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LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 14, 2008
(Subscribers only)

Front: Chandler finally hits 1.0; GeekPAC; LinuxWorld: Moving the data center.

Security: Details of the DNS flaw revealed; New vulnerabilities in acroread, clamav, moodle, vim,...

Kernel: Kernel-based checkpoint and restart; Block layer discard requests; Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer.

Distributions: Distributions at LinuxWorld 2008; BLFS-6.3-rc3

Development: Audio Streaming over Bluetooth, Open OVF launched, new versions of MySQL Community Server, SQLite, OpenVAS, Jikes RVM, Catacomb, Genode OS Framework, Chandler, Task Coach, GNOME, LedgerSMB, pyglet, Elisa Media Center, klick, Mixxx, Anaphraseus, T-Rex, PHP, pycairo, eric.

Press: Open Source License enforceable by Federal Court, Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation and a rebuttal, LinuxWorld coverage, Akademy coverage, OIN's patent pool, interviews with Jason Hunter, Oleg Romaxa and Bob Sutor, Building an Open Source Community, reviews of Linux App Checker, Eclipse tools for mobile, VirtualBox, guide to kernel development.

Announcements: Open Health Tools gets code donation, OpenSAF 2.0, gOS 3 Gadgets, NI and LEGO robotics platform, OpenX 2.6 ad server, LinuxWorld awards, KDE e.V. general assembly report, LLVM Dev meeting report, Where 2.0 coverage, I/O Virtualization cfp, OpenSUSE Hack Week III, OLS videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 7, 2008
(Freely available)

Front: Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: The Practice of Programming; Firefox to support Theora video; Building custom appliance distributions with rBuilder.

Security: OLS: Smack for embedded devices; New vulnerabilities in java, python, RealPlayer, trac,...

Kernel: Can user-space bugs be kernel regressions?; A kernel message catalog; The TALPA molehill.

Distributions: Looking forward to Fedora 10.

Development: The GNOME 2.24 module proposals, Django 1.0 schedule, liboggplay debut, new versions of Dirmngr, Web Submission and Review, ZK, matplotlib, GnuCash, SQL-Ledger, Player Project, pygame, a2jmidid, guitarix, pyspread, Pydev, Marathon.

Press: LinuxWorld's OSCON report, LTSP Hackfest coverage, OLS coverage, Intuit's Linux moves, Bruce Perens on Microsoft/Apache, open source in pre-schools, Jim Zemlin on LSB 4.0, Miguel de Icaza on Mono and Moonlight, Guido van Rossum interview, improving free software usability.

Announcements: EFF's Coders' Rights Project, EFF releases ISP testing tool, FSF demonstrates iPhone's GPLv3 incompatibility, IBM, Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat announced desktop collaboration, Git Magic, OSCON Proceedings, O'Reilly Tools of Change cfp, LF End User Summit, OO.o conf registration.