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LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 23, 2005
(Subscribers only)

Front: The end of USENET; Open document formats; SonyBMG update.

Security: The Senate takes on spyware; New vulnerabilities in fuse, kernel, openswan, netpbm, inkscape, ...

Kernel: Dynamic USB device IDs; Making notifiers safe; PG_reserved, VM_RESERVED, and VM_UNPAGED.

Distributions: Gentoo Linux 2005.1-r1; Ubuntu Flight CD 1; Aurora Sparc Linux Build-2.0 Beta2; Zeroshell; SLAMPP

Development: Inkscape, a Scalable Vector Graphics Editor, Managing Samba, new versions of Simple Grid Protocol, MySQL, Midgard, QjackCtl, Rivendell, Dropline GNOME, Xfce, SQL-Ledger, Cyphesis, SPTK, FreeMED, GTick, ruby/audio.

Press: Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat, Linux on the Line, Slackware in Sardinia, ODF Battle Gets Ugly, Run Python on Nokia, papers on real-time and embedded Linux, Ubuntu on a Laptop, Free Patent Online Course.

Announcements: Flash Media Server 2, Sun supports PostgresSQL, EFF on Diebold, GNOME foundation election questions, Guide for Student Bloggers, Wireless HotSpot HowTo, GIMP Splash Contest, LPI passes 100K exam mark, Euro OSCon wrap-up, openlab openday London, ShmooCon 2006, SNORT conf, Medical Reference Wiki.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 17, 2005
(Freely available)

Front: LiPS service; Sony's rootkit; FOSS.IN 2005.

Security: Three "trusted computing" security modules; New vulnerabilities in emacs, ftpd, gdk-pixbuf, lynx, ...

Kernel: 4K stacks again; VM: page migration and fragmentation avoidance; The end of isa_readb(); A software suspend decision point.

Distributions: PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies; Xandros Launches German Desktop OS; Bent Linux, G-ZyX

Development: Asterisk - the Open-Source PBX, GNOME Dictionary report, new versions of Shorewall, Bootchart, LDAS, WyattERP, KDE, Xfce, XCircuit, ShadeVis, PyQt, Wine, bogofilter, OpenEMR, HylaFAX, StrBio, CinePaint, DVDStyler, Jericho, ECL, XOAD, AFPL Ghostscript, JLog, PySizer, aegis.

Press: New package management tools, Threats to Open Networking, Geek Cruise coverage, Open Source Symposium coverage, Sleepycat's business model, Linux dominates supercomputer domain, Open Inventions Network formed.

Announcements: MS finds Linux expensive, PalmSource Joins LiPS, Bioinformatics for Linux, JPEG patent challenge, Sony rootkit EULA, Moodle Newsletter, SC2005 press releases, LC.AU program online, PyCon CFT, OSDL patent commons ref library.

Letters: Linux boot time.

Today's headlines

Linux servers post strong growth in Q3 (TG Daily) [6]

Wednesday Security Updates

Announcing Fedora Core 5 Test1

Nine principles of security architecture (NewsForge) [14]

Microsoft ECMA/ISO move could give Office formats new lease on life (ZDNet) [2]

Test drive: EnGarde Secure Linux (Linux.com)

Imendio AB announces the GTK+ on Mac OS X port project (GnomeDesktop) [8]

MySQL AB to counter Oracle buy of Innobase (InfoWorld) [45]

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 23, 2005

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