| Linux Today News USING TASKSET FOR PRIORITY TASKS
"Unless you're using a really old machine or cheap netbook, almost any system you touch with Linux these days is going to be a multiprocessor system." WANNA SAVE TREES? DON'T SAVE AS WWF. THIS IS THE REALLY GREEN FORMAT!
"The World Widlife Fund recently launched a "new file format" called .WWF, which is green because it cannot be printed, so it saves trees by stimulating people to reduce their consumption of paper." IS THE END OF KOFFICE THE END OF KDE?
"Here's some interesting news: KOffice, as a brand name, no longer exists. And with that change, I can't help but wonder if we are soon going to be looking at the end of the KDE name, as well." APACHE LOSES JAVA SHOWDOWN VOTE TO ORACLE
"The Apache Software Foundation - one of tech's most influential open-source groups - is closer to quitting Java's governing body after losing a stand-off vote against Oracle on Java." LINUX MINT 10 REVIEW - THE ULTIMATE HOME DESKTOP?
"Hot on the heels of Ubuntu 10.10, the Linux Mint project announced the release of Mint 10 code-named Julia. Dmitri Popov takes a look at what the new version of this polished and user friendly Linux distro has to offer" USING HTML5 TO ADD REAL-TIME VIDEO EFFECTS TO TRON
"The buzz around the potential of HTML5 and the canvas tag to change video playback, interaction, and games on the web continues. This latest demo put together by Franz Enzenhofer, demonstrates some real-time video effects being applied to the modern version of the original Tron movie trailer." THE MOVE TO LINUX - ENCRYPTED DISK ISSUES
"One of the standards that has become normal in the US federal sector is the requirement that all mobile devices, such as laptops, have encrypted drives." OSSEC: THE OPEN SOURCE HOST INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM
"With over seven years of active development, and more than 20000 downloads a month, OSSEC has become the de-facto standard for open source Host-based Intrusion Detection." LEVERAGING LINUX FOR SUPERCOMPUTING
"High-performance computing (HPC) applications such as numerical simulation -- whether for forecasting, mechanical and structure simulation, or computational chemistry -- require a large number of CPUs for processing." UBUNTU ONE MUSIC SUPPORTS AIRPLAY ON IPHONE
"Ubuntu One Music has now support for iPhone's new AirPlay technology, which allows users to stream audio, video and image files stored in your Ubuntu One account directly to your Applet TV, stereo device, or any other AirPlay-compatible hardware." SMART 3G ROUTER RUNS LINUX
"Opengear has begun shipping a line of "smart" Linux-based cellular routers. The ACM5004-G routers support remote management via 3G, offering console server functionality and control of devices with serial, USB, Ethernet and digital I/O interfaces." UBUNTU 10.10 VS. MAC OS X 10.6.5: A COMPETITIVE RACE
"Back in May, we published benchmarks of Mac OS X 10.6.3 vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04, along with other times, looking at the performance of Apple's Mac OS X operating system relative to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions." THE FIRST X.ORG SERVER 1.10 SNAPSHOT BRINGS SOME FUN
"Following the hiatus last week with the X.Org Server 1.10 merge window being kept open to allow time for finishing up RandR 1.4 with per-CRTC pixmaps and then NVIDIA pushing for fence sync support in this release, the work has now settled and the merge window has closed." LIBREOFFICE RC1 ARRIVES
"The Document Foundation has announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC1) for version 3.3 of LibreOffice, the free open source office suite." GOOGLE TARGETS IPAD WITH ANDROID 3 HONEYCOMB TABLET YUMMINESS
"Google's Andy Rubin has been showing off Honeycomb, the next version of Android and one with proper tablet support, explaining how Android applications will work across form factors." AND THEN THERE WAS ONE: RED HAT
"...this year is one that anyone interested in open source should remember for a long time, because it was the year that every single U.S. public company focused on open source lost its independence, except one: Red Hat." JAVA 7 AND 8 GET THE GREEN LIGHT OVER APACHE OPPOSITION
"The technical specifications for both Java 7 and Java 8 have been passed by the Java Community Process (JCP) in an executive committee vote. The vote for both JSR-336 on Java 7 and JSR-337 on Java 8 was 12 in favor and three opposed." RUBIN DEMOS HONEYCOMB TABLET, NFC ON NEXUS S WITH GINGERBREAD
"Google's Android czar Andy Rubin during a presentation yesterday showed off a prototype of a Motorola Android tablet running Honeycomb, the next version of the Linux mobile OS that's optimized for slate PCs and due out early next year." RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6 DESKTOP EDITION
"Red Hat may be one of the few companies in the world that really get open source. Red Hat builds its products on open source, is very liberal with its source code and actively supports important projects with developer hours." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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21 MORE NOTABLE FREE LINUX GAMES (PART 1 OF 3)
"Now, let's scrutinize the 7 games at hand. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, providing screenshots of the game in action, a full description of the game, with an in-depth analysis of the features of the game, together with links to relevant resources and reviews." TURNKEY LINUX--HIGH ON STEROIDS
"What happens when your online team asks for a Drupal or Wordpress server, or you require a file server for your branch office really quickly?" THREE MIDDLEWEIGHTS
"It's time for the bait-and-switch again. For anyone who came here today hoping to see a mysterious and esoteric console program, or a distro sculpted to fit on the head of a pin, I will disappoint thee." TEXT FRAMES IN SCRIBUS
"As a layout program, Scribus puts objects in frames so that they can be manipulated more easily. Images, drawing primitives, tables -- if it is content, Scribus puts it in a color-coded frame, with eight handles so that you can position it by dragging it around." LINUX VENDORS STANDARDIZE ON LSB 4.0 AS 4.1 ENTERS BETA
"In July of 2008, the Linux Foundation started the process for standardizing Linux with the Linux Standards Base 4.0 spec." LINUX KERNEL: 13 MILLION LINES 5 PATCHES PER HOUR, SUPER LINUX, END OF THE WORLD
"Plenty of people have speculated when the world was going to end. The following list explores possible means of the destruction of the Earth's and/or the human race." GETTING THINGS GNOME - USEFUL TOOL TO GET THINGS DONE!
