Welcome to LWN.net

Front: A day at FOSS.IN; When Is a Standard Truly Open? - When It's Universal; The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers; GPLv3 draft coming in January

Security: An introduction to GNUnet; ARES 2006 CFP

Kernel: Future Driver core changes, Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition.

Distributions: A New Round of Asian Linux Releases; Fedora Core 5 Test1

Development: The status of the GNU Fortran project, KDE 3.5, Firebird roadmap, new versions of phpPgAdmin, LTI-Lib, BitTorrent, Mod_python, Wiki, Audacity, jack_capture, QjackCtl, Rivendell, phpBMS, Grace, GARNOME, Tux Paint, Open Babel, Firefox, Galeon, SBCL, PHP, Urwid, Valgrind, monotone, Subversion.

Press: The Vienna Conclusions, Oregon becomes open-source hub, NY Times on the GPL3, ODF and MS XML comparison, Red Hat's new projects, OSDL strategic desktop meeting, open-source house, Terabyte Backup System, KDE 3.5 review, Linux on Xbox 360.

Announcements: Sleepycat releases Berkeley DB 4.4, VMware Workstation 5.5 announced, OO.o on open standards, WorldForge turns 7, aKademy call for location, LCA audio,vidio,arts minconf, fisl CFP, PyCon talks, Umeet virtual meeting.

Letters: The end of USENET

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.