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LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2006

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GPLv3 and the kernel

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Suits and Patents: A Report from the GPLv3 Launch Conference

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LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2006
(Subscribers only)

Front: Linux in Italian schools - five months later; GPLv3 and the kernel; Rockbox updates.

Security: Looking forward to Kama Sutra; New vulnerabilities in drupal, gallery, lsh, mydns, thunderbird, ...

Kernel: Network channels; Fast counters; Software suspend image writing.

Distributions: What's New in SUSE Linux 10.1; NexentaOS Alpha 2; SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta2; OpenWrt review

Development: The Sylpheed-Claws Email Client, Inkscape changes coming, new versions of Firebird, Nmap, Ecasound, Rivendell, Sweep, Robowerk, liblo, SeaMonkey, tcluno, GPE, GNU CLISP, SBCL.

Press: GPL3 and anti-DRM, No GPL 3 for Linux, Novell survey for linux apps, MS forces office upgrades, functional programming, Gentium font, SSH as an IETF standard.

Announcements: Nokia to release Python for S60, New Berkeley DB Java, EFF wants to overturn patent ruling, iPods for Senators, Google Cache is Fair Use, OO.o Developer Article Contest, LISA CFP, 2006 USENIX, SpreadKDE.org.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 26, 2006
(Freely available)

Front: The Grumpy Editor plays with Rockbox; The GPLv3 launch conference; Ugly legislation in the U.S.

Security: Anonym.OS; New vulnerabilities in ImageMagick, KDE, kernel, OpenSSH, ...

Kernel: 2.6.16 stragglers; Review: Understanding Linux Network Internals; MD and DM.

Distributions: Slowing down Fedora Core; SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta1; Edubuntu flight 3 CD; Newbie, the NetBSD live CD

Development: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet, PyX Tutorial, new versions of moodss, Samba, nepenthes, Gallery, GNOME, GARNOME, Scribus, Kicad, GNOME Invest Applet, SQL-Ledger, Wine, WhySynth, lylina, Ekiga, Blender, GNU Classpath.

Press: The DRM future, Podcasters make money, Covalent to support Geronimo, EU patent fun, Jeremy Allison on Samba 4, DHCP intro, Palm PDAs under Linux, GStreamer review, OpenSSL receives FIPS certification.

Announcements: MySQL AB's record quarter, securities laws and FUD, SourceForge.net does Subversion, Python Game Challenge, CodeCon 2006, Debian Day CFP, Penguin Day, SambaXP CFP, UKUUG Spring Conf.

Today's headlines

OOo Off the Wall: The Elephant in the Living Room -- OOo and MS Office (Linux Journal)

Interview with Samantha Kleinberg on CL-GODB, Common Lisp & Bioinformatics

Fon time (Linux Journal) [1]

OpenZoep: An Open Source VoIP Engine (O'ReillyNet) [1]

Repairing Windows PCs the Linux way (Linux-Watch)

VMware cuts VMware Server price to zero (NewsForge) [1]

Theming Bash (O'ReillyNet) [2]

My sysadmin toolbox (Linux.com) [9]

Debian Founder Ian Murdock Appointed CTO of the Free Standards Group [2]

Security advisories for Friday

Report on Hamilton, Canada LUG Special Session on SCO v. IBM (Groklaw)