| Linux Today News ANNOUNCING OPENRESPECT.ORG
"Recently I blogged about some concerns that I have had about increasing disrespect in the Open Source, Free Software, and Free Culture communities. My blog entry shared some of the work I started on an OpenRespect Declaration, but I wasn?t sure if I should publish it." KEEPING RED HAT IN RALEIGH A CONSTANT FIGHT ? SZULIK
"Former Red Hat Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Matthew Szulik is not surprised at all that the company he helped build into a global technology success story is contemplating moving from its Raleigh home." DEVELOPER'S SOLO BID TO ENFORCE GPL SHORT-CIRCUITED
"A Linux kernel developer's bid to enforce the terms of the GPL on a Singapore-based manufacturer of tablets has come unstuck - because production of the tablet in question has been discontinued." DID UBUNTU DISRESPECT FEDORA LINUX WITH OPENRESPECT?
"Flame wars are a part of open source development and communities. A new effort called openrespect.org wants to try and change the tone of cross-distribution name-calling, but I think they've really gotten off on the wrong foot." TECH COMICS: "SAVE MONEY WITH FACEBOOK"
"Communicating with loved ones is easier on Facebook. Sort of" ROCKMELT: A SOCIAL NETWORKING SPIN ON GOOGLE CHROME
"Would you like to do your Web browsing while keeping a constant eye on what your Facebook friends are doing? If so, then RockMelt is for you." 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." ELEGANT GNOME THEME PACK BECOMES EVER MORE ELEGANT, PPA UPDATED FOR MAVERICK, LU
"Elegant Gnome Theme Pack needs no introduction. Like many of you, it is one of my most favorite themes along with Equinox in Ubuntu Maverick. Latest update brings in a lot more finesse to the already beautiful Elegant Gnome theme." ELIMINATING DUPLICATE ROWS FROM MYSQL RESULT SETS
"The go to solution for removing duplicate rows from your result sets is to include the distinct keyword in your select statement. It tells the query engine to remove duplicates to produce a result set in which every row is unique." RED HAT?S SECRET PATENT DEAL AND THE FATE OF JBOSS DEVELOPERS
"So, why is the outcome of Red Hat?s next tangle with Acacia being kept secret, and how is a Texas court helping to keep it that way? Could the outcome have placed Red Hat in violation of the open-source licenses on its own product?" OPEN SOURCE DESKTOPS MAY NOT HAPPEN FOR SMALL BIZ
"For all the talk of how open source software is kicking butt and taking names in the cloud space (see: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell) and in embedded space (see Android, MeeGo), there's one area where open source has consistently fallen woefully short: providing solutions for small businesses." 13 FEATURES OF REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
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HOW TO ENABLE AUTO-LOGIN AND CREATE A GUEST USER ACCOUNT ON FEDORA 14
"Fedora is one of very few distributions that does not have the auto-login feature in its graphical user management tool." UNR 10.10 MAVERICK MEERKAT - DON'T TOUCH THIS!
"After being tremendously pleased with Maverick, as it ran superbly on both standard PC and even Mac, and loving the UNR 10.04 Lucid on my eeePC netbook, I figured Maverick Netbook Remix edition could only be a doubly double win for me. And so I tried it." HEXEN: EDGE OF CHAOS DEMO
"As mentioned earlier, the Hexen: Edge of Chaos demo has been released for Doom 3 owners:" UNIVERSITY BEGINS REPORTING ALL P2P USERS TO THE POLICE
"Offenders will be disciplined by the school and then handed over to the police, the university has announced." OPENMEETINGS 1.6 RELEASED
A new message center was added. This lets you organize your messages, add users to your contacts, and organize events by sending direct private messages to other users on the platform. EDITOR'S NOTE: SOMETIMES WE GROW UP
Jono Bacon's announcement of the OpenRespect.org project was met with the usual mix of reactions, from approval to charges it is really "The Quit Picking on Ubuntu" project. CAN RHEL BREAK OPEN SOURCE'S 'LOW-COST CEILING'?
"A shift from marketing lowest cost to highest value is a welcome change that could also affect how IT selects open source" WEEKEND PROJECT: REPLACE INETD WITH XINETD FOR BETTER NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
"The real advantage of Xinetd is that it allows more fine-grained control, including access control lists (ACLs), rate-limiting, time-based access, and stream redirection." FEDORA TO DITCH X.ORG TOO, MAY BRING WAYLAND FEDORA 15 ONWARDS
"Well here is more good news, from Red Hat this time. In a post in the Fedora mailing list, Adam Jackson of Red Hat, has said that Fedora will eventually switch to Wayland." DEBIAN 5 REVIEW
"Debian, if you aren?t familiar with it, is the rock upon which popular distributions like Ubuntu and MEPIS are built on. Sometimes folks who use a Debian-based distribution aren?t even aware of what it is based on, and that?s a shame because Debian itself has so much to offer." ADVENTURES IN KUBUNTU: THROWING IN THE TOWEL
"Regular visitors have already read about my ongoing experiment with Kubuntu. To recap, I?m a little worried about where Gnome is going, and want to be ready to switch desktop environments if need be." ENHANCED FEDORA FUSION LINUX 14 MERE WEEKS AWAY
"One of the main complaints with Fedora is the lack of proprietary drivers and multimedia support. That's where Fusion comes in." MICROSOFT SURRENDERS ON LINUX KINECT HACK
"In a statement to our sister site Gamespot, Microsoft has backed down from its legal threats against the Kinect Linux ?hack? of Hector Martin." HOW DO I COMPILE MY WINDOWS PROGRAMS UNDER LINUX?
