News and headlines

• Eyemagnet Limited to sponsor Gnash development
  Technical director Steve Castellotti of Eyemagnet has offered the Gnash proejct "a few paid hours of Gnash development time"
• Women are irrelevant to the free software community
  Barely one percent of all commits to free software projects are done female contributors.
• Vietnam to widely use open source software
  Minister of Information and Communications Le Doan Hop asked that 100% of servers of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software by June 30, 2009.
• Flash Player 9 Update Release Candidate available
  Adobe has released an updated release candidate of their proprietary software flash player. It has some new features such as support for H.264 video, but it really does not matter as the license remains totally unacceptable.
• KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 Released
  KDE Community are now immensely proud to have put the second Alpha version of what will probably be the worlds most popular desktop environment in a few years.
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12 marks the ned of Firefox v1.5
  Firefox 1.5.0.12 is now rolled out and it is the last security update which will be made for Firefox 1.5.x. Linux distributions will probably update their packages with security patches, but there will be no more official 1.5.x releases. Mozilla Corporation attitude is update to 2.x or switch browser.
• SpamAssassin 3.2.1 and 3.1.9 released
• KDE 3.5.7 Released
• ProFTPD: Local privilege escalation
• Linux.conf.au videos available
• Tor 0.1.2.7-alpha is out
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Europe Office Opens in Brussels