Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 21, 2019
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Patent exhaustion and open source: a FOSDEM talk on an interesting intersection between free software and software patent law.
- The case of the supersized shebang: a kernel regression resulting from a series of errors.
- Per-vector software-interrupt masking: a proposal for improving software-interrupt latency.
- Some challenges for GNOME online accounts: centralized access to web-based services is not as easy as it seems.
- Producing an application for both desktop and mobile: how the Subsurface project supports several different systems with the same code base.
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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