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07 September 2010

YOUR LINUX TODAY NEWSLETTER FOR September 7, 2010

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Tuesday September 7, 2010

Linux Today News

SOME USEFUL UTILITIES
"Utilities. They?re what help make computing a lot easier and more convenient, no matter what operating system you use."

REVIEWED: LINUX MINT 9 KDE
"Ubuntu is dominating the mindshare for desktop distros, but there?s still a place for rivals ? even those built on the Ubuntu foundation ? to take things in different directions."

REVIEW: KUBUNTU 10.04 TRINITY "LUCID LYNX" (IDEA BY CANDID OF LINUX TODAY)
"This is how I felt when testing Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity. It's a weird mishmash of old-school and new-school KDE."

NIGHTINGALE - MUCH ANTICIPATED SONGBIRD FORK WHICH IS SOON GOING TO HAVE ITS FIR
"Songbird is still open source, but developers behind Songbird have decided to discontinue support for Linux and the concentrate on Mac and Windows versions of Songbird."

KDE SC 4.5 ? DESKTOP ACTIVITIES EXPOSED
"Recently, I wrote a post about the KDE 4.5 SC release candidate. In that post, I was a little bit critical about the discoverability of desktop activities."

SEPTEMBER 2010 ISSUE OF THE NEW PCLINUXOS MAGAZINE RELEASED
OpenOffice Impress, LXDE, Quick GIMP Tip, Meemaw, Linux Market Share...

FIVE CRITICAL APPS FOR ANDROID THAT YOU WANT TO FIND ON IOS
"It seems like nearly every 6 months, Apple redefines just how closed their closed platform can be. Instead of just completely restricting the source and distribution of their own software, they now also limit the kind of third-party applications and content their users can enjoy."

CONSIDERATIONS FOR FLOSS HACKERS ABOUT ORACLE VS. GOOGLE
"I'm sorry that I was right about this, but we should now finally learn the lesson: languages like Java and C# are dangerous."

ISPCONFIG3 - DNS TEMPLATES
"This article explains how you can use the DNS Templates in ISPConfig3 to allow layman to enter domain data without any previous knowledge on the subject."

27 GOOD REASONS TO LOVE LINUX (PART 1)
"Maybe you'll think: "Oh, I, Windows, I have not paid, they gave me with the computer." Are you absolutely certain? If your computer had Windows, then you paid, even if the dealer did not told you, or you installed a copy of "pirate"."

MIGRATING A SMALL BUSINESS TO LINUX
"In a tight economy, it's more important than ever to make sure every dollar spent is providing maximum return. And for a growing number of small businesses, this means reexamining plans for upgrading existing servers and workstations."

SYSTEMD TEST DAY ON TUESDAY 2010/09/07
"Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on systemd, the new initialization system being introduced in Fedora 14."

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COULD ORACLE FRACTURE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY?
"An Oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. How can that particular definition be applied to Oracle the company?"

ZOOM BLUR EFFECT IN GIMP
"If you don?t have a zoom lens or you?d like to manipulate a certain image in this style then this tutorial for GIMP should help you achieve a similar effect!"

MORE GPL ENFORCEMENT WORK AGAIN.. AND A VERY SURREAL BUT IMPORTANT CASE
"In recent days and weeks, I'm doing a bit more work on the gpl-violations.org project than during the last months and years. I wouldn't say that I'm happy about that, but well, somebody has to do it :/"

DRIVER DILEMMA IN KDE WORKSPACES 4.5
"KDE is currently blamed for errors in external components: the graphic drivers. I am lately reading quite some crap (e.g. on it news today) that we KWin devs knew about problems in the drivers and shipped 4.5 nevertheless with changes enabled which trigger the driver bugs. That is of course not true."

4 LINUX AND BSD FIREWALL/ROUTER PROJECTS
"Both Linux and FreeBSD are built on strong networking stacks, and both make first-rate firewalls and routers. Many commercial products are based on these. Eric Geier rounds up four firewall/router projects for our perusal."

P2P HOPPING PROTOCOL
"There are plenty of interesting application, notably you can do lots of outside-in scenarios with you access your home computers from a cellphone anywhere in the world"

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY TO AMD'S OPEN-SOURCE STRATEGY
"Yep, it's only been three years since AMD became public with pushing out NDA-free GPU documentation and register specifications, open-source code for the xf86-video-ati and Mesa drivers, and employed a small set of developers to contribute towards their open-source Linux stack."

SPARKLESHARE ? AN OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVE TO DROPBOX HITS BETA FOR LINUX
"But according to developers of Sparkleshare, Dropbox has downsides as well: you can?t host your own server; it?s not open source and has some freaky things in its license agreement"

BLENDER 3D 2.9: WORKING WITH TEXTURES
"In this article by Allan Brito, author of Blender 3D 2.9: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery, we will take the realism of our scenes to a higher level using textures. With textures, the "magic" really happens!"


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