| Linux Today News VERSION VEXATIONS: KEEPING BIG LINUX OPERATIONS ON THE SAME PAGE
"As data centers have grown in complexity, so has the task of keeping all or even most of the machines on the same page in terms of Linux version control and modeling." JASPERSOFT: OPEN SOURCE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR EVERYONE
"Open source business intelligence leader Jaspersoft today unveiled Jaspersoft 4, which the company is billing as the "first complete BI suite designed for web applications."" ARCH LINUX IS TOPS IN THE SERVER ROOM
"Linux server admins prefer lean, reliable, manageable Linux distributions, and Arch Linux is one of the best." XOOM STANDS OUT IN A CES SEA OF ANDROID TABLET DRECK
"Here, we sum up our tablet coverage and survey CES tablet analysis from the blogosphere, which tends to agree on two points: the Motorola Xoom stole the show, and most of the other Android tablets were DOA." A GUITAR AMP/EFFECT SOLUTION FOR LINUX
"I previously blogged about my satisfactory experience with Arch Linux installation on a second-hand laptop. Now in this post I?m going to turn that $150 laptop into a kick-ass and sexy Amp and Effect Processor." MICROSOFT SUCKS OPEN SOURCE INTO ITS WEBMATRIX
"Microsoft is embracing open-source on the web, offering a development kit that targets non-techie programmers." THE OPEN-SOURCE ATI DRIVER IS BECOMING A LOT FASTER
"Now that the kernel mode-setting page-flipping for the ATI Radeon DRM kernel module has been merged into the Linux 2.6.38 kernel and the respective bits have been set in the xf86-video-ati DDX, we're in the process of running new open-source ATI graphics benchmarks under Linux." TREND MICRO ATTACKS OPEN SOURCE
"Insecurity expert Steve Chang, who is the chairman of Trend Micro, has just declared himself the sworn enemy of the Open Sauce movement by saying that Android is less secure than the iPhone because it is Open Sauce." NESTED-RAID: RAID-5 AND RAID-6 BASED CONFIGURATIONS
"A Nested RAID configuration is built on top of a standard single-level RAID configuration in order to address performance and data redundancy limitations. Digging deeper into Nested RAID, we check out RAID-5 and RAID-6, which have some truly amazing features" WHICH OS FOR LIFE CRITICAL APPLICATIONS?
"I couldn't help but notice what operating system they were using so I took a look. I wasn't surprised to see them all running Windows XP. Windows is used everywhere, so why not?" MERAKI TAKES WIRED NETWORK ROUTERS TO THE CLOUD
"The customer owns the router, but if they decide to stop their subscription the hardware will stop working" Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
GOOGLE REMOVING H.264 FROM CHROME DOES NOTHING TO HMTL5
"In some technology circles, you?d think Google was proposing throwing cats into a wood-chipper from the way some people are reacting to Google?s announcement that it was focusing its support on its own open VP8/WebM and Theora video codecs, and dropping support for H.264." DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING FOR LARGE ARCHIVES
"Disaster recovery (DR) is often discussed in broad terms throughout the storage industry, but in this article I will explore a specific segment of the overall market: DR planning for large archives." NY REP. ASKS TREASURY TO BLACKLIST WIKILEAKS' ASSANGE
"The U.S. government should be doing all it can to sink Wikileaks" THE ARCH WAY
"You love tinkering with your computer. You've tried Ubuntu and Fedora, and they're good, but you feel something is not quite right." OPEN SOURCE FOR AMERICA PUBLISHES FEDERAL OPEN TECHNOLOGY REPORT CARD
"Departments of Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Transportation Rank Highest for Openness and Transparency; Use of Open Source Technologies and Open Formats Factored Heavily in Determining Rankings " EECS NEWS: KICKING THE CLOUD(S)
"Alex Polvi?s career trajectory ? from his first job running a chain saw on his family?s Christmas tree farm outside tiny Amity, Oregon, through various student positions in computer science at Oregon State University, to being CEO of a recently acquired Silicon Valley startup ? has been nothing short of stratospheric." REMNUX: LINUX DISTRIBUTION FOR REVERSE-ENGINEERING MALWARE
"REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software" SET UP RH VIRTIO SCSI&NETWORK DRIVERS ON WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS XP KVMS (RESUBMIT)
"Create Windows KVM via virt-manager as usual. Download Latest VirtIO Win drivers from Fedora. Location is http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/." OMG!UBUNTU! LIKES MONO
"Summary: Novell?s project that?s complementary to Microsoft?s illegally-obtained monopoly on the desktop is being advertised in a site whose target audience is Ubuntu GNU/Linux users" ARE ANDROID MANUFACTURERS WITHHOLDING FROYO UPDATES TO SELL MORE PHONES?
