This report is an update to the risk report published in Red Hat Magazine in April 2007.

Recently, Linux.com had the chance to ask Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard his thoughts about the past, present, and future of Mozilla, the force behind the successful Firefox browser and Thunderbird email application.

"Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.12, an update that fixes five security vulnerabilities..." -- ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.12/linux-i686/

QuickSynergy is a GUI frontend to the command-line program, Synergy. This little app combo is fantastic -- it allows a user to control multiple computers with a single mouse and keyboard, allowing copy/paste from one computer to the other, and it functions with many different operating systems, including Linux, Mac/BSD, and Windows systems.

The head of Google's open-source programs on Monday urged international delegates to vote against certifying Office Open XML as an ISO standard, saying the Microsoft-led effort poses a risk to users who want unfettered access to documents.

"And last but not least, we have finally run natively Linux on the Nintendo Wii through Team Tweezers' twilight-hack. We have released a small usbgecko-enabled Proof of Concept mini-distro to prove it." It still needs drivers for the fancy Wii hardware...but regardless, it's Wii Linux is here.

It used to be that you could safely assume a work was public domain unless there was a highly visible warning printed on it, containing both the copyright owner and the date of copyright (at least in the USA). This system also ensured that, when the work’s copyright expired, you could tell from any copy that this was so—by simply adding the duration of copyright to the date printed in the work’s copyright notice. The Berne Convention, however, changed all that by replacing the assumption of freedom with the assumption of monopoly, and it now takes extensive research to be sure a work is public domain.

"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.8. GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html. The sources can be dowloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ or from your favorite GNU mirror..."