The H Roundup for the week ending 14 April

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

Following the news that Canonical would no longer sponsor Kubuntu and developer Jonathan Riddell after version 12.04 of the distribution is released, the Kubuntu project announced that it will in future be sponsored by Blue Systems. The latest TIOBE Programming Community index saw the C programming language knock Java off of the top spot, and Google previewed a new version of ChromeOS with a new "Aura" user interface. A release candidate for version 2.8 of the GIMP image editor arrived and, according to a report, smart electricity meters in Puerto Rico were being hacked.

• Blue Systems to sponsor Kubuntu
• TIOBE: C is back on top... just
• ChromeOS gets a desktop revamp
• GIMP 2.8 RC 1 arrives with GPU acceleration
• Smart electricity meters in Puerto Rico made to look foolish
• No more releases for Linux 2.4
• Processor Whispers: About Ivy Bridges and Tegra Hitches
• Samba fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability
• Hotel Wi-Fi uses JavaScript injection to modify web sites
• Raspberry Pi now CE and FCC certified

Featured Articles

This week, The H interviewed Simon Monk, the author of the Evil Genius series of books, and Glyn Moody discussed how patents on code can inhibit innovation. Meanwhile, Dj Walker-Morgan talked to executives from Linaro about the non-profit organisation's ARM Linux unification efforts.

• The H Half Hour: Open source and evil genius
• What one line of code can teach us
• Linaro's DMZ for the ARMies

Open Source Releases

• Apache CouchDB 1.2 speeds up and compresses more
• Twitter MySQL enhancements open sourced
• Mozilla shows WebRTC browser-based video calling
• phpMyAdmin 3.5 adds Drizzle and openGIS support
• GIMP 2.8 RC 1 arrives with GPU acceleration
• ChromeOS gets a desktop revamp
• Arquillian matures with 1.0 release
• MythTV 0.25 hardware accelerates video and adds AirPlay
• Chrome 19 enters beta and adds synchronised tabs
• OpenNebula 3.4 reintroduces clustering concept to cloud
• Python updates for hash collison DoS problems - Update
• First stable release of the Calligra office and productivity suite
• MySQL 5.6 preview introduces a NoSQL interface
• Automatically synchronised web apps with Meteor
• 10gen announces MongoDB Hadoop Connector
• MariaDB 5.5.23 arrives with performance improvements
• SliTaz 4.0 arrives with "Russian doll" images
• openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 released with GNOME 3.4

Security Alerts

• Patch Tuesday closes critical Windows, Office and IE holes
• Samba fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability
• Adobe fixes critical vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat
• HP ProCurve switches shipped with malware

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