| Linux Today News DEAR PJ: PLEASE DON'T QUIT GROKLAW
"Novell throws FOSS under the bus to make a deal with Microsoft. Pamela Jones wonders why bother with Groklaw, if helping companies like Novell only leads to getting the shaft yet again?" HOLIDAY PARTY: SAILING INTO DANGEROUS WATERS
"So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it--a company like [ours] is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do."" WHY LINUX ISN'T USED IN BROADCAST MEDIA
"Linux has managed to carve a little slice of success for itself in nearly every industry. Well, with the exception of broadcast media that is." BUYER BEWARE IS THE MESSAGE OF VIEWSONIC'S G TABLET
"Staples pulled Viewsonic's Andrdoid-powered G Tablet from shelves after high return rates - proving not all tablets are created equal." 10 MOST POPULAR LINUX.COM STORIES IN 2010
"As we prep for 2011, we wanted to take a look at the stories that were the most popular with readers in 2010 ? and we thought that Linux.com readers might want to know as well. So we've pulled together a top 10 list of the most popular stories from the year for you to enjoy over the holidays." VLC FOR ANDROID MAY ARRIVE IN EARLY 2011
"VLC is one of the best media players available for Linux, Mac and Windows. Its popularity is due to the fact that it plays almost every media file type you throw at it." A SLIGHTLY LESS OPEN UBUNTU RECOVERY MODE
"Ubuntu recovery mode is a basic boot configuration for repairing a broken system. In this mode it skips most configuration files and daemons in order to achieve a functioning root prompt. For the security-conscious administrator this itself is a problem." USING NAUTILUS ACTIONS TO EXTEND FILE MANAGER FUNCTIONALITY ON LINUX
"What would a desktop be without a file manager? Even at the command line level we have file managers and they still make our lives much easier than they would be without them." 12 COMMANDS EVERY LINUX NEWBIE SHOULD LEARN
"I believe fear of the command line is one of the top mistakes newcomers to Linux sometimes make. For that reason, let's look at some of the main commands any Linux user should know." 2 LINUX SCREENCASTING APPLICATIONS
"Istanbul is written in Python and it offers a few less features than recordMyDesktop. It allows to select area or window to record, 3D record, enable/disable mouse pointer recording, and choose the size of the video (full, half or quarter width and height)." WINE 1.3.10 RELEASED
"The Wine development release 1.3.10 is now available. What's new in this release:" TECH COMICS: "GEEKS IN LOVE"
"Geeks have emotions just like regular people, they just express them differently." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
VIRTUALIZATION WITH KVM ON A FEDORA 14 SERVER
"This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 14 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM)" WIKILEAKS EXPOSES INTERNET'S DISSENT TAX, NOT NERD SUPREMACY
"Horrifying as this vision is, it simply distracts from the main lessons of the Wikileaks affair: the increasing control of (relatively) unaccountable corporations and states over the key components of the Internet, and their increased willingness to use this control in politicized ways to impose a "dissent tax" on content they find objectionable." 2010'S TOP FIVE LINUX AND OPEN-SOURCE STORIES
"...do you use Google, Facebook or Twitter? If so, you?re using Linux. That Android phone in your pocket? Linux. DVRs, network attached storage (NAS), trade stocks? Linux, Linux, Linux." WHY INDIE GAMES NEED GNU+LINUX
"Indie games are not very popular, on any platform. They are independent of the big game companies like EA, id Software, Infinity Ward, and Crytek. Thus they also lack the kind of funding these companies have." SET UP KVM ON SCIENTIFIC LINUX 6 SERVER (ALPHA 3)
"Include virtualization group during initial install. Attempt to start virt-manager pops up an error message" FAMILIARITY BREEDS FONDNESS, NOT CONTEMPT
"The thought about the content of this post occurred to me yesterday when surfing the web as normal. (Interestingly enough, I forgot about it until this afternoon.) It started with Mozilla Firefox crashing." OPEN SOURCE LANGUAGES IN 2010: DEVELOPER YEAR IN REVIEW
"2010 was a busy year for open source programming languages, with major new releases and upheavals that will shape the development landscape for years to come." A GUIDE TO WINE ON UBUNTU FOR BEGINNERS
"This guide is divided in four parts, so that you can jump to whichever you want using the links below:" TEN LINUX DISTROS THAT USE ENLIGHTENMENT
"In case you haven't noticed I've had a bit of an obsession with the Enlightenment desktop of the late. Even though this desktop is fantastic there are currently not very many distributions that utilize it." 8 MORE BASH TIPS FOR WORKING FASTER WITH THE SHELL (PART 2 OF 2)
"This is the second article in this series, and brings eight additional tips for working faster with the shell. Here is the first article of the series, containing 10 tips." IT'S TOO HARD IS NO EXCUSE
"Linux is too hard. Linux is too different. Linux doesn't have this or that program. Linux is not compatible with x or y or z. Linux is blah blah blah...." WINDOWS 7? ON ARM TABLETS? I DON'T THINK SO!
