| Linux Today News PC FILE MANAGER: ANOTHER LIGHT WEIGHT FILE MANAGER
"In the seemingly never-ending quest to find the perfect, light weight graphical file manager, I have gone through just about every one I can find. So far my favorite has been Thunar..." HEY, ANDROID PEOPLE, IS IT TRUE THAT THE ALL-IN COST OF ANDROID IS MUCH HIGHER THAN $15 PER UNIT?
"Well, a person familiar with Microsoft's mobile strategy immediately squawked, arguing that Android comes with all sort of hidden costs that drive up the per-unit expenses such that Microsoft's $15 per unit actually seemed like a better deal." LOWER MERION SCHOOL DISTRICT ORDERED TO PAY PLAINTIFF'S LAWYER $260,000
"A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now - and potentially much more later - to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district's webcam monitoring." PHOTOGRAPHY WITH OPEN SOURCE AND LINUX
"Photography on the free software desktop has come a long way in recent years. All of the major desktop environments support camera import and provide image management and editing applications, including the all-important raw file conversion." WHAT PAUL ALLEN AND LARRY ELLISON HAVE IN COMMON
"The trouble with that line of attack, of course, is that it's complete nonsense. Interval Research was not an ?an early, ground-breaking contributor to the development of the internet economy?: I was there, and they had zero impact whatsoever" FIREFOX 4 VS. FIREFOX 3 -- VISUAL DIFFERENCES
"There is rather lively buzz around Mozilla Firefox 4 future release that should happen soon and of course meet all the expectations of the community and millions of Firefox users. But what do they all expect to see in the latest version and why its long-awaited final release should be a great deal?" NAVIGATING A DUAL WORLD: GNU/LINUX AND WINDOWS
"My household is not a pure GNU/Linux household. I do have one Windows 7 computer system due to the fact that I have some family members that prefer Windows. As a web designer, computer programmer, and a business man, I take full advantage of this situation." VMWARE DOESN'T LIKE WINDOWS
"A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was "Wouldn't that be horrible for Novell's Linux?" " FROYO FIVE-PACK OF ANDROID TABLETS FROM ARCHOS
"Archos today introduced five Android-powered tablets, two due out this month and three later in the fall, ranging in price from $100 to $349, all shipping with Android 2.2." LINAPP - MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF COMMERCIAL LINUX APPLICATIONS EVER
"After browsing through LinApp website for sometime, I was awed by the sheer number of commercial applications available for Linux. Never in my wildest of imaginations did I thought that, this many number of commercial applications ever existed for Linux." USING SPELL CHECKING IN VIM
"Mark Twain has been quoted as saying that he respected a person who could spell a word more than one way. Unfortunately, Twain's enthusiasm for creative spelling isn't widely shared today, at least in the professional world." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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UNIGINE ANNOUNCES ITS OILRUSH GAME FOR LINUX
"Unigine OilRush is the game title and it will be available for Linux. Will this be the best Linux native game we see in 2010?" PYTHON MULTIMEDIA: ANIMATIONS EXAMPLES USING PYGLET
"This article by Ninad Sathaye, author of Python Multimedia Beginner's Guide, will introduce you to the fundamentals of developing animations using Python and Pyglet multimedia application development frameworks." A SNAPSHOT OF A LAN PARTY.
