The H Roundup for the week ending 3 December
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 development team released version 12 of its popular Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, the open source YaCy decentralised search engine reached its 1.0 milestone, and researchers successfully conducted a man-in-the-middle attack on HDCP copy protection. A new update to CrunchBang 10 dropped support for the lightweight Xfce desktop and the Ubuntu developers are now tracking Mozilla's rapid release schedule for Firefox and Thunderbird.
- Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" officially released
- Version 1.0 of YaCy distributed search engine released
- Researchers conduct successful MITM attack on HDCP copy protection
- CrunchBang 10 update goes exclusively OpenBox
- Ubuntu will now track Mozilla updates
- Hackers publish access credentials for UN staff
- First Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" alpha released
- Java is the largest malware target according to Microsoft
- VectorLinux 7.0 goes gold after two years
- Google's Chrome edges past Firefox in global popularity
Featured Articles
This week, Glyn Moody took a look at the saga of the open source Koha library management system, and Thorsten Leemhuis detailed the filesystem changes in the upcoming Linux 3.2 kernel.
Open Source Releases
- Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" officially released
- Bluefish Editor 2.2.0 enhanced with new syntax scanning abilities
- Mageia 2 Alpha 1 released for testing
- Node.js 0.6.3 integrates NPM
- MyBB update adds features, closes holes
- CrunchBang 10 update goes exclusively OpenBox
- VectorLinux 7.0 goes gold after two years
- Version 1.0 of YaCy distributed search engine released
- Clonezilla live clone system with multi-restore
- NetBeans 7.1 nears as release candidate arrives
- KDE Telepathy 0.2 IM client released
- Talend v5: open source integration
- Camino 2.1 Mac web browser released
- Netflix opens "portal" for its open source projects
- CinePaint returns as version 1.0
- WordPress 3.3 approaches with first release candidate
- Flex 4.6 SDK gets last non-Apache release
- Mozilla updates Firefox Add-on SDK
- Arduino 1.0 development environment has arrived
- First Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" alpha released
- eBay's ql.io is an "SQL" for web APIs
- Bungie's Marathon lives on as Aleph One 1.0 released
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