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Nick Bowler discovered CVE-2011-4081, a Linux kernel vulnerability where error conditions were incorrectly handled by the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm, leading to a kernel oops.

The Debian secuirty team, through Moritz Muehlenhoff, announced on December 6th that the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) operating system will no longer be supported started with February 6th, 2012.

With the first Alpha of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS unleashed to testers worldwide, Canonical decided to change the official release schedule for the upcoming Precise Pangolin distribution and remove the Release Candidate version!

Finally! Ultimate Edition 3.0 is here, officially released today, December 6th, and based on the Linux Mint 11 (Katya) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating systems.

After being based on the Ubuntu distribution for so many years, Ultimate Edition has finally switched tables and it is now built from the Linux Mint 11 (Katya) operating system, which itself is based on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narhwal).

Opera 11.60 brings a revamped URL address field, which offers search suggestions, easy website bookmarking through the star shortcut in the address bar and ability to list website results faster than before.

Sonia Ouarti from Canonical announced a couple of days ago, December 2nd, that the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and devops expert Clint Byrum will hold a webinar about Juju, this Thursday, December 8th at 3pm GMT.

LibrePlan is a new web-based collaborative application that allows you to plan, monitor and control your projects, via a rich web interface that provides a desktop-like user experience.

At the request of many of our readers, we've created the following tutorial to teach them how to easily move the window buttons from left to right side in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems.

Canonical announced yesterday, December 2nd, that several more security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system.

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.