| Linux Today News UBUNTU PRIVACY REMIX 10.04R1 COMES WITH TRUECRYPT 6.3A
"Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r1 has been released, the first stable version of the Ubuntu-based distro. Ubuntu Privacy Remix (UPR) is a specialized Linux distribution for handling highly sensitive data." REPLACING THE PHYSICAL KEYBOARD FOR GOOD! HOW TO DO IT!
"A simple hack that will revolutionize computing. Simply, hack/configure the system to have two pointers on the screen at the same time." UBUNTU LINUX IS RUBBISH
"For too long now, I have been espousing the advantages, delights and superiority of Ubuntu Linux. No more!" THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FREE SOFTWARE AND PIRACY
"In every major culture, there are subcultures. Within those subcultures, you may find other, smaller, groups interested in something that seems completely unrelated to the larger group" LENOVO THINKPAD W510 NOTEBOOK
"Since July we have been testing a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 notebook under Linux and have already published a variety of Linux benchmarks. This Lenovo notebook boasts an Intel Core i7 720QM CPU, 4GB of system memory, a 320GB SATA HDD, and NVIDIA Quadro FX880M graphics." PENTAHO BRINGS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TO HADOOP
"Open source business intelligence company Pentaho unveiled BI and data integration tools for Hadoop this week, but they aren't available to users of the free community edition of Pentaho." SET UP XEN 4.0.1 & LIBVIRT 0.8.3 ON TOP OF UBUNTU 10.10 DESKTOP
"Following bellow is brief instruction of mentioned set up loading xen back-end, evtchn, gntdev devices separately from pvops kernel 2.6.32.24 under Xen 4.0.1 on top Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Desktop" ADVANCED IRC WITH SMUXI
"If you spend much time with any open source project, you're probably going to be spending time in IRC. If you want to make sure you don't miss a minute of your project's conversations, you'll want to check out Smuxi." SMART CLUSTERS: INTELLIGENCE IS AS INTELLIGENCE DOES
"The following topic scares me for two reasons. First, maybe I read too many sci-fi novels about Artificial Intelligence (AI) going wrong (or right, we?ll get to that in bit)." MANUAL BACKUPS IN LINUX, DD
"DD is very powerful and rather under appreciated tool. Do note that dd does NOT have a progress indicator. As such, I recommend that you apt-get install pv." CHRISTMAS? IT'S STILL 90 DEGREES HERE
"Last year, between November 1st and December 25th, we built and gave away 41 computers. Three of them I delivered and set up on Christmas Day. I don't have the words...I don't know the words that can convey the satisfaction of doing this work." HERE'S A CRAZY SECURITY IDEA - DITCH WINDOWS FOR UBUNTU 10.10 LINUX
"After some days with the latest Ubuntu Linux desktop release, I was planning to devote a few graphs to extolling its many virtues." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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FOG AIMS TO ADVANCE RUBY IN THE CLOUD
"The current state of the cloud does not provide clear interoperability for all types of application development languages or frameworks. But for open source Ruby developers, the Fog project is now offering a path to help navigate through issues of cloud interoperability." EDITOR'S NOTE: COUNTRY GEEK THERAPY FOR CURING THE FRAZZLES
As much as I love computers and technology, after a long hard week I look forward to turning them all off and going outside to play. GENDER DIVERSITY, FREEDOM AND EDUCATION AT THE OPEN WORLD FORUM
"This year I have been invited to present the first results of my research about Open public data at the 2010 Open World Forum. Due to the subject of my talk, I was also invited by Glyn Moody to a panel on Open Democracy " NAUTILUS SCRIPT TO CREATE MP3'S FROM VIDEO FILES
"Do you ever download a video off youtube and think "gee I wish I had an mp3 of that". Well here is a script for nautilus (the gnome file manager in linux) to help you create that mp3." WEEKEND PROJECT: GET STARTED WITH BTRFS
"The B-tree file system Btrfs is a next-generation filesystem for Linux, and although it is still undergoing rapid development, you can use it for day-to-day tasks." GNUACCOUNTING 0.7.8 RELEASED
"The Gnuaccounting developers have released version 0.7.8 of their free open-source Java accounting application that embeds OpenOffice and utilises MySQL or OpenOffice's HSQLDB to create and administrate invoices, credit memos, delivery notes, bills etc" 6 LINUX DISTROS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
"Linux is all around us. From phones to firewalls, from Macs to PCs, it?s getting hard to find electronics that don?t run Linux. Over the years, there have been many distributions (normally called distros) of Linux. Some are full-featured, others are very small, some are general purpose, and others are designed for specific tasks. Love it or hate it, Linux is here to stay." QALCULATE IS A POWERFUL CALCULATOR FOR LINUX
"Qalculate is a powerful calculator for Linux that can solve complex mathematical expressions, units conversion, graph plotting and many more sophisticated functions." SURVIVING MAC, WINDOWS, LINUX ON DAILY BASIS
"I am a Linux, Mac & Windows user and I use them on daily basis. I use Linux for all my personal works, Windows at my Office and Mac on the move [since I bought it at high premium]." MANAGE GOOGLE SERVICES FROM THE COMMAND LINE ON LINUX
"I love Web services. I'm just not a fan of always having to use a browser as the interface for said services. Google's services have crept into my daily routine to the point that I'm using Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs all the time." THE INTERNATIONAL FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE LAW REVIEW - CALL FOR PAPERS
