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For the last six plus months, Mozilla developers have been focused on building Firefox 4. That's not the only effort that Mozilla is now sprinting to complete, developer documentation at the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) are also being completed. Instead of a 'code sprint', MDN is having a doc sprint - starting Jan 28th and running for 34 hours until Jan 29th.

Yeaaah, it sounds like a lot, but you have to remember it's an improvement over the 661 bugs fixed in Beta 9. On one hand, it's great that so many bugs are being exterminated. On the other hand, it's absolutely shocking that so many bugs remain this late in the process. Taking a deeper look at the 506 bugs fixed in Beta 10 reveals a tonne of stability fixes. One of my favs is Bug #607231 Closing tabs from browser window causes tab group layouts to be borked. Another Tab Grouping fix is bug #608223 Tab groups not restored after Force Quit / Crash.

While the LibreOffice project is a fork of Oracle's Open Office, Meeks also noted that the door remains open for Oracle to become part of the effort. "I think that there is a very real and sincere offer for them to join the community, the only blocker is Oracle," he said. "They could become a leading light in the LibreOffice community. We'd love that. We'd love to have Oracle. This is not attempt to attack them, this an attempt to do something better."

Cisco is expanding its push to attract more small business professionals to its networking gear. This week Cisco announced a new set of 200-series switches and a new Linux powered router platform that adds several big-business features tailored for the needs of small business.

The Red Hat sponsored Fedora community Linux project has suffered a security incident in which its infrastructure was compromised. Long story short is that a Fedora contributor had his/her credentials stolen and then an attacker began to use those credentials to attempt to tamper with the Fedora infrastructure. Due to the limited privileges of the exploited account (and some good luck) it appears as though there has been no risk to Fedora's build or infrastructure. This story could have ended up far differently - just look at what happened to Fedora in 2008.

What do IBM, VMware, SAP and Dell have in common? They're all using Novell to build Linux appliances. Dell officially announced this week that it is joining the SUSE Appliance Program, financial terms of the partnership are not being publicly disclosed. The SUSE Linux Appliance Program is an extension of the SUSE Studio appliance technology and enables vendors to build and manage their own Linux software appliances.

VLC is among the most popular open source video players. According to the VideoLAN project, the 1.1.5 release has had 58 million downloads. Now it's time for those 58 million downloaders to update to VLC 1.1.6, for some security, bug and stability fixes.

Google is updating its dev-channel version of the Chrome browser this week with an updated JavaScript engine and a long list of bug fixes. Chrome 10.0.642.2 is an update for Windows, Linux and Mac and includes the new V8 version 3.0.7.0 JavaScript engine. The new version of V8 includes performance improvements on the IA32 (x86) platform as well as enhancing the debugger.

The first release candidate for the upcoming Linux 2.6.38 kernel is now out and it could further improve Linux performance. With 2.6.37, the Big Kernel Lock (BKL) was removed, but apparently there is at least one more big global lock that needed to come out. In 2.6.38 there is a new RCU (Read/Copy/Update)-based path name lookup. The new RCU lookup could end up improving Linux kernel performance by as much as 50 percent.

The open source Lustre technology is a parallel file system that is often found in high performance computing (HPC) environments. Users of the file system will soon get community Lustre distribution, thanks to the leadership of startup Whamcloud.

Red Hat is out today with the GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 (RHEL). After the big launch of RHEL 6 last year though, there isn't a whole lot to be excited about in the latest 5.x release. That said RHEL 5.x users that aren't in a position to move to RHEL 6 will likely be very happy with the update. Each incremental update of RHEL always brings with it additional driver and bug fixes, which make them important for users.

If you've ever had to audit/capture network traffic, you've likely used the open source wireshark (formerly Ethereal) application. Wireshark is getting updated this week to version 1.4.3, providing some really interesting fixes. I personally use wireshark to audit network traffic and security, but apparently Wireshark itself had a trio of security flaws in it.

Baracus includes remote boot, provisioning and power management as well as the ability to image, clone and backup systems. With Baracus, Novell is aiming to provide expanded remote boot capabilities beyond what is currently available in open source by way of the Etherboot project and its related technologies.

Openrespect.org is founded by Ubuntu Linux community manager Jono Bacon, as a way to encourage mutual respect across Linux distributions. Apparently though that mutual respect didn't fully extend to Red Hat's community Fedora Linux distribution. And now Bacon is admitting that he 'screwed-up'.

"Philosophical issues notwithstanding, Red Hat is not in the same situation as Apache," Sharples commented. "Red Hat (and JBoss before it) is a Java licensee and the Java SE implementation we ship is based on OpendJDK and covered by the OpenJDK Community License Agreement"

Red Hat today announced the first beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 -- on the eve of a major Red Hat event in San Francisco, where we could be hearing about the release of RHEL 6. But first we've got RHEL 5.6 (beta) today, providing some updated apps.

The first public milestone of the Xfce 4.8 Linux desktop is now out, giving Linux users the first taste of this powerful, yet minimal interface. With Xfce 4.8 developers have incorporated a long list of changes. Among the biggest items that I see in this new release (so far) is the replacement of the ThunarVFS with GIO.

According to Buytaert is it critically important to build a commercial ecosystem around open source projects. In his view, it is the fact that people are making money that gives them and their companies the incentive to contribute back to the project. Though money is a good thing in open source, it shouldn't be the primary driving factor for a project. "Money shouldn't make the decisions," Buytaert said. "If you look at Drupal, all of the technical decisions are made based on technical merits and are made by the people that build trust." "Trust is the currency of open source -- it is the currency of Drupal."

It's been over a week since, Ubuntu dropped the bombshell that it was going with its own Unity user interface instead of GNOME Shell, for the next Ubuntu Linux release. While some in the open source community have had a negative viewpoint on Ubuntu's move away from GNOME Shell, Red Hat's Fedora Project Leader doesn't have a problem with it.

At the ZendCon conference in Santa Clara, California, Zend today announced the general availability of the Zend Studio 8.0 IDE (define) and the Zend Framework 1.11 PHP application framework. Both the IDE and framework include new cloud-focused features and are part of a new PHP Cloud Application Platform ecosystem that Zend is now building.