Linux Today News 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." ZORIN 3 - A GREAT DISTRO FOR NEWBIES
"Several readers contacted me, urging me to review Zorin. My interest piqued, I set about the lanes of Google, searching for more information. The initial findings were quite positive. Zorin was praised in the reviews I read. The official website looked posh, sending a subliminal message that it was a kind of a freebie Mac OSX. " OS TURF WARS MOVE TO MOBILE
"Love Microsoft or hate it, there are two things about the Redmond enterprise OS maker you can't deny: It's very, very big, and it likes to get its fingers into every pie around." EXPERIMENT: I'VE GOT MY EDITOR USING LINUX
"What is using Linux like in 2010? Can anybody pick it it? What about giving it a trial run first? Well, we're going to find out." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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A LOOK AT KDE DESKTOP EFFECTS
"With the coming of KDE 4, the number of effects has multiplied, and KWin (KDE?s window manager) is now on par with Compiz (a window manager with numerous desktop effects). Moreover, KWin?s primary advantage over Compiz is that it is part of KDE and integrates perfectly with the rest of the desktop." ORANGEHRM CLAMORS TO JOIN MILLION-DOLLAR CLUB
"OrangeHRM, the open source human resource management (HRM) software company, wants to join the million-dollar revenue club by 2011." THE ALEXANDRIA PROJECT: PROLOGUE
"I've been re-working The Alexandria Project in preparation for approaching a literary agent. One thing I'm toying with is whether the book needs to get to a quicker, edgier start than the original first chapter provides - such as what follows below. What's your opinion?" SAMSUNG OPENS THE DOOR TO 1080P ON SMARTPHONES
"Following Qualcomm, Samsung is also close to be launching a new smartphone processor with two cores. Based on ARM architecture, the new processor promises five times the graphics performance of current chips and enable 1080p video recording and playback." HOW STOCK PHOTO AGENCY YAYMICRO.COM WAS CREATED USING ONLY OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY.
Instead, every piece of technology was chosen from the open source community. Here is the story of the technology behind stock photo agency YayMicro.com. OLD GENERALS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST WEAR A RED HAT
"The Red Hat board of directors announced a new chairman Monday, August 30, to replace outgoing Matthew Szulik. Henry Hugh Shelton, retired Special Forces general, has been serving on the board since 2003 after leaving the elite Army division." GNOME 3 AT XEN 4.0.1 (2.6.32.21 PVOPS) ON TOP OF F14 (RAWHIDE)
"In meantime Xen 4.0.1 is available via rawhide repositories . Been installed along with 2.6.32.21 pvops kernel and the most recent libvirt 0.8.3 on top of F14 (rawhide) via just several yum install commands,it doesn?t require any longer to build xen rpms using corresponding xen-4.0.1-1.f14.src.rpm." MORE ANDROID TABLETS BREAK COVER
"Navigation device manufacturer Rydeen Mobile Electronics announced a seven-inch, Android-based tablet called the "gPad GCOM701" at last weekend's IFA show in Berlin." MOZILLA LABS ANNOUNCES GAMING PLATFORM
"Mozilla Labs announced its newest initiative, a gaming platform appropriately named Mozilla Labs: Gaming. The goal of the platform is to create browser-based games built on Open Web standards." LINUX MINT 9 (DEBIAN) REVIEW
"This time around though, we?ve gotten a delightful surprise from the Linux Mint developers. A Debian version of Linux Mint! Yes, there is now a rolling release Linux Mint distro!" HELP AN OLD PC: GIVE KDE 3.5 THE OXYGEN TOUCH
"I mentioned in my review of Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity that while the Trinity revival of KDE 3.5.11 has huge potential as a new contender in the field of DEs for old computers (competing with Xfce and LXDE, among others), KDE 3.5 looks pretty bad." C++ HELP: INSTALLING AND USING CODE::BLOCKS ON LINUX
"As a web page designer, programmer, and host it is very useful to know the popular Php programming/scripting language." MY QUEST FOR FREE LICENSED JAPANESE POP MUSIC
"This is my story about searching for Japanese pop music under a free culture license. It?s a little tricky, because the best sites for this are of course, in Japan, and not well advertised on the English web" THE COMMONS AS AN ACTOR IN TRANSFORMING GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
To orchestrate change you need someone who can balance vision with pragmatism. In Eben Moglen the proponents choreographing the software patents debate have such a leader. (Ogg video) HOW TO CONFIGURE ENCRYPTED LVM ON ZENTYAL
"Zentyal, the Linux distribution formerly known as eBox Platform, is a server distribution which can be used as a network gateway, unified threat manager, office server, infrastructure manager, and a unified communications server." DISCRIMINATION? TRY DISCOURAGEMENT.
