| Linux Today News LINUX LIFE SAVERS FOR PARANOID PENGUINS
"So far, in my look at Linux compared to Mac and Windows, I've covered music players, photo organizers, and video editors. But all those apps ? and all the documents they create ? are lost if your hard drive crashes, your laptop takes a spill, or some other catastrophe strikes." A FASTER, SLEEKER FIREFOX 4 BETA FOR MOBILE IS RELEASED
"Even though a bit late, Mozilla is making steady progress with the mobile phone version of its popular web browser, Firefox. The latest Firefox 4 beta for mobile brings in a lot of speed enhancements and it is much lighter as well." 5 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX WEBCAM TOOLS
"To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 5 useful webcam tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone interested in using the versatile webcam." THE GINGERBREAD MAN COMETH
"The arrival of a giant gingerbread man at Google's HQ suggests the next edition of the company's Android operating system is just around the corner." 25 UBUNTU TIPS FOR BEGINNERS
"Taking a trip into the weird and wonderful world of Linux with the world's most popular distro isn't always the easiest of tasks, particularly if you're used to Windows' clean embrace." XFCE 4.8 GO'ING TO LINUX IN 2011, PREVIEW OUT NOW
"The first public milestone of the Xfce 4.8 Linux desktop is now out, giving Linux users the first taste of this powerful, yet minimal interface." GETTING LINUX INTO THE RIGHT HANDS...
"1159. That's the number so far. As of today, that is the number of Linux-based computers The HeliOS Project has placed in the homes of disadvantaged Austin kids." ADVANCED APPLICATION LAUNCHERS WITH ZENITY
"If you're like me, you hate when you're in a hurry and just want to start an application, get right to it, and just start working. Well it never works that way when you need it too." BOMBONO DVD CAN MAKE MOTION MENUS NOW
Bombono DVD is a DVD authoring program for Linux. This software allows you to get video on those optical discs without knowing many technical details. FUDUNTU - A FEDORA REMIX FOR LAPTOPS AND NETBOOKS
"I had some extra time this weekend and started playing around with remixing Fedora 14. My remix is hosted on SourceForge and should work with pretty much any Eee (and laptops + desktops too)." AMD'S FLEXES NEW FLOATING-POINT UNIT
"Our initial commentary on the upcoming AMD Bulldozer architecture covered its basic features and design, including the transition to a modular architecture, but in a recent blog, AMD expanded on the feature set by outlining the new Flex FP floating-point capabilities of the Bulldozer microarchitecture." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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THE LEGACY OF OPENOFFICE.ORG
"When I hear the word ?fork?, I reach for my gun. OK. Maybe it is not that bad. But in the open source world, ?fork? is a loaded term. It can, of course, be an expression of a basic open source freedom. But it can also represent ?fighting words?" 10 REASONS OPEN SOURCE IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS
"Rather, free and open source software (FOSS) holds numerous other compelling advantages for businesses, some of them even more valuable than the software's low price. Need a few examples? Let's start counting." 10 WAYS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FIRESHEEP ATTACKS
"Frustrated by apathy and inaction, web developer Eric Butler and colleague Ian Gallagher decided to raise awareness with Firesheep ? a Firefox plug-in that makes sidejacking as easy as 1-2-3." 24 THINGS WE'D CHANGE ABOUT LINUX
"If you use Linux long enough, you'll soon discover a list of things you wished were different. Here are 24 things that we wish were different." CIITIX-VOIP 1.0 HOW-TO
"CIITIX-VoIP is a carrier grade VoIP server distribution, leveraging upon the great efforts of the open source community. CIITIX-VoIP is based on rock solid Debian Lenny." THE LILYPOND REPORT #22
"What?s not to love with GNU LilyPond? Meaning: is it at all possible, either to mildly appreciate it, or perhaps even to hate the hell out of it?" UBUNTU EMBRACES UNITY AND WAYLAND. OR, GNU/LINUX IS EXCITING AGAIN
"After installing Ubuntu 10.10, I had a strange feeling I was seeing something that was already old. Yes, Ubuntu is a fantastic desktop system, and yes it?s better than Windows. But today, in 2010, that?s almost a given. And that?s not enough." MY THOUGHTS ON UBUNTU'S DECISION TO DUMP X SERVER
"I recently got into a friendly argument with a friend of mine who is very much anti-Ubuntu. He believes that Canonical is slowly but surely selling-out the GNU/Linux community to make a profit. I completely disagree with him." SHINY OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION IN SCHOOLS
"The advantage of a Linux version of MS Multipoint is that by using free open source software, cheap got cheaper. The press release emphasised the cost savings of Linux and how poor people would benefit children in African schools or something like this (as long as they had power)." FIRESHEEP COUNTERMEASURE TOOL BLACKSHEEP
"Firesheep is the Firefox extension that makes it easier to steal logins and take over social media and email accounts after users log in from a WiFi hotspot or even their own unprotected network." CAN MARK SHUTTLEWORTH BE THE STEVE JOBS OF UBUNTU?
