| Linux Today News TEN WAYS TO STOP NOVICE USERS QUITTING LINUX
"It's all very well handing out Linux machines to users unfamiliar with the operating system, but you risk running into problems that a little preparation could easily avoid, says Jack Wallen." KEEP AN EYE ON NETWORK USAGES WITH NETCOUNTER FOR ANDROID
"Many (if not all) wireless carriers have bandwidth caps, so it makes a lot of sense to keep an eye on your network usage to avoid going over the limit." 21 MORE NOTABLE FREE LINUX GAMES (PART 2 OF 3)
"This article is the second instalment in a three part series, identifying free games that are worth giving a whirl. If you missed the first part, it is available to read here. We have again tried to cover a wide range of game genres. Hopefully there will be something in this article which will be of interest to any type of gamer." SETTING UP REMOTE GRAPHICAL DESKTOPS ON LINUX
"Linux offers multiple remote graphical desktop options for other Linux hosts, but what if you run a mixed Linux-Windows shop? Eric Geier shows how to run remote Windows desktops on Linux." UBUNTU MYOPIA CONTINUES AMONG USERS
"Ubuntu is a good Linux distribution, but does the large user community realize that there are others?" SOLVED! WIFI WORKS ON THE TOSHIBA SATELLITE L675 UNDER 64-BIT FEDORA 14 PART 1
"In a recent article, I discussed the fact that I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite L675 laptop. I absolutely love the machine, but I did have two problems with it under Fedora 14 64-Bit Edition:" IS NOKIA DOOMED?
"There?s been a lot of discussion regarding whether or not Nokia is Doomed or not. The people who say Nokia are doomed basically point out that Nokia doesn?t have any attractive products at the high end, and at the low end the margins are extremely thin." THE MOST IMPORTANT FREE SPEECH ISSUE OF OUR TIME
"This Tuesday is an important day in the fight to save the Internet." APACHE TOMCAT GETS NEW SUPPORT WITH WSO2 APPLICATION SERVER 4.0
"The worlds of web services and web application hosting are coming together in a new release from software vendor WSO2. The new WSO2 Application Server 4.0 platform integrates SOA capabilities with Apache Tomcat for Java middleware applications." ANDROID 2.3 CODE HITS THE NET
"The Android 2.3 code is being posted in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repositories. It would have been nice to see it while it was under development, but this is far better than nothing" A LOOK AT LINUXCONSOLE 1.0.2010
"The LinuxConsole distribution was my dark horse of 2009. It was a small, French Linux distro which managed to be compact, fast and included an interesting approach to software management. Aside from some translation quirks in the distro's text, I found it to be an enjoyable system to use." INSTALLING NGINX WITH PHP5 (AND PHP-FPM) AND MYSQL SUPPORT ON FEDORA 14
"Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 14 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support" Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
ORACLE AND GOOGLE STIPULATE TO A PROPOSED PROTECTIVE ORDER
"After the presiding judge, the Hon. William Alsup, ruled the other day on the parties' remaining disputes over proposed terms for a protective order in the Oracle v. Google litigation, Oracle and Google then got together and have come up with their own solution, a proposed stipulated protective order they are submitting to the court for approval." PREVIEW OF PC-BSD 9 INSTALLER
"The current stable release of PC-BSD available for download is version 8.1. Version 8.2 is due sometime very early next year (mid to late January is the likely release time frame), and version 9 much later." USER FAMILIARITY !=SOFTWARE SUPERIORITY
"Why is it then that FOS softwares are (typically) less commonly used by the general public? Simple: User Familiarity" WORKING ON TECHNOLOGY AT STARTUPS
"Richard Tibbets has called me out for conflating Web 2.0 startups with all startups in my recent blog posting, ?Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap.?. His complaint was that I was over generalizing from Web 2.0 startups to all startups." PCLINUXOS 2010.12 - AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
"A new ISO image of PCLinuxOS, 2010.12, was released at the end of last week. This is even a bit ahead of schedule" TINY CORE LINUX 3.4 ARRIVES
"Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has released version 3.4 of Tiny Core Linux. Based on the 2.6.33.3 Linux kernel, Tiny Core Linux 3.4 features a variety of updates" 10 LAST-MINUTE GIFT IDEAS FOR LINUX GEEKS
"It may be better to give than it is to receive, but that doesn't mean geeks the world over don't have virtual sugarplums dancing through their heads." HOW TO INSTALL SPHINX ON UBUNTU 10.10
"Sphinx is a full-text search engine, publicly distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial licensing (eg. for embedded use) is available upon request. You can use Sphinx for creating big data indexes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC." GOP OPPOSITION TO FCC NET NEUTRALITY PLAN MOUNTS
"Republican lawmakers are ratcheting up their opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's plan to vote on net neutrality rules at its meeting next week, warning against what they see as an unwarranted regulatory overreach." 50 ANDROID APPS FOR THE MOBILE KNOWLEDGE WORKER
"Today's staffer can be at the office one day, at a conference the next and working from a remote office the day after that. The right Android apps can help, even if you're just taking work from your desk to the conference room and back." 18 APPLICATIONS YOU NEED TO INSTALL AND EXPERIENCE AFTER INSTALLING UBUNTU
"We have already featured a post dedicated to things you should do after installing Ubuntu, now lets take a look at the applications/softwares to install after installing Ubuntu. Please bear in mind that this is a post meant for newbie Ubuntu users primarily." FCC NET NEUTRALITY ORDER STRENGTHENED, POISED FOR PASSAGE
"The net neutrality rules the Federal Communications Commission appears poised to approve tomorrow morning will go farther than originally expected to prevent Internet service providers from playing favorites with the content traveling on their data networks, according to two senior FCC officials." 5 REASONS WHY DEBIAN UNSTABLE DOES NOT DESERVE ITS NAME
"Debian Unstable (also known as sid) is one of the 3 distributions that Debian provides (along with Stable and Testing)." LINUX GAMING: NATIVE VS. WINE VS. WINDOWS 7 PERFORMANCE
"Linux gaming has a bright future ahead with the forthcoming Unigine games, successful indie campaigns, and many other Linux-native game titles being just out on the horizon." WHAT?S NEW IN DROPBOX 1.0 FOR UBUNTU
"The folks over at Dropbox released version 1.0 yesterday. This release has been a long time coming and is a major upgrade for Windows, Mac and Linux." BITCOIN - OPEN SOURCE VIRTUAL CURRENCY PROJECT THAT COULD BECOME THE GOLD STANDA
"Bitcoin is an open source peer-to-peer digital currency project. Peer-to-peer (P2P) in this context means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions." TWO OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ALTERNATIVES TO CRON
"A few weeks ago, we looked at using Corntab to make it easier to create entries for cron. What if you want to avoid cron altogether? You can, thanks to several cron alternatives." POSTGRESQL: TIPS AND TRICKSPOSTGRESQL
"PostgreSQL has become an increasingly viable database platform to serve as storage for applications, from classic corporate database use to the latest web apps. But getting the best performance from it has not been an easy subject to learn." 2010: THE YEAR IN FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
"To all appearances, 2010 was a year of business as usual in free and open source software (FOSS). It was neither the long-awaited and derided Year of the Linux Desktop, nor a year marked by any great reversals." LINUX RULES THE CLOUDS
"What I hadn?t realized was just how much better Linux, and in particular, Canonical?s Ubuntu, was doing on in the market place." WORDPRESS NEW BETA-- TO UPGRADE OR NOT TO UPGRADE?
"The nice people behind the popular WordPress blogging and publishing platform have released the 3.1 beta. Should you upgrade? Joe Brockmeier counsels caution" WI-FI ON THE COMMAND LINE
"But, what if you aren't running X11 and want to manage your wireless card?" INTRODUCTION TO LINUX COMMAND-LINE FOR BEGINNERS
"This introductory tutorial addresses new and average Linux users rather than experts who will already know quite everything is explained here." FREE FONTS FOREVER
"When you think open source, chances are you think software. You may not know that there are open-source fonts as well. Today, Google and Ubuntu have released a new free, open font to the Web: the Ubuntu Font Family." | 
