The H Roundup for the week ending 10 March

Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.

Top News

The "Build your own Linux from source" guide Linux From Scratch got a new edition, a problem at GitHub reminded developers to fix mass assignment holes in Ruby on Rails applications, NVIDIA joined the other graphics vendors in the Linux Foundation and Apple closed a mass of holes with their iOS and iTunes updates. Researchers cracked a US e-voting system in less than two days, The H looked at open source at this year's CeBIT show, Arch Linux landed on the Raspberry Pi tiny, affordable computer, Python 3.3.0 emerged as an alpha, and the developer of DragonFly BSD discovered a hardware bug in several AMD processors.

• Linux From Scratch 7.1 published
• GitHub security incident highlights Ruby on Rails problem
• NVIDIA joins the Linux Foundation
• Apple closes security holes with iOS 5.1 and iTunes update
• US e-voting system cracked in less than 48 hours
• CeBIT 2012: Open source and Linux
• Arch Linux released for the Raspberry Pi
• CeBIT 2012: Knoppix 7.0 presented
• Alpha release of Python 3.3.0 brings first syntax changes in two years
• DragonFly BSD developer finds hardware bug in several AMD CPUs

Featured Articles

The H talked to former BusyBox maintainer and creator of the recently briefly controversial toybox about the code and the motivations that drive creating all-in-one utilities. As Linux 3.3 approaches, Thorsten Leemhuis presented the last two parts of his Coming in 3.3 series with a look at the architecture, infrastructure and drivers that will arrive with the new kernel.

• Kernel Log: Coming in 3.3 (Part 3) – Architecture and infrastructure
• Inside the ToyBox: An interview with Rob Landley
• Kernel Log: Coming in 3.3 (Part 4) – Drivers

Open Source Releases

• Alpha release of Python 3.3.0 brings first syntax changes in two years
• X Server 1.12 gets multi-touch support
• MIT opens App Inventor Beta Preview to the public
• Chrome security update and researchers' bonuses
• KDE's Rekonq browser updated to version 0.9
• Ruby on Rails updated to fix security flaws
• Bug fixed Apache Camel 2.9.1 arrives
• CeBIT 2012: Knoppix 7.0 presented
• IRC daemon ngIRCd now at release 19
• Nightingale media player 1.11.0 released
• Adobe provides tool for analysing Flash files
• Vagrant celebrates its 1.0 stable release
• Version 2.0 of the Akka framework released with significant changes
• Sencha Touch 2 arrives with significant performance improvements
• CentOS and Oracle release RHEL 5.8 clones
• Wine 1.4 sports a redesigned audio stack, improved graphics rendering
• HTTPie makes talking to HTTP services easier
• KDE fixes several bugs with first update to KDE SC 4.8
• Fedora remix for the Raspberry PI released
• New stable series for Canonical's Bazaar version control

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