Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2021
- The endless browser wars: Google's decision to close off some APIs is another front in a long browser battle.
- Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary: open source is still not a business model.
- Avoiding blocking file-name lookups: a small change that can give big performance benefits.
- Preserving the mobility of ZONE_MOVABLE: a memory-allocation policy change to help prevent fragmentation.
- A year of Python in Fedora: the Fedora Python packagers show what they worked on last year.
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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