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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated gnupg package that fixes a bug is now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated openswan packages that implement Diffie-Hellman groups 22, 23 and 24 from RFC 5114 are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated glibc packages that fix a crash when using Asynchronous I/O (AIO) are now available.

A group of chip makers including IBM, Samsung Electronics and Texas Instruments on Thursday unveiled Linaro, a new software-engineering foundation dedicated to improving Linux distributions, including Android, MeeGo and Ubuntu, used in consumer devices.

Oracle is planning to release one of the most significant updates to its BI (business intelligence) platform in years at a July 7 event in London, according to the company's web site.

Engine Yard will extend on Thursday its services for cloud-based services for Ruby on Rails applications, giving users the option to deploy on Terremark infrastructure.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated mysql packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. CVE-2010-1626, CVE-2010-1848, CVE-2010-1850

Online criminals are scanning the Internet and attacking Windows 2000 machines that haven't had a recent Windows Media Service patch installed, Symantec said Wednesday.

Online criminals are scanning the Internet and attacking Windows 2000 machines that haven't had a recent Windows Media Service patch installed, Symantec said Wednesday.

EnterpriseDB, which offers a supported version of the open-source PostGres database, is now offering unlimited subscriptions that will allow organizations to run as many copies of the database server software as they desire. Total cost? US$40,000 per year.

Google plans to release its Chrome operating system late this year, initially targeting laptop users, the head of the project said Wednesday.

Cloud architecture has to be defined in a way that allows applications to move around, or clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins, warned Red Hat's CEO James Whitehurst.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated vdsm packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated kexec-tools package that fixes a bug that prevented kexec from capturing a vmcore on 64-bit systems with more than 1TB of RAM is now available.

Less than a week after the MeeGo 1.0 netbook operating system was released by Intel and Nokia, six companies have announced support for the platform while a market analyst firm has called for a "major investment" if it is to compete with Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. CVE-2010-1188

The mobile software collaboration project between Intel and Nokia has yielded the first release of MeeGo for netbooks with version 1.0 now available for download.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes two security issues and several bugs is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. CVE-2009-3245, CVE-2009-3555

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated gnome-vfs2 packages that fix a regression from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated glibc packages that fix a crash when using Asynchronous I/O (AIO) are now available.