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LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2009
(Subscribers only)

Front: linux.conf.au 2009; Catching up with X.org; The new GCC runtime library exemption; KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software.

Security: Book Review: Hacking VoIP; New vulnerabilities in dia, kernel, ktorrent, tor,...

Kernel: LCA: A new approach to asynchronous I/O; Snet and the LSM API; A SystemTap update.

Distributions: Fedora looks to prevent upgrade disasters; KNOPPIX 6.0, Tin Hat 20090119, Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS; Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11

Development: The long road to a working Cheese, new versions of Eventum, Firebird, Clonezilla, Samba, conntrack-tools, nginx, Sector, unattended-gui, Invada plugins, Azureus, xTuple, GNOME, KDE, Asymptote, UOX3, Elisa, MediaInfo, Denemo, Filterclavier, OO.o, Pyevolve, BleachBit, GCC.

Press: US Supreme Court and software patents, location-aware tools, Sun vs Red Hat, Open-source software in education, using CloneZilla, Java resources, Mozilla Test Pilot and SUSE Studio reviews, Scott McNealy picked by Obama administration.

Announcements: Wikipedia license change, new FSFE software guide, Radeon R6/R7 reference, We're Linux video contest, EuroDjangoCon cfp, IMF cfp, Collab Summit cfp, PostgreSQL Conf cfp, Cloud Summit registration, DOHCS conf, FOSS in Healthcare, RailsConf.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2009
(Freely available)

Front: Nokia relicenses Qt; Mobile Linux at LCA; Finding and using free fonts

Security: Firefox security add-ons; New vulnerabilities in drupal, git, kernel, valgrind,...

Kernel: LCA: The security panel; Parallel NFS; Semantic patching with Coccinelle

Distributions: The shape of FUDCons to come; Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3; RHEL 5.3; Mandriva Linux 2009.1 Alpha 2; KDE Four Live CD; GNUmed Live CD 0.3.9; CrunchBang Linux; Interview with Tom "spot" Callaway.

Development: Common Wine Myths, the History of Python, new versions of ALSA, PulseAudio, SQLite, Samba, Apache Jackrabbit, Apache-SSL, OpenSIPS, PLplot, rrdtool, GNOME, FreeCol, Wine, Minicomputer, QJackMMC, h264enc, PyAMF, JCAM Engine, SWIG.

Press: Perpetual Peril of Open Platforms, the loss of Linux config files, Camp KDE coverage, the facts behind "Get the Facts", Linux vs. Windows 7, McNealey on government lock-in, LGPL 2.1 and C++ templates, Dann Washko interview, Enrico Zini interview, HA tutorial, ideal desktop setup, the Tribler client.

Announcements: EFF free your phone campaign, FSFE on browser interoperability, new Friends of GNOME program, Indian Freedom Walk, Jaspersoft advisory board, KDE wins software product of the year, UK Perl tutorials, Software Patent conference report, ACM CCS cfp, LAC deadline extended, OSCON cfp, PGCon cfp.

Today's headlines

Linux also affected by hole in Ralink's Wi-fi driver (heise online) [8]

OLPC 2.0: After Layoffs, One Laptop Foundation Reboots With New Focus and Big Plans (Xconomy) [3]

Security updates for Thursday

HP Builds on the openSUSE Education Project [1]

Healthcheck: OpenOffice (heise online)

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2009

Kernel prepatch 2.6.29-rc3

[$] KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software [66]

Wednesday's security update

Ctrl-Z: a return to the Supreme Court's software patent ban? (ars technica)

KNOPPIX 6.0 released [4]