| Linux Today News FACEBOOK TRACKS AND TRACES EVERYONE: LIKE THIS!
"As an alternative business model this allows Facebook to track and trace users and to process their data. It appears that non-Facebook members can also be traced via the Like button." DEBIAN 6.0 ?SQUEEZE? TO COME WITH A COMPLETELY FREE LINUX KERNEL
"The Debian Project has announced that the upcoming release ? Debian 6.0 ?Squeeze? ? will have a completely free Linux kernel. This means that the Linux kernel which ships with Debian 6.0 will not have any non-free firmware." DONATE (OR FUND YOUR PROJECT) VIA CROWDFUNDING
"An extension of this concept is crowdfunding, whereby masses of people fund your project. Think of virtual microlending combined with Internet philanthropy." HOW TO CREATE A SCREENCAST OF YOUR LINUX DESKTOP
"Screencasts have become a very popular way to make tutorials to explain how software or services work in recent years. Let?s look at how you can make them of your own cool project, or anything cool you?re doing with Linux" INSTALLING AND USING OPENVZ ON FEDORA 14
"In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Fedora 14 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project." CAN ANDROID DO SERIOUS LINUX WORK, OR IS IT JUST A TOY?
"The Linux-based Android is the hot new mobile platform, but is it more than an entertainment device? Can it do remote server administration? What about the also red-hot iPad?" TOP 6 EYECANDY COMPIZ ANIMATIONS AND EFFECTS THAT COMES WITH COMPIZ EXPERIMENTAL
"Who doesn't like some eyecandy for their desktops, definitely not me. Compiz has enthralled Ubuntu users for years now. When GNOME officially ditched Compiz for Mutter for its next version, Ubuntu decided to stick with Compiz for its Unity Shell." CREATIVE SUITE FOR LINUX: AN UPDATE
"An Adobe employee has asked Linux users wanting native Creative Suite applications for their OS to submit a ?feature request directly? to the company?s engineering team." GETTING GRUBBY WITH ZFS
"ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems, and is now owned by Oracle. It offers some nice features that Linux does not (yet) have in a production-quality filesystem." SYSTEM CALL FUZZING CONTINUED.
"Work is ongoing on the system call fuzzer I wrote about last month. Since I initially talked about it, it?s found a few more bugs." SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
"There are two great questions in life that people struggle to answer. The first is why we?re here, and the second is why there are so many different Linux distributions" TOUCHING THE X11
"The new X11 protocol for delivering touch data was made as an evolution of the XInput protocol ? XInput 2.1 and the experimental server-side implementation is on its way. Here in Qt we have decided to give it a try and recently I?ve added a branch of Qt implementing parts of the specification." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
WHY HULU PLUS SUCKS, AND WHY YOU SHOULD USE IT ANYWAY
"Hulu Plus is the subscription based big brother to Hulu's free video streaming platform. It costs $7.99 a month, and really does open up the catalog of available titles." THE LINUX 2.6.37 KERNEL NEARS COMPLETION
"This seventh release candidate to the Linux 2.6.37 kernel is just packing regression fixes as it nears completion." NOVELL'S PATENTS BOUGHT BY MICROSOFT, APPLE, EMC, & ORACLE
"When CPTN Holdings appeared out of the blue to snap up Novell?s patent portfolio, the only thing anyone knew about them was that Microsoft was behind the group" THE SCALE 9X CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL FRIDAY DECEMBER 17TH
Deadline Extended Until Friday December 17th-- The Linux Exposition of Southern California is proud to announce the 9th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 25-27, 2011. ORACLE UPDATES OPENOFFICE 3.3 AND DEBUTS CLOUD OFFICE 1.0
"Oracle is out this week with the Open Office 3.3 and Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 releases, introducing new features and technologies to users." MANDRIVA FLASH 2010 CHRISTMAS SALE
"Now here's a special Christmas present for all of you Linux enthusiasts out there, as Mandriva announced the availability of its portable USB Mandriva Flash Drive." THE TOP FIVE OPEN SOURCE NAVIGATION APPS
"Web browsers and messaging tools may grab the bulk of mobile software headlines, but navigation and routing apps are arguably more important ? after all, they tend to be among the biggest data consumers, and a bad one can leave you seriously lost" ORACLE TOPS WALL STREET EARNINGS ESTIMATES
"Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported a bang up second quarter, beating Wall Street profit estimates. The computer company reported software license updates and product revenues grew 12 percent in the quarter to $3.7 billion." GNACKTRACKR3 IS NOW OUT! PENETRATION TESTING FOR GNOME FANS
