| Linux Today News 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." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
LINUX EMBEDS ITSELF YET FURTHER
"One of the many confusingly-similar groups in the open source space is Linaro: a Not For Profit (NFP) organization that aims to make embedded open source development easier and faster." SHELL SCRIPTING FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
"Swayam Prakasha concludes his excellent three part series on shell scripting with some of the more advanced concepts, including two very useful commands" HOW TO TRY TO STOP DDOS ATTACKS
"The truth of the matter is that there isn?t a damn thing you can do that will stop a serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. There are though some ways to try to deal with them." USING POWERTOP TO LOWER SYSTEM POWER USAGE
"Ever wonder what's sucking the life out of your Linux laptop's battery or contributing to higher electric bills in the server room? Check out Powertop, a tool for profiling a system to see what is using the most power." 5 OPEN SOURCE MUSIC GAMES FOR GNU/LINUX
"Believe it or not, GNU/Linux is already an amazing game platform. You might find this statement entirely implausible or rather incredulous but I really mean it." 5 IMPORTANT CHANGES THAT REINVENTED UBUNTU IN 2010
"Yet another year is coming to an end. As far as Ubuntu and Canonical are concerned, 2010 is perhaps *the* most eventful year in their history. Let us take a quick flashback and analyse the most important changes Ubuntu has made during the year." SECURITY ALERT: BACKDOOR FOUND IN HP MODULAR STORAGE ARRAYS
"If you do happen to use on at your place of work, you should be aware of a recent discovery that there is a hidden user on each of these boxes that does not show up in the user manager." 2010 SERVER OS WINNERS AND LOSERS
"like any year, 2010 had some obvious winners, some downright losers, and a quite a few merchants of "meh." Here are the 8 most notable server OS developments that took place in 2010." HURRY! WIN A $50 GIFT CARD TO LINUX.COM STORE
"To say thank you this holiday season to past, present and future individual members, we have announced a drawing for one of five $50 U.S. gift vouchers to the Linux.com Store." WORKING WITH COLORS IN SCRIBUS
"In this article by Cedric Gemy, author of Scribus 1.3.5 Beginner's Guide, we will spend some time on using some color options, and will be able to get a custom render when needed." BREAKING NEWS ON EFF VICTORY: APPEALS COURT HOLDS THAT EMAIL PRIVACY PROTECTED BY FOURTH AMENDMENT
"In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers." WHAMCLOUD: OPEN SOURCE LUSTRE MOVES FORWARD
"The filesystem of choice for many of the top 500 supercomputers is the open source Lustre filesystem. Lustre started off as a Sun Microsystems effort and is now under the stewardship of Oracle." AT&T BLOCKS LINUX CONFIGURATION
"Editor note: In the first 24 hours this blog has been up, we have had 8 clients inform us that they are canceling their AT&T installs scheduled in the next 2 weeks." GOOGLE'S CHROMEOS MEANS LOSING CONTROL OF DATA, WARNS GNU FOUNDER RICHARD STALLMAN
"New cloud computing OS released by Google is plan to push people into 'careless computing', warns free software advocate" KDE/GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE 2010 (PART 1 OF 2)
"For the sixth time, KDE has mentored students as part of the Google Summer of Code program. The students get to take their first steps writing code for a Free Software project with a mentor by their side for a summer." NO MORE UBUNTU 11.04 PS3 CD IMAGES
"Canonical, through Colin Watson, announced a few minutes ago that starting with today, December 14th, they will no longer build ISO images for the PlayStation 3 gaming console." MIDGARD2 10.05.2 "RATATOSKR" LTS RELEASED
"The Midgard Project has released the second maintenance release of Midgard2 10.05.2 "Ratatoskr" LTS. Ratatoskr LTS is a Long Term Support version of Midgard2 Content Repository." REVIEW: AMAROK 2.4 BETA 1 LOOKS VERY PROMISING
"The first Amarok 2.4 beta, codenamed ?Closer?, was released just a few days ago, on December 7, and it looks very promising." AIR FORCE BLOCKS MEDIA SITES (BLOCKS WIKILEAKS)
"The U.S. Air Force is blocking its personnel from using work computers to view the websites of the New York Times and other major publications that have posted classified diplomatic cables, people familiar with the matter said." ORAGOOGLE - THE JOCKEYING FOR POSITION BEGINS IN EARNEST WITH DUELING PROTECTIVE ORDERS
"The Oracle v. Google Java litigation now begins in earnest, with each side offering a proposed protective order, along with a handy table of the disputed provisions. Say, I think Groklaw has a claim for prior art on that kind of table." GNU JURIS PENGUINUS
"Electronic court filing. Paperless record management systems. Twittering jurors. Web-surfing secretaries. Web-surfing judges. Thumb drives, gigaflops and terrabytes. Cell phones smarter than law partners. LANS, WANS and Wifi. Welcome to the brave new world of the digital Information Age." DEVELOPER CLAIMS FBI IMPLEMENTED BACKDOORS IN OPENBSD
"The US Federal Bureau of Investigation implemented a number of backdoors in the open cryptographic framework used in OpenBSD, according to a former developer of the operating system." WHO GOOGLE HAS IN MIND FOR ITS CHROME OS USERS
"Google isn?t telling me any secrets about its plans for Chrome OS. Indeed, I?m not even one of the 60,000 or so people that Google has given a Cr-48 Chromebook prototype to play with." SPOTLIGHT ON LINUX: ZEVENOS-NEPTUNE 1.9.1
"ZevenOS is a German-born project that offers Debian-based and Ubuntu-based versions of their BeOS-like system. " WAITING FOR THE RAPTURE
"I get tired of waiting for FOSS to fulfill its potential. While it has come a long way, FOSS still isn't as universal as I thought it would be by now." RETURN OF VAMAN IN AN E-GOVERNED E-SOCIETY
"Summary: This talk explains the importance of open source and open format. And why their use is crucial in e-governace and e-society." NVIDIA AND AMD RELEASE NEW VIDEO DRIVERS FOR LINUX
"Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the two major companies specialized in programmable graphics processor technologies, released a couple of days ago new and improved versions of their video drivers for Linux systems, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures." PHP SCRIPTS FOR INTERACTING WITH NETWORKS
"PHP has a great many tools for interacting with a network and also with the Internet. In this article, I examine some of those tools and functions to show how exactly you can use them to make your scripts more useful in a network environment. Click here to download the accompanying source code." CLEMENTINE 0.6 GETS LOTS OF NEW FEATURES - REVIEW AND INSTALLATION IN UBUNTU
"Clementine gains more and more popularity with its port to KDE4 based upon the Amarok 1.4 player, and the latest version bundles a fair amount of new features." | 
