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Welcome to the 176th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

With regrets, the openSUSE developers, through Marcus Meissner, announced on November 30th that there will be no more updates coming for the openSUSE 11.3 Linux distribution, starting with January 16th, 2012.

Called ROSA Media Player (or ROMP for short), the new media player for Mandriva/ROSA is based on the source code from popular MPLayer and SMPlayer video players.

What's new in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 1? Well, the big news is that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 1 includes the Linux kernel 3.2.0-2.5 packages, based on the Linux kernel 3.2 RC3 development release.

The next major update to the popular mail server, Axigen 8.1, will see cool features like Briefcase (File Manager) in the AJAX Webmail interface, remote device lock and wipe via Exchange ActiveSync, as well as e-mail, briefcase and PIM synchronization via SyncML using the Funambol platform, and a 64-bit edition of the Outlook Connector.

Red Hat released last evening, November 29th, a new kernel update for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Desktop and Server operating systems, fixing several more security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers.

Greg KH proudly announced a few hours ago, November 29th, that Linux kernel 3.1.4 is now available for download as a tar archive, from the kernel.org website.

VectorLinux 7.0 was officially announced two days ago, on November 27th, and it is distributed as a Live CD image and Installable only CD.

Steven Shiau proudly announced a new stable release of its popular Clonezilla Live operating system, used for cloning hard disk drives.

After Firefox 8 officially landed in Ubuntu 11.10 last week, earlier today (November 28th) Canonical announced that the Mozilla Thunderbird 8.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system.

Matt Housh announced on November 25th the immediate availability for download of the CRUX 2.7.1 Linux operating system, which comes with a new kernel and a few updated packages.

Welcome to the 175th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

The GNOME Project announced a few minuntes ago, November 24th, the immediate availability for testing of the second development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings assorted fixes and improvements.

Mario Kemper and Shutter Team proudly announced a few minutes ago that a new version of the Shutter desktop screenshot utility for Linux platforms is available for download.

The KDE team proudly announced a few minutes ago, November 24th, the first Beta release of the upcoming and renewed KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.

The source code of the famous Doom 3 FPS game is now available, starting today November 23rd, under the GNU GPL (GNU Public License) Version 3 license.

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, unleashed a couple of minutes ago, November 23rd, the new and highly anticipated Linux Mint 12 operating system, dubbed Lisa.

Long story short, the upcoming Linux Mint 12, dubbed Lisa, is an operating system based on the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) distribution, featuring a new user interface based on the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

It appears that new vulnerabilities were found in Linux kernel, this time affecting the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating systems.

Convirture proudly announced on November 21st, on a press release, that its virtualization and cloud management software, ConVirt, is now certified to run on popular open source operating systems, like Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE and CentOS.