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LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 3, 2008
(Subscribers only)

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
(Freely available)

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.