The H Roundup for the week ending 5 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

Developers at the Fedora Project proposed moving all executable files and libraries used by the distribution to the /usr/ directory, version 5.0 of the free OpenBSD operating system was released, and Microsoft contributed code to the Samba project. The developers behind the BeagleBoard announced a new open source, low-cost, expandable, hardware-hacker-oriented board called the BeagleBone, and the new release of Ruby, version 1.9.3, came with a changed licence.

• Fedora considers moving all binaries to /usr/bin/
• OpenBSD 5.0 released
• Samba gets Microsoft code contribution
• BeagleBone: A hacker oriented version of the Beagleboard
• Ruby 1.9.3 arrives with licence change
• New release of the Btrfs tools
• LibreOffice extensions and templates site now live
• Worth Reading: ROP protection in Windows 8 bypassed
• KDE 3.5 fork Trinity updated
• Linux From Scratch Version 7.0 released

Featured Articles

This week, The H had a conversation with Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's Executive Director, at this year's LinuxCon Europe conference, and Thorsten Leemhuis took a look at the recent kernel.org hack and recent kernel developments.

• In Conversation: Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation
• Kernel Log: more details on the kernel.org hack

Open Source Releases

• Linux From Scratch Version 7.0 released
• Ruby 1.9.3 arrives with licence change
• New release of the Btrfs tools
• Asterisk 10 brings enhanced audio capabilities
• Version 4.2 of RHQ system monitoring software arrives
• Pentaho 4.1 includes new in-memory analytics capabilities
• Transmageddon video transcoder for Linux updated
• OpenBSD 5.0 released
• KDE 3.5 fork Trinity updated
• Songbird 1.10 brings two-way synchronisation
• Mercurial 2.0 adds large binary file support
• Wireshark updates fix vulnerabilities
• Plex media centre update adds Windows support
• KDE SC 4.7.3 arrives with Nepomuk fixes
• SystemRescueCd 2.4.0 released
• IPFire open source firewall improves OpenVPN support
• Logback reaches 1.0.0
• Final openSUSE 12.1 release candidate published
• Chrome 16 enters beta, adds support for syncing multiple accounts
• SugarCRM 6.3 enhances importing in Community Edition
• Fedora 16 declared gold
• jQuery 1.7 starts on/off switch
• GParted Live update supports Btrfs resizing

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