The H Roundup for the week ending May 5

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

Over the past week, a study in Portugal sought to explain how Linux is blocked from entering the market by retailers, GIMP 2.8 finally arrived, Tizen 1.0 made its developer debut, Oracle database administrators were told the bad guys could be listening in, and the community worked on filling in the gap left by Google when it delivered Google Drive without a Linux client. Also, Skype was being manipulated into disclosing callers' IP addresses, the SSL Pulse dashboard began reporting on the quality of SSL on the web, Xfce 4.10 arrived, a Firefox add-on told an unknown third party where you were browsing and VMware was patching holes in ESX.

• Study explains how retailers stop Linux from entering the market
• GIMP 2.8 arrives with single-window mode
• Tizen reaches 1.0, ready for mobile device makers
• Oracle databases vulnerable to injected listeners
• Google Drive clients for Linux in the works
• Skype divulges user IP addresses
• SSL Pulse starts beating
• Xfce 4.10 comes with more panel modes and new application finder
• Firefox add-on exposes visited URLs
• VMware patches vulnerabilities in ESX 4.1

Featured Articles

As Linux 3.4 is approaching, Thorsten Leemhuis guided us through the infrastructure, filesystems, storage and drivers of the next major Linux release in the first two parts of Coming in 3.4, a Kernel Log special.

• Kernel Log: Coming in 3.4 (Part 1) - Infrastructure
• Kernel Log: Coming in 3.4 (Part 2) - Filesystems, storage and drivers

Open Source Releases

• SugarCRM 6.5 more search driven
• Blender adds support for N-sided polygons
• Tails 0.11 incognito live system released
• Red Hat open sources OpenShift
• Chrome 18 update closes high-risk security holes
• Apache TomEE 1.0 brings enterprise-class Java to Tomcat
• Akavache cache open sourced by GitHub
• Linux Foundation introduces new version of OpenMAMA framework
• OpenBSD 5.1 released
• Yocto Project 1.2 introduces Build Appliance
• Mono developers port Android to C#
• Google cranks up the V8 JavaScript engine
• LibreOffice 3.5.3 update arrives with fixes
• Miro 5 released with more synchronisation options
• Open Build Service 2.3 improves update handling
• Google: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich gaining ground
• Android client for ownCloud released
• ArchBang Linux 2012.05 released, new versions to be quarterly
• KDE SC 4.8.3: Kontact Suite and Dolphin bug fixes

Security Alerts

• Oracle databases vulnerable to injected listeners
• Firefox add-on exposes visited URLs
• Critical open hole in PHP creates risks - Update 2
• VMware address critical issues in Workstation, Player, ESXi and ESX

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