Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 7, 2018
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Advanced computing with IPython: multilingual and highly parallel Python programming.
- Unplugging old batteries: is it time to retire some modules from the Python standard library? (From the Python Language Summit).
- Deferring seccomp decisions to user space: a proposed seccomp enhancement to let a user-space process make security decisions.
- Statistics from the 4.17 kernel development cycle: where the code in 4.17 came from.
- Will staging lose its Lustre?: a popular filesystem fails to graduate from the kernel's staging tree.
- A filesystem "change journal" and other topics: proposals on logging filesystem changes for crash recovery.
- The ZUFS zero-copy filesystem: a new zero-copy filesystem for nonvolatile memory storage.
- Flash storage topics: how to deal with performance problems caused by slow flash devices.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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