LWN.net Weekly Edition Archives [LWN.net]

Here is a simple (for now) archive listing for the LWN.net Weekly Edition. Note that this archive begins on June 6, 2002; please see the old site archives for editions prior to that date.

See also: separate index pages for:

All guest articles, indexed by author.
The Grumpy Editor series of software reviews.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 3, 2008 (One big page)

Front: More DTrace envy; Mozilla plans for Firefox 3 and beyond; Netgear's open router.
Security: Ruby security flaws expose release process problems; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kernel, mysql, perl,...
Kernel: Making power policy just work; TASK_KILLABLE; Some development statistics for 2.6.26 - and beyond.
Distributions: A look at openSUSE 11.0; Ubuntu "Intrepid" alpha; Debian teams survey results; openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap
Development: The OLPC project releases 10GB of sound samples, ratproxy open-sourced, new versions of Busybox, libnetfilter, nginx, Accelerator, jack_capture, pyogp, WOMBAT, wxPython, Perceptual Diff, Wine, Claws Mail, MediaInfo, OxygenOffice Pro, Firefox, NSS, ConfigObj, Docutils, GIT, diff3-ov.
Press: Feature on Google Android, rant on Linux 3D graphics, Red Hat profit grows, Linux laptops in India, Morgan Gillis interview, Guido van Rossum interview, about:mobile debuts, don't fork KDE 4.
Announcements: Final Fedora board appointment, CadSoft Eagle 5.1, Xandros buys Linspire, LiPS and LiMo merge, Netgear's open wireless-G router, Openmoko Neo Freerunner available, BA-Con CFP, CCC CFP, piksel08 cfp, Python Papers cfp, Deepsec registration, Web 2.0 keynotes, LugRadio ending.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 26, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Notes on the Fedora board election; A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement; Symbian to be another open mobile platform.
Security: Leaking browser history; New vulnerabilities in fetchmail, gallery, kernel, ruby,...
Kernel: A day in the life of linux-next; What's AdvFS good for?; Freezing filesystems and containers.
Distributions: Debian Lenny and the Eee PC?; openSUSE 11.0 GM; CentOS 5.2; BackTrack 3; A report from the Debian Testing security team; GNOME Helping Hands Project; The NetBSD Foundation Moves to a Two Clause BSD License; FUDCon report
Development: The Elastix PBX system, Realizing Jython 2.5, new versions of Midgard, nginx, aria2, GARNOME, Sylpheed, Gnash, libsmf, Chandler Desktop, Parrot, Python, Sphinx, Pydev, GIT.
Press: Open Source Data Recovery Tools, Red Hat's virtualization initiatives, extended support for RHEL 4 and 5, clarinet-playing robot, reviews of Hotwire, OpenSUSE 11 and Wine 1.0.
Announcements: Bitbucket launched, Liberty Alliance frameworks, NoTA open-sourced, EFF on Seer patent, Symbian Foundation launched, BSI OOXML action to be appealed, Black Duck on GPLv3, SLE 2008 cfp, IFIP conf cfp, make art cfp, EFMI open-source conf.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 19, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation; Multi-system administration with Func; Deki.
Security: The Application Security Desk Reference; New vulnerabilities in freetype, openoffice.org, typo3, xorg-server,...
Kernel: Why some drivers are not merged early; Peter Zijlstra: From DOS to kernel hacking; The state of the pageout scalability patches.
Distributions: Looking ahead to Mandriva 2009; Fedora board meetings; Fedora 7 EOL; Gentoo Council summary; Changes to Gobuntu; a look at GNewSense