"When I met Mark Shuttleworth in 2005 during a Linux event in India, we talked in detail about his trip space and his vision for Ubuntu. In these last 5 years, Ubuntu has come a long way." IBM POWER SYSTEMS BUYER'S GUIDE
"It isn't easy selling non-x86 equipment these days. According to IDC, that side of the server market has had five quarters in a row of decline -- while at the same time the x86 segment is picking up." RADIO TRAY
"Maybe today I?ve finally found an acceptable way to listen to web radio. Often I like to work with music, but after listening for the umpteenth time my favorite CD of Nirvana or Foo Fighters I want to switch to a bit of Web Radio, and here is my doubt ?how??" INDIE ANDROID DEVELOPER SHOWS FREE APPS CAN GENERATE $1,000+ MONTHLY
"There?s already hundreds of thousands of apps out there covering just about every feature and bit of functionality you could ever think of. How on earth are you going to create somethign different and get someone to spot your app, let alone pay and download it?" ROCKMELT: DUMB OR STUPID? YOU DECIDE
"By my count, there are three really important Web browsers today...So, really why the heck should I think that there?s room for yet another Web browser, the much ballyhooed RockMelt?" KERBEROS AUTHENTICATION WITH NFSV4
"In past tips we?ve looked at using Kerberos and how to authenticate various services with it, and recently looked at setting up an NFS server on Linux. This week we will be looking at tying the two together to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment." THE NEW LINUX DESKTOP: UBUNTU'S UNITY
"The Linux desktop has been around for more than a decade now. Despite its best efforts, and Microsoft's dumbest mis-steps--I'm looking at you Vista--it's never owned more than a fraction of the market. Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company plans on changing that with its Unity desktop." FSFLA: LINUX KERNEL IS "OPEN CORE"
"Linux hasn't got any Freer between the Linux-2.6.33-libre announcement, back in March, and the present announcement, that marks the release of Linux-2.6.36-libre. Linux now contains more non-Free Software, and more drivers in its Free core that require separately distributed non-Free Software to function" ADDING USERS AND ALIASES FOR POSTFIX
"Postfix is a great mailer, but if you're new to administering Postfix, finding your way around can be difficult. For example, just finding information on adding users to a Postfix system can be quite a trial." THE TOOLS TO CREATE YOUR NEXT GREAT NOVEL
"November 1st kicks of National Novel Writing Month?a chance for budding authors to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboards, and bang out a 50,000 word (or more) novel in 30 days. Sound like fun?" LINUTOP OS V4 IS OUT
"Linutop sells small, silent and low power PCs based on AMD Geode and VIA C7 processors to use in business and industrial environments. Now they are launching Linutop OS 4.0 that anyone can download" BEHIND KDE: MARTIN EISENHARDT
"Ever wondered who is behind anonsvn.kde.org? Want to know what drives a person to provide that service to KDE for years and years?" THE LINUX PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
"Michael Kerrisk has been the maintainer of the Linux Man Pages collection (man 7) for more than five years now, and it is safe to say that he has contributed to the Linux documentation available in the online manual more than any other author before." EFF PIONEER AWARDS 2010 - OUR THANK YOU VIDEO
"There are some videos of the EFF Pioneer Awards for 2010 beginning to appear on BAMM.tv, but I gather there were technical problems with the video we sent to the ceremony to say thank you, as you can't hear any sound. Cory Doctorow fills in with some humor..." UBUNTU 11.04 DELAYED, RELEASE SCHEDULE CHANGED
"The release schedule for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system has been modified last week on the Ubuntu wiki. The distribution will still be released at the end of April 2011." IT'S CLAMFS CHOWDER TIME!
"Over the years I have heard about clam chowder. I have never had it but it is supposed to be scrumptious. However, this is not a blog about food but about technology and the clam I am going to munch on is none other than clamfs which is a virtual file system for real time protection of viruses using the clam antivirus daemon." INTRODUCTION TO AWK
"Awk is a pattern-scanning and text processing utility that captures information from text files creating reports in the process, modify files from one format to another, create databases and perform mathematical operations on data." W3C ACCEPTED AS AN ISO/IEC PAS SUBMITTER ON A ?TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT? BASIS
"If this process sounds vaguely familiar, that?s likely because this is the same process that OASIS used to gain global endorsement of its OpenDocument Format (ODF). Microsoft took a similar, but procedurally distinct, route with OOXML, its competing document format, when it offered it to ECMA" WIRESHARK II: THE ANALYSIS
"Last week, you had the opportunity to look at Wireshark and its ability to easily capture network packets. This week, you?ll take a deeper dive into those Wireshark-infested streams and explore analytical techniques and shortcuts that you can sink your teeth into." | 
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