| Linux Today News LINUX BACKUP SERVER: REMOTE WAKEUP, AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN
"In part 3 of this series we learn how to use WOL, Wake-on-LAN, and the finer points of shutting a system down." IS MOBILE MAKING LINUX MENUS OBSOLETE?
"Are menus starting to disappear from the Linux desktop? A survey of the alternatives suggests that, at the very least, menus seem to be evolving out of recognition in response to modern trends, particularly the effort to make workstation and laptop desktops more like mobile interfaces." THREE THINGS TO NOT FORGET TO MAKE LIBREOFFICE (AND ODF) SUCCEED
"OpenOffice (OOo) is the free, currently most popular alternative to Microsoft Office, the office suite that (with active help from some schools and Public Administrations) creates cocain-like addiction problems. " OPEN-SOURCE FIRM DECRIES SOFTWARE ABUSE
"An open-source software company claims a website violates its trademark and uses it to distribute a media-player program riddled with "potentially malicious" spyware." SKY.COM OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
I turned on my TV this morning to check the news before going to work to be greeted by a message informing me that my sky satellite box had been updated overnight and was now using some opensource software NOVELL ATTACHMATE ATTRACTS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT INVESTIGATIONS
"Not everyone is happy about Attachmate's bid to acquire Novell for $2.2 billion. In fact, the deal has now attracted at least two (and likely many more to come) legal 'investigations' which could ultimately result in class action law suits." THE ENTERPRISE'S OPEN STORAGE QUANDARY
"The demand for enterprise storage continues to grow. Still, many organizations, even those on the bleeding edge when it comes to application use, are reluctant to consider open source storage options when it comes to their fundamental IT infrastructure." NVIDIA UPGRADES TOOLKIT FOR GPU PROGRAMMING
"Nvidia announced the availability of the production release of its CUDA (compute unified device architecture) Toolkit 3.2. This provides performance increases, new math libraries, and advanced cluster management features..." WHO REALLY BOUGHT NOVELL? MICROSOFT.
"But tell me, where did Attachmate get $2.2-billion? Could it have been Microsoft? I think so." OPEN SOURCE AND THE FEDERAL BUDGET SQUEEZE, PART 2
"But vendors often still don't match up with government procurement procedures or certified vendor lists. "Attaining government certification or listing is the perfect role for a commercial organization backing an open source project."" STAGE 2 OF THE LINUX EXPERIENCE: BODHI
"Canonical is attracting hordes of new Linux users with a ready-to-go, good-looking distro. But where does a noob go when they are no longer a noob? What is there for an IT pro with little Linux experience? How about the brand-new Bodhi Linux?" TINY CORE LINUX 3.3 RELEASED
"Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of version 3.3 of Tiny Core Linux." BACK IN TIME, A FREE AND SIMPLE BACKUP SOFTWARE FOR LINUX
"I bumped into Back In Time, a simple backup utility for Linux that is inspired by Flyback and Timevault. One of the main goals of the project is to get and combine the best features of Flyback and Timevault and put them all on Back In Time." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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NETWORK FILE SYSTEMS AND LINUX
"Summary: Network File System (NFS) has been around since 1984, but it continues to evolve and provide the basis for distributed file systems." UBUNTU TO BECOME A ROLLING RELEASE
"Mark Shuttleworth recently told reporters that Ubuntu will likely be moving from its current six-month release schedule to daily updates." 50 OPEN SOURCE APPS YOU CAN USE IN THE CLOUD
"The cloud computing boom has brought a surge of opportunity to the open source world. Open source developers and users are taking advantage of these opportunities in three key ways." HADOOP CLUSTER SETUP ON DEBIAN LENNY
"Today I will describe the setup of a Hadoop / HDSF multi-node cluster on Debian Lenny with a redundant Namenode using DRBD and Heartbeat, four Datanodes and Tasktracker, a Backup- Checkpointnode and Rack awareness." TUXTORIAL - AN EASY WAY TO CREATE AND SHARE TUTORIALS FOR GNU/LINUX
Tuxtorial makes it easy to write and share tutorials for software in Linux. An intuitive desktop application helps you gather screenshots, code fragments, and outputs from shell commands... EFF TOOL OFFERS NEW PROTECTION AGAINST 'FIRESHEEP'
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new version of HTTPS Everywhere, a security tool that offers enhanced protection for Firefox browser users against "Firesheep" and other exploits of webpage security flaws." CROSSOVER LINUX REVIEW
"For about four months now, I have been using the Ubuntu Linux operating system full-time on both my desktop and notebook computer. A few weeks into this experience, I wrote an article sharing some of my findings about the Windows to Linux migration process." IS IT TOO LATE FOR AN OPEN SOURCE CHALLENGE TO FACEBOOK?
