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LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 3, 2005
(Subscribers only)

Front: A day in the life of emacs; IBM's latest gift; MandrakeSoft acquires Conectiva.

Security: A test of the Firefox update system; New vulnerabilities in bsmtpd, curl, gaim, firefox, phpBB, Qt, ...

Kernel: A proposed memory management rework; Unexporting symbols in a stable kernel; Merging Xen.

Distributions: Debian vs. FreeBSD as a Web Serving Platform, Part 2; New: Asterisk Live!, BioBrew Linux, Pie Box Enterprise Linux

Development: Version Control with GNU Arch, new versions of DBD::Pg, FreeImage, Moodss, GrokLaw News Picks, Grace, XCircuit, wxWidgets, video for Jack, Firefox, Eclipse releases, the Poppler PDF renderer, Pugs Apocryphon 1.

Press: Stallman on Free BIOS, Alan Cox FOSDEM talk, Paris Solutions Linux coverage, Lawrence Lessig interview, Free Software Magazine #2, OpenOffice.org macros, Build a Budget PC, OpenOffice.org 2.0 review.

Announcements: IBM opens 30 projects, Mandrakesoft to merge with Conectiva, Opera beta 2, VA and Sun Wah partner, Win4Lin Pro, FSFE fellowship program, FAVE 2005 CFP, LAC 2005 CFP, Ubuntu Down Under.

Letters: Wikipedia criticism.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 24, 2005
(Freely available)

Front: How would you shrink Fedora Core?; LWN goes to LinuxWorld; Fighting license proliferation.

Security: Secret answers as insecure passwords; New vulnerabilities in cyrus-imapd, gaim, gftp, mc, squid, ...

Kernel: Page cache flushing; Multipath support; FUTEX + rwsem = SNAFU

Distributions: Debian vs. FreeBSD as a Web Serving Platform, Part 1; Slackware for S/390; new: T2 and Rapid

Development: The OpenCroquet Project, Samba Roadmap, new versions of MaxDB, xprobe2, Leonardo, mnoGoSearch, phpBB, Silva, UnCommon Web, GNOME, SQL-Ledger, libDSP, Dirac, AbiWord, xavax, DrPython, bzip2.

Press: The Software Freedom Law Center, LinuxWorld coverage, IBM investing $100M in Linux, Court questions FCC's broadcast flag rules, FOSDEM interviews, OOo cross referencing, Dvorak on How to Kill Linux.

Announcements: IBM Unveils New Development Centers, 1Q results from Mandrake and Novell, VA Linux Issues Manifesto, LinuxWorld Announcements, OASIS patent policy, EFF guide to EULAs, GUADEC-es 2005, LPA AGM, TuxScout Job Site.

Letters: On Enderle and Firefox

Today's headlines

No European patent rubber-stamp on Monday [15]

Mandrakelinux Community Newsletter #101

Friday security updates

Donors, takers size up free open source certificate support (NewsForge) [2]

Red Hat exec takes over Open Source Initiative (News.com) [6]

The Spam Assassin Behind SpamAssassin (OSDir.com)

KDE to Preview KDE 3.4 at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (KDE.News)

Stable kernel 2.6.11.1 released [10]

An Introduction to Embedded Linux Development, Part 4 (Linux Journal)

Conversation with a successful Linux services entrepreneur (NewsForge)