Linux Today News NEW DEVELOPMENT RELEASE NAME HAS BEEN CHOSEN, CAULDRON! (MAGEIA)
"Since we?re starting with a new base, a brand new name for the development release in Mageia needed to be found." INTERNATIONALIZING THOSE BASH SCRIPTS
"Thinking through that assignment and the greater application, I can say with complete certainty that none of its stakeholders were contemplating [human] language independence - that is, how to render prompts, error messages, progress diagnostics, etc. in a language other than US-English." A WALK AROUND THE GNOME DESKTOP
"I realized that some users simply don?t have the ability to look at the computer desktop from the same vantage point as those of us who ?get it?. With that thought in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to give a sort of walk through of the GNOME desktop from the perspective of the new user." SOFTLINKS VS. HARDLINKS: A QUICK EXPLANATION
"In Linux, there are two types of file links, hardlinks and softlinks. Here, I?ll give a quick explanation of what these types of links are, and when you should use them." ANDROID 2.2 DROID X UPDATE CAUSING SMS BUG
"Verizon last week released Android 2.2, or Froyo, for the Droid X smartphone through an over-the-air update, but users are complaining that the upgrade caused a messaging bug" THE GENIUS OF THE TINKERER
"In the year following the 2004 tsunami, the Indonesian city of Meulaboh received eight neonatal incubators from international relief organizations. Several years later, when an MIT fellow named Timothy Prestero visited the local hospital, all eight were out of order, the victim of power surges and tropical humidity, along with the hospital staff's inability to read the English repair manual." A SIMPLE SNORT ALERT PARSER
"Snort Intrusion Detection Software (IDS) is a great out of the box easy to use system to monitor a network for possible threats. While there are many ways to receive alerts, one very simple approach is to periodically parse the alert log and simply mail alerts to whom it may concern." GOOGLE'S IRONIC AD CAMPAIGN AND THE FUTURE OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA
"Page through a major newspaper (remember newspapers?) today like the New York Times, and you?re likely to run into two enormous ads, one by Google (almost two full pages) and one by AOL (a full two pages). Leaving aside the irony of Google advertising in a form of media that it has almost competed out of existence..." MOZILLA CTO: WHY FIREFOX WINS OVER CHROME
"There are some people that believe that Google's Chrome is winning the browser war for the fastest and possibly best browser -- Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich is not one of them." WELCOMING OPENINDIANA
"I was thrilled when Sun announced they were releasing OpenSolaris for the community to play with, even if it was several years too late to help me with my homework. And I was very disappointed when Oracle executed OpenSolaris earlier this year." 60 GREAT OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPER TOOLS
"If you're looking for good open source developer tools, you literally have thousands to choose from. For this list, we focused on 60 of the best and most well known. Rather than trying to rank them, we've arranged them into categories and listed them in alphabetical order. " Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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HAPPY 27TH BIRTHDAY GNU PROJECT!
"A hearty Happy 27th Birthday to the GNU Project!" FEDORA 14 PREVIEW: WHAT'S NEW IN FEDORA 14?
"Fedora 14 is on track for a final release date of November 02, 2010. If all 14 does is improve upon 13, Fedora will have another winner on its hands." FSF SAYS: USPTO SHOULD PUBLISH GUIDELINES EXCLUDING SOFTWARE PATENTS
"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is advising the software community in the United States to write to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and ask that software patents be excluded from upcoming guidance about patent eligibility." LINUX SERVERS, WINDOWS XP DESKTOPS: A HAPPY MARRIAGE?
