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LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 8, 2008
(Subscribers only)

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
(Freely available)

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.