| Linux Today News NON-PROFITS LEAD THE WAY WITH LINUX
"At the same time, the forces behind big label proprietary software applications rail back against open source by saying the open source approach to enterprise needs will end up costing more money in the long run." DEBIAN AND RED HAT CLOSE EXIM HOLE
"Four days after a security hole was discovered in the free Exim mail server, the developers of Debian and Red Hat have released corrected versions for their Linux distributions" ANDROID WILL BE USING EXT4 STARTING WITH GINGERBREAD
"Starting with Gingerbread, newer Android phones (starting with the Nexus S) will be using the ext4 file system. Very cool!" GOOD NEWS OUT OF UNIGINE'S LINUX GAME COMPETITION
"Last month the company behind the very advanced Unigine Engine launched a Linux game development competition whereby they would give away a free license to the game development team that came up with the best game idea and would provide a native Linux game client. Submissions for this contest ended on Friday." 6 FREE WAYS TO STAY SECURE IN THE NEW YEAR
"Fortunately, you don?t necessarily need to spend money for top-notch security software. If you resolve to stay secure in the New Year, here are a half-dozen no-cost ways to do it." KUBUNTU 10.10 REVIEW
"Gareth Halfacree takes the KDE spin of popular desktop Linux distribution Ubuntu, known as Kubuntu, through its paces" TOP 50 PROGRAMMING QUOTES OF ALL TIME
"I hope you have enjoyed our collection of funny computer quotes, Linux quotes, and all those quotes that we have shared with you so far. For today, I've decided to gather a good number of my all-time favorite programming-related quotes." TOP 5 SECURITY THREATS IN HTML5
"But with any major introduction of new features, HTML5 also brings with it potential security vulnerabilities â?? which is not to say that HTML5 is "flawed," but that, invariably, there will be new attack vectors for hackers to exploit." MAKING REALISTIC CHARACTERS FOR BLENDER WITH MAKEHUMAN
"But it?s obviously a very often-needed task, using a lot of common elements, so you?d think someone would come up with a tool to make it easier. And you?d be right. The free-software tool of choice for this task is MakeHuman" WHEN COMPUTERS GO WRONG
"Here, we look at ten IT disasters that highlight the precariously fickle nature of computers. Although our top ten mistakes may have caused lasting damage to the finances or reputations of those involved, nobody was physically harmed in the making of this list." WHO USES LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE IN BUSINESS?
"Thanks to Glyn Moody, a UK-based technology journalist, I?ve just learned that Netflix is not only using, but also contributing, to numerous open-source projects. They?re in good company." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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JOLICLOUD 1.1 REVIEW
"Jolicloud 1.1 is the latest stable release of Jolicloud, the cloud-based, Ubuntu-based distribution. Other than being a cloud-based distribution, the most distinctive feature of Jolicloud is the netbook-optimzed interface, which is one of five netbook-optimized interfaces available on Linux and BSD distributions." HELPING THE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR TO GAIN ENOUGH ENTROPY WITH RNG-TOOLS (DEBIA
"You might know this situation: you want to generate a GPG or SSL key, and during that operation, your system tells you that no more random bytes are available and that it needs to collect more entropy, and you are stuck. This short guide tells you how to solve this problem" MAJOR AD NETWORKS FOUND SERVING MALICIOUS ADS
"Two major online ad networks--DoubleClick and MSN--were serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week, experts say, after a group of attackers was able to trick the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating an online advertising provider." 21 MORE NOTABLE FREE LINUX GAMES (PART 1 OF 3)
A CALL TO SUPPORT A NEW PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN U.S. STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
"It is also consequential because the decision to issue the RFI reflects the recognition by policy makers that our existing standards development process, both on the public as well as the private side, was never designed to address challenges that involve multiple industry sectors." INTRODUCING UBERBANG 10.04
"If you've been keeping up with this blog, you'll know that CrunchBang ("#!"), an Openbox distribution that was previously based on Ubuntu, has switched to a Debian base (and has added Xfce to the mix as well)." JACKASS IT: STUNTS, IDIOCY, AND HERO HACKS
"We've all been there: an IT problem so ridiculous that only a ridiculous solution can solve it." SLAX - STILL ALIVE IN THE SLAX COMMUNITY REMIX
"Once upon a time Slax and KNOPPIX were the de facto Linux live CD distributions. Dating back to 2003 Slax was certainly one of the first, and its creator, widely known as Tomas M, gave the community the Linux-live scripts and pioneered modules instead of packages for an easy install of additional programs." UPGRADING CHINA'S ITC STANDARDS STRATEGY
"A variety of constituencies from the West have taken it upon themselves to reach out to China to "educate" the Chinese about the existing global standards development infrastructure, and to urge them to take part in that infrastructure in the same way as do other countries." ANNOUNCING FUDUNTU 14.7
"I would like to announce the immediate release of Fuduntu Linux version 14.7. This version brings minor changes to the OS defaults, and fixes a few bugs. All changes released in the ISOs are available as updates to current Fuduntu users" THE BUNGA BUNGA DICTATOR: A (STUPIDLY) WINDOWS-ONLY SHOW
"Unfortunately, I couldn?t. Why? Because to see it online, in streaming, I should have had a browser plugin for a Windows format. A plugin that I, being a Fedora Linux user, do not have on my computer by default" SHOULD DEVELOPERS BE ALLOWED TO TALK TO CUSTOMERS?
