The H Week - Mozilla, MySql and distro releases

The H published two features this week; a report from the Qt Developer Days conference and an interview with Adobe's Director of Open Source and Standards.  Adrian Bridgwater reported for The H on the Qt Developer Days 2009 Europe conference which took place in Munich earlier this month and in their article entitled "Why Adobe Likes Open Source" Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe interviewed Adobe's Director of Open Source and Standards.

Open Source News

A new edition of the Kernel Log this week covers the network subsystems and network drivers in coming in Linux 2.6.32; RC5 of this version of the Linux kernel having just been released by Linus Torvalds. In other Linux news; Red Hat released the Fedora 12 beta, Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, enters the home stretch and CentOS released version 5.4.

There has been growing concern over the future of MySQL this week. Monty Widenius has said in a press release that Oracle should sell MySQL to a company that does not already own a competing product, as Oracle does. Richard Stallman has co-signed an open letter, along with two non-profit organisations, to the European Commission asking it to block Oracle taking possession of MySQL.  

Mozilla has been busy this week with the announcement of the release of SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2 only a few days after the RC1 release, which bodes well for a full release of the application suite  in the near future. However, the scheduled releases of Firefox updates and the release of the beta of Firefox 3.6 have been delayed. Mozilla has said it plans to support the Web Open Font Format in Firefox 3.6 and has announced the start of a new project called Raindrop which aims to sort all your email and messaging.

SpringSource has released version 3.0 of its open source Spring framework for Java applications.

The SCO saga continues as the bankruptcy trustee for the SCO Group has finally dismissed Darl McBride from his post as group president and CEO. 

Security News

Rapid7, a commercial security software developer, has purchased Metasploit, appointing H.D. Moore, Metasploit founder, as its Chief Technical Officer.

News of the release of a new version of TrueCrypt , version 6.3 was accompanied by a report of a method of cracking TrueCrypt.

Anti-virus vendor AVG released AVG Free 9.0, however, it lacks a number of significant features found in the commercial versions.

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