"Getting Things Gnome(GTG) is a nice and simple tool to organize and manage your tasks and time efficiently. GTG uses a very handy text edition system for task creation and edition." LABEL & CARD PRINTING RESOURCES WITH TEX AND LATEX
"for a lot of old-school typesetters and writers, nothing in the WYSIWYG realm can hold a candle to the performance and flexibility of TeX, and its popular LaTeX and BibTeX derivatives." KEEPING YOUR COMPUTERS IN SYNC
"If you are like me, you have several computers or devices that you use to access your data at different times during the day." ABOUT THOSE 882 NOVELL PATENTS: THIS IS WHERE OIN COMES IN
"I have some important news for you. It's about those 882 Novell patents that are being sold to a Microsoft-organized consortium in connection with the sale of Novell to Attachmate. I've been worrying about those patents, and I was wondering what happens to Novell's license to the Open Invention Network after the sale." WELL-KNOWN, OPEN-SOURCE ADVOCATE MATT ASAY LEAVES CANONICAL/UBUNTU
"In an unexpected move, Matt Asay, Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, will be leaving Ubuntu." KDE 4.6 BETA: FINDING NEW DIRECTIONS
"KDE 4.6 will be slightly more ambitious than the last couple of releases...it will also include some concrete improvements to the desktop, especially with the changes to the Dolphin file manager and the so-called re-introduction of Activities." CREATE A PHP-BASED TWITTER CLIENT WITH THE PEAR SERVICES_TWITTER
"Like many developers, I tend to be pretty exacting when it comes to my programming environment. My disdain for any application that doesn't work exactly as I expect it to extends well beyond development-specific tools, which was the primary motivation behind migrating my laptops to Ubuntu a year or so ago." GOOGLE SHOWS OFF SWEET TABLET PROTOTYPE
"When asked about pricing, Google engineer Andy Rubin quipped that the actual cost of the Motorola prototype tablet he demoed at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference was around $10,000." CANONICAL DONATES SERVER TO KDE
"KDE is a growing community with growing needs. The KDE Sysadmin team works hard to keep up, but lately the servers have been coming under some strain." 5 NETBOOK-OPTIMIZED DESKTOP INTERFACES FOR LINUX AND BSD DISTRIBUTIONS
"his article provides some information on five netbook-optimized desktop interfaces available for Linux and BSD desktop distributions. They are presented here in alphabetical order." NVIDIA COMMENTS ON ITS LINUX DRIVER ARCHITECTUE
"Andy Ritger who heads the NVIDIA Unix Graphics Driver team, has provided us some brief comments with regards to their ongoing architectural work." INTERESTING KERNEL EXPLOIT POSTED
"I've included here a proof-of-concept local privilege escalation exploit for Linux. Please read the header for an explanation of what's going on. Without further ado, I present full-nelson.c:" SALESFORCE ACQUIRES RUBY CLOUD VENDOR HEROKU FOR $212 MILLION
"The open source Ruby language is getting a big enterprise boost today with the proposed acquisition of Ruby cloud vendor Heroku by Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) for $212 million in cash." CORPORATE CHANGE: CONTRIBUTING TO OPEN SOURCE
"Armed with a healthy dose of idealism, I went to executive management and proposed we open source the tool. I was hoping for a no-brainer and a quick decision at the division level. To my surprise, it took two years" LINUX VENDORS STANDARDIZE ON LSB 4.0 AS 4.1 ENTERS BETA
"In July of 2008, the Linux Foundation started the process for standardizing Linux with the Linux Standards Base 4.0 spec." | 
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