Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 14, 2019

• Debian reconsiders init-system diversity: a general resolution (GR) may be in the offing to determine how much support the distribution should provide to init systems other than systemd.
• Analyzing kernel email: some researchers report on kernel email analysis at ELCE.
• Statistics from the 5.4 development cycle: our usual look at who developed the code and which companies paid for it.
• Emulated iopl(): an effort to remove some ancient cruft from the kernel.
• The 2019 Automated Testing Summit: a report from the gathering of kernel test system developers in Lyon, France at the end of October.

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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