"This week, none other than the founder of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, pronounced that social networks are a "threat to the web." Is he right?" THE 6 BEST SOCIAL MEDIA PLUGINS FOR WORDPRESS
"A great way to increase the popularity of your blog is by using other forms of social media to promote it. Wordpress has many plugins to help you with this endeavor." IDC SAYS SMARTPHONE SHOPPERS READY FOR HOLIDAY BLITZ
"Smartphones are changing the way consumers and retailers interact, giving both parties greater flexibility and opportunities during the online holiday shopping season." HOW TO INSTALL GOOGLE EARTH ON UBUNTU 10.10
"In previous Ubuntu versions, there was a Google Earth .deb package available in the Medibuntu repository; unfortunately there is no such package for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)." HERE I GO! REBEL OPENSUSE!
"Well, I know it has been a long time for me to come up with what I think, is the start of a good future. I can only do mockups but I am sure that if there is a programmer brave enough out there to take this idea and turn it into a reality, be my guest." PASSWORD MANAGEMENT
"While I was writing this article, I ran across a great phrase so perfect for this month?s topic that I have to share it with you: ?password fatigue?" KINECT CAMERA VISUALIZATION AND CALIBRATION
"Nicolas Burrus just released some software that grabs images from the Kinect camera and calibrate it in a semi-automatic way. The calibration part is done by using a printed black/white checkerboard." LPC: LIFE AFTER X
"Keith Packard has probably done more work to put the X Window System onto our desks than just about anybody else. With some 25 years of history, X has had a good run, but nothing is forever." NO KMS? NO MESA? RUN WAYLAND OFF A LINUX FRAMEBUFFER!
"Besides needing to get the various tool-kits and other libraries ported to run atop the Wayland Display Server, another requirement limiting the adoption of this X11 Server alternative so far has been the specialized graphics requirements." USING LSOF TO FIND OPEN FILES
"One of the most useful utilities you'll find on Linux and *nix systems is lsof. Short for "list open files," the lsof utility can help identify which files are being used by any given application, which network ports are open, and much more." ITALIAN LEFT LEADER SIGNS BERLUSCONI-LIKE DEAL WITH MICROSOFT
"In case you?re wondering why I?m telling you this, it?s because, right while I write, Nichi Vendola is signing a deal with Microsoft that ?represents the beginning of an important collaboration partnership, whose goal is to promote innovation and excellence in creation, development and usage of ICT technologies and solutions, adding value to the role of the Region in direct relationships with the biggest international groups of that sector?." TO THE CLOUDS WITH LINUX -- BUT WHO CONTROLS IT?
"Imagine a world where you can develop software unconstrained by the normal rules of software, which requires a local installation. CPU, memory, security...each of these issues are now someone else's problem" VANDALIZING OPEN-SOURCE DRIVERS?
"Somebody with root access to the FreeDesktop.org server decided to vandalize the RadeonHD graphics driver in this Git commit. The make files were deleted and replaced with "It's dead, Jim"" 10 COOL SCREENLETS FOR UBUNTU GNOME
"If you haven't used Screenlets in your Ubuntu yet, it is an excellent application to experiment with. And hundreds of useful third party user contributed screenlets are available for free. Here is a quick review of some of the best user contributed screenlets available for Ubuntu GNOME." BOXEE BOX REVIEW
"The Boxee has been built with a simple goal in mind. Its creators say that "a lot of your favorite shows and movies are already available on the Internet. Boxee is a device that finds them and puts them on your TV. It's easy to use and even better, there's no monthly fee"." MEET MEEGO
"Android might get all the headlines, but MeeGo, the little Linux that could, may yet become an important Linux for your phones, netbooks, tablets, and cars." EASILY PRINT TO PDF, POSTSCRIPT AND SVG FILES FROM ANY APPLICATION [UBUNTU]
"There are plenty of extensions you can install that allow you to create PDF file for any webpage you come across. Well, if you are using Linux (particularly Ubuntu), this PDF creation feature is already inbuilt in your system and you can use it without installing any other extensions/applications." NOVELL SELLS OUT TO ATTACHMATE, LEAVES THE FUTURE OF SUSE LINUX UNCLEAR
"The announcement that Novell has agreed to sell itself to Attachmate for $2.2 billion does absolutely nothing to remove the huge question mark hanging over the future of Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Novell's open source Linux OS. Annoyingly for SLES customers, it actually raises as many questions as it answers." TROUBLESHOOTING LINUX SERVERS
"You thought you had it all working, didn't you? But then your users report slowdowns, or your logfiles are empty, or jobs don't run-- so how do you find out what's going on?" | 
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