"An effort to get a developer to speak directly to a customer didn't go so well. Was it the developer's fault?" KRITA 2.3, NEW FEATURE #5: CANVAS ROTATION
"I have been dreaming of this feature for ages, and then I bought a tablet PC a few days before it get implemented in Krita when I do not need it anymore :) But it is still an extremelly cool feature, that was started by Luká? Tvrdý and finished by Dmitry Kazakov." TWENTY-TEN: THE PICKS OF THE LITTER
"That curiosity is bent toward very low-end computers though, and it?s not enough to me to just show a pretty desktop at 150Mhz if the overall experience feels like your head is being pressed through a bowl of mashed potatoes." NETFLIX OPENS UP ABOUT OPEN SOURCE
"Even though it is generally accepted that open source is used widely throughout the business world, it doesn't hurt having a few high-profile examples to point to when people doubt its suitability for this role." MANAGING TEMPLATES IN LIBREOFFICE
"Templates are a way to manage frequently used, pre-formatted documents that keep you from having to re-create the same forms over and over. OpenOffice.org.org and its successor LibreOffice have a built-in system for handling templates." WHAT THE FORUMS SEARCH CAN DO FOR YOU
"This time i would like to write about a very underestimated feature of the KDE Community Forums, because i am pretty sure most of you don't even know what it can do for you." FSF ESSAY ARGUES FREEDOM OVER QUALITY
"Getting into the middle of a discussion on the virtues of open source versus free software is about as smart as trying to reconcile the two major US political parties at this point in history--in other words, a fool's errand." OPEN BALLOT: WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST LINUX EVENT IN 2010?
"We're gearing up to record our last podcast of 2010, and in this episode we'll be looking back on a very eventful year for the Linux community. In our Open Ballot - which isn't really an Open Ballot this time, we'll admit - we want you to tell us: what was the biggest event in the Linux world for you?" 56 OPEN SOURCE REPLACEMENTS FOR POPULAR WEB DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN TOOLS
"Open source Web development tools have come a long way. The open source community offers a huge array of applications that are useful to Web developers and designers. In many cases, these open source tools are even more widely used than their closed source counterparts" ARS TECHNICA: PAUL ALLEN'S PATENT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT DISMISSED
"Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has hit a snag in his massive patent infringement suit against Apple, Google, Netflix, Facebook, YouTube, and numerous others. US District Judge Marsha Pechman dismissed the lawsuit on Friday, according to court documents, saying that Allen's company failed to specify infringing products from any of the 11 companies." 5 OPEN SOURCE ERP PROJECTS TO WATCH
"Whatever the incarnation, Enterprise Resource Planning is at the heart of every business with the world?s largest software companies are all clamouring for a piece of the action." ICANN DELAYS .XXX AND GTLDS
"The delay on gTLDs was accompanied by another deferral by ICANN on the .XXX top level domain, a topic ICANN has been grappling with for a decade." INSTALL AND CONFIGURE PACKETFENCE ON UBUNTU LINUX
"Packetfence is one of the most powerful network access control applications available. With this tool you can control who (what, and when) has access to your network." CHROME OS: PLEASE DON?T OPEN THE HOOD
"However, those close-ups can be harder to see than you might expect. Since Google is not releasing any official downloads, you need to either compile your own code, or to sort through the unofficial releases until you find one that is not only reasonably current, but whose source also seems trustworthy." WHY MOZILLA DOESN'T BACK FREE FLASH PLAYERS
"Despite Apple's best efforts to make it go away, the Web is still littered with Flash-based sites and content." THE LINUX KERNEL?S IMPACT ON THE DESKTOP USER EXPERIENCE
"To illustrate this point, let?s take a look at some recently introduced features in the Linux kernel, and what they mean for the desktop user experience." CHROME BROWSER, OS UPDATED FOR SECURITY
"One of the high impact flaws only affects 64-bit Linux builds of Chrome with a bad validation issue for message deserialization." | 