Development: The Wine project releases version 1, Bluetooth for PulseAudio, Firefox 3 guide, converting GCC to C++, new versions of cx_Oracle, PostgreSQL, Allmydata, Flashlight-VNC, Apache, nginx, webminstats, XMMS2, Asymptote, SQL-Ledger, pymunk, JUCE, aTunes, Burn 360, CACAO, OpenSwing, SBCL, AVC, LLVM.
Press: Groklaw on Red Hat/GPLv3 case, Nokia on DRM, Why Linux Failed at Walmart, history of Access to the Law, Marten Mickos interview, web developer's guide to Firefox 3, running Linux on MIPS, image distortion portals, X Server contributors analyzed, Flock 2 and Netflix Player reviews.
Announcements: Django Software Foundation, EFF on random laptop searches, CrossOver 7, Novell and Micro-Star partner, Opera 9.5, PostgreSQL Software Catalog, FOMS cfp, Linux Plumbers cfp, OSDC cfp, EuroPython timetable, ImageJ conf, LinuxWorldExpo PostgreSQL Day, PyCon 2009, OO.o forum adds Japanese.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 12, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Gadgets for Linux; Jim Ready interview; Implications of pure and constant functions
Security: SCADA system vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in kernel, openoffice.org, snort, tomcat,...
Kernel: The linux-staging tree; 2.6.26 API changes; Andrew Morton interview
Distributions: openSUSE merges forums ahead of 11.0 release; 64 Studio 2.1; Debian Installer lenny beta 2; Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring; openSUSE Build Service 1.0 RC 1; Celebrating 10 years of Mandriva
Development: Detect and record video movement with Motion, About Django and the importance of releases, threads in Python, new versions of pgAdmin III, BusyBox, JVoiceXML, OrangeHRM, GNOME, GARNOME, pdfposter, Gimp User Filter, ScaleTempo, OO.o, Dirac, Souzou, GCC, GNU Classpath, Qt Jambi, UMLet.
Press: Stallman complains about the Oyster payment system, Acer likes Linux for laptops, Google Gadgets for Linux, multitouch gesture support for Synaptics TouchPads, KDE 4.1 snapshot review, Linux vs. Windows on power usage.
Announcements: Ardour in Summer Code Finland, EFF on unmasking MySpace user, Mozilla parties, SFLC files more BusyBox suits, SUSE Linux supercomputers, Win4Lin Desktop 5, ODBMS.org panel discussion, OO.o conf cfp, PyOhio cfp, French KDE Day videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 5, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Mark Shuttleworth interview; Fedora Nightlife; Distributions for laptops
Security: oCERT and oss-security; New vulnerabilities in evolution, imlib2, openssl, stunnel,...
Kernel: Embedded maintainers interview; Profiling kernel code coverage; Moving the firmware out
Distributions: What's up with the Intrepid Ibex; openSUSE 11.0 RC1; lots of newsletters; interviews with Jeff Moe, Donnie Berkholz and Anurag Bhandari; reviews of Mandriva, Ubuntu vs. Fedora, and TinyMe
Development: Matplotlib announces a major release, PostgreSQL statement on replication, Firefox microformats API, C source analysis framework, new versions of bkupcj, SQLObject, Samba, libnetfilter, Midgard, Accelerator, Openbravo POS, GNOME, KDE, dblatex, StorYBook, PyQwt, GraphicsMagick, ppc, IcedTea, Jutty.
Press: Legal issues with GPL'd software, Intel CEO on small CPUs, new German KDE deployments, Fedora Nightlife launched, OpenOffice.org performance, Ubuntu Linux Remix review.
Announcements: Mozilla aims to set download record, Novell Financials, Python classes, RTLWS10 Guadalajara cfp, Akademy registration opens, DEFCON Updates, EuroSciPy - Leipzig, LF Summit videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 29, 2008 (One big page)

