel development cycle.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.

Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 18, 2017

Posted May 18, 2017 5:45 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link] (4 responses)

I like how the table of contents is working out!
I wonder if making the links points into the main page, rather than to separate pages, would be a good thing. I cannot quite decide.
What I would like to see is the "brief items" and "announcements" listed in this main table of contents, rather in that auxiliary one at the end.
Thanks!

Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 18, 2017

Posted May 18, 2017 8:35 UTC (Thu) by Gladrim (subscriber, #45751) [Link]

When reading in "bigpage" format, it would be less astonishing if the links jumped forward to page anchors rather than going to a separate page.

Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 18, 2017

Posted May 18, 2017 12:47 UTC (Thu) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link]

> What I would like to see is the "brief items" and "announcements" listed in this main table of contents

I agree! Especially because one doesn't see those links at all on this page [0] as opposed to this one [1], which I found a bit confusing. But thanks, the TOC is otherwise very helpful, and I'm enjoying the new format!

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/723105/
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/722565/

Internal links

Posted May 18, 2017 13:33 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

The internal links idea had crossed my mind, but a bit late to try for this week. I do think it might be a better way to go.

Internal links

Posted May 20, 2017 15:49 UTC (Sat) by TRS-80 (guest, #1804) [Link]

I actually find the direct article links useful as I can instantly see I've already read some articles this week. But I can totally appreciate the desire for internal links too.