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The H Week - Update Checking, Oracle/MySQL and GPL violations

The H Week logo This week a new Update Check service to replace old software (with known vulnerabilities) with the latest version. Oracle reassures the MySQL community, Novell simplifies its infrastructure and Microsoft comes to an agreement over browser antitrust case. Google offer a new URL shortening service, Adobe says it won't budge from its scheduled updates and Twitter gets cracked again. more…

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Interview: Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager

openSUSE logo Despite some downsizing in response to the fragile economic climate Novell have managed to keep up the pace of new development, being at the forefront of support for Moblin 2.0 and moving ahead with Pulse and Mono Tools. The H spoke to openSUSE's Community Manager Joe Brockmeier for his views on the recent changes at Novell and his take on the future of openSUSE more…

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18 December 2009
qooxdoo 1.0 JavaScript framework released

qooxdoo logo The qooxdoo developers have released version 1.0 of their free Ajax GUI framework, suitable for creating web applications with a desktop-like user interface more…

18 December 2009
Alert!Winamp 5.57 eliminates vulnerabilities

Winamp Logo Nullsoft has released version 5.57 of Winamp, closing several critical vulnerabilities its popular media player that could be exploited to compromise a user's system more…

18 December 2009
Perian 1.2 improves Snow Leopard support

Perian Logo The Perian developers have announced the availability of version 1.2 of their open source preference pane. The latest maintenance release is the first major update since Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 and addresses several Snow Leopard issues more…

18 December 2009
IBM developerWorks looks back on 10 years of Linux

IBM logo developerWorks, the IBM site for software developers and IT professionals, has compiled the top ten Linux developments over the last decade. The list perhaps presents a different perspective on Linux than that of most end users more…

18 December 2009
Avoid GPL violations with OpenLogic's Open Source Fulfillment Center

Generic GPL Logo The Open Source Fulfillment Center is aimed at helping prevent GPL violations. The service, provided by open source systems house OpenLogic is intended primarily for businesses more…

18 December 2009
PHP 5.2.12 closes security holes

PHP Logo The update fixes over 60 bugs, mainly to increase stability, but also closing some security holes more…

18 December 2009
EtherPad goes open source

EtherPad logo As promised earlier this month, the AppJet developers have released all of the source code to their EtherPad online real-time collaborative word processor service more…

18 December 2009
Cracking attack on Twitter

Twitter logo Instead of tweets, users accessing the start page of the Twitter micro-blogging service on Friday morning were presented with an "Iranian Cyber Army" page more…

18 December 2009
New version of open source CMS webEdition arrives

webEdition logo As well as various bug fixes, version 6.0.0.7 of the open source content management system includes extensions and enhancements to the shop and workflow modules more…

18 December 2009
Mozilla announces Personas 2.0

Personas logo The Labs team at Mozilla has announced the launch of version 2.0 of Personas, a Mozilla Labs experiment that lets users easily change the appearance of their standard grey Firefox web browser more…

18 December 2009
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 Beta 5

Firefox logo The Mozilla developers have announced the availability of the fifth beta for what will become version 3.6 of their open source Firefox web browser, code-named Namoroka more…

17 December 2009
Shuttleworth to step down as CEO of Canonical

Canonical logo Mark Shuttleworth has announced he is changing focus at Canonical and Jane Silber, COO and Ubuntu One project leader, will take over as CEO more…

17 December 2009
The H Update Check: Reducing your security risks

The H Update Check logo Update Check, the new online service at The H is designed to help users check how up-to-date the installed software is on their Windows systems more…

17 December 2009
Moonlight 2 hot on the heels of Silverlight

Moonlight logo A downloadable version of Moonlight, the Silverlight implementation for Linux systems, is now available. A patent agreement with Microsoft means that it can now be included in non-Novell Linux distributions more…

17 December 2009
Google's reCAPTCHA dented

reCAPTCHA logo A recently published procedure achieves an 18 per cent hit rate for automatic recognition of Google captchas. The method is, however, based on old captchas which Google no longer uses in the same form more…

17 December 2009
Java framework Spring 3.0 ready to roll

SpringSource logo The Spring development team has managed to squeeze the next generation of the Java application framework Spring out before the turn of the year. Last minute support for Java EE 6 has also been added more…

17 December 2009
Alert!Security update for Cisco's WebEx WRF Player

Cisco logo The update fixes multiple buffer overflows which can be provoked using crafted video files. Reportedly some of the bugs can potentially be exploited to compromise a system more…

17 December 2009
Report: US drone video intercepted by insurgents

Generic security logo According to reports, insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are using off-the-shelf software to view video from surveillance drones thanks to unencrypted downlinks more…

17 December 2009
Alert!Adobe not planning to close critical vulnerability in Reader until January

Adobe logo Adobe has confirmed the existence of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. The vulnerability is already being actively exploited, but the company does not plan to release an update until 12th January 2010. Until then, users should use one of a number of workarounds to protect against attacks more…

17 December 2009
VLC for Mac OS X needs developers

VLC logo The VideoLAN project is urgently seeking developers for the Mac OS X port of the VLC multimedia player. If they are not found, the 1.1.0 port will be the last more…

16 December 2009
European Commission drops Microsoft antitrust browser charges

Microsoft logo The European Commission has officially dropped its antitrust charges against Microsoft after Microsoft agreed to provide users of its Windows operating system the choice of web browsers more…

16 December 2009
Apache POI 3.6 released

Apache logo The open source Java library for reading and writing Microsoft format files now uses significantly less memory and exhibits improved performance when dealing with spreadsheet formats more…

16 December 2009
Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2 released

Mono logo MonoDevelop, the open source IDE, is now available under an extension-friendly license. Changes in the new version of the .NET-compatible Mono framework aim towards platform independence more…

16 December 2009
Creator of BusyBox critical of SFLC GPL litigation - Update

Generic H GPL logo Bruce Perens, former Debian project leader, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative and author of the first versions of BusyBox is unnerved by the Software Freedom Law Center's litigation activities more…

16 December 2009
Alert!Mozilla releases SeaMonkey 2.0 security update

SeaMonkey logo Less than two months after the release of SeaMonkey 2.0, Mozilla has released the first maintenance and security update to its all-in-one internet application suite more…

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