| Linux Today News EASY LINUX FILE-SHARING WITH WEBDAV
"You don't need some big fancy expensive groupware suite for simple file sharing; just set up a good stout Linux server with WebDav and be done with it. No muss, no fuss." HENRY'S TECHNO-MUSINGS: "THE WIT AND WISDOM OF CHAIRMAN JOHN"
"They agree that whenever there's a meeting with Chairman John, a fog of stupidity envelopes the room, reducing all participants to the IQ of cattle." KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.38 (PART 5) - ARCHITECTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE AN
"In certain situations, a small patch for 2.6.38 perceivably improves the response time of desktop environments. Transparent Huge Pages, on the other hand, simplify memory management, which is particularly relevant in terms of virtualisation and server software." THE EFF LETTER: SONY'S SUBPOENAS "IMPACT THE FREE SPEECH INTERESTS OF MYRIAD THIRD PARTIES"
"Why he'd agree to such a broad reach is disturbing. EFF noticed, telling the judge that the subpoenas implicate free speech interests of third parties not involved in the litigation, but nobody else seems to care." WHY PWN2OWN DOESN'T TARGET LINUX
"The annual Pwn2Own hacking challenge kicks off today, pitting security researchers against web browsers and mobile platforms. The HP TippingPoint sponsored event grows every year to include more platforms, though Linux isn't among them." LINUX LEADERS, PART II: FEDORA AND RED HAT DERIVATIVE DISTROS
"Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are the most influential distributions that use the Red Hat Package Manager. Although their influence lags behind that of Debian and Ubuntu, it is still strong enough that Fedora remains consistently in the top three..." GOOGLE EXTENDS HONEYCOMB API TO COMBAT ANDROID FRAGMENTATION
"Third-party Android application developers can now use Google's Fragments API, part of Honeycomb or Android 3.0, without sacrificing backwards compatibility with existing Android smartphones." THE FREEDOM BOX GETS OFF THE GROUND
"The Freedom Box is starting to roll, with a fundraising drive that met its goals in a few short days, along with a newly formed foundation to oversee its development. What started as an idea in a talk given by Eben Moglen just over a year ago has more recently gained a lot of momentum." REVIEW: AUSTRUMI 2.2.9
"Unless you're from Latvia, there's a good chance that this is the first time you are seeing either the name AUSTRUMI or a review of it. So what is it?" TRACING ON LINUX
"The Linux tracing APIs are a relatively new addition to the kernel and one of the most powerful new features its gained in a long time. Unfortunately the plethora of terms and names for the system can be confusing, so in this follow-up to my previous post on the proc connector and socket filter, I?ll take a look at achieving the same result using tracing and hopefully unravel a little of the mystery along the way." OF THE COMMUNITY, NOT ABOVE THE COMMUNITY
"Since I've recently been on one of my Tom Sawyer rants again about the lack of humility I see in many community efforts, I thought I'd share a story that might help you visualize the role your organization could play in the communities it belongs to." START TAMING YOUR MUTT
"Mutts can be lovable companions, but they still must be trained. The same is true of the Mutt mail client. Out of the proverbial box it's a powerful mail client, but that's nothing compared to what you can do with a well-trained Mutt." RECOVERING FROM MOTHERBOARD FAILURES, AND CLEAN COMPUTING
"When last we left the scene, one server was dead, the desktop dieing. However, ordering two new motherboards was successful. They arrived from Magic Micro quickly and in good order, and it was time to clean things up and make two working machines." WEB DEVELOPER SCHOOL: WORKING WITH CSS IN JOOMLA!
"Working with CSS in Joomla! can be a bit daunting at first. But like anything new, after you study and learn the different aspects of it, you?ll be updating your CSS files with ease." ARE MOBILE APPS VIOLATING OPEN SOURCE LICENSES?
