| Linux Today News 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." NVIDIA TO PUSH INTO SUPERCOMPUTING
"NVIDIA outlined a plan to become "the computing company," moving well beyond its traditional focus on graphics and into high-profile areas such as supercomputing." GOOGLE EXPANDS SECURITY IN CHROME 10
"That was fast. Google is out with its second major browser release of 2011. The Chrome 10 stable release follows the Chrome 9 release by a little over a month." RACKSPACE, DELL PUSH OPENSTACK CLOUD OS
"Dell to contribute its first OpenStack open source code to automate server configuration." FEDORA 15 ALPHA AVAILABLE FEATURES GNOME 3 DESKTOP
"Fedora announces the availability of Fedora 15 Alpha which includes the GNOME 3 desktop, LibreOffice and the 2.6.38 kernel. " BROKEN WINDOWS
"In the VB6/.net etc etc world sometime Client/Server can mean ?lets map the executable to the server, run it over the network and tell the customer to get a faster network/computer/switch" FORTHCOMING AMD PROCESSORS REVEALED
"AMD plans to add two chips and "Turbo Core" acceleration technology to its successful line of E-Series APUs (accelerated processing units) in the third quarter, says the Xbitlabs website." UBUNTU LINUX 11.04: A WHALE OF CHANGES FOR CANONICAL'S USER BASE
"Canonical?s Ubuntu 11.04 ?Natty Narwhal? is a significant departure in terms of User Interface from previous versions. But will end-users accept the changes?" 6 MORE OF THE BEST FREE LINUX BLOG SOFTWARE
"To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 6 more of the best blog software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wants to share their thoughts with others. We give our highest recommendation to Blogilo." MCG, THE EMAIL CONFIGURATION GENERATOR FOR PROCMAIL AND MUTT
"Many U*nix users with advanced email needs, a high load of email, and possibly a lot of addresses to keep separated, invariably come to procmail and to Mutt" HOW TO INSTALL AND CONFIGURE DBI-LINK TO JOIN ORACLE TABLES FROM POSTGRESQL ON D
"If you want to join Oracle tables from PostgreSQL on Debian GNU/Linux, you can use DBI-Link." COLLECTD, SYSTEM PERFORMANCE STATISTICS ON LINUX
"In these days I have seen in a somewhat more detailed way collectd, an excellent tool for collecting statistics on various aspects of our Linux servers." SABAYON 5.5 REVIEW
"Sabayon Linux 5.5 is the latest release of the Gentoo-based Linux distribution. It is also the first Sabayon release this year and judging from this distribution?s release history, we should expect to see at least three more releases before the end of the year." THAT?S IT, WE?RE QUITTING
"The ?Quit? command in applications today is a relic from the days when the original Macintosh had no hard disk and couldn?t multitask. Modern applications have made this command increasingly annoying" HOW-TO: JOHN THE RIPPER ON A UBUNTU 10.04 MPI CLUSTER
"In this post I show step-by-step how you can setup your own ?Super computer cluster? using Ubuntu MPI Cluster from multiple machines with the goal of bruteforcing strong encrypted passwords with John the Ripper for academic purposes." UBUNTU: REALLY A CLOUD OPERATING SYSTEM?
"We knew Ubuntu was ?Linux for human beings.? Aiming to catch the current cloud computing wave, Canonical has now also officially deemed Ubuntu as ?the cloud OS.?" TINY CORE 3.5 REVIEW ? A BLEND OF THE BRILLIANT AND THE INFURIATING
"Tiny Core is a light and modular Linux distribution. Its main purpose is to allow the easy construction of simple but powerful appliance-like desktops. Michael Reed tests the latest release" CHROME 10: CLOSE TO A PERFECT WEB BROWSER 10
"I?ve liked the Google Chrome Web browser since it first showed up in 2008. Today, with the slipstream release of Chrome 10, I may finally be ready to retire all my other Web browsers." INSTALL THE LATEST BETA OF DIGIKAM ON UBUNTU�10.10
"If you are running Ubuntu 10.10 or its derivatives and you are itching to try the latest version of digiKam, you don?t have to go through the rigmarole of compiling the application yourself." WHAT DOES IT TAKES TO BE A GOOD OPEN SOURCE CITIZEN?
"In the wake of the Banshee/Canonical kerfuffle, many community members and watchers have been quick to point the finger of blame at Canonical for being too quick to grab the revenue believed to belong to Banshee or its upstream developers, GNOME." HP TO SHIP ALL PCS WITH WEBOS OPTION
"But computer giant HP, a leading provider of PCs and notebooks, plans to set its models apart next year by adding webOS, the operating system software the company now owns thanks to its blockbuster $1.2 billion purchase of Palm last year" NEW NET RULES SET TO MAKE COOKIES CRUMBLE
"From 25 May, European laws dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies"." ARE GOOGLE AND APPLE THE NEW BAD GUYS?
"It absolves Google and Apple -- and anyone else who might be named in the same breath -- of any real responsibility for what they do." HAS GNOME REJECTED CANONICAL HELP? SHUTTLEWORTH RESPONDS
"Ubuntu Founder and former CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth responds to Dave Neary's post entitled "Has GNOME rejected Canonical help?"" FIREFOX 4.0 APPROACHES: WHAT'S IN STORE FOR LINUX USERS?
"After being in development far longer than planned, Mozilla is on the brink of releasing Firefox 4.0. The wait has been worth it, though." NEWEST OPENSUSE LINUX OFFERS ROLLING RELEASES
"The newest release of Novell's openSUSE Linux debuts with LibreOffice, KDE 4.6, a zippy package management system and a new rolling release system that could eliminate the need for future big releases." LEGISLATORS IN KERALA, INDIA WORK BETTER WITH UBUNTU LAPTOPS
"By choosing to deploy free and opensource Software (FOSS) over proprietary systems, the Government of Kerala has saved tens of thousands of dollars in licensing fees. End users are delighted with their new Ubuntu laptops" DRUPAL 8 CMS STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE
"After three years of development, the open source Drupal 7 content management system debuted earlier this year. Drupal developers aren't resting on their laurels and are now beginning to plan for Drupal 8." CHROME 10 VS. INTERNET EXPLORER 9 RECONSIDERED
"When I recently took a look at the brand new Chrome 10 Web browser, the results for the latest release candidate of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 puzzled me because they were so bad." GENTOO LINUX - LIVEDVD 11.0
"Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the availability of a new LiveDVD to celebrate the continued collaboration between Gentoo users and developers. The LiveDVD features a superb list of packages, some of which are listed below." | 
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