"Lets just imagine that we are a programming gurus. We have written all sorts of programs from spread sheets, financial, graphical drawing, GIS and even lotto programs." DISTRO DEVELOPERS NEED DOLLARS!
"These are hard times, and a lot of people are hurting financially. Jobs and money are hard to come by, and many folks are just getting by. It turns out that even your favorite distro developers could use a few bucks to help them keep churning out new & updated distros for desktop use." OPENRESPECT AND THE PROBLEMS OF ENDORSING CIVILITY
"I am delighted at Canonical Community Manager Jono Bacon's launching of OpenRespect.org that attempts to codify respectful conduct. My only concern is that the effort is already receiving some of the abuse that it attempts to counter." HOW TO CONFIGURE WIRELESS ON ANY LINUX DESKTOP
"What are your options? You could go for a GUI or command the command line. I would like to offer options for both GUI and command line with the help of Wifi Radar and ifconfig." SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB: IPAD RIVAL OR HANDHELD COMPUTER?
"Yesterday, I decided to break down and purchase a Galaxy Tab, hoping it would finally fulfill the promises of being a general-purpose Android tablet that could fill the role that my iPad is currently performing today" HOW TO SEARCH USING THE AWK UTILITY
"You can do searches with awk by enclosing the search within forward slashes. Note awk is case sensitive" HOW TO INSTALL LINUX MINT 10 ON A BTRFS FILE SYSTEM
"Linux Mint 10 is the first version of Linux Mint with built-in support for the B-tree File System (btrfs). Btrfs is one of the newest file systems in the Linux kernel" MARIADB 5.2 NOW FASTER AND WITH ALTERNATIVE AUTHENTICATION
"Launched by MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius, the MariaDB MySQL fork has been released for downloading as version 5.2. The open source database is based on MySQL 5.1.51" FEDORA, LIKE UBUNTU, TO DUMP X FOR WAYLAND
"When I first saw that Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, was dumping the X Window System, which is the networking windowing system that's the foundation of almost all Unix and Linux graphical desktop, for Wayland, an OpenGL-based display management system, I wondered if other Linux distributors would follow." F1 - NEW FIREFOX EXTENSION TO SHARE LINKS FAST AND EASY
"Mozilla Labs has always been a really interesting place to explore. They created ripples across the web by showcasing brilliant Seabird Mozilla Concept Phone a month ago. Now here is another quite useful Firefox extension to share links fast and neat by Mozilla Labs." PREVIEW: DEBIAN 6 "SQUEEZE" STANDARD + KDE TRINITY
"Debian needs no further introduction, so follow the jump to see the rest. I followed these tutorials to do this: this one on doing a net installation of "Squeeze", and this one on doing a minimal net installation of Debian 4 "Etch" with the X Windowing System." CAN FIREBIRD GAIN AGAINST MYSQL?
"MySQL is now really an Oracle product, price included. In fact the company announced cutting the lower-level license and support plans, basically raising the minimum price 4 times at 2,000 USD per server. Not cheap for a database most people think it is free..." WINDOWS PHONE LOCKS-IN MICROSD CARDS
"Now Engadget have discovered that the Windows Phone OS makes permanent changes to a card that can prevent it from being read, written to or formatted on any other device." OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMMING FOR BEGINNERS
"Sometimes even experienced developers can be a bit overwhelmed by Linux?s extensive development capabilities. Sit back and soak up these tips to become a smarter and more productive Linux developer overnight" 55 OPEN SOURCE REPLACEMENTS FOR POPULAR MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE
"For this list, we collected some of the best open source apps to help you view, find, buy, share, create, organize and manage multimedia files. While they may not be as well known as the commercial software they can replace, many of them are just as good if not better than their counterparts" MICROSOFT BREAKS PETAFLOP BARRIER, LOSES TOP 500 SPOT TO LINUX
"Microsoft says a Windows-based supercomputer has broken the petaflop speed barrier, but the achievement is not being recognized by the group that tracks the world's fastest supercomputers, because the same machine was able to achieve higher speeds using Linux." INTERNET2 ACCELERATES TO 100 GIGABIT
"Internet2 is moving to 100 Gigabit per second (100G) networking thanks to new technologies and standards. Internet2 is a high-speed network connecting over 50,000 research and educational facilities." IT IS FINALLY PROVEN: APPLE USERS ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN PC USERS
"The results were quiet astonishing: Test takers using an Apple computer score more than 6 IQ points higher than users of a PC!" 6 SECURE LINUX WI-FI AUTHENTICATION SERVERS
"All of your wi-fi Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) needs can be met on a Linux; Eric Geier rounds up six excellent Free/Open Source RADIUS servers for Linux" FEDORA 14: STRONG FOLLOW-UP TO 13 STILL SUFFERS FROM SAME NICHE APPEAL
"As far as Linux is concerned, there are distributions that are ready for the masses (Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Linux Minut) and there are distributions whose appeal doesn?t go much further than a niche of users. Fedora Linux, however, is a distribution that seems to want to vacillate between target audiences." OPEN-XCHANGE CONTINUES TO DELIVER SOLID COLLABORATION
"There's another open source messaging solution, though, that scales quite well into the SMB space, and it gives you the flexibility to install locally or use it as a software as a service utility: Open-Xchange." WINDOWS LEGACY APPS VS. LINUX DESKTOP ADOPTERS?
"In a previous article on Linux-Window desktop competition, I shared my thoughts on why desktop Linux shouldn?t focus on competing with Windows." INSTANT PREVIEWS: UNDER THE HOOD
"If you?ve used Google Search recently, you may have noticed a new feature that we?re calling Instant Previews. By clicking on the (sprited) magnifying glass icon next to a search result you see a preview of that page" | 
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