"There is now a legal publication with the goal of explaining FOSS issues to lawyers. It's the first peer-reviewed law review entirely devoted just to the legal issues of FOSS." FEDORA 14 SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: KEEPING SECURE WITH OPENSCAP
"Back by popular demand, we?ll again be posting a series of blogs leading up to the Fedora 14 ?Laughlin? release, which highlight some of the cool new features planned in the latest Fedora distribution. Up first is a feature that boosts security in Fedora 14: OpenSCAP." TOP 10 WORST CAPTCHAS
"Don?t you just love Captchas? CAPTCHA is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.? I just call them PITA" 7 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX SYNTHESIZERS
"Linux has a good range of open source software to be a serious contender in music production without having to venture into the commercial software world. Some of the software featured in this article provide operation similar to analog synths from the 1970s, such as the Moog Minimoog and Roland Juno-60." DEFENDING OPEN STANDARDS: FSFE REFUTES BSA'S FALSE CLAIMS TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION
"The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is pressuring the European Commission to remove the last vestiges of support for Open Standards from the latest version of the EU's interoperability recommendations, the European Interoperability Framework." USE MOZILLA PRISM TO ADD WEB APPS TO YOUR DESKTOP
"Mozilla Prism lets you run web apps in their own desktop window allowing a certain degree of freedom compared to running the app in a web browser, while restricting crashes to the app?s window. Follow Sukrit?s step-by-step guide to find out just how easy it is..." THE KDE NETBOOK DESKTOP - CONTINUED
"I wrote a few days ago about Kubuntu on Netbooks. After a few days of experimentation and discovery, I'm going to continue and expand that topic to the KDE Netbook Desktop in general." ORACLE ASKS FOUNDERS OF THE DOCUMENTS FOUNDATION TO LEAVE
"However, Oracle is not taking their move well. They want the founders of The Documents Foundation to leave the OpenOffice.org council. According to Oracle, their works with The Documents Foundation and LibreOffice will conflict with that of OpenOffice.org." STATE OF FIREFOX 4.0 ON GNU+LINUX
"So we've probably all seen the mock-ups for Firefox 4.0 by now, but has any of it been implemented? In the Windows version, yes. On the GNU+Linux version, partially. And it looks like it's going to stay that way. I'm going to show you what's different in the current development version (nightly 4.0b8pre) from 3.6." PCLINUXOS MAGAZINE: COMMAND LINE INTERFACE INTRO SPECIAL EDITION
The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the Command Line Interface Intro Special Edition of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. ARCH LINUX REVIEW
"Computers are mostly used to perform certain task, and to do that task well, the user should not have to spend much time configuring the computer, or tweaking it to make it work, Arch Linux aims to keep computer working as simple as possible." CHANGE YOUR GRUB AND GRUB2 SPLASH SCREEN IN UBUNTU
"Your first question might be ?Why bother changing your grub splash screen?? The answer? Why not! Well, actually there are plenty of reasons you might want to change your Grub splash screen." OFFICIAL MICROSOFT VIDEO PROVES THAT MICROSOFT OFFICE IS LIKE COCAINE
"It says "we already fell addicted to this specific drug, it feels good and we see no way out. So you should take it too"." CANONICAL, LTD. FINALLY ON RECORD: SEEKING OPEN CORE
"I've written before about my deep skepticism regarding the true motives of Canonical, Ltd.'s advocacy and demand of for-profit corporate copyright assignment without promises to adhere to copyleft." DOES EVERY DEVELOPER DESERVE A MENTAL HEALTH DAY?
""I'm taking a much deserved mental health day tomorrow.? This matter-of-fact announcement came from Joni, one of my slightly buzzed developer teammates, as we enjoyed a Thursday happy hour around a crowded table" QUALITY PRINTING WITH GIMP
"There are still a few things the average user can do to enhance the quality of prints from graphics applications like GIMP." DESKTOP LINUX: THE DREAM IS DEAD
"It kills me to say this: The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead." ROCK-A-DROID
"Your editor's iRiver H340 music player attracts stares in the crowded confines of the economy class cabin; it is rather larger than many newer, more capable devices, contains a rotating disk drive, and looks like it should have a smokestack as well" FIRST LOOK AT KUBUNTU 10.10
"Lot of people were looking forward to October 10, 2010 for quite some time. Many since April! This date, of course, was the release of the Ubuntu 10.10 family of Linux operating systems." 6 OPEN SOURCE SOCIAL NETWORKING PROJECTS
"The big social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all use open source software to power their services. Eric Geier rounds up a batch of open source social networking projects that you can deploy in your own organization." LINUX COMMUNITY STRIKES BACK AGAINST THUGGERY
"We gave a disadvantaged family an extremely nice computer through The HeliOS Project and in less than two weeks, their apartment was broken into and everything of value was stolen." 55 OPEN SOURCE REPLACEMENTS FOR POPULAR NETWORKING TOOLS
"Setting up and maintaining networks used to be something that only "super-geeks" did. Network engineers and administrators at large enterprises usually have a lot of in-depth technical knowledge about how systems work and how they communicate with each other." | 
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