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Rails and Merb to merge for Rails 3

The Rails developers and Merb developers have decided to work together on a new Rails 3 encapsulating the ideas of both communities in one project

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Alan Cox leaves Red Hat

Alan Cox, one of the Linux Kernel developers, is leaving Red Hat and moving to Intel

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Phoronix surveys Linux graphics

Phoronix have surveyed Linux graphics users, and see rapid adoption of X.org 7.4, with users looking forward to kernel mode setting

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A Faster Fox - Fennec Alpha 2 arrives

Fennec alpha 2, the Mozilla mobile browser, has been released for testing purposes

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Check Point takes over Nokia's security products

The Israeli company, which specializes in VPN (virtual private network) and firewall solutions, is strengthening its own range of hardware by taking over the security side of Nokia, its long-standing partner

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Sugar Labs go GNOME

Sugar Labs, developer of the OLPC Sugar user interface, has joined the GNOME Foundation advisory board

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Re:Versions - DWR3.0 Release Candidate and Topcased 2.3.0

DWR 3.0 approaches as a release candidate of version 3.0 of the Java/Ajax toolkit appears, while Topcased have updated their open source Eclipse UML editor

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Critical vulnerability in older versions of SQL Server

Microsoft has warned customers that older versions of SQL Server are vulnerable to a remote code execution attack, a vulnerability that has been known about since April

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:1036 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox Update

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NOTE: this should have said CentOS-4 and not CentOS-5 initially.

> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:1036
>>
>> Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
>>
>> The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
>> syncing to the mirrors:
>>
>> x86_64:
>> firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
>> nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.i386.rpm
>> nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
>> nspr-devel-4.7.3-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
>> nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
>> nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
>> nss-devel-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>> src:
>> firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.centos.src.rpm
>> nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.src.rpm
>> nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos.src.rpm
>

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:1036 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox Update

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NOTE: This should have said CentOS-4 and not CentOS-5 initially.

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:1036
>
> Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
>
> The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
> syncing to the mirrors:
>
> i386:
> firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
> nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.i386.rpm
> nspr-devel-4.7.3-1.el4.i386.rpm
> nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
> nss-devel-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm
>
>
> src:
> firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.centos.src.rpm
> nspr-4.7.3-1.el4.src.rpm
> nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos.src.rpm