YOUR LINUX TODAY NEWSLETTER FOR March 28, 2011

Monday March 28, 2011

Linux Today News MAKE BROWSERS CACHE STATIC FILES WITH MOD_EXPIRE ON LIGHTTPD (DEBIAN SQUEEZE) "This saves bandwidth and makes your web site appear faster (if a user visits your site for a second time, static files will be fetched from the browser cache). This tutorial was written for Debian Squeeze." 30 GREAT TUTORIALS FOR GIMP "It is certainly inspiring that a free piece of software gives you so diverse possibilities, comparable to any paid gimp-logosoftware you can get in the market. In this post I have attempted to collect the best tutorials of GIMP, in my view, around the web." GNOME SHELL 3.0 NEARS RELEASE "A couple of days ago GNOME Shell 2.91.92 (release candidate) was released for some last bit of bug hunting before the big day. The announcement stated that the code is frozen, but important bugs could still be fixed." UBUNTU BOARD REJECTS SLIPPERY FLASH INSTALLS "The Linux distro's technical board has unanimously ruled against a change that could have allowed third party software to install by default if users weren't paying attention and that seemed aimed at greasing the skids to putting Adobe Software's Flash on more Ubuntu PCs." FLARE, NEW OPEN SOURCE LINUX GAME DEVELOPED USING OPEN GAME ART "FLARE which stands for Free/Libre Action Role Playing Engine is a new game/engine heavily in development. With isometric views and graphics and an action oriented hack 'n' slash gameplay, FLARE very much feels like Diablo series games." OPEN SOURCERS URGED TO ADOPT DANCING POULTRY LICENSE "For every thousand (1,000) units distributed, at least half of the employees or persons affiliated with the product must listen to the 'Der Ententanz' (AKA 'The Chicken Dance') as composed by Werner Thomas for no less than two (2) minutes." GNOME 3 - THIS IS THE END, IT SEEMS "I will try to give you two perspectives - that of a casual user and that of a veteran productivity user. After that, we will discuss Gnome 3 in general; what it is, what it isn't, how it should be treated and used." OPEN GOLDBERG VARIATIONS RAISES $16,000 IN 20 DAYS FOR 'OPEN SOURCE BACH' "The project's aim is to create a new score and studio recording of J.S. Bach's masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations, and donate them to the public domain." DOCUMENTATION AND FREE SOFTWARE "I was just wrapping up the final touches, indulging in the obligatory musings about how, these days, I hardly had to worry about GNU/Linux hardware compatibility -- when, suddenly, I found myself in undocumented territory." HOW OPEN SOURCE REALLY IS CHANGING THE WORLD "What my generation tried to do with things like 'Radio Free Europe' and 'Radio Marti', is being accomplished almost effortlessly with Facebook, Twitter and the like. The great thing is that it looks like once these technologies are set loose, the Genie is out of the bottle and can't be put back." LINUX: BACULA IS FOR EVERYONE* (BACKUP SOFTWARE) "I must admit, I have been a tar + cron Unix guy for over 20 years and never really considered anything else necessary for backups on Unix, until now." SPEED UP YOUR INTERNET BROWSING ON LINUX WITH A DNS CACHE SERVER "Most Linux distributions, unlike OpenSuSE, OS X and Windows, do not have a DNS Cache service installed by default. Caching DNS acts just like a regular DNS, from the users point of view." REVIEW OF LINUX SHELL SCRIPTING COOKBOOK "While most people I know learn shell scripts themselves, I was looking to refresh my concepts a little as well as have a reference lying around on the table for fast access." AFTER SINTEL MOVIE, NOW A SINTEL GAME IS IN DEVELOPMENT "After Sintel open movie project by Blender Foundation, now Sintel The Game is in development for almost a year which is a video game adaptation of the original movie. The game showcased its pre-demo in Blender Game Contest 2010 in January this year and stood at second place." HOW ABOUT FIREFOX 4'S PANORAMA LIKE WORKSPACE MANAGER IN UBUNTU UNITY? "Tweak Center and Launchpad + Ubuntu Sowftare Center integration mockups set the tone and now here is another one. The idea is to have a Firefox 4.0's Panorama kind of an interface as workspace manager for Ubuntu Unity." ZENWALK 7.0 HAS BEEN RELEASED "Based on the 2.6.37.4 Linux kernel, Zenwalk 7.0 is the project's first release to ship without the depreciated HAL (hardware abstraction layer) package and it features version 4.8.1 of the fast and lightweight Xfce desktop environment." CEBIT OPEN SOURCE FORUM 2011 VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE "For those who weren't about to make it the CeBIT Open Source Forum 2011 in Hannover, Germany earlier this month, video of the presentations are now available to the general public free of change." CAMINO WEB BROWSER, FOR MAC OPEN SOURCE PURISTS ONLY? "Camino is an open source web browser for Mac OS X users that requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. If you've never heard of it, then you should at least know that it has been around since 2002 and it has a special 'Safari migration' area on its website to encourage users to make the switch." GOODBYE OPENSUSE 11.2 "With regrets, the openSUSE developers, through Marcus Meissner, announced on March 24th that there will be no more updates coming for the openSUSE 11.2 Linux distribution, starting with May 12th, 2011." WEBOPEDIA TERM OF THE DAY: LINUX BOOT "A Linux boot process is the initialization of the Linux open source operating system on a computer. Also known as the Linux startup process, a Linux boot process covers a number of steps from the initial bootstrap to the launch of the initial user-space application." GROUNDBREAKING OPEN SOURCE PROJECT WINS TOP MEDIAGUARDIAN INNOVATION AWARD "The judging panel described the Apache Hadoop project as the Swiss army knife of the 21st Century, and having the potential to completely change the face of media innovations across the globe." GOOGLE CHROME TEAM FIXES 6 HIGH-RISK FLAWS "Google March 24 sewed up six security holes in its Chrome Web browser with an upgrade to the stable and beta channels for Chrome 10.0.648.204 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame." THE PERFECT SERVER - OPENSUSE 11.4 X86_64 [ISPCONFIG 2] "This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.4 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig 2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box." BODHI LINUX 1.0 REVIEW "Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager." THE FIRST GREAT ANDROID TABLET: NOOK COLOR "Let’s get real. There are only two great tablets out there today: Apple's iPad and the iPad 2. But, the iPad may soon have a serious Android opponent: Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color."