The H Roundup - CDE open sourced, LibreOffice 3.6.0 and GNOME OS

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 CDE classic desktop for Unix was open sourced, version 3.6.0 of LibreOffice was released with various incremental improvements, goals were set for a GNOME OS initiative, and Google had problems with its copy protection system for Android apps.

• CDE Unix desktop open sourced
• LibreOffice 3.6.0 arrives with incremental improvements
• GNOME OS plans laid out
• Google forced to temporarily deactivate copy protection for Android apps

Meanwhile, developers at Linux Mint forked GNOME's Nautilus file manager, popular minimal distribution Damn Small Linux resurfaced with a release candidate, version 4.3 of the OpenGL graphics programming interface was published, and the latest version of the Burp Proxy added support for analysing encrypted SSL connections on Android phones.

• Linux Mint team forks Nautilus
• Damn Small Linux resurfaces
• SIGGRAPH: OpenGL 4.3 includes compute shaders
• New Burp Proxy cracks Android SSL

Mat Honan detailed how attackers gained access to his Twitter account through attacks on Amazon and Apple iCloud. Version 7 of Debian will default to the Xfce desktop due to size constraints on the first installation CD, NVIDIA closed a security hole in its proprietary graphics driver for Unix systems, and Digia acquired Qt from Nokia.

• iCloud attack began with Amazon hack
• Debian to use Xfce as its standard desktop
• NVIDIA closes hole in proprietary Unix driver
• Digia buys Qt

Featured Articles

This week,Thorsten Leemhuis looked at Linux desktop fragmentation, Glyn Moody asked if open source can be democratic, and a new edition of the Kernel Log detailed major changes to Nouveau and more.

• Comment: Desktop Fragmentation
• Can open source be democratic?
• Kernel Log: Major overhaul of Nouveau

Open Source Releases

• First beta for Debian 7.0's installation media
• VirtualBox 4.2 enters beta testing
• Pixar opens beta on open source subdivision
• Adafruit launches educational distro for Raspberry PI
• LDTP 3.0 automates GUI testing on Linux
• IPFire drops Reiser4 filesystem support
• Ember.js moves to prerelease with 1.0 feature set
• KDE delivers August stabilisation update
• dotCloud open sources its Hipache WebSocket proxy
• ClearOS 6.3 includes Zarafa groupware
• Katello system management software hits version 1.0
• Kolab 3 groupware enters alpha test
• Riak clustered NoSQL database adds official FreeBSD support
• Instantbird updates with important changes inside
• RHEL clone Scientific Linux 6.3 released
• Halide: a new programming language for image processing
• First stable release of CyanogenMod 9.0 arrives
• Open source tools for accessing FileVault-encrypted Macs
• Leak Finder helps find memory leaks in JavaScript
• TextMate 2 open sourced
• WordPress for iOS gets major UI refresh
• jQuery 1.8 introduces modularisation

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