"Three computers, each running Linux, Windows and MacOS respectively meet up at a lan party. It is a typical lan party. A semi dark room, lit only by the glow of monitors with network cables snaking haphazardly across the floor littered with empty bottles, crushed chip packets and piled up against the wall, a stack of pizza boxes" STARTUP OFFERS ANGRY FB USERS AN ALTERNATIVE
"Is it possible for four young people, the ink barely dry on their NYU diplomas, to battle a social networking giant and win? Is there enough pent-up anger against Facebook to translate into a wholesale exodus from the site?" 7 PROVIDERS OF PRE INSTALLED LINUX LAPTOPS/PCS
"Not many mainstream PC manufacturers have a Linux preinstalled version of their products. But some do have and the there are many other not-so-mainstream providers of Linux preinstalled laptops, netbooks and PC's. Here are a few of them you should know." IBM SHIPS 5.2GHZ CHIP, ITS FASTEST YET
"IBM's newest chip for mainframes boasts one of the highest speed ratings to date and will go into Big Blue's fastest mainframe computers." PLAY .MKV AND .XVID FILES ON YOUR ANDROID PHONE
"Android App Uses FFmpeg library to decode video " THIS WAS THE YEAR OF DESKTOP LINUX
"Desktop Linux is the same sort of deal. Linux believers always assume that next year will be the year of desktop Linux. Windows followers often chide those who seek Linux with that belief, both here and elsewhere." REVIEWED: KDE 4.5
"Trepidation. That about sums up the feeling of upgrading to a new version of KDE. You want to like it, but are afraid that whatever has been fixed will be counterbalanced by something rather sucky." STEP BY STEP UBUNTU 10.04 (LUCID LYNX) LAMP SERVER SETUP
"In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation." A STORY ABOUT UPDATES AND PEOPLE
"A bit of discussion about update policy in Fedora has been brewing lately and I?ve been reading and thinking (and stewing and moaning and wringing my hands) about the discussion a lot. I noticed a few archetypes in the positions taken throughout the discussions:" COMMENT: THE HYPE IS OVER
"The "best open source software for business" list contains almost exclusively well-known contributors. Is there no more new open source?" INSTALLING LIFERAY 6.0.5 COMMUNITY EDITION BUNDLED WITH TOMCAT ON UBUNTU 10.04
"Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value. Get the benefits of packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution." WRITING SIMPLE, REAL-TIME GAMES FOR GNOME
"Chris Lord shares his experiences and six laws of writing simple games for GNOME, using Clutter." AUTOMATING YOUR ANDROID PHONE WITH SL4A
"Back in Part 1 we learned how flexible and script-able Android is, and installed the SL4A scripting layer. Today Paul Ferrill teaches more about how to write custom Android scripts." NEW BREED OF PATENT CLAIM BEDEVILS PRODUCT MAKERS
"Raymond E. Stauffer was shopping at a New Jersey mall when he noticed something peculiar about the bow ties on display at Brooks Brothers: They were labeled with old patent numbers." 7 THINGS YOU CAN DO IN KDE, BUT NOT IN WINDOWS
"When I go on to tell them that the KDE desktop is in many ways more innovative than Windows 7, the looks of pity changes to caution. I am not only a fanatic, they conclude, but delusional and potentially dangerous." VALVE IS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN "PORT WINDOWS GAMES TO LINUX"
"Valve is all too familiar with gaming folks out there. They are the guys behind the awesome STEAM online gaming platform. They were in a bit of controversy recently when they denied all reports of a Linux version of their famous online gaming platform. But once again, Valve is in the news." SCO GETS MORE TIME TO FILE APPEAL BRIEF REGARDING ITS LOSS TO NOVELL
"SCO filed a motion asking for more time to file its appeal brief with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. They needed 10 more days, and Novell agreed to it, so the clerk signed off on it the same day the motion was filed, and the new date for SCO to file its brief will be September 9." MICROSOFT ARGUES THAT ANDROID ISN'T 'FREE'
"As the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices nears, the company has been telling those who will listen that one of its prime competitors' mobile operating system -- Google's Android -- is more costly than its own offering, even though the open source OS is free." WHO CONTRIBUTED THE MOST DURING X SERVER 1.9?
"Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9..." QT AND LAYOUTS
"When I first started with graphics - I plotted pixels onto the screen by calculating a memory address and then poking the corresponding value. Times have changed since then." KDE 4.5: KDE 3.5'S STABILITY + KDE 4.0'S PROMISED FEATURES
"My last review of KDE 4.X was a bitter disappointment, as KDE 4.4 refused to work. Period. Follow the jump to see if this version of KDE works out any better." THREE LOCKS FOR YOUR SSH DOOR
"Summary: Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists." ARTISTX 0.9 SCREENSHOTS
"ArtistX is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based live DVD that includes a pretty big lineup of free multimedia applications. The most recent version, ArtistX 0.9 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and features the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion, Ubiquity Installer, and more." | 
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