The H Roundup for the week ending 23 June

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

Google made a donation of $300,000 to the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University, Linux creator Linus Torvalds told NVIDIA what he really thinks about its Optimus support, and the latest release of the Tails live system added a "Windows camouflage" option. A bug that can damage RAID arrays was found in some versions of the Linux kernel, and Linux continued to dominate the list of the top 500 supercomputers.

• OSU Open Source Lab receives $300,000 donation from Google
• Linus Torvalds abuses NVIDIA over Optimus support
• Tails 0.12 blends in better in internet cafes
• Bug in Linux kernel can damage RAID arrays
• Linux continues to dominate list of top 500 supercomputers
• New "Australis" theme for Firefox previewed
• NVIDIA responds to criticism by Torvalds
• Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0
• Canonical proposes alternate UEFI Secure Boot solution
• Encoding malicious PDFs avoids detection

Featured Articles

This week, Glyn Moody examined the privacy concerns around mapping and how they could affect open source map creators, and Eberhard Wolff looked at the new Vert.x web framework which takes its inspiration from Node.js. Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3, Thorsten Leemhuis detailed some of the new features in the Linux distribution for enterprises.

• The limits of openness
• Vert.x – an asynchronous, event-driven Java web framework
• What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

Open Source Releases

• Tails 0.12 blends in better in internet cafes
• Wine 1.4 matures with first point update
• Mandriva technology preview released
• Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches version 1.0
• Fedora 17 available for ARM and PPC
• CyanogenMod 7.2 gets backported Android 4.0 features
• Second beta for openSUSE 12.2 released
• Apache Traffic Server 3.2 now fully supports IPv6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 released with improved virtualisation

Security Alerts

• Exploit for unpatched IE hole released
• Cisco closes holes in its VPN client and security appliances
• Critical vulnerabilities closed by Winamp update
  

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