| Linux Today News 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" DEBIAN LENNY: HOW TO CONFIGURE GRUB AND FSTAB FOR UPDATING MULTIPATH KERNEL INIT
"High end x86 / amd64 machines may fail to boot updated Debian GNU/Linux 5.x Lenny kernel images." AN OPEN SOURCE TOOLKIT FOR YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
"Whether your small business has been around for years or you?re just starting out, it simply makes good sense to use open source software for everything from managing your office network to putting together slide decks for your next client presentation." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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AMAZON EC2 INTRODUCES NEW GPU CLUSTER INSTANCES
"If you have a mid-range or high-end video card in your desktop PC, it probably contains a specialized processor called a GPU or Graphics Processing Unit. The instruction set and memory architecture of a GPU are designed to handle the types of operations needed to display complex graphics at high speed." THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE: LINUX'S ACHILLES HEEL
"TO LOSE one hard drive during a busy week may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Both had been churning away, day in day out, for years?one in an elderly Windows workhorse, the other in an equally old Linux machine." US VHA HEAD BOOSTS OS SOFTWARE
"Ken Kizer is the miracle man of U.S. health care. Mr. Kizer brought in bold reform that transformed the vast and woeful Veterans Health Administration into an efficient, effective model institution with sky-high patient satisfaction." INTRODUCTION TO BLENDER 2.5: COLOR GRADING
"With color grading, we can turn a motion picture or still image into different types of mood and time of the day, we can fake lens filters and distortions, highlight part of an image via bright spotting, remove red eye effects, denoise an image, add glares, and a lot more." KMART DEBUTS $180 ANDROID TABLET
"Kmart began selling an Android 2.1 tablet from Digital Gadgets for $180 called the Sylvania 7" Tablet. Meanwhile, NEC will soon start shipping its LifeTouch Android tablet, sales of Toshiba's Folio 100 Android tablet have been halted due to screen defects, and Lenovo is prepping a tablet for 2011, say reports." ANTI-FIRESHEEP TRICK PROTECTS LINUX USERS
"The Firesheep plug-in for Firefox has done an admirable job of illustrating the insecurity of public Wi-Fi, just as its creators intended. Now that it's out there in the wild, however, the question for users is how to protect their sensitive information." CDE: AUTOMATIC PACKAGING OF CODE, DATA, AND ENVIRONMENT
"CDE is a tool that automatically packages up the Code, Data, and Environment involved in running any set of Linux commands so that they can execute identically on another computer without any installation or configuration." FINAL REPORT FROM FOSSA 2010 IN GRENOBLE
"The fOSSa 2010 conference in Grenoble did a good job to prove (since it?s still sorely needed, see conclusions below) that Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) isn?t some unreliable toy for amateurs." MY THOUGHTS ON THE SWITCH TO WAYLAND
"Like anybody cares for what I think, right? Anyway... I made a comment in one of these wayland-related news at linuxtoday and Carla Shroder took the time to ask me: "...why all that extra complexity to go back to where we were in the first place?"" TEST-DRIVING BORDEAUX 2.0.8
"There are thousands upon thousands of programs floating around the digital world and there's one problem: they don't all run on your operating system." REVIEW: GNU/LINUX UTOPIA 12112010
"Reader Manuel kindly asked me to write a review of a distribution he has created called GNU/Linux Utopia, and I am doing that right now." THE APPLE-ORACLE PLOT AGAINST OPEN SOURCE
"It?s really quite clever. Tie Google up in court, sign a deal with Apple to coordinate development of Java, and ignore the open source community." THE CASE FOR NATIONAL LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS
"There's a lot of news flying around at the moment about the latest Russian attempt to create a national, Linux-based operating system. Let's take a look at some of the issues that surround the creation of national Linux distributions." QUICK AND EASY PRINTER SHARING IN GNOME
"With the latest releases of the GNOME desktop, printer sharing is as easy as it is in any other operating system." A REPORT FROM OPENSQLCAMP
"What do you get when you put together 80 to 100 hard-core database geeks from ten different open source databases for a weekend? OpenSQLCamp, which was held most recently at MIT" RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6
"In the new version 6 of its flagship product, Red Hat has incorporated many technological developments of the past few years. Compared to its predecessor, this release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux therefore contains a large number of changes." LIBREOFFICE RETHINKS THE OFFICE SUITE
"LibreOffice only forked from OpenOffice.org six weeks ago. Already, however, news about its future directions is starting to trickle out. The details are sometimes sketchy, but they suggest that LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org could diverge more quickly than most observers imagined" TENSIONS BETWEEN UBUNTU, FEDORA MOUNT OVER NEW WEBSITE
"In an ideal world, free-software developers would happily get along and cooperate towards the same ends. But the world?s far from perfect, as rising tensions between the Ubuntu and Fedora camps have made clear recently in the wake of the founding a new website intended, ironically, to promote ?respect? within the open-source ecosystems." CHECK APACHE SERVER STATUS FROM A WEB PAGE
"Sometimes you want to see how your server is doing without SSH'ing into the system. One way to do this is to set up a Web page that shows Apache status. Sound difficult? Not really, it's a default module for Apache and easy to enable." MANDRIVA CHRISTMAS PRESENT AND BEYOND
"Eugeni Dodonov, newly appointed Mandriva Cooker Manager, has posted the details of the next two Mandriva releases as well as announced the new release schedule policy." OPENOFFICE BUG-- STUCK IN DOCUMENT RECOVERY LOOP
"Does OpenOffice get stuck in Document Recovery and drive you crazy? Here is how I got out." THE ~200 LINE LINUX KERNEL PATCH THAT DOES WONDERS
"There is a new patch that has not yet been merged but has undergone a few revisions over the past several weeks and it is quite small -- just over 200 lines of code -- but it does wonders for the Linux desktop." MYSQL HOTBACKUPS WITH XTRABACKUP
"Hotbackups are a staple of many different database platforms, but they remain sadly absent from the core MySQL distribution. Not to worry, the open-source XtraBackup utility has just arrived to rescue you." EMACS IN THE REAL WORLD - PART 3
"Forget Perl?s claims, Emacs really is the Swiss Army chainsaw of the *NIX world. Join Richard Smedley for the conclusion of his three-part series, this time exploring how you can live your life online and do it faster and better with Emacs..." ANTIVIRUS COMPANIES, MICROSOFT AT ODDS OVER SECURITY ESSENTIALS
"Trend Micro spoke out claiming that the action violated antitrust regulations, a concern which was quickly echoed by other antivirus manufacturers including Panda Security." AMD BOBCAT CHIPS: FASTER THAN A SPEEDING ATOM
"We already knew that Zacate chips would provide more processing power and significantly better graphics performance than Intel?s Atom chips? now we have a better idea of just how much more." GRML, THE NO-FRILLS LINUX RESCUE CD--USB
"You want a good end-user live CD? Go with Knoppix. You want a server admin's toolbox with minimal fluff and maximum usability? Go with grml, a Debian-based live CD/USB that packs in more than 1,700 applications and utilities." | 
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