| Linux Today News 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)." SPOTLIGHT ON LINUX: ZENWALK LINUX 6.4 "LIVE"
"Zenwalk Linux is a Slackware based distribution introduced in early 2004 that aims to be fast, easy, modern. Zenwalk tends to have a very loyal user-base in addition to leaving most distro hoppers and reviewers impressed. Most agree with Zenwalk's latest tagline: It just works." FIRST HSPA+ HANDSET DEBUTS, T-MOBILE G2 RUNNING ANDROID 2.2
"T-Mobile today finally unveiled the G2, the first smartphone to run on its HSPA+ network, running Android 2.2 and capable of 4G data downloads, featuring a 3.7-inch screen, full keyboard and HD video capture." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF THE TEXAS ANTITRUST COMPLAINTS AGAINST GOOGLE - UPDATED 3XS
FSF: NOTHING CAN EXCUSE ORACLE'S PATENT AGGRESSION
"FSF has issued a statement about Oracle's patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. While Google could have avoided all this by using the GPL'd IcedTea and they have yet to take a stand against software patents, still nothing, FSF writes, can excuse Oracle's patent aggression. "Oracle is wrong to use its patents to attack Android," FSF concludes." HOW TO INSTALL LINUX FROM ISO TO INSTALLED
"The first step of any journey is the hardest part. Clich�d, but true. The first step in using Linux is to install it, and for many folks that step is the most intimidating. It doesn't have to be ? most Linux distributions are easy to install, if you know what to expect. Here's how to prep for an install and get on with the journey." CREATING CUSTOM MAN PAGES
"Man pages have been the primary source for UN*x documentation for a long time. Whenever I create a script that's going to be around for a while, I create documentation in the form of a section 1 man page. This stops my cell phone from ringing on the weekends when the junior sysadmins are looking for my notes." AWESOME RIGHT CLICK MENU ALTERNATIVE MOCKUP FOR UBUNTU
"Even the seemingly simple right click menu in Ubuntu Gnome is getting designer's attention. Has anybody noticed that, there are already about 20 or so entries in the right click menu of a folder in Nautilus? Somebody has. Take a look at this 'right click menu alternative' mockup." BROADCOM RELEASES AN OPEN-SOURCE DRIVER FOR ITS WIRELESS CHIPSETS
"Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver, while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the native mac80211 stack." VTIGER INSTALLATION ON CENTOS 5.X
"vtiger is the CRM / complete tracking solution I have looked for and needed for 10 years!!! An all-in-one tracking everything organic package that ties everything together - because every task has many things associated with it, and vtiger works the way people think." SOME NUMBERS AND THOUGHTS ON THE STABLE KERNELS
"Much attention goes toward mainline kernel releases, but relatively few users are actually running those kernels. Instead, they run kernels provided by their distributors, and those kernels, in turn, are based off the stable kernel series. The practice of releasing stable kernels has been going for well over five years now, so perhaps it's time to look back at how it has been going." OVER 400 BOOKS AT A CLICK: PACKT?S ONLINE DIGITAL BOOK LIBRARY GOES LIVE
Packt Publishing, the innovative, fast-growing publisher, announced today the launch of PacktLib, its new online digital book library, which provides users access to every book in Packt's catalogue from one online location. MIRRORBRAIN - DOWNLOAD REDIRECTOR AND GENERATES METALINKS, TORRENTS AND CRYPTO-HASHES
"MirrorBrain is an open source framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face - a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle." KDE 3 APPEARS IN 'THE SOCIAL NETWORK' MOVIE?
