| Linux Today News 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." CRON JOB TUTORIAL: CRONTAB SCHEDULING SYNTAX AND SCRIPT EXAMPLE
"Summary: This is a beginner tutorial on using crontabs or cron jobs in your LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL and PHP) web hosting account. Crontabs can be used to automatically execute server side commands, such as a PHP script, at periodic intervals" HOW TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS ON LINUX WITH STYLE
"For my articles or the work I do every day I often have to make some screenshots to be included in the documentation, but until now had not found a program that fully satisfied ... until today." TOP 3 APPLICATION MENU ALTERNATIVES FOR UBUNTU
"I didn't had any problem with the default menu application I have in my Ubuntu. That was until I tried other application menus available out there. Here is a collection of 3 simple application menu alternatives you should give a try in your Ubuntu." FSFLA'S PETITION FOR CANAIMA GNU/LINUX TO BE FREE
"The Venezuelan Presidential Decree 3390, specifically in articles 2 and 7, explains and backs up the reasons why the Venezuelan state should develop a Free Software distribution. Canaima GNU/Linux is this distribution, so it ought to be a Free distribution, without parts that threaten its users' freedoms." WINE 1.2.2 RELEASED
"The Wine maintenance release 1.2.2 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations." MCNEALY TO ELLISON: HOW TO DUCK DEATH BY OPEN SOURCE
"Let's forget the last few years ever happened -- the last five, at least. Possibly 10. In the 1980s Sun Microsystems was on fire." LEARN LINUX, 101: MANAGE DISK QUOTAS
"Learn to set and check disk quotas on your Linux® filesystems to prevent individual users from using more space than allowed and to prevent whole filesystems from filling up unexpectedly. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn about quotas." 7 PRACTICAL USES OF OPENSSL
"In a previous article we saw the basics of encryption and asymmetric key used in the e-mail. On Linux the most used and popular programthat deals with security and encryption is OpenSSL ." HOW TO FIND WHICH PROCESS IS EATING RAM MEMORY IN LINUX
"If you are running out of RAM on your Linux system, you will want to find the culprit in order to solve the problem, either by reconfiguring the RAM-hungry application or by stopping it." DISHARMONY OVER HARMONY IN THE JAVA COMMUNITY
"The Register is reporting today that the Apache Software Foundation seems to have lost its bid to have the Java Community Process (JCP) vote down the roadmaps for Java 7 and 8" Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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WEDDING PHOTO ENHANCEMENT USING THE GIMP
"I have been giving a lot of love to Inkscape lately, so I thought I would do a Gimp tutorial today. I recently did a photo shoot for a wedding. I will show you how to do some enhancements to the photos using the GIMP." LINUX FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES CERTIFICATIONS TO LINUX STANDARD BASE 4.0 AND PUBLIC BETA 4.1
"The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that all the leading commercial Linux companies are certified to Linux Standard Base 4.0 (LSB 4.0), including Canonical, Kylin, Linpus, Mandriva, Neoshine, Novell, Oracle, Red Flag and Red Hat." GOOGLE'S CHROME OS IS HERE... SORT OF, KIND OF
"Ready to get a copy of Google Chrome OS and test the heck out of it? I was. But, neither of us is going to be able to do it anytime soon. Feh!" CLOUD IN CLOUD? JOLICLOUD MAKES IT TO THE CHROME WEBSTORE
"The Google Chrome Webstore was announced yesterday and new applications are being added as you read this. However one very interesting app in the webstore is Jolicloud." REVIEW OF THE NEW KOMODO IDE 6: GREAT NEW FEATURES, ONE GRIPE
"For those in the market for a quality developer's IDE (Integrated Development Environment), the recently released Komodo IDE 6 is definitely worth looking at. I've been using Komodo since its first version and it steadily keeps getting better." BACKTESTGROUND
"Backtestground is a project collecting a few tools to aid in designing wallpapers." IT JOBS: WHAT WAS HOT IN ONLINE HIRING IN 2010 AND WHAT'S AHEAD?
"What were the hot IT skills employers were looking for in 2010? Elance, the online jobs platform, issued its annual review of the hot jobs for the year and some predictions for the year ahead." XFCE 4.8.0 ON TRACK FOR JANUARY RELEASE
"Xfce, the little desktop that could, is steadily progressing toward its January release with several developmental builds." ADVANCED LINUX SERVER TROUBLESHOOTING (PART 2)
"You know the basics of how to find out what an errant process is doing. But what do you do when the basics aren't enough?" ANIMATING GRAPHIC OBJECTS USING PYTHON
"The previous article, Python Graphics: Animation Principles, starts with examples of simple sequences of a circle in different positions and systematically progresses to smoothly-moving animations of elastic balls bouncing inside a gravity field." APTONCD
"APTonCD is a GUI tool that can extract the .deb packages that you have manually installed on your machine and selectively copy them to an ISO image that can be burned to a CD or DVD." 13 BREATHTAKING CONKY CONFIGURATIONS YOU SHOULD SEE!
"So as to settle the Conky drought once and for all, here we feature one of the best collection of Conky configurations available." A FUNNY UBUNTU VS WINDOWS SLIDESHOW
A slide show comparing the two, just for fun. INAPPROPRIATE USE OF THE DEBIAN LOGO?
"The debian-legal is a great source of knowledge about legal issues related to FLOSS. A couple of days ago one of the contributors sent a mail informing that a computer shop has taken the Debian logo and used it for his business." 7 WAYS TO BEAUTIFY YOUR KDE 4 DESKTOP
"But like any good desktop environment, you are by no means stuck with the default look. In fact, KDE offers more easily customizable features than any other. What follows are 7 ways to get the desktop look you dreamed about when you were a child." LINUX WITHOUT A COMMAND LINE. IS IT POSSIBLE?
"I have to admit. I do like the command line and one of my favourite programs is Tilda. A drop down shell which allows me to run commands quicker than any mouse happy click lover." HOWTO INSTALL LTSP IN UBUNTU 10.10 (MAVERICK) - REUSE YOUR OLD COMPUTERS WITH OU
"If you Like to use Linux in your Internet Cafe, LTSP is the best solution, You can also reuse your old computers even with out harddisk and also use low cost thin clients." INTRODUCING OXIDIZED TRINITY 6 "SQUEEZE"
"This time I did things a little differently. Yes, I did this in VirtualBox with 1024 MB of RAM, but instead of downloading a Debian Live image, I downloaded a netinstall ISO image and proceeded straight into the installation" | 
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