The GnackTrack team are pleased to announce that GnackTrackR3 is now out. This is newly built with the 2.6.35 kernel and is based on Ubuntu 10.10 so has much better wireless card support. GTD, LINUX AND REMEMBER THE MILK
"As the last article on the methodology ?Getting Things Done? I want to present the site Remember The Milk and some Linux tools that you can use to interface with this service." GOOGLE CHROME READY FOR BUSINESS
"Google announced that Chrome is ready for business and the wait to deploy Chrome and Google Apps for Business is over." OPERA 11 IS HERE - OVERVIEW & SCREENSHOTS
"Opera 11 was released just a few hours earlier today, and it comes with several notable features, a new interface, and many other improvements." CHANGING HOW WE TRACK LAUNCHPAD?S BUGS, QUESTIONS AND BLUEPRINTS
"From today, all Launchpad bugs, code, questions and blueprints are tracked under the one launchpad project." 5 OF THE BEST FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SERVER/NETWORK MONITORING SOFTWARE
"For those of you who are looking for monitoring tools that can handle small to large-scale infrastructures, here is a list of some of the best open-source server/network monitoring software that you can use for free:" RED HAT DICTATES FEDORA 15 WALLPAPER
"Fedora ran a wallpaper and theme concept contest for version 14 to entice community members to get involved with distribution development." UBUNTU AS INTENDED. MY EXPERIENCE OF USING THE ?DEFAULT? UBUNTU
"Recently, after setting up a new Ubuntu Maverick install for my wife, I began to wonder what it would be like to run a system on the defaults." KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.37 (PART 3) - NETWORK AND STORAGE HARDWARE
"Numerous changes to the network and storage code are to increase processing speed and improve the system's hardware support." CREATING AND READING EBOOKS ON LINUX WITH CALIBRE
"But if you don't get the gadget of your choice, or if you want to create content to fill one, you'll find plenty of eBook software for Linux as well as open source software to publish your own." OPENBSD BACKDOOR CLAIMS: CODE AUDIT BEGINS
"The OpenBSD project has found two bugs during an audit of the cryptographic code in which, it has been alleged, the FBI, through former developers, was able to plant backdoors." CODEWEAVERS 30% OFF WINTER SOLSTICE SALES ON CROSSOVER MAC AND LINUX
"While the big box stores and shopping malls run black Friday sales, and in recent years many of the online retailers have began to have black Monday sales. Leave it up to the wacky folks at Codeweavers to have a 30% off Winter Solstice Sales on CrossOver Mac and Linux." TECH COMICS: "OPEN SOURCE FIRMWARE"
"Sometimes non-geeks just don't understand the many advantages of open source." THE FUTURE OF UBUNTU
"Hence hardcore hackers swear by the likes of Fedora and Debian while casual users loved Ubuntu. Ubuntu has decided to take a brave leap into the future by replacing two core systems of it?s desktop UI." FEDORA 14 KDE REVIEW
"In my last look at Fedora 14, I covered the GNOME version. Fedora comes in other flavors though, including a KDE version. Since there are many KDE users out there, I thought it wise to cover the KDE release." MICROSOFT'S CRACKED WINDOWS: HOW THE WORLD'S TECHNOLOGY JUGGERNAUT LOST ITS BU
""The thing that makes Microsoft a great partner for us is that they really are the underdog," Zuckerberg said. "Because of that, they're in a structural position where they're incentivized to just go all out and innovate."" NEW RELEASE OF LIGHTWEIGHT IMAGE VIEWER VIEWNIOR
"Lightweight image viewer Viewnior ? which reached number 5 on our 12 top applications of 2009 ? has gained a host of new features in its first update in 9 months." TOP 10 DISTRIBUTION DEVELOPMENTS IN 2010
"Yes, it?s that time of year. Eggnog, fruitcake, tangled lights, crowded stores, bad weather ? and the annual industry retrospectives. You can?t argue with tradition, though, and 2010 was a very interesting year for Linux and open source. Let?s take a look back at 2010 and see whether it was naughty or nice." PITHOS AND PIANOBAR, FOR THE WIN
"Lifehacker had an article on pianobar, a command line client for Pandora. I found it nicer to use than the web Flash player, but I just had to have my Last.fm scrobbling." IBM TOSSES IN FREEBIE LINUX WITH POWER SERVERS
"IBM has been hoping for years that Linux would drive new workloads on Power-based systems where OS/400-i platforms are the back-end systems ? just as Linux-based partitions have, to a certain extent, been the salvation of the System z mainframe." | 