"Below is a still image from the film's official trailer, in it you can see what appears to be an old version of the KDE Desktop Environment. This particular still image is from a scene in the movie taking place in 2003, so KDE 3 would be an accurate version for the year." 4 BEAUTIFUL FIREFOX ADS YOU WOULD LOVE TO WATCH
"Brand new Firefox 4.0 is on its final descent. Be it the introduction of awesome TabCandy feature or the new super fast "JaegerMonkey" JavaScript engine, Firefox 4.0 is all over the news for all the right reasons. I think this is the best time to introduce some cool Firefox commercials/videos. Take a look." 13 TUXTASTIC LINUX GAMES
"Get on your tuxedo?s - MyGaming pays respect to our oft-forgotten PC gaming brother, the Linux user" A LICENSING CHANGE FOR SYSLOG-NG
"Many have criticized syslog-ng, a replacement for the syslog logging daemon with many additional features, for not being open enough. Syslog-ng has a closed-source commercial version and keeps the entire code base under a single copyright by requiring copyright transfer for contributions, which has been a sore spot in the eyes of many people." SMARTPHONE SALES WILL SURGE: ANDROID TO GAIN BIG
"Smartphone sales will continue to exceed even the most optimistic expectations this year, according to the latest industry forecast by IT researcher IDC." THE 6 DIMENSIONS OF OPEN SOURCE
"Why do people choose to participate in Open Source ? It?s always a mix of various reasons, so let?s try to explore and classify them." FACT OR FICTION? TOP 8 LINUX MYTHS DEBUNKED
"If the idea of using Linux in your business is one that makes you nervous, chances are you've fallen prey to one or more of the many myths out there that are frequently disseminated by competing vendors such as Microsoft. After all, each Linux user means one less sale for such companies, so they have a powerful motivation to spread such FUD." LAUNCHING THE REVOLUTION: KICKOFF'S REDESIGN IDEAS
"The launcher menu paradox has almost been around ever since graphical environments were created. They provided a simple method through which users could access their applications pertaining to a particular task." LINUX DESKTOP MARKET SHARE: SMALL NO MATTER HOW YOU MEASURE
"It doesn't give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Saying it has maybe 1% of the desktop marketshare is probably not realistic, but not as far off the mark as we'd like." GOOGLE ANTITRUST PROBE: IS MICROSOFT THE PUPPETMASTER?
"After news broke that the Texas Attorney General's office is just the latest to open an antitrust investigation into Google's business practices, a company attorney wrote a blog post that indirectly pointed a finger at Microsoft." UNIX HOW-TO: QUOTES TO LIVE BY
"One of the things that really throws new Unix users is when to use quotes and which kind of quotes. Between single quotes, double quotes and back ticks, a person can start to feel that Unix is unnecessarily tricky." THE HP MINI 110 NETBOOK: NEARLY ONE YEAR LATER
"Last October, after my third Sylvania netbook failed, I took the refund I had received and bought an HP Mini 110 netbook as a replacement." 5 THINGS I MISS FROM LINUX WHEN USING OSX
"I have been a Linux user for over 10 years. I have used it exclusively on my home systems since that time and although it was a struggle at the beginning, I haven?t had any desire to use any other operating system ? until now." THE KERNEL COLUMN #91 BY JON MASTERS
"In this months kernel column John Masters discusses another eventful kernel cycle, not to mention the latest round of Linus Torvald (justified?) rants, the Kernel Summit 2010 and some pretty intense penguin-on-penguin action..." BROADCOM MAKES ITS WI-FI CHIPSETS MORE LINUX FRIENDLY
"Now, Broadcom has released an open-source driver for its latest 802.11n chip sets. See? Miracles do happen!" DEBIAN GNU/KFREEBSD BECOMES MORE INTERESTING
"Since last year we have been talking about Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, one of the official ports for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" that will bring a 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD kernel as an option to using the Linux kernel." THE ULTIMATE JAILBREAKER, PART 3
"The number of reported mobile malware attacks is low, not because mobile phones are impenetrable fortresses, but because potential attackers have yet to figure out how to monetize their spoils. Cloud access solves that monetization problem." WINDOWS VS UBUNTU RELEASE CYCLE
"I started writing this article but then felt it's point could be better represented in comic form" TECH COMICS: "BUT I'M HILARIOUS"
"Online social networks like Twitter and Facebook can allow humor-challenged people to be funny." 7 MOZILLA LABS PROJECTS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT
" Mozilla Labs is what it name stands for. A place where people come together virtually to produce creative works mostly web based technologies. Mozilla Labs hosts a number of popular projects and involves active community participation." | 
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