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Mozilla is certainly having a nightmarish security week. Late yesterday, it released a security-fix version 1.5.0.12 of its Thunderbird email client, after updating its Firefox browser, a Firefox Google toolbar extension, and its SeaMonkey web application suite -- all within the last six days.

Palm has used Linux to build a "new class" of mobile device. The Foleo aims to expand the email, Internet, and productivity application capabilities of mobile phones such as the Palm Treo, by adding a full-size keyboard and a larger screen.

Subversion is a very popular open source Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool and I've heard someone unkind say "Perforce is good too, but it's just like paying for Subversion when you do't need to".

One day I was made aware of a fine effort to give linux users with interest in clinical and nonclinical software a place to collaborate. This site used to be linuxforclinics.org One of these days that site was hacked and defaced. They restored it but it was hacked again. They restored but it was hacked again. From what I've seen different forum software was used each time. They were fed up and decided to withdraw from public engagement I was told in an email from one of their members/admins. Now wtf. The crackers succeeded in taking down a fine site which helped many people in the community. I hope one day they will resurface and be left alone. It's a sad day.

We are proud to announce the availability of GNUmed 0.2.6.1 for GNU/Linux, MS Windows and MacOS X. The hooks framework has been extended. The bootstrapper transfers users and runs sanity checks for plausibility after upgrade. Encounter handling now allows a user to start a new encounter on demand. Simple data mining has been added. GNUmed now runs on Mac OS X and supports OsiriX DICOM viewer. Patient picture handling has been properly implemented. Debugging has been improved for better user feedback. The backend features an improved backup script and a new restore script, and now requires PG 8.1. A bug in the phrasewheel has been fixed. Details can be foundhere

Setting up a survey on your Web site can be a simple task with LimeSurvey, a flexible and easy to set up tool for conducting a survey.

While open source adoption will continue to grow, revenues will substantially lag behind the distribution of open source software, says analyst company IDC.

Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.

June 5 is World Environment Day but there is still a long way to go in the effort to make it easier for South Africans to safely dispose of their pre-loved PCs. What are you doing with your old PC?

Linux internet cafe software OutKafe 5.1.0 has been released with a number of bug fixes and improved distribution compatibility.

Government Technology News has a wide-ranging article on Free and Open Source Software in Medicine: "Doctors are fed up with the we-own-you, vendor lock-in, phone-home-to-the-mother-ship-to-do-anything status quo," he said. In addition, open source health IT applications are hitting their late teens, with more growth coming. What will be available in the next year, he said, will likely challenge anything in the proprietary world.

Novell's openSUSE project has launched a new initiative dedicated to advancing the public awareness of the popular Linux distribution in the educational community.

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 90 for the week of May 27th through June 2nd, 2007.

There's a Novell idea. Xandros has become the latest Linux distro to hop into bed with Microsoft, announcing a five-year deal for joint development.

Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you to sign and encrypt not only email messages but also text snippets from any Web page.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Xen will save money without sacrificing performance

The GPL authors talk about how they addressed Microsoft/Novell, patents and other issues in the GPLv3's final draft.

[I think the MS-Xandros deal will have to be talked about as well. - Scott]

For reasons known only to itself, Microsoft has changed the default equations editor of Word 2007 so that, unlike previous versions of Word, it is no longer compatible with the globally accepted standard for writing equations in documents, Mathematical Markup Language (MathML).

[As a former Geology and Chemistry Major I feel for the students who have to deal with this. - Scott]

U.K.-based startup TriMetrix has announced a tiny single-board computer (SBC) designed for use in devices requiring biometric scanners, including time/attendence, access control, and POS (point-of-sales) equipment. The TMX1000 has a powerful ARM9 processor, and comes with an open-source software stack based on Linux 2.6.

Since last November, there has been much discussion of the deal between Microsoft and Novell. To an extent, it has all been talk in a vacuum, since the actual text of the agreement has not been available. That has finally changed, however; the terms of the agreement have been released as part of Novell's (delayed) annual regulatory filings.