heise online news 24/12/2008

heise online news 24/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news 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 › Read article     Alan Cox leaves Red Hat Alan Cox, one of the Linux Kernel developers, is leaving Red Hat and moving to Intel › Read article     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 › Read article     A Faster Fox - Fennec Alpha 2 arrives Fennec alpha 2, the Mozilla mobile browser, has been released for testing purposes › Read article     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 › Read article     Sugar Labs go GNOME Sugar Labs, developer of the OLPC Sugar user interface, has joined the GNOME Foundation advisory board › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › 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: Jonathan Bennett 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.