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Canonical announced last evening, January 24th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fixing three security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

Teodomiro Cayetano López, Extremadura's CIO (Chief Information Officer), confirmed on January 23rd that the administration of Spain’s autonomous region will move all their desktop PCs to Debian Linux.

The Chronic Dev Team has just released a few minutes ago the a new version of their Absinthe jailbreak tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices, bringing support for the Linux platform. Until now, the Absinthe untethered jailbreak utility for Apple A5 devices had support only for thr Mac and Windows operating systems, but starting with version 0.3 Absinthe also supports Linux.

The Desura gaming client now has an open source brother, called Desurium and hosted on Github, licensed under GPL (GNU Public License) version 3. Detailed instructions about how to install and run the open source version of the Desura client on both Linux and Windows platform are also available on the Github page.

A day after Benjaman Brunner's announcement about the end-of-life (EOL) of the openSUSE 11.3 operating system, on January 21st Bryen Yunashko published the release schedule of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 Linux distribution.

Welcome to the 183rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin that allows you to search for online photos on Flickr and local photos imported in Shotwell. The photos can be sorted by date and by the person how took them.

Linus Torvalds announced last evening, January 19th, that the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.3 is available for download and testing.

In the mean time, more Internet companies join the strike, such as The Document Foundation with their LibreOffice website (still allowing access to the rest of the site) and the XMBC project's website, saying "Today we are proud to stand together with organizations around the world to protest SOPA and its Senate counterpart PIPA [...] All services will be restored on January 19th, EST time. In the meantime, we urge our users to get involved."

The Document Foundation announced yesterday, January 16th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the third Beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.5 office suite.

Ubuntu Secured Remix 11.10 is actually based on the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system and is a slightly modified version of the Ubuntu Desktop Live CD.

A few minutes ago, January 16th, The Document Foundation company proudly announced the fifth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.4 open source office suite software for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, bringing several bugfixes and improvements.

Welcome to the 182nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last evening, January 12th, that the first maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 is available for download and all users should upgrade to it.

SUSE proudly announced yesterday, January 11th, that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is now available to all Dell customers, on Dell Cloud, the brand-new VMware software-based cloud offering from Dell.

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, unleashed a couple of minutes ago, January 11th, the Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux Mint 12 KDE operating system. Linux Mint 12 KDE Release Candidate features updated applications, general improvements and new features, all to make your desktop experience more comfortable.

Andrew Wyatt proudly announced a few minutes ago, January 10th, the immediate availability for download of the Fuduntu 2012.1 Linux operating system.

Canonical uploaded the final bits of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 on the official software repositories for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS testers can now upgrade their Linux kernel to version 3.2 by running the Software Update app or from the terminal window, issuing the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

Softpedia has been informed that Canonical plans to make an exclusive demonstration of an Ubuntu TV and Ubuntu In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) at CES 2012.

A few days ago, Canonical uploaded the final bits of the Mozilla Firefox 9.0 web browser on the official software repositories for the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.