| Linux Today News 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." BEST PRACTICES WITH SUDO ON LINUX
"Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo." LINUX MACHINES WITH NO REBOOTING?? IS THIS WHAT WE WANT?
"The other day, I caught a message that KSplice was available for Fedora. I thought I?d be a wiseguy and I replied ?Yeah, great. Call me in 20 years when it?s available for for RHEL?. Well, as several people pointed out, it turns out the joke is on me." SAMSUNG UNVEILS ANDROID TABLET WITH 3G TELEPHONY
" Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera..." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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ORACLE SQUELCHES OPEN SOURCE SPIRIT
"Microsoft used to be known as the Great Satan when it came to enterprise operating systems. Now it seems Oracle has taken over software hell." USE UBUNTU/GNOME DESKTOP AS ALARM CLOCK
"You may find our Python alarm clock too geeky or complicated, so I thought I should share with you an easier way to use your Linux desktop (particularly Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distributions) as alarm clock." THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT LINUX: AT WORK AND AT HOME
"Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and giving back." DOES THE FATE OF OPENSOLARIS TELL US WHERE UNIX IS HEADED?
"That scruffy beard... those suspenders... that smug expression... You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!" NO NEED GET EXCITED ABOUT STEAM ON LINUX AGAIN!
"The Steam on Linux rumor is up and running again." CODEWEAVERS OPEN INVITATION TO WINE-DOORS AND OTHER CLOSED PROJECTS USERS
"A couple weeks back I noticed the Wine-Doors project was down and on their front page they have a message "Very very broken and I don't have time to fix it"" APACHECON 2010 IS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION
"ApacheCon organizers have opened registration for ApacheCon 2010. The event is scheduled for November 3-5 at the Westin Peachtree hotel in Atlanta, Ga. The theme for this year's ApacheCon is "Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation."" 8 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGERS
"Now, let's explore the 8 PIM tools tools at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources and reviews." FINALLY WE GET TO READ THE MOBILITY ASSETS SALE AGREEMENT WITH DARL MCBRIDE
"Darl's purchase of the mobility assets was all done pretty much in the dark. We, the public were told one thing in advance, but something else after the fact. But now we get to see the final agreement." MICROSOFT PATENTS OPERATING SYSTEM SHUTDOWN
"Microsoft just received confirmation of a patent that hands the company the intellectual property of shutting an operating system down." OPENOFFICE.ORG CONFERENCE 2010: PREPARING THE NEXT TEN YEARS
"The OpenOffice.org conference celebrating the tenth birthday of OpenOffice.org started in Budapest yesterday morning. Here are some first notes from the field." LINUX: A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD FOR OPEN SOURCE
"For better and sometimes for worse, Linux is the poster child for the open source movement. And why shouldn't it be" GNOME 2.32 BETA 2 HAS BEEN RELEASED
"The second beta of the next GNOME release has arrived full of bug fixes and updates. Many of the standard packages have been updated for GNOME 2.32 Beta 2 (2.31.91) and more translation work has been done." DELL STUDIO 1747 LAPTOP: ONE FATAL FLAW AWAY FROM LINUX PERFECTION
"Dell?s 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw." STRONG EARLY SALES OF $140 ANDROID TABLET SURPRISE RETAILER
"Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet." HELP TEST THE NEXT GENERATION OF KDE'S KONTACT
"The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications" UBUNTU 10.10 'MAVERICK MEERKAT' ENTERS BETA
"The first beta release of Canonical's next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October." WETAB IS BASED ON MEEGO
"At a press conference held yesterday, Intel and the WeTab developers, 4tiitoo, announced that the upcoming WeTab internet tablet, scheduled to arrive in September, will run the Linux-based MeeGo" HOW TO: GET LINUX POWER ON YOUR WINDOWS PC WITH CYGWIN
"In this guide, we?ll show you how to get Cygwin set up, the basics of how to navigate a Unix file system, and how to find more information as you need it." BELEAGUERED NOVELL BUOYED BY VMWARE LINUX DEAL
"Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware." GPU VS. CPU COMPUTING
"GPUs are now powerful enough to do more than just move images across the screen. They are capable of performing high-end computations that are the staple of many engineering activities." A GOOD REASON TO USE PCLINUXOS 2010
"The search for the perfect kernel scheduler is like searching for the Holy Grail. Linux 2.6 started with the O(1) scheduler, which solved a lot of issues for real-time processes. However, it didn?t scale to large NUMA (non-uniform memory access) machines." VIDEO INTERVIEWS FROM GUADEC
"Whilst at GUADEC (the GNOME conference) I did a series of video interviews with participants. Several have now been published here:" TECH COMICS: "UNFRIENDING"
"The process of ending a friendship is far more complicated than it once was." OPEN SOURCE: NO ONE IS WORKING FOR FREE
"People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It?s dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free, or why developers are working for free." | 
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