Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2024
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Free-software foundations face fundraising problems: the GNOME Foundation is tightening its belt, but it is not alone in facing financial challenges.
- Toward safe transmutation in Rust: alchemy to turn unstructured bytes into proper structures, safely.
- Python PGP proposal poses packaging puzzles: changes to how Python releases are signed raise concerns.
- The long road to lazy preemption: a fundamental change to the kernel's preemption model is getting closer.
- A report from the 2024 Image-Based Linux Summit: an overview of what the image-based Linux developers have been up to and where they are heading.
- A look at the aerc mail client: another text-based email tool.
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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