The H Roundup for the week ending 12 November

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 Linux Mint developers announced that version 12 of their distribution will use the GNOME 3 desktop with custom shell extensions, Mozilla published version 8 of its Firefox web browser and Fedora 16 was released. The next major release of Ubuntu, version 12.04 LTS, will target a larger 750 MB ISO image, meaning that it will no longer fit on a CD. Problems on the Level 3 network backbone caused major problems that affected several US and UK ISPs.

• Linux Mint 12 gets GNOME 3 with training wheels
• Firefox 8 arrives with improved add-on control
• Fedora 16 released
• Ubuntu 12.04 to outgrow CD-ROMs
• Router problem disrupts Level 3 network in North America and Europe
• Processor Whispers: About big ARMs and long legs
• Microsoft patch day fixes critical bug in TCP/IP stack
• Fuduntu 14.12 released early for first birthday
• Apple iOS code signing hole found
• MongoDB: Real, FUD or Hoax controversy spreads online

Featured Articles

This week, The H published its speed guide to Node.js, an event-drive I/O server-side JavaScript environment; Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at the upcoming 3.2 release of the Linux kernel and detailed what's new in Fedora 16; and Glyn Moody discussed why Google matters for open source, as well as what the company is doing wrong.

• The H Speed Guide to Node.js
• Kernel Log: Linux 3.2 main development phase complete
• Exploring what's new in Fedora 16
• Is Google losing it?

Open Source Releases

• Spotllght on Eclipse's Xtend language
• VirtualBox 4.1.6 fixes 3D support on Fedora 15
• Native Windows support in Node.js 0.6.0
• Popcorn.js 1.0: Mozilla's new HTML5 media toolkit
• Apache Tika reaches 1.0
• Fedora 16 released
• Firefox 8 arrives with improved add-on control
• Mozilla's Lightning calendar extension supports working offline
• Thunderbird 8 released
• Graphical PPA manager for Ubuntu now available under KDE
• FFmpeg updates fix security vulnerabilities
• Fuduntu 14.12 released early for first birthday
• LibreOffice 3.4.4 brings bug fixes
• Groovy beta goes to 2.0, gets static checking
• Critical bug in ProFTPD closed
• Chrome 15 update closes holes, updates Flash
• Parted Magic 11.11.11 brings Linux 3.1

Security Alerts

• Microsoft patch day fixes critical bug in TCP/IP stack
• Adobe closes critical holes in Shockwave
• Critical bug in ProFTPD closed
• Apple closes iPhone keysigning hole

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