"There are a lot of mobile apps that use open source software, but how many of them are in compliance with open source licensing rules? As it turns out, not very many." RED HAT SHOULD HAVE INVESTED IN A BSD
"Well it looks like Red Hat is no longer playing nice. This little tidbit in the RHEL service license was pointed out at LWN:" GAMEDUINO IS A DIY, OPEN SOURCE GAME PLATFORM BUILT ON ARDUINO THAT'S RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME
"Gameduino is a DIY game platform built on a shield for the Arduino. It?s open source hardware (BSD and, for the code, GPL). Okay, that?s fairly cool. But what makes this project special is that this inexpensive board (a $50 donation buys you one) has hardware that?s capable enough to be interesting, as seen in the video." FEDORA 15 LINUX HITS FIRST ALPHA, DEBUTS BOXGRINDER FOR CLOUD
"Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' now has its first alpha milestone available. This is a BIG release for Fedora in that it's the first Fedora of the post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 era, and oh yeah first with GNOME 3, SystemD and BoxGrinder." EXERCISE #7: MULTIPLE FIELD SEPARATORS
"Once you start creating awk scripts you will probably want to use them on multiple files and as a result you will require multiple field separators. Field separators are how awk determines where the fields are." PACKT PUBLISHING BELIEVES IN OPEN SOURCE, DONATES OVER $300K TO PROJECTS
"Packt today announced that its donations to open source projects have surpassed the $300,000 mark. Following its first donation to the phpMyAdmin project in April 2004, the company has gone on to provide sustained support for over 70 different open source projects." SAAB IQON AND LINUX: WHEN OPEN SOURCE ISN?T OPEN, AND YOUR CAR ISN?T REALLY YOURS
"Car maker Saab recently announced that it will use Android, a version for mobile devices of the ?Free as in Freedom? Linux operating system, for its in-car entertainment and information system, the IQon. " LINUX AUSTRALIA NEEDS TO LIFT ITS PUBLIC PROFILE
"A survey conducted by Linux Australia has thrown up one standout conclusion - the organisation is still very low-profile and needs to do some serious self-promotion so that the general public can become aware of its existence." UBUNTU 10.10 SAMBA STANDALONE SERVER WITH TDBSAM BACKEND
"This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 10.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users." WESTERN DIGITAL-HITACHI: CONSOLIDATING HARD DISK INDUSTRY
"Western Digital, which makes hard drives for computers, announced this morning it will buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for about $4.3 billion in cash and stock." HOW TO EXCLUDE A SET OF FILES FROM DISK SPACE USAGE CALCULATION USING DU
"We have already discussed the most common options used with du - a tool to check/calculate file space usage. In its most basic form, du tells you the size of all the files in a given directory." EASY, POWERFUL, STABLE: PICK TWO WITH OPENSHOT 1.3
"OpenShot is a video editor for Linux that aspires to be simple, powerful, and "the very best open source video editor." OpenShot 1.3, which was released on February 13, brings it a little closer to that goal." TCL/TK: HANDLING STRING EXPRESSIONS
"Tcl has grown far beyond its original design with numerous expansions and additions (such as the graphical Took Kit or Tk) to become a full-featured scripted programming language capable of creating elegant, cross-platform solutions." INTERVIEW WITH RYAN C. GORDON
"Ryan C. Gordon is one of the most significat Linux developers, at least as far as porting goes. He has worked on a host of game ports including Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004, Postal 2, Braid, or Serious Sam, but has also brought Google Earth to Linux, and works on the SDL or PhysicsFS libraries." ANDROID VS. IOS: A DEVELOPER'S PERSPECTIVE
"The Android platform, unlike iOS, is an open source platform and this fact has made developers take a liking to the Android platform, as compared to the iOS platform." CAN YOU RE-COPYRIGHT WORKS THAT FALL INTO PUBLIC DOMAIN? HIGH COURT TO RULE
"Once a work does fall into the public domain, can it be copyrighted again? In 1994, Congress effectively said ?yes?" SENATE PASSES LANDMARK PATENT REFORM BILL
"The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved landmark legislation to overhaul the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a reform effort more than half a decade in the making that aims to improve the quality of patents and curb frivolous litigation." HAS GNOME REJECTED CANONICAL HELP?
"Through the fall-out from the Unity decision, and now the fall-out from the packaging of Banshee on Natty, I have repeatedly read Canonical & Ubuntu people say ?We offered our help to GNOME, and they didn?t want it?." COLLABORATION'S DEMISE
"Dave Neary published a blog post about some of the challenges experienced with GNOME and Canonical working together. I'm not going to put myself in the middle of that particular tempest-in-a-teapot, but..." POCKET WARS AND CORES
"There is a monumental change occurring in the IT market. It is perhaps the biggest change since IBM unintentionally invited Intel and Microsoft to become two of the biggest technology gatekeepers of our time" UBUNTU NETBOOK EDITION FOLDED INTO UBUNTU FOR NEXT RELEASE
"One of the benefits of the direction that?s been taken with the next release of Ubuntu is that there is no longer a need for a separate netbook edition." HTML5 IN THE WEB BROWSER: HTML5 FORMS
"The newest specs for HTML forms give programmers more control over data input and validation, while offloading much of the work to the browsers" ONIONS AGAINST DICTATORS
"Uncensored access to the Internet can overthrow dictators and aid the creation of free societies. This has been shown by recent events in North Africa and the Middle East. Whether in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya" DASSAULT SYSTEMES RELEASES FREE DRAFTSIGHT FOR LINUX
"Today Dassault Systemes released their third installment of DraftSight running on Linux, the free AutoCAD clone based on the ARES platform from Graebert." OPENLOGIC RESEARCH FINDS MOBILE APPS FAIL TO COMPLY WITH OSS LICENSES
"The OpenLogic research into new mobile applications found that many iPhone and Android apps containing open source fail to comply with OSS licenses." HP: THE LINUX DESKTOP COMPANY
"I knew HP was serious about webOS, its Linux-based tablet/smartphone operating system. I didn?t know that HP was this serious." | 
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