The H Roundup for the week ending 22 October

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 confirmed that they have started work on a separate GNOME 3 edition of their popular Linux distribution, a new version of the "Wary" edition of Puppy Linux arrived, and Kaspersky discovered a new version of the German state-sponsored trojan. Google announced the end of Code Search, its search engine for finding open source software, and Google and Samsung revealed Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

• Linux Mint developers make GNOME 3 edition plans
• Puppy Linux 5.2 "Wary" released
• Kaspersky discovers new version of German state-sponsored trojan
• Google's open source search to end
• Google unwraps Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"
• Critical security hole in current version of Opera
• Debian-based NAS OpenMediaVault released
• Rapid7 announces Community Edition of Metasploit
• Ubuntu 12.04 - Precise Pangolin planning prepared
• FSF warns of Windows 8 Secure Boot

Featured Articles

This week,Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at the untapped power saving potential in recent Linux kernels and the distributions that don't take advantage of it, and The H looked at some of the changes and new features in the next major update to Android, version 4.0, code-named "Ice Cream Sandwich".

• Kernel Comment: Untapped power-saving potential
• Android 4.0: New design, new features

Open Source Releases

• Redis 2.4.0 (and 2.4.1) finally released
• Puppy Linux 5.2 "Wary" released
• FreeNAS 8.0.2 fixes major email subsystem bug
• NoScript for Android now feature complete
• Debian-based NAS OpenMediaVault released
• Apache Cassandra reaches foretold version 1.0
• LinuxLive USB Creator adds Ubuntu 11.10 support
• Rapid7 announces Community Edition of Metasploit
• Piwik 1.6 fixes security vulnerability and adds enhanced shop analysis
• Google unwraps Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"
• Blender 2.60 adds 3D audio
• Sabayon Linux 7 "Core" editions released
• IcedTea 2.0 based on JDK7 – without CACAO
• OpenELEC 1.0: fast-booting XBMC media centre OS
• GNOME 3.2.1 carries first 3.2 bug fixes

Security Alerts

• Critical security hole in current version of Opera
• Oracle fixes 77 vulnerabilities, including Java and database holes

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