Linux Today News 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!" HELIOS STORE OPENS TO FUND THE HELIOS PROJECT
"Instead of just posting our current needs, we've decided to open a store of sorts to raise the money we need. We have some cool and useful stuff and more will be added in the next two weeks." BRICSCAD? V10 FOR LINUX RELEASED
"Bricsys is the first to release a .dwg based CAD software for Linux users. Bricsys NV, the developer of Bricscad, announced today that Bricscad V10 for Linux is now available " UBUNTU 10.10 BETA REVIEW
"By default, Ubuntu wants to provide just one massive root (/) partition without separate home partitions. This is a mistake, as anyone who?s updated or recovered a Linux system should know." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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ANDROID/LINUX KERNEL FIGHT CONTINUES
"You could argue that Google's Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There's only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart from the Linux mainstream." PYTHON4KIDS NEW TUTORIAL: TRIVIAL LISTS
"Having gone through some arduous work on the previous tutorial, this one will be a little gentler. The task we?ve set ourselves this time is to write another game, a trivia game." GOOGLE CHROME 6.0.472.53
"Since its launch in 2008 by Google, Chrome has been making some dent in the market for Internet browsers. With its rapid development and a focus on practicality and lightness of the user experience, Chrome is fast increasing its share of users." THE VALUE OF CLEAR CODE IS CLEAR
"This might sound far from enterprise open source, but the way the Climate Code Foundation is proceeding shows the connection:" NVIDIA PUTS OUT A MAJOR BETA LINUX DRIVER UPDATE
"...for those wishing to live on the bleeding edge of NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver development, the first beta release in the 260.xx series is now available for testing." ALIEN - USE ANY PACKAGE ON ANY DISTRIBUTION
"Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another." LINUXABLES: COMPIZ WINDOW SWITCHER
"Thanks to Compiz you have better, slicker, and more efficient ways to switch from one application to another. Take a look at Compiz Switchers, and you'll never want to go back to the boring old panel buttons!" WINE 1.3.2 HAS BEEN RELEASED
"Whats new in this release: * Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version. * New implementation of console support on Unix terminals." DEBUNKING THE 1% MYTH
"There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." --William James" GNOME-DO: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE APP LAUNCHER
"This week, I've been experimenting with gnome-do, the Gnome application launcher that also allows you to specify particular actions to take on whatever file or application you've found." GNU DEBUGGER ADDS D LANGUAGE SUPPORT
"The GNU Project Debugger release team has published the second point update to version 7.0 of its standard debugger for the GNU software system." "SANER DEFAULTS" REMIX OF UBUNTU BETA RELEASED
"A beta of an unofficial remix of Ubuntu 10.04.1, the "Saner Defaults Remix", which offers "better default choices" and a Mono-free experience, has been released" CODEPLEX.COM DONATES $25,000 TO MERCURIAL PROJECT
"The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader, Matt Mackall." MANAGE LINUX DOWNLOADS WITH WGET
"Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers do an acceptable job of downloading a single file of reasonable size. But I don't like to trust a browser to grab ISO images and other files that are hundreds of megabytes, or larger." GRASS GIS 6.4.0 RELEASED
"GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery." ANDROID CAUTION: STAY AWAY FROM MAKING YOUR APP FREE FOR A SHORT TIME
"The bad news is, the developer console will not let me change it! I have to pull the app until I can get this resolved." START OF FEATURE CULL FOR FIREFOX 4
"Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browse" HOW UBUNTU IS MADE
"Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman gives an inside look at how he works with Ubuntu's engineering teams and the upstream community." PRYING LOOSE THE GRIP OF BROADBAND GIANTS
"Injecting greater competition into that market lies at the heart of last week's CRTC decision to require incumbent telecom companies -- such as Bell, Bell Aliant, and Telus -- to provide independent ISPs with speed-matched open access to their network..." THE DESKTOP LINUX REVIEWS FORUM
The Desktop Linux Reviews blog now has a brand new discussion forum. ASSESSING THE TUX STRENGTH: PART 1 - USERSPACE MEMORY PROTECTION
"Probably every attack mitigation technique that has been developed over time to mitigate memory corruption exploits can be implemented and used in one form or another in a Linux operating system." ASSESSING THE TUX STRENGTH: PART 2 - INTO THE KERNEL
"The previous article in this series on Linux security described different userspace protection mechanisms that can be applied to protect binaries on a Linux system. Unsurprisingly, without additional kernel settings and protections most of the previously described mechanisms cannot be utilised to their full extent." GNU/LINUX POWERS STATE-OF-THE-ART HEARING AID RESEARCH
"The next generation of digital hearing aids is being developed and tested on real-time GNU/Linux systems from 64 Studio Ltd, using dedicated multi-channel audio interfaces and standard Lenovo notebooks." LESS THAN 2 WEEKS REMAIN TO NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITE OPEN SOURCE PROJECT
"The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects." THE EFFECT OF SNAKE OIL SECURITY
"Bad security isn?t just bad because it allows you to be exploited. It?s also a long term cost center. But more interestingly, even the most worthless security tools can be proven to ?work? if you look at the numbers. Here?s how." FIREFOX 4 SET TO IMPROVE SECURITY
"The race to accelerate browser features continues as Mozilla developers race towards the finish line to get the finished version of the Firefox 4 Web browser out the door." | 
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