| Linux Today News 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." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
MANAGE IPHONE'S SPRINGBOARD ICONS ON UBUNTU
"The following tutorial will teach GNOME, Ubuntu, and other Linux users how to manage the icons (SpringBoard) on their Apple iPhone 3G, 3Gs, or iPhone 4 devices." IBM ANNOUNCES SOLID-STATE MEMORY BREAKTHROUGH
"IBM announced what appears to be a breakthrough in its development of "racetrack" memory, which stores data by manipulating the magnetic state of regions -- magnetic domain walls -- within nanowires." TURN AN OLD COMPUTER INTO A POWERFUL FIREWALL AND ROUTER
"Linux is built on networking. It's at the core of the operating system, not a bolted on extension. This means that if you want to build an internet appliance, Linux is the obvious choice." THE KERNEL COLUMN #95 BY JON MASTERS
"Jon Masters talks about features in the 2.6.37 Linux kernel and describes debugging a kernel problem using the Git bisection feature" FCC POISED TO CLEAR COMCAST-NBC MERGER
"Comcast appears poised to win the blessing of one regulatory body reviewing its proposed $30 billion takeover of NBC Universal, as officials at the Federal Communications Commission have indicated that the agency could approve the merger as early as next month." THE REAL FUTURE OF LINUX AND FOSS (IS NOT SHINY TOYS)
"There is a word that is to me as a pebble in a shoe, as fingernails on a blackboard, and that is the word consumer. Consumer is a perfectly good word that has become incurably tainted." THE TOP 5 NETWORKING STORIES OF 2010
"I?d much rather write about what was new and neat about networking in 2010, but the sad truth is I think the many of the most important networking stories in 2010 were about regulations rather than innovations." HOW TO RESTORE MISSING VOLUME CONTROL ICON/BUTTON IN UBUNTU LINUX
"One of the most annoying bugs in the latest versions of Ubuntu (versions 10.04 - 10.10) is the disappearing or missing volume control applet from the system tray inside the GNOME panel." OPENSCENEGRAPH: MANAGING SCENE GRAPH
"Create high-performance virtual reality applications with OpenSceneGraph, one of the best 3D graphics engines." TIME OF TROLLING
"The Internet was invented for effortless sharing of information. Creators and purveyors of information, however, do not always intend for it to be effortlessly and freely shared." LINUX IN EDUCATION: A GENUINE ALTERNATIVE
"Using free software in education is not just about saving money. It's also about preserving choice, not locking a student's experience into a certain way of doing something." BUYING A DELL WITHOUT WINDOWS IS NOT EASY, BUT POSSIBLE
"Buying a PC from any large manufacturer/retailer without a copy of Windows pre-installed is difficult. You have some companies that refuse to sell a machine if you want Windows removed" TOP 10 STORAGE PREDICTIONS FOR 2011 (AND BEYOND)
"It is another year and another try at predicting the future in our complex storage industry. The year in review for 2010 can be summarized in two words -- stagnation and consolidation" DEPENDENCY-CONFESSIONS OF A SLACKER
""Recently there has been a thread at the Slackware-forum (at linuxquestions.org) about the occupation of Slackware-users. It was expected there would be a great deal of IT-workers amongst them. But instead, the answers showed that there were all kinds of professions. It's not a uniform community" EX-RED HAT CEO SZULIK SUES OVER $60M LOSS
"Former Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik, his wife, father and other family members have filed a federal suit against a St. Thomas-based investment advisory firm, claiming the family lost $60 million in high risk and illiquid investments they did not approve." DESKTOPNOVA BACKGROUND CHANGER FOR GNOME & XFCE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS
"DesktopNova helps you to auto change backgrounds after an adjustable time from multiple files and folders you can add it to different profiles." THE RIGHT'S WAR ON NET NEUTRALITY
"No one, other than the big telcos, seems to be particularly happy with the FCC's Net Neutrality rules, as Chris documented earlier. But it's important to be clear about what it is exactly the Right is doing on this one. It's death panels all over again." APOLOGIES ABOUT THE SLACKWARE REVIEW
"A couple days ago, I reviewed Slackware 13.1. I wanted to see if I could use it post-installation, though from what I had read from commenters and writers on various blogs, it would be tough. At the end, it did prove to be as tough (and for me, fruitless)" 21 MORE NOTABLE FREE LINUX GAMES (PART 3 OF 3)
"This article is the third and final part in this series. If you missed the first two parts, they are available to read here: Part 1, Part 2. 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." 10 SERVER PREDICTIONS FOR '11
"These 10 predictions for 2011 will have you watching the latest developments from the big hardware manufacturers. Sure, some are wishful thinking, but others are clearly within reach for a 2011 delivery time frame." CODING STYLES COMPARISON IN THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE WORLD
"While looking for existing C coding standards I discovered that the GNU and Linux projects officially suggest very different styles. Inside the Linux kernel documentation, Linus Torvalds goes so far as to mock GNU coding standards:" BEHIND THE KOFFICE SPLIT
"On December 6th the KDE Project announced the Calligra Project, which was called a "continuation of the KOffice project." Others, though, might call it a fork or a split between the bulk of the KOffice developers and KWord developer Thomas Zander." ALLEN V. WORLD AND DOG - FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
"Paul Allen's Interval Licensing has met the deadline to file an amended complaint [PDF] with specificity. If you can read it without passing out laughing and/or having your head explode with disgust, I'd like to know what happened to you as a child that blunted your normal emotions" THE BIG PRESENTATION: THE FAMILIAR, THE FRUSTRATING AND THE FLASHY
"The world of Linux includes several options for users who need to create slide presentations in the style of Microsoft PowerPoint. OpenOffice.org's Impress does a great job of mimicking most of PowerPoint's functions, giving Redmond refugees a familiar tool." BOOK REVIEW: LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPMENT, THIRD EDITION
"It has been well over five years since LWN reviewed the second edition of Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development. Needless to say, things have changed a little since the 2.6.10 release covered by that edition." MICROSOFT: NOVELL IS TOAST AND THE PATENT JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON
"The end of 2010 has been interesting. Mass defections from Oracle?s OpenOffice team and the software is ported as LibreOffice. Then Mark Shuttleworth announces that Wayland is in, Xorg is out and Unity will be the next Ubuntu desktop." 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." EXT4 FILESYSTEM HITS ANDROID, NO NEED TO FEAR DATA LOSS
"Google's new Nexus S smartphone is the first Android device to use the Ext4 filesystem" | 
