Welcome to LWN.net

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.

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.