31 October 2009, 09:25

The H Week

In the past week, The H examined software patents, discussed NoSQL and reported on the Whitehouse.gov's switch to Drupal, the French taxmen's switch to Mozilla's Thunderbird, the release of Ubuntu 9.10, AbiWord 2.8 and SeaMonkey 2.0 and Apple shuttering its ZFS project

Features

This week, The H looked in depth at software patents, reported on the Berlin NoSQL conference and took a look at the new features of Ubuntu 9.10.

Open Source News

The Whitehouse switched over to Drupal's open source CMS, Apple closed its open source ZFS project and 130,000 users at the French tax authorities will be using Thunderbird for their email.

Security News

Mozilla closed critical bugs in Firefox, Micrsoft's Security Essentials was found to be slow to do signature updates, the Swiss Foreign Ministry was targetted by attackers, Wireshark for Windows 7 arrived and Microsoft released a program to harden compiled applications.

Open Source Releases

The big release of the week was Ubuntu 9.10, the latest iteration of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Mozilla released SeaMonkey 2.0 and the latest version of the open source word processor AbiWord, 2.8, arrived. Android users can now make use of a native C port of the Tor anonymiser and developers can now make use of a production ready CLANG C Compiler in LLVM 2.6.

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