The alpha release already includes all the changes expected to find their way into the distribution, which is scheduled for a mid-May release. These include a new GNOME program for colour calibrating hardware and Linux kernel 2.6.33
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Microsoft has released two security updates to close one hole in Windows Movie Maker and seven holes in Excel
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The security specialist Objectif Sécurité has optimised its rainbow tables [--] a common tool used to crack password hashes [--] to make use of SSDs
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Simon Phipps joins a number of Sun employees who have left the company since its acquisition by Oracle
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The Appcelerator Inc developers have released version 1.0 of their Appcelerator Titanium application framework and runtime platform, upgrading its mobile processing engine and improving load times to under 3 seconds
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The PCLinuxOS developers have released the first beta for the 2010 edition of their Linux distribution, improving LiveCD boot time by 50%
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Following its recent acquisition by Google last month and removal from the App Store, reMail has now been released to the open source community. The iPhone OS mail client is being open sourced because the Gmail team will instead be focusing on other projects at Google
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The Nexenta Project developers have released the first beta for version 3.0 of their Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) – the sixth development release in the NCP cycle
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Canonical’s Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon has announced that the next Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) will be take place from the 10th to the 14th of May, 2010 at the Dolce La Hulpe Hotel and Resort in Brussels, Belgium
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Highlights for The H in this past week include CeBIT, a bid on Novell, the IIPA attacked countries over their open source policies and Ubuntu announcing a new look. A scrap developed over a defective patch for a PHP extension and Spanish police closed a major botnet operation
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