The H Roundup for the week ending 3 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 GNOME project published a first beta for version 3.4 of its desktop environment, a new report found that the quality of open source software exceeds that of proprietary software and the organisation behind the Raspberry Pi ARM-based mini-computer has announced that it has new partners. The open source HandBrake video transcoder software was updated to version 0.9.6, adding support for Blu-ray, and the Android-x86 Project issued a release candidate for its port of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" for x86 hardware.

• First beta for GNOME 3.4
• Report: Open source software quality is better than proprietary software
• Raspberry Pi announces new partners
• HandBrake 0.9.6 released
• Android 4.0 for x86 processors approaches with RC
• FSFE launches "Free Your Android!" campaign
• Foursquare switches from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap
• Fedora 17's alpha release arrives less /bin/ and /lib/
• Wikileaks begins publishing Stratfor emails
• HTTPS Everywhere reaches 2.0, comes to Chrome as beta

Featured Articles

This week, Glyn Moody expanded on the issues behind a DMCA notice used against open source project OpenDDR, and Oliver Diedrich commented on Linus Torvald's complaints about openSUSE and security. Thorsten Leemhuis detailed Intel's new graphics drivers for Linux and the Linux kernel, and took a look at what's new in the second service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise.

• WURFL: a cautionary tale
• Kernel Log: Updates to Intel graphics drivers and util-linux
• What's new in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2
• Comment: Linus's daughter

Open Source Releases

• Second service release for Eclipse Indigo arrives
• First beta for GNOME 3.4
• Release candidate for Linux Mint 12 LXDE arrives
• PostgreSQL updates close security holes
• Android 4.0 for x86 processors approaches with RC
• Fedora 17's alpha release arrives less /bin/ and /lib/
• HandBrake 0.9.6 released
• MINIX 3.2.0 makes porting easier, introduces FUSE support
• Tizen: Beta version, new supporters and developer conference
• HTTPS Everywhere reaches 2.0, comes to Chrome as beta
• GlassFish 3.1.2 released
• FreeNAS 8.0.4 updates Firefly, Transmission and Samba
• NGINX 1.1.16 development version arrives
• Simplify email account configuration with automx
• XBMC gets ready for version 11 with first release candidate
• PHP 5.4.0 brings new features
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin enters beta
• BackTrack 5 update expands security toolkit
• Spring Hadoop makes Java/Hadoop interaction easier

Security Alerts

• Bug in Plesk administration software is being actively exploited

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