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LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 25, 2008
(Subscribers only)

Front: The Grumpy Editor's 2008 retrospective; 3-D PDF presentations; The 2008 timeline

Security: SSL man-in-the-middle attacks; New vulnerabilities in courier-authlib, flash-plugin, mediawiki, openvpn,...

Kernel: Justifying FS-Cache; 2.6.28 statistics; Union mounts

Distributions: openSUSE 11.1 is out; Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 1; Nexenta Core Platform 2 Beta1; openSUSE-Education 1.0 for SLE10 and 11.1; Jaunty Alpha 2; Debian dependency maps; Fedora election results; Mandriva Community Steering Committee

Development: Refining the Process of Digitizing Vinyl Records, Java support for embedded devices, new version of MySQL, SQLite, v4l-test, Linux::DataDVD, conntrack-tools, ikaaro, HOgg, matplotlib, GNOME, samurai-x2, TaxPub, gEDA/gaf, Qt and Qt Creator, Wine, Claws, Sylpheed, PyTables, ViTables, Firefox, JMRI, Python, Git, Mercurial.

Press: Tom Callaway on licensing, LF sponsoring "I'm Linux" ads, Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux, VMware acquires Tungsten Graphics, recession and FOSS adoption, Linux and in-flight entertainment, Jim Zemlin interview, OpenVZ experiments, Python 3 primer, looking for Cool Projects.

Announcements: LF appoints Ted Ts’o, Red Hat Q3 results, Web Server Survey, LPI exam 102 prep, CONFidence cfp, MySQL Conf registration, SCALE status report, Web 2.0 Expo registration.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2008
(Freely available)

Front: Debian goes to the polls; Hv3 and the art of minimalist web-browsing; The FSF raises the stakes for Cisco.

Security: "Vishing" advisory targets Asterisk; New vulnerabilities in drupal, firefox/seamonkey, phpMyAdmin, uw-imap,...

Kernel: System calls and 64-bit architectures; Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify; SQLB.

Distributions: Localization under a government umbrella; new releases of Slackware 12.2, Linux Mint 6 and Omega 10; Debian 5.0 update; Fedora fixes dbus problem; Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1; openSUSE 10.2 EOL; new to the list cp6Linux, Hackable:1 and TurnKey Linux.

Development: Profiling the Power Usage of a Desktop PC, new versions of Rivendell, Fuse, Samba, DavMail, libnetfilter_conntrack, multi-resolver, Apache, XPanel, Visualiser, Vamp, rrdtool, LyX, GpsMid, Irrlicht, pycairo, Elisa, ETS, WebcamStudio, Firefox, AsciiDoc, OpenSwing, Parrot, Perl, Hypy, MPFR, ULP, Hatta.

Press: Can Open Source Help the Economy?, Small is beautiful, HP sells Linux PCs, Jaspersoft gets $12.5M investment, interviews with Jeremy Allison, Sjoerd Simons and Warren Woodford, LTSP review, Shuttle X27D review, problems in bug tracking systems.

Announcements: FSF sues Cisco, FSFE adds fellowship seats, Waugh leaves GNOME board, Linux Fund partners with gEDA and Gnash, TPF gets $50K, X.org election, Browser Security Handbook, EuroPy cfp, OSCON cfp, FSFE translation sprint, Money:Tech speakers, VMworld SF.

Today's headlines

AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code (Phoronix) [5]

Openmoko: looking forward to 2009 [10]

Monday's security updates

The GNOME DVCS survey [15]

Palm needs Nova to shine (San Francisco Chronicle) [5]

6 best personal finance apps for Linux (TechRadar) [12]

Debian votes to move forward with Lenny release [1]

A look back at the open source victories of 2008 (ars technica)

Android netbook is a possibility (Inquirer) [42]

Friday's security updates

Linux Gazette #158 is out