| Linux Today News 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." SHOULD SMBS CONSIDER RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6?
"Red Hat's latest major release, which it unveiled last month, places lots of emphasis on the features for big business. But what about the smaller businesses that have -- or want make the switch to -- Linux? How does Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 fit in the picture?" FCC APPROVES FIRST NET NEUTRALITY RULES
"The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted on party lines to approve rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from unreasonable discrimination against lawful content on their networks, the first time the agency has enacted binding net neutrality regulations." JOLICLOUD: CLOUD ENABLED AND NOT JUST FOR NETBOOKS
"There?s a Linux distribution for every occasion and the main purpose of Jolicloud is to present a web enabled GUI for netbooks and similar devices" TOMDROID: NOW WITH ONE-WAY SYNC
"The version of Tomdroid covered in a previous blog post lacked any advanced features like the ability to sync notes." OFFICE GENUINE ADVANTAGE BITES THE DUST
"There were no death notices, but Microsoft confirmed Monday several reports over the weekend that it has killed off its sometimes controversial Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) program." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
10 WAYS GIT VERSION CONTROL CAN STREAMLINE YOUR WRITING PROJECTS
"Establishing a rigorous version control process is a standard part of any software project, and Git is a powerful system for enabling such version control. But Git's advantages extend beyond just software development." INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATOR OF DOUDOULINUX
"Recently I discovered a new kind of Linux: DoudouLinux. It is not a new distribution, but a Debian is a tailor-made for children," WARMUX - FREE CLONE OF WORMS FOR LINUX
"Previously known as Wormux, WarMUX is a free, open-source clone of the popular game Worms, with completely new, free-licensed graphics and music/sounds, available for Linux, Windows and Mac." THE BATTLE FOR OUR DATA: A HOLIDAY ALLEGORY
"While many software developers and enthusiasts have been focusing on the push for open source software, did we miss the fact that somewhere along the line companies got a hold of something even more important: our personal data?" CREATING SELF-SIGNED SSL CERTIFICATES FOR APACHE ON LINUX
"If Firesheep and other menaces have you freaked out about using unsecured connections, it's time to take matters into your own hands. In just under 20 minutes, you can create a self-signed certificate for Apache to connect to your Web site for passing any kind of sensitive information." MY TOP FIVE FAVORITE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR 2010
"In any case, here are my top five favorite Linux distributions for 2010, in no real order." HOW THE ANDROID STOLE CHRISTMAS; A HOLIDAY TALE OF NO TABLETS
"During CES 2010 we saw prototypes of a heck of a lot of Android tablets, a good number of which were based on Nvidia's Tegra 2 chipset. 2010 was going to be the Year of the Tablet and we'd soon see a deluge of Android models hitting the market. Those were heady days for Android fans." EC TAKES ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK IN OPENNESS
"But the EC took two steps backward in every other way as it revised its definition of "open standards," presumably reflecting IT industry efforts to preserve the value of software patents." TOP 10 STORAGE PREDICTIONS FOR 2011 (AND BEYOND)
"The year in review for 2010 can be summarized in two words -- stagnation and consolidation: stagnation as there has been limited innovation, which is totally understandable given the economic downturn, and consolidation" 5 BIGGEST TECH WINNERS FOR 2010
"Among large-cap tech vendors, the biggest winners of 2010 by market capitalization growth came from five different areas of the IT-related landscape: a chip company, a software-as-service provider, a virtualization specialist, an integration provider and a commercial open source vendor" "WHAT'S THIS 'DEEE-BEE-EN' YOU WRITE ABOUT?" OR WILL LINUX EVER MAKE ITS MOVE ON THE DESKTOP?
"Just this weekend, somebody asked me, "What's this 'DEEE-bee-en' you write about?" Would the question be any different with the word "Ubuntu" in there?" 10 BASH TIPS FOR WORKING FASTER WITH THE SHELL (PART 1 OF 2)
"This command is used to bring back and automatically execute the last command in history. It is the same as pressing C^P followed by Enter). Here?s an example:" ULTIMATE LIST OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
"This list of open source software applications covers the gamut ? and then some. After all, 'tis the season to overindulge, and in honor of the occasion we've put together a list with more open source software than anyone can digest in one sitting. Gulp." HOW TO SAFELY CREATE A PARTION INSIDE AN ALREADY PARTITIONED DEVICE
"A partition is a means of dividing the storage capacity of a device, such as a hard disk, into several parts which can then be treated as separate storage devices (?logical devices?). Each logical device is seen by the operating system as a distinct device, and thus is treated as an independent disk." EDITING BATCHES OF PHOTOS EASILY ON LINUX
"Akkana Peck introduces David's Batch Processor, a Gimp plugin that makes editing big batches of photos a breeze. Resize them for the Web, make them lighter or darker, crop, rotate-- DBP does it all." OPENBSD CHIEF BELIEVES CONTRACTOR TRIED TO WRITE BACKDOORS
"The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications." TROUBLESHOOTING MYSQL SLOW QUERIES WITH TCPDUMPS
"MySQL has a wonderful facility for capturing slow queries called the slow query log. However if yours is not enabled when trouble occurs, and restarting the database is not an option, you'll need another solution. This is where a tcpdump can come in handy" MIDGARDCR 10.12 "HRUNGNIR" RELEASED
"The Midgard Project has released the first release of the third generation of the Midgard Content Repository." REVIEW: BRIA ANDROID EDITION VOIP CLIENT
"While VoIP over Wi-Fi is no longer leading edge, VoWi-Fi on a mobile phone is still pushing the envelope a little - VoIP over 3G even more so." MICROSOFT, STANDARDS, AND INCOMPATIBILITY: 1991-2010 -- AND A NOVELL SMOKING GUN
"Another gruesome exhibit is now finished as text in our collection of Comes v. Microsoft exhibits, Exhibit 1116 [PDF]. It's a Microsoft memo from 1991, regarding a suggested attack plan to beat out IBM's OS/2, written by Joseph Krawczak, currently group program manager for Outlook at Microsoft. Here are just three damning sentences from the confidential memo:" 10 SERVER HARDWARE HIGHLIGHTS OF 2010
"From Oracle's acquisition of Sun to Cisco releasing servers to SSDs going mainstream, 2010 was an eventful year for server hardware. Here are the 10 most notable milestones." ALLEGATIONS OF OPENBSD BACKDOORS MAY BE TRUE, UPDATED
"It was just last week that Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD founder and developer, posted an email that claimed the Federal Bureau of Investigations paid OpenBSD developers to leave backdoors in its IPSEC network security stack." KUNLUN PLATFORM AIMS FOR SUB-$100 ANDROID PHONES
"Wind River announced a partnership with Chinese telecommunications firm Via Telecom to develop low-cost Android phones using Wind River Platform for Android." | 