"You?ve got to be kidding me. First, Bloomberg and then the Wall Street Journal reported that at CES next month, Microsoft will unveil a full-featured version of Windows that runs on ARM processors." UNDERSTANDING THE OPEN INVENTION NETWORK
"Whether Google or another company, a few folks have commented that the Open Invention Network (OIN) can protect members against patent threats from other OIN members. When it comes to Linux, that's true. When it comes to other things? Not so much." UBUNTU UPDATE POLICY CHANGE IS PROBABLY A GOOD THING
"Despite some premature reports on the net, Canonical isn?t moving to a rolling release schedule for Ubuntu. However, the organisation is open to making some changes to the way that some software packages are updated." FUDUNTU 14.7 REVIEW
"A young and rapidly developing distro, Fuduntu is a fork of Fedora aiming to sit somewhere in between Ubuntu and Fedora. The current version is based off Fedora 14, but it adds quite a few interesting features that I believe should make the RedHat cousin more atractive to the average user." DYSART UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SAVES MORE THAN $100,000 BY SWITCHING COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
"In a little-known approach to saving money, the Dysart Unified School District has switched about 3,000 of its computers from the Microsoft Windows operating system to Linux." PUTIN ORDERS RUSSIAN MOVE TO GNU/LINUX
"This looks huge: Глава правительства Владимир Путин подписал план перехода властных структур и федеральных бюджетников на свободное ПО." MOZILLA LOSES FIREFOX ADDONS USER REG DATA - IS THERE A RISK TO YOU?
"As a regular user of the open source Mozilla Firefox addons.mozilla.org site for browser extensions, I was somewhat alarmed to see a report that user password and registration information may have been publicly leaked." RAISING CAINE
"Caine is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 10.04 for forensic scientists and security-conscious administrators." UNDERSTANDING THE OPEN INVENTION NETWORK
"Whether Google or another company, a few folks have commented that the Open Invention Network (OIN) can protect members against patent threats from other OIN members. When it comes to Linux, that's true. When it comes to other things? Not so much." ORACLE EXTENDS OPEN SOURCE VIRTUALBOX 4.0
"And guess what? The core product remains licensed under the GPLv2 - but wait there is a catch." MANAGING YUM PLUGINS
"Yum is one of the most widely used package management tools, but many users don't know that Yum has a plugin system to extend its capabilities. Let's take a look at how to extend Yum to add some very useful features." HOW TO INSTALL VMWARE SERVER 2 ON A FEDORA 14 DESKTOP (KERNEL 2.6.35)
"This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Fedora 14 desktop system (with kernel 2.6.35)." DO YOU WANT A PIECE OF MY MIND?
"I have lost myself. Literally. Late last year, a neurological disorder (Hydrocephalus, for the medically inclined) robbed me of cognitive abilities and 27 years of memories, personality, and emotions" 9 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE STORIES TO WATCH IN 2011
"From Gnome 3.0 to Chrome OS to Wikileaks, the year ahead should prove interesting for Linux and open source." | 
