The H Roundup for the week ending 16 July
Welcome to The H Roundup. The H has listened and now presents a rapid review of the week with the most read news, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.
Top news
This week's most popular story was the news that there could be a Debian GNU/Hurd released by the end of 2012. Also: Microsoft and ETH released Barrelfish, PuTTY got an update after four years' waiting, Virtualbox got PCI and Opera ported a game to HTML5.
- Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of 2012?
- Barrelfish: Microsoft's free multi-core OS
- Fresh PuTTY
- VirtualBox 4.1 Beta 2 gains PCI passthrough support
- From C++ to HTML5: Opera ports game with web standards
- CentOS 6.0 released
- Adobe brings back 64-bit Flash for Linux
- Firefox 6 arrives in Beta Channel
- Real-time strategy game 0 A.D. gets P-51 Mustang planes
- IBM to contribute Lotus Symphony to Apache OpenOffice.org
Feature articles
What should Google do with the $4 billion it didn't spend on patents? Glyn Moody offered a provocative idea. Thorsten Leemhuis' Kernel Log brought us up to date with the last part of "Coming in 3.0", a look at the new and changed drivers in the imminent Linux kernel.
Open Source Releases
- Python 3.2.1 now available
- Scientific Linux 5.6 Live released
- Experimental add-on allows Mozilla web apps to share services
- KDE SC 4.7 approaches with RC2 release
- Final Sabayon Linux 6 spins released
- Firefox 5.0.1 brings fixes on Mac OS X - Update
- Server incompatibility fixed in WordPress 3.2.1
- Cyberduck 4.1 includes new WebDAV engine
- Real-time strategy game 0 A.D. gets P-51 Mustang planes
- Capaware helps manage and control forest fires
- Mongs: web-based MongoDB data browser
- Adobe brings back 64-bit Flash for Linux
- Aptosid 2011-02 arrives with KDE 4.6
- Marketing tool OpenEMM gets new interface
Security Alerts
- Microsoft closes critical hole in Bluetooth stack
- VLC Media Player vulnerable to heap overflow exploits
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