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LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 29, 2005
(Subscribers only)

Front: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Personal Finance Managers, Part 2; The Authors' Guild and Google Print; LWN update.

Security: Rule set based access control; New vulnerabilities in cups, firefox, kernel, qt, webmin, ...

Kernel: User-space software suspend; Swap prefetching; Securityfs.

Distributions: A quick look at Ubuntu 5.10 Preview, Ubuntu Colony CD 5, The Linux HomeDistro web site, Xubuntu

Development: The GNU Classpath distro DevJam - Europe, Lightning Roadmap, FSG Accessibility, new versions of Linux-HA, PyODB, ZODB, bogofilter, netfilter apps, Bayonne, Gallery, Quixote, JFreeReport, Tina POS, wxWidgets, GIMP, OO.o, Mozilla, QFE, SBCL, Python.

Press: MA chooses Open Document, Summer of Code results, Cell Phone Locks, open-source in business, Peru's Free Software Law, Stallman on GPL 3, Encryption guides, KDE 4 plans, Linux on supercomputers.

Announcements: Oracle sets record on Linux, Austin Group Status Report, EFF on the broadcast flag, Xara sponsors universal vector graphics translator, firewalls with Debian, ONJava Reader Survey, EFF Bash, FOSS.IN, MySQL Conf CFP, remix.linux.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 22, 2005
(Freely available)

Front: Two approaches to Linux gadgets; Reiser4 and kernel inclusion; The relevance of the Linux Standard Base.

Security: A revised look at response times; New vulnerabilities in clamav, mailutils, masqmail, py2play, ...

Kernel: A new approach to kernel timers; ZONE_DMA32; Predictive, per-task write throttling.

Distributions: A Look at Slackware Linux 10.2; Desktop/LX users get a Mandriva Club discount; DebCentral.org launches; AspisOS

Development: Back Up to CD with Cedar Backup, new versions of Cedar Backup, Linux-HA, Sendmail, John the Ripper, SSL-Explorer, NAJAX, LASH, XCircuit, Block Rage, Jackbeat, KMiditracker, Patchage, PyVISA, Firefox, AndroMDA, PyInstaller, Eric3, Mercurial, XPlanner, Gnome 2.14 Schedule.

Press: Microsoft Challenges Massachusetts, Are legal liabilities holding back Linux?, Red Hat/IBM joint initiative, call for music copyright reform, A Glimpse of SUSE Linux 10.0, Multi-Category Security, What Is Open Source, Pitfalls of Linux Sockets Programming, Sylpheed review.

Announcements: Dell laptop with Mandriva, MontaVista Linux on blades, Linux Desktop Migration and Virtualization Toolkit Citizens Against Government Waste, Nokia Joins Eclipse, Samba PDC HOWTO, Libre Graphics Meeting, pen Source Desktop Workshop, Zend/PHP Conference, Portal on Object Databases, O'Reilly audio magazine.

Letters: TCP offload yet again.

Today's headlines

Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Mercurial loses a developer [15]

Friday's security updates

Red Hat Reports Fiscal Second Quarter Results [3]

French military body to install Linux cluster (Silicon.com)

Gervase Markham Explains Automatic Resolution of Old Unconfirmed Bugs Plan (MozillaZine)

Sun makes an OASIS patent pledge [9]

What Is Free Software (O'ReillyNet)

Radio's Next Generation: Radii (Linux Journal)

Patent suits not likely, says IP attorney (IT Manager's Journal) [1]

FOX's Anti-MASS FUD is a Dud (Groklaw) [8]

AOpen box inspired by Mac Mini (News.com) [8]

Thursday Security Updates

Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age) [18]

Darik's Boot and Nuke: A great tool for obliterating your data (NewsForge) [2]

The $100 laptop moves closer to reality (News.com) [2]

From the Editor - dmarti:~$ logout (Linux Journal)

The first OpenOffice.org 2.0 release candidate [20]

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 29, 2005

Wednesday's security alerts


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