The H Week
In the past week, The H posted the latest Linux news in the Kernel Log, reported on Linux-Kongress 2009, GNOME 3.0 delays, a vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol, a hole in the Linux kernel, the first Firefox 3.6 beta and the arrival of Mandriva Linux 2010.0.
Features
This week, The H reported on LugRadio Live 2009, this year's Linux-Kongress and looked at faster booting with Upstart.
- Happenings: LugRadio Live 2009
- Faster booting with Upstart
- Linux-Kongress 2009: New filesystems, optimised programming
Open Source News
The H posted a new edition of the Kernel Log covering the 2009 Kernel Summit, Skype confirmed that it's working on an open source Linux client, GNOME 3.0 will likely be delayed until September of 2010 and the Subversion project was submitted to the Apache Software Foundation's incubator.
- Kernel Log - Discussions at the 2009 Kernel Summit, FatELF in the firing line, new graphics drivers
- Open source Linux Skype client development confirmed
- GNOME 3.0, September 2010 release looking likely
- Subversion submitted to Apache Software Foundation
Security News
In security news this week, The H reported on a vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol, a hole in the Linux kernel that allows root access, Adobe patching vulnerabilities in its Shockwave Player, Twitter's backdoors, Microsoft advising that work infections are on the rise and Google launching Dashboard to give Google Account holders more control over their hosted data.
- Vulnerability in SSL/TLS protocol
- Hole in the Linux kernel allows root access
- Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player
- Shutting Twitter backdoors
- The return of the worm
- Google Dashboard: improved user control of hosted data
Open Source Releases
Mozilla released the first beta for version 3.6 of its Firefox web browser, Mandriva Linux 2010.0 was officially released, Google open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools, JRuby 1.4 arrived and the Fudge Messaging Project released its open source message encoding protocol.
- Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
- Mandriva Linux 2010.0 arrives
- Google releases JavaScript tools as open source
- JRuby 1.4 released
- Fudge Messaging: A new open source encoding for messaging
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