heise online news 17/02/2009

heise online news 17/02/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Parted Magic 3.6 released Parted Magic 3.6 has been released, providing bug fixes and updates to the open source collection of hard disk management tools › Read article     Red Hat and Microsoft sign interoperability pact Red Hat and Microsoft have signed agreements to validate each others operating systems on their virtualisation platforms › Read article     Telnetd exploit on FreeBSD 7 The telnetd service in FreeBSD 7 and later is vulnerable to a "semi-remote root exploit". FreeBSD recommends disabling telnetd › Read article     Open Service Gateway: 10 years of the OSGi Alliance The OSGi Alliance, which exists for the development of open standards for a modular software platform, has revealed that it now has more than 100 members › Read article     New drafts for HTML 5 HTML 5 moves closer as two new drafts of the specification are published by the HTML Working Group › Read article     Xandros Linux for netbooks with ARM Cortex-based CPUs At the Mobile Wold Congress, Xandros is showing its Linux operating system ported to an ARM Cortes-based SoC processor for Freescale netbooks › Read article     Python 3.0.1 released The Python language gets a bug fix release, which includes removing a function that shouldn't have been in the Python 3.0 release › Read article     Bitdefender and GData delete winlogon system file Once again, anti-virus programs have caused users grief with a flawed signature update. In one mid-size company, administrators had to repair problems caused at over 20 branches › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Dj Walker-Morgan All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.