"A T-Mobile insider claims manufacturers are deliberately withholding updates to boost new phone sales." TODAY?S AWARD FOR THE SILLIEST THEORY OF THE COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT
"The argument: You?re guilty of felony computer hacking crimes if you access your own computer in a way that violates a contractual restriction found in the fine print of the licensing restriction of the product imposed by the manufacturer" NOVELL DEFENDS MOVES TO SPIN OUT OPENSUSE
"Open source commentators were suspicious when news emerged that openSUSE will move to an independent foundation, during the acquisition of Novell, which currently supports openSUSE development." I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR LINUX PENGUIN, JEOPARDY OVERLORDS
"?I?ll take evil, science-fiction computers for $2,000,? Alex. OK, we?re not quite there yet, but in the early going, IBM?s Watson supercomputer beat Jeopardy super-champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a practice round." D-LINK BOXEE BOX REVIEW ? IS INTERNET TV FINALLY A REALITY?
"The promise of a hardware companion for the popular open source media centre Boxee has interested us since its original announcement. Let?s see how the final product stacks up against expectations" RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.6 NOW OUT - EXT4 NOW FULLY SUPPORTED
"Red Hat is out today with the GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 (RHEL)." MOVE TO ARM CHIP CUTS XO LAPTOP POWER USE TO 2 WATTS
"The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) has been making XO Laptops since 2006. The original goal was to create a laptop for kids in developing countries that only cost $100 to manufacture. Although the laptop was made, it ended up costing $199." A CAUTIONARY TALE (OR HOW NOT TO BACKUP YOUR PC WITH RSYNC!)
"One thing that I won?t mention there is the minor setback that occurred due to my stupidity and lack of thought. The problem was rsync!" SEALED PANEL PC SURVIVES BEING DUNKED
"The P1585 includes a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, a 15-inch touchscreen, hard disk or solid state disk (SSD) storage, waterproof I/O ports, and an IP67-compliant, stainless-steel case, the company says." DEVELOPER INTERVIEW SERIES: FIREFOX FOR ANDROID?S MATT BRUBECK
"As a fan of Ubuntu, I really love using Mozilla Firefox. In my opinion, it is the best desktop browser out there (sorry, Chrome). It was because of my love for Firefox that I became elated when I first heard that Mozilla would be developing a browser for the Android platform." PENGUIN GOES HYBRID WITH CLUSTERWARE
"Penguin Computing, the makers of workstations and clusters aimed at HPC shops, also peddles various cluster management tools under the Scyld brand" CHROME UPDATE COSTS GOOGLE ALMOST $14,500
"Google's security update 8.0.552.237 for Chrome closes a total of 16 security holes. One of the vulnerabilities in the browser's speech handling has been rated critical by the developers, as it allows code to be executed outside of the protective sandbox." TECH COMICS: "A GEEK COUPLE"
"When a geek couple sits quietly together, what topics occupy their innermost thoughts?" INSTALLING CHEROKEE WITH PHP5 AND MYSQL SUPPORT ON FEDORA 14
"Which led me athinking about Linux and innovation: has Linux ever truly innovated? Apart from the obvious Free Software development model, has Linux ever been ahead of McWindows on features?" CES 2011: A TALE OF AN ANDROID ONSLAUGHT
"The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show was an invasion of Linux and FOSS in the form of a feast of Androids in all shapes and sizes." KEYSTORE MANAGEMENT IN LINUX
"Many Java application server use a keystore as a repository of their certificates and in general all Java applications use the one supplied with the JDK itself, Let?s see what is it and how to work with it." THE OPEN DATA, OPEN SOCIETY REPORT IS NOW ONLINE
"This report is the first output of a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations. The full report was finished in October 2010, is released under a Creative Commons cc-by license " REVIEW: MULTISYSTEM (A USB MULTIBOOT SCRIPT)
"A couple days ago, I saw featured on Linux Today an article in PCPlus about a new USB multiboot creation script called MultiSystem. It's a GUI tool, which is nice for newbies like myself, and it automates the creation of a multiboot live USB from multiple live ISO files." | 