"Have you read the Evil HR Lady's article called Illegal Gender Discrimination in Tech? Hardly.? Suzanne Lucas, a.k.a. Evil HR Lady, says, ?Everyone wrings their hands and frets, 'what can we do about the inequality in X?' Well, first stop and see if people are making different choices.?" KDE 4.5 DESKTOP ACTIVITIES BRING NEW MEANING TO ORGANIZATION
"KDE 4.5 brings to the table plenty of useful, functional, innovative features. One of those very features is the Desktop Activity. Although many scoffed at the idea (even tried to get the feature pulled), those same naysayers are (hopefully) glad their requests were not followed. Why?" THE LINUX ?1% MYTH? IS PRETTY ACCURATE
"I recently read two posts throwing mud at the 1% statistic. The first didn?t offer any positive reasoning and just said the statistics had to be based on sales and that wasn?t fair." SUBVERSION VS. GIT: CHOOSING THE RIGHT OPEN SOURCE VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM
"As with everything in the open source world, version control systems (VCSs) come in several flavors. The grandfather of open source VCSs is CVS, a tool that was the de facto standard in the industry for several years until the likes of Subversion came along and made it almost obsolete." EXT4 & BTRFS REGRESSIONS IN LINUX 2.6.36
"Recently when benchmarking the Btrfs and EXT4 file-systems we were left surprised that the performance of the next-generation Btrfs file-system had regressed against EXT4 to the point where the evolutionary file-system is measurably faster in a greater number of disk benchmarks." ASUS LINUX-BASED EEE TABLET TO COST £190
"Asus plans to launch its long awaited Eee Tablet with an 8-inch LCD touchscreen in October for around $300 (£190), though prices vary by market." UBUNTU 10.10 NETBOOK EDITION BETA REVIEW
"Ubuntu Unity is a bold step for Ubuntu caretaker Canonical and its Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook remix. It offers a completely new user interface built on the backbone of key features due in GNOME 3 including Mutter and Zeitgeist. Russell Barnes tests it to breaking point (and found that it did. Regularly.)" FILM INDUSTRY HIRES CYBER HITMEN TO TAKE DOWN INTERNET PIRATES
"The film industry is using pirate tactics to beat the pirates ? by employing ?cyber hitmen? to launch attacks that take out websites hosting illegal movies." 10 LATEST ANDROID-POWERED TABLET PCS ? CAN ANY OF THESE TAKE ON THE IPAD?
"The iPad may be flying off the shelves with more than 3 million units sold to date, but it doesn?t mean that others aren?t welcome to take a shot at unseating it." RESCUING DIFFICULT PANORAMAS ON LINUX, HUGIN PART 2
"Hugin is a wonderful and powerful photo panorama creator for Linux, but sometimes it gets confused and doesn't seem to know what to do. Akkana Peck offers some tips on getting Hugin back on track." KDE AND THE EXPANSION OF THE DESKTOP
"Last week, when I wrote "7 Things You Can Do in KDE, But Not in Windows," I assumed that anyone who was interested in the KDE 4 series had already explored it. However, the email I received and a few web searches soon convinced me that I was wrong." VIFM: FAST, LIGHTWEIGHT, OLD SCHOOL FILE MANAGER
"Today?s file manager shares the speed, but not the GUI. This file manager is vifm. If you know your Linux you can probably assume the ?vi? is associated with one of the most popular Linux editors, vi. That assumption is correct." NETAPP, ORACLE END ZFS LITIGATION
"The three-year legal battle between NetApp and Oracle has come to an end as the companies quietly dropped their dueling patent infringement lawsuits over the open source Zettabyte File System (ZFS)." | 
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