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X.Org Server 1.8.2 Officially Released

Peter Hutterer has announced the official release of X.Org Server 1.8.2, after it has went through two release candidates over the past month. No new changes have been introduced since X.Org Server 1.8.2 RC2 and since the release of X.Org Server 1.8.1 in mid-May it just carries more bug-fixes, a couple DRI2 updates, and addresses other maintenance items…

Read more at Phoronix

GIMP 2.7.1 with new user interface

The GIMP project has released a new developer version of its free image editor with a thoroughly overhauled user interface

Read more at The H

First Look at MeeGo for Handsets

Earlier this week we provided a peek into the MeeGo for tablets pre-alpha demo. Hot on its heels, we have a release and video for MeeGo for handsets.

MeeGo for handsets is pre-alpha, and the first open mobile project to release code this early with an invite for developer participation. The only way to get a look at the code for the iPhone this early is hang out at the right bar in Redwood City. With MeeGo you can save on gas, have a beer at home, and grab the code right away.

 

For more on MeeGo, check out the MeeGo Web site and check out the developer preview for handsets. It’s early, so be ready for bugs, but it’s never too early to join in development.

Experts: Android, iPhone security different but matched

Apple may vet apps for the iPhone but Android restricts apps to their “sandbox,” thus limiting any damage that could be done from a malicious app, experts say.

Read more at CNET News

Second beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 released

Red Hat has issued a second beta for version 6 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The second beta is said to be feature complete and has been split up into a “Server” and a “Workstation” variant

Read more at The H

Apache Hadoop goes Enterprise

Hadoop Summit 2010 showed that the Apache framework for the development of distributed applications is moving one step closer to market readiness

Read more at The H

Mozilla submits Firefox Home to Apple App Store, considers approval a formality

 

Emboldened by the (great) success enjoyed by Opera’s Mini in making it onto Apple’s hallowed iPhone platform, Mozilla has today submitted its own browser implement to the App Store censors. We already knew Firefox Home — a weird sort of incomplete browser that syncs your desktop bookmarks, history, and tabs with the iPhone — was in the works, but now we’re finding the team behind it is so confident of its approval that it’s already promising a guide on how to set it up once it’s approved. We suspect the fact it’ll allow you to shift browsing sessions over to Safari will be looked upon favorably, but there’s no escaping the fact that Firefox Home will still browse the web for you should you wish it. This is going to be a highly entertaining approval process indeed. Your move, Cupertino.

Read more at Engadget Mobile

Sony Warns of Overheating Laptops

Sony Electronics has issued a warning about a security glitch that could cause more than half a million notebooks to overheat, and offers a simple fix.

Read more at internetnews.com

Google Chrome Tests Unified Menu

Google started to test the unified menu at the pure style of Opera. Firefox 4 will include a single menu button. The unified menu takes up less space, it’s less complex and it reduces clutter..

The new menu includes most of the options that were available in the page and tools menus. If you use a recent Chromium build or Google Chrome dev channel, you can enable this feature by adding a command-line flag to the desktop shortcut: –new-wrench-menu.

This new way to display the menus is less complex, save a lot space and looks cool, at least that’s what I think 😀

The main goal of this kind of menu is to show all the functionality of the browser (some of them wasn’t available on the GUI) and save some space.

Source: Google System Blog

Red Hat Cloud Foundations: Edition One

The new services of Red Hat the Cloud Foundation is aimed to help you to plan, build, and manage a private cloud today. This product is the number one enemy of the Microsoft Azure.

Red Hat Cloud Foundations, Edition One is the first in a family of Cloud Foundations that include everything needed to build and manage a private cloud: a comprehensive set of products including virtualization, cloud management, operating system, middleware, application management, and scheduling, cookbooks and reference architectures giving step-by-step instructions, consulting services, and training, backed by Red Hat’s exceptional customer support. We make deploying in the cloud easy and safe and it’s all conveniently packaged so that it’s easy to implement and easy to use.

Source: Red Hat