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LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2013 (One big page)

• Front: Collaboration and animation at LGM; Surveying open source licenses; Current challenges in the free software ecosystem; GNOME 3.8.
• Security: Mixed web content; New vulnerabilities in curl, kernel, krb5, xen, ...
• Kernel: 3.9 Development statistics; Memory power management.
• Distributions: Upstart for user sessions; Fuduntu, openSUSE, Pardus, ...
• Development: Rust; The future of Python 2; Freedesktop summit; KlyDE; ...
• Announcements: Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project, IFOSSLR 5.1 available, OPW, ...

• Front: Mozilla's trademark enforcement experience; Legal issues from a radical community angle; Vulnerability handling in the PostgreSQL project.
• Security: Entropy Broker; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, kernel, postgresql, samba, ...
• Kernel: Retrying revoke(); Randomizing the kernel; Toward a more power-efficient scheduler.
• Distributions: Tanglu: bringing Debian testing to the masses; Ubuntu, Fedora, ...
• Development: Python IDLE; Persona beta 2; Emacs Conference videos; xkbcommon; ...
• Announcements: OASIS gains ANSI accreditation, the OpenDaylight Project, GSoC mentoring organizations, ...

• Front: Python Software Foundation; VP8 patent wars; PyDAW.
• Security: Exploiting digital cameras; New vulnerabilities in bind, glibc, mantis, moodle, ...
• Kernel: Per-process reclaim; A VFS deadlock post-mortem; In-kernel memory compression.
• Distributions: Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming; Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, Firefox OS, ...
• Development: Python bytecodes; crowdfunding Geary; new browser engines; C++14 papers; ...
• Announcements: Subsurface mourns Jan Schubert, software patents, 15 years of Mozilla, crowdfunding and the JOBS Act, ...

• Front: StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io; Protecting communities; Evangelizing Python.
• Security: OpenSSH 6.2; New vulnerabilities in gnome-online-accounts, kernel, libxml2, privoxy, ...
• Kernel: Breaking GlusterFS; Widening ext4's readdir() cookie; Multipath TCP.
• Distributions: GNOME, Fedora, and login-screen logos; Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, ...
• Development: Asynchronous I/O in Python; GNOME 3.8; C and C++ speed in GCC; replacing Google Reader; ...
• Announcements: Awards for Bassel Khartabil and the TAZ, LF EEU report, videos for PyCon and devconf.cz, ...

• Front: Upholding first sale; Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi; When does the FSF own your code?
• Security: Mozilla Persona; New vulnerabilities in chromium, clamav, poppler, wireshark, ...
• Kernel: The trouble with DMA masks; Anatomy of a user namespaces vulnerability.
• Distributions: Debian Project Leader election draws near; Debian, Tanglu, ...
• Development: GCC 4.8.0 approaching; Open Badges 1.0; Geary 0.3; FreeDV Robustness; ...
• Announcements: Goodbye Malcolm Tredinnick, GSoC mentors, PSF ends trademark dispute, Tor report, ...

• Front: Linaro Connect; Facebook contemplates ARM servers; The life and times of the AGPL.
• Security: Hockeypuck key server; New vulnerabilities in gksu-polkit, kernel, openshift, puppet, ...
• Kernel: SO_REUSEPORT; The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO; Android upstreaming.
• Distributions: A look at openSUSE 12.3; CentOS, Kali, ubermix, wmlive, ...
• Development: GCC's move to C++; Ardour 3.0; Emacs 24.3; feature proposals for GNOME 3.10; ...
• Announcements: VP8 and MPEG LA, Open Source at CeBIT, LinuxGizmos, ...

• Front: Nano-copters; SpaceX lessons learned; Advocating FOSS at the DoD
• Security: Oxford blocks Google Docs; New vulnerabilities in kernel, openafs, openjdk-6, sudo, ...
• Kernel: 3.9 merge window conclusion; big LITTLE MP; Simplifying RCU; Namespaces part 6.
• Distributions: Ubuntu unveils its next-generation shell and display server; Ubuntu, openSUSE, Puppy, ...
• Development: Static site generators; Upstart 1.7; Zero Install 2.0; LibreOffice moves to make; ...
• Announcements: SFC annual report, PyCon AU CfP, LPC Android microconference, ...

• Front: SCALE coverage: Developing a project community; 3D printing; Marshmallow on Raspberry Pi.
• Security: Android security underpinnings; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, openssh, rails, ...
• Kernel: 3.9 Merge window, second episode; In-kernel switcher for big.LITTLE; Loading keys from Microsoft PE binaries.
• Distributions: The Ubuntu Touch experience; Debian, Mandriva, MINIX, RHEL, ...
• Development: User namespaces; Ruby 2.0.0; Subsurface 3.0; Xiph.org's Digital Show and Tell; ...
• Announcements: LG acquires webOS, 18 carriers supporting Firefox OS, 2013 "State of X.Org" report, ...

• Front: Android as the new embedded Linux; Google in the driver's seat; Android in space.
• Security: Three kernel vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in dbus-glib, java, mozilla, xen, ...
• Kernel: kvmtool; The 3.9 merge window opens; Multi-cluster power management.
• Distributions: Tizen 2.0 loads up on native code; Ubuntu, Linux-libre, ...
• Development: WebRTC interoperability; Opera moves to WebKit; Samba and SWAT; GIMP and astrophotography; ...
• Announcements: 2013 Linux Jobs Report, CC 4.0 comment period, LNG, Python trademark, ...

• Front: Copyleft-next; X and Wayland.
• Security: Recent Java vulnerabilities; LWN security survey; New vulnerabilities in drupal, gnutls, kernel, vlc, ...
• Kernel: Some 3.8 development statistics; Rationalizing CPU hotplugging; Zswap.
• Distributions: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora; ROSA, Webconverger, ...
• Development: Chrome OS open firmware; LibreOffice 4.0; SystemTap 2.1; Goodnight, Parrot; ...
• Announcements: GSoC 2013, bricking Samsung laptops, ...

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