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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.
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.