"The IT folks love Linux. The users know, and therefore love, Windows. Sound like a war? For Wade Stankich, it's more like a happy marriage." DOUBLE STANDARDS ON OPEN STANDARDS
"The good news was that it offered one of the best line-ups of open source know-how in the UK I have come across. The bad news was that the seminar's venue was quite small and not even full: these people really deserved a much bigger audience." TEN ESSENTIAL LINUX ADMIN TOOLS
"System Administrators (SAs) need a set of tools with which to manage their often unmanageable systems and environments*. These ten essential Linux administration tools provide excellent support for the weary SA." SURPRISED, AND NOT SURPRISED: FEATHER LINUX AT 150MHZ, 32MB
"Some things surprise even me. And yet, at the same time, this isn?t a surprise." A WALK AROUND KDE 4.5
"Recently I did an introductory ?walk around? GNOME (see ?A walk around the GNOME desktop?) which offered the new users to Linux a look from the ground level at one of the most popular of the Linux desktops. This time around, I will do the same service to the KDE desktop." 6 MORE BLENDER MADE MOVIES AND ANIMATIONS YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE
"Like two weeks ago, we featured some of best and most popular blender made short movies in our 8 stunning blender made short films and animations post. Now, let's take the road less traveled." THE INTERNET NEEDS A DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
"language is woefully inadequate for many of our modern needs. I can't be the only one repeatedly thinking: ?Words fail me. They're not precise enough.?" DEVELOP FOR GOOGLE CHROME ? MAKING APPS AND EXTENSIONS
"Kunal Deo explores the art of developing for Google Chrome using HTML5 and more. In this tutorial you?ll learn how to develop web apps and extensions for the world?s fastest growing web browser..." LINUX-READY SOCS SIP HALF A WATT
"Freescale Semiconductor announced a Linux-ready, ARM9-based i.MX28x SoC and a Coldfire-based MCF5441x MCU, both targeting fanless industrial applications as well as automotive systems." FEDORA PRESENTS...GRAPHICS TEST WEEK THIS WEEK
It's been creeping up, and now it's time: the world-famous Graphics Test Week begins tomorrow, with the Fedora 14 Nouveau Test Day! BASH PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL 1 ? A QUICK INTRODUCTION
"Harold Rodriguez explains Bash programming in this 2 Part tutorial. His slick and excellent style of writing has enabled him to cover all the essential features of bash programing in a few pages." PLAYONLINUX 3.8.3 HAS BEEN RELEASED
"PlayOnLinux 3.8.3 has been released, it was a silent release and no changelog has been provided by the PlayOnLinux team." VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH LINUS TORVALDS AT SAO PAULO ZOO
"Later in the week when they were waiting to go on a safari at the Sao Paolo Zoo, Jeremy seized the opportunity to go on a trip down memory lane when he asked Linus about the Sinclair QL they each owned while growing up." PINGUY OS 10.04.1.2 REVIEW
"I?ve reviewed so many different Ubuntu remasters that I?ve more or less become numb when I see a new one. After all, aren?t they all pretty much the same? Well no, not really." OPENOFFICE GOES ITS OWN WAY
"While under Sun's management, OpenOffice got off to a great start, the program hasn't been doing much of anywhere lately. That may be about to change under an independent non-profit group called The Document Foundation." HOW WILL GNOME 3.0 BE RECEIVED?
"It could go either way." RED HAT V. ORACLE: WHICH IS MORE STANDARDS COMPLIANT?
"Compliance, it seems, is the new meme. Meme status was actually granted a few weeks ago when the meme fairies (they're real; look it up) bestowed the honorific to the open source compliance issue during LinuxCon." OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SHORTCUT -- ESCAPING SSH WITH '~'
"One thing you may not know about SSH is that it has an escape character: ~." U.S. TRIES TO MAKE IT EASIER TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET (NEW YORK TIMES)
"The New York Times reports on a bill (proposed law) that the Obama administration plans to submit to Congress that would require communication providers be able to decrypt and provide the data they carry on demand, presumably after a court order" THE CARRIERS? REBELLION
"Before the Steve Jobs hypnosis session, AT&T ruled. Handsets, their prices, branding, applications, contractual terms, content sales?AT&T decided everything and made pennies on each bit that flowed through its network. Then the Great Mesmerizer swept the table..." MAKING A WATERCOLOUR-PAINT PHOTOGRAPH IN GIMP
"This tutorial requires a little bit of creativity and imagination for the painting step, but don?t worry it is all very easy to get the hang of and the rest is a breeze!" THE OXYMORON OF CORPORATE CONTROLLED "COMMUNITY" PROJECTS
"This morning brought the significant - and decade overdue ? announcement of the launch of an independent foundation to host development of the open source, ODF-compliant OpenOffice productivity suite." OPEN SOURCE DATABASES HAVE COME OF AGE
"Client/server systems with SQL interfaces jockey for position against upstart NoSQL systems with intimidating (and exciting) new models for data representation, distribution and consistency." THE "FREE BEER" HANGOVER
"A couple of days ago, I talked about Yahoo's warning messages saying my system (Linux) had not been tested with their mail program and that resulted in a very impassioned plea to help a group of Yahoo Groups users to protest the changes that Yahoo has apparently made to the way Yahoo Groups work." TEN WAYS TO STOP NOVICE USERS QUITTING LINUX
"It's all very well handing out Linux machines to users unfamiliar with the operating system, but you risk running into problems that a little preparation could easily avoid, says Jack Wallen." | 
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