Spanish security researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in the "Firewall-1" security solution by software vendor Checkpoint, and are now questioning its Common Criteria EAL4+ certification.

Seven months after the first alpha version, Novell and the community have made it on schedule: the new, free Suse distribution includes a KDE 4 preview, one-click installation, the new Libzypp package manager, and an accelerated boot process.

The Canary Isles now rely almost entirely on Linux in education.

UK-based ARM is looking to develop a Linux platform for mobile devices in cooperation with six partners.

Two protocol handlers give attackers the ability to inject malicious code into X Font Server (XFS). Linux systems are only vulnerable to local attacks. The X Font Server is not accessible over networks by default.

The latest version of the Puppy Linux distribution, which weighs in at a mere 100MB, includes useful changes to the boot, configuration and shutdown scripts.

The latest 11.2 update of the Scalix groupware supports multi-tenant environments and hosting as a groupware service.

A Red Hat update has just been released to close various vulnerabilities in the Xen virtualization solution, one of which was caused by an error in a Python script.

A debate on various security models for the Linux kernel has developed on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

The Linux Foundation has concluded an agreement to support Japanese developers with Linux and Open Source in future.