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LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 3, 2015 (One big page)

• Front: Ken Starks and the text-to-speech dilemma; Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI; ...
• Security: A seccomp overview; New vulnerabilities in chromium, drupal, firefox, qemu, ...
• Kernel: 4.3 Merge window, part 1; Thread-level management in control groups; Persistent memory, with and without page structures; Porting part 2.
• Distributions: Advances in Debian's package manager; RHEL, Ubuntu, ...
• Development: Debsources as a platform; libinput 1.0; GDB 7.10; Who wins with KDE sprints; ...
• Announcements: The 2015 EFF Pioneer Awards, Flock videos, Alliance for Open Media, User Data Manifesto 2.0, ...

• Front: A look at The Machine; Data visualizations in text; LLVM microconference; Hershey fonts.
• Security: Nested NMIs lead to CVE-2015-3290; New vulnerabilities in firefox, openshift, openssh, owncloud, ...
• Kernel: Bcachefs; Power-aware scheduling; Porting to a new architecture; 4.2 development stats.
• Distributions: Copyright assignment and license enforcement for Debian; Debian and binary firmware blobs; The State of Fedora, ...
• Development: New widgets in GTK+; Glibc wrappers for system calls; Go 1.5; The future of Firefox add-ons; ...
• Announcements: The Open Mainframe Project, GUADEC videos, FSF 30th birthday, ...

• Front: GNOME and hardware enablement; Lessons from GNOME v. GroupOn; GitFS.
• Security: Proprietary vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kernel, qemu, wordpress, ...
• Kernel: Libnvdimm and unit testing; The end of the RCU and atomic mode setting sagas.
• Distributions: What's coming in Fedora 23; CentOS, FreedomBox, Kali, ...
• Development: Working with xdg-app bundles; OpenSSH 7.0; ncurses 6.0; Federated cloud sharing in ownCloud; ...
• Announcements: EuroPython videos, KDE sprints fundraising, ...

• Front: Tor and library freedom; Streamtools; Big data features in PostgreSQL 9.5.
• Security: Fuzzing perf_events; New vulnerabilities in ipython, moodle, openafs, sqlite, ...
• Kernel: ioremap() and memremap(); Atomic mode setting; RCU requirements continued.
• Distributions: Configuration management with Ansible; Oracle 6.7, CentOS, FreeBSD, ...
• Development: Mercurial 3.5; LibreOffice 5.0; OpenSSL license changes; Mozilla challenges Microsoft; ...
• Announcements: Ada Initiative shuts down, Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard, Mourning Nóirín Plunkett, ...

• Front: Python in education; MyPaint 1.2 preview; Decentralization for the web
• Security: Stagefrightening; New vulnerabilities in chromium, java, kernel, qemu-kvm, ...
• Kernel: Filesystem mounts in user namespaces; RCU requirements.
• Distributions: Building a Tizen IVI test experience; openSUSE Leap, Plasma Mobile, ...
• Development: The Thread IoT stack; HarfBuzz 1.0; Git 2.5.0; GNOME HIG updates; ...
• Announcements: Dronecode Foundation, The art of open leadership, Linux Beer Hike, FSF 30th birthday party, ...

• Front: Guido on Python; A look at the Fotoxx image editor; Django Girls one year later
• Security: Assessing risk with the Core Infrastructure Initiative; New vulnerabilities in groovy, java, lxc, mysql, ...
• Kernel: rm -r fs/ext3; Atomic additions; Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style.
• Distributions: Privacy questions for Iceweasel; Debian, RHEL, Rkt, ...
• Development: Mailpile beta 3; Kubernetes 1.0; Synfig Studio 1.0; Why I'm Pro-GPL; ...
• Announcements: Cloud Native Computing Foundation, ODF 1.2 published as International Standard 26300:2015, ...

• Front: Mozilla and Pocket; A split within the Tox project; Python 3.5 preview.
• Security: Thwarting the "evil maid"; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, openssl, portage, ...
• Kernel: Making kernel pages movable; A walk among the symlinks.
• Distributions: Why Debian returned to FFmpeg; rBuilder Open Source, SLE 11 SP4, ProteanOS, microservices, ...
• Development: Blocking Flash; Coreboot 4.1; An end to XULRunner builds; Larry Wall interview; ...
• Announcements: FSF and SFC work with Canonical, LF course in Spanish, SPI, interview with Bradley Kuhn, ...

• Front: Multi-core Python; PostgreSQL 9.5.
• Security: OpenOffice and CVE-2015-1774; New vulnerabilities in ansible, firefox, kernel, php, ...
• Kernel: 4.2 Merge window part 3 (and some kernel stats); Deferrable locking; Restartable sequences.
• Distributions: The value of specs; CoreOS, Debian, ...
• Development: Self-hosting projects with Gogs; Firefox, ownCloud, sendmail, ...
• Announcements: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor, PyCon cfp, ...

• Front: Atom 1.0; DockerCon 2015.
• Security: A look at Rspamd; New vulnerabilities in cacti, chromium, pam, roundcubemail, ...
• Kernel: 4.2 Merge window part 2; RCU-walk; Processor Trace.
• Distributions: Previewing OpenWrt 15.05; DragonFly BSD, OpenMandriva, SteamOS, Ubuntu, ...
• Development: Magit 2.1; Amazon's new TLS implementation; GnuPG 2.1.6; The R Consortium; ...
• Announcements: AdaCamp cancellation, Oracle v. Google, events.

• Front: Open Container Project; Comparing OneRNG and NeuG; PGCon 2015.
• Security: The security benefits of using Gmail; New vulnerabilities in drupal7, libwmf, php, xwayland, ...
• Kernel: 4.2 Merge window; Heading off kdbus; Pathname lookup.
• Distributions: Rebasing openSUSE; Mageia 5, Open Container Project, ...
• Development: Git support in Launchpad; Code Climate; Mozilla unveils WebAssembly; The new sd-bus API of systemd; ...
• Announcements: Three projects funded by CII, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, The Linux Counter Project, Women in Open Source Awards, ...

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