Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 26, 2018
This edition contains the following feature content:
- A successful defense against a copyright troll: a report on Patrick McHardy's GPL-enforcement loss in Germany.
- Finding Spectre vulnerabilities with smatch: a free-software tool for finding Spectre gadgets, finally.
- Zero-copy TCP receive: accelerating TCP data reception for some specialized use cases.
- Rhashtables: under the hood: Neil Brown's documentation of how rhashtables work.
- Rewiring x86 system-call dispatch: a low-level change in how system calls are called on x86.
- The 2018 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit: the first set of articles from LSFMM 2018.
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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