Front: The Grumpy Editor reviews Claws Mail; In defense of Firefox; Getting the right kind of contributions.
Security: Attacking network cards; New vulnerabilities in emacs, kernel, php libcurl, samba,...
Kernel: Responding to ext4 journal corruption; Using the firmware loader for static data; GEM v. TTM.
Distributions: Fedora's Packager Sponsors Responsibility Policy; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2; Thesis on openSUSE Published; FAN (Fully Automated Nagios); Freezy Linux; Wicker
Development: The Open Graphics Project prepares to release hardware, Multi-pointer X is coming, coding rules checker for GCC, new versions of DbUnit, pgDesigner, Samba, OpenSSL, CommSy, Contineo, Audacious, XCircuit, Stella, CSSBox, GIT.
Press: Debian openssl aftermath, KDE at LGM, YAPC::Russia, Wind River and Intel partner, Linux for the London subway, new trade agreement may affect copyrights, Mark Shuttleworth interview, second generation OLPC, Red Hat and Novell enterprise upgrades.
Announcements: GPL-Violations.org and FSFE FTF work together, Facebook supports XMPP, Gentoo Foundation reinstated, ELC-EU cfp, NLUUG cfp, Low Level Virtual Machine Developers' Meeting.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 22, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Blame Fedora. Again.; Mozilla looks to simplify embedding; Debian contemplates patch management.
Security: Session cookies for web applications; New vulnerabilities in Django, gnutls, kernel, setroubleshoot,...
Kernel: Appropriate sources of entropy; Kill BKL Vol. 2; Barriers and journaling filesystems.
Distributions: Exherbo announced. Sort of...; rPath Linux 2.0; SLE 10 SP2; openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3; Fedora 9 Everything Spin; Gentoo Foundation officially reinstated; GKLinuxOS 2008
Development: Use Rakarrack for Electric Guitar Effects, Firefox 3-rc, new versions of ALE Server, Unbound, nfsreplay, Putty Terminal Deployer, pyftpdlib, DistrPeer, Django, OpenPanel, NASPRO, GNOME, pdfposter, jack-keyboard, jack-smf-utils, ll-plugins, NtEd, MDP, OpenSwing, GCC, CMUCL, GNU CLISP, Parrot, Pyrex, Urwid.
Press: Guidelines for Free System Distributions, Splashtop on Asus motherboards, Verizon joins LiMo, Fedora soccer playing robots, Red Hat Linux at NYSE, Demystifying KDE and GNOME.
Announcements: Digistan Hague Declaration, Seneca College to work on Fedora, OLPC and Microsoft, Sugar Labs launched, Open Source Security Report, Python and Plone Boot Camps, Hack.lu cfp, Netfilter Workshop, Open Source City - Liverpool, Collaboration Summit videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 15, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Debian, OpenSSL, and a lack of cooperation; Release synchronization; Distributed bug tracking.
Security: Debian vulnerability has widespread effects; New vulnerabilities in bugzilla, openssl, php5, xen,...
Kernel: The big kernel lock strikes again; Getting a handle on caching; Extending system calls.
Distributions: A Talk with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields; New releases: Fedora 9, BLFS-6.3-rc1; Red Hat Appointments Harald Hoyer to Fedora Board
Development: The Freedom of Fork; new versions of LIRC, BusyBox, BencHTTP, OpenKM, YaMA, GNOME SlackBuild, LyX, Buddi, KMyMoney, Accelerator, Task Coach, Pyrex, Paver, Pydev.
Press: Matthew Garrett on power saving, Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi, Microsoft cuts XP prices, Red Hat's JBoss ON 2.0, interviews with AbiWord team, Ian Murdock and Neil Young, small business on Linux, KDE 4 review, Mirth popularity.
Announcements: US/EU patent treaty, GPL wins in Germany, OWASP sponsors projects, Adaptec RAID controllers, Wind River Joins OpenSAF, SourceForge adds OpenID, Zenoss sponsors Twisted, Akademy Embedded and Mobile cfp, ELC videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 8, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Rietveld; How not to sell embedded Linux; Blizzard tests the reach of copyright law.
Security: Cryptographic splicing makes for a Wordpress vulnerability; New vulnerabilities in b2evolution, emacs, kernel (several), and wordpress
Kernel: The last things through the 2.6.26 merge window; Time to slow down?; Read-only bind mounts.
Distributions: Looking ahead to Mandriva Linux 2009; new releases: easys GNU/Linux 4.1, F9 beta for ia64, Fedora 8 Updated Re-Spin, gNewSense 2.0, Mandriva 2008 Spring Xfce, OpenBSD 4.3, OpenSolaris 2008.05, openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2, Slackware 12.1
Development: Pygments - the Python Syntax Highlighter, a look at Qt 4.4, Wine release countdown, new versions of pgDesigner, sendmail, libprngwrap, OSSEC HIDS, nginx, Mandriva Directory Server, KDE, Wine, Rosegarden, PHP, Sphinx, eric, Bazaar.
Press: A Brief History of Sun, LJ Readers' Choice Awards, Linux Fest Northwest coverage, Dell is Vista-only in .au, A Brief History of Sun, Ekiga developers interviewed, ruggedized PDA.
Announcements: EFF on border searches, Perl Foundation grant proposals, Samba volunteer jobs, Adobe's Open Screen Project, OpenEMR training, Akademy cfp extended, OOoCon cfp, OSDC cfp, PyOhio cfp, PyPy sprint, openSUSE blog platform.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 1, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Large educational Linux deployment for Brazil; Sun and corporate open source; On the conviction of Hans Reiser.
Security: The Tahoe secure filesystem; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, kdelibs, ldm, wordpress,...
Kernel: The 2.6.26 merge window, part 2; Restricting root with per-process securebits; Ksplice.
Distributions: Distributions in the Summer of Code; The Heron has landed; Slackware 12.1 RC3; Gentoo 2008.0_beta2; Fedora 7 End of Life; Ubuntu Open Week
Development: Stream video and audio with Boxtream, GNOME 2.24 roadmap, Python stdlib reorg, subversion's future, new versions of Firebird, FreeIPA, Wubi, GARNOME, GnuCash, OpenCards, UFO:Alien Invasion, FLTK, jack-smf-utils.
Press: Stallman: Can we rescue OLPC from Windows?, Linux and Formula One, Linux training in Italy, ten arguments for switching to Linux, Linux is top embedded OS, interviews with Sung Jae, Donald Knuth, Joe Miller and Walter Bender, open-source video streaming, Phoronix Test Suite.
Announcements: LWN guest author index, KDE for 52M Brazilian students, Linux Incompatibility List needs help, OLPC photos, GSoC projects, CadSoft Eagle 5.0, OpenLogic hits 400 package mark, VIA driver development portal, OSSCoNF cfp, YAPC::NA schedule, Paul McKenney on Realtime Linux.

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