| Linux Today News HOW UNEMPLOYED DEVELOPERS USE OPEN SOURCE TO GET HIRED
"It's a tough economy out there. It doesn't matter which industry you happen to be experienced in, people need to be focused on keeping themselves as competitive as possibl" MIDORI VS EPIPHANY REVIEW
"In the last couple months I've been seeing a lot of articles concerning the Midori web browser. It's a lightweight GTK-based browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine also used by browsers like Chromium and Safari." LINUX 2.6.38 ELIMINATES LAST MAIN GLOBAL LOCK, IMPROVING PERFORMANCE
"The first release candidate for the upcoming Linux 2.6.38 kernel is now out and it could further improve Linux performance." MANDRIVA PROVIDES AN EDUCATIONAL SOLUTION FOR SCHOOLS AND OEMS
"Mandriva has announced on January 18th a new OEM distribution, designed for Intel ClassMate PC and several others educational netbooks, which was integrated with Mandriva-Mythware Educational Solution educational application." GNOME ACCESSIBILITY APPLICATION OCRA 2.91.5 RELEASED
"GNOME's Orca screen reader is providing users accessibility to their graphical desktop using assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI)." MORE DEEP DISCOVERY ON YOUR LINUX SERVER WITH /PROC
"Linux's amazing and powerful pseudo-filesytem proc isn't just for peering into a running kernel. Juliet Kemp shows how Linux admins can also change kernel parameters on the fly. " RACKSPACE'S CEO ON OPEN SOURCE AND OPENSTACK
"I wrote about the open source OpenStack back in October, based largely on wandering around the main OpenStack site. But there's no substitute for talking to people involved - especially when they are Lanham Napier, CEO of Rackspace" CONTROL YOUR NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH WONDERSHAPER IN UBUNTU/ DEBIAN LINUX
"If you are a Network Administrator with little knowledge in Network Protocols and IPtables, don't worry you can also control your network traffic with a simple tool named wondershaper. It Works on Linux 2.4 & higher." SCRIBUS: MANIPULATE AND PLACE OBJECTS IN A LAYOUT
"Layouts can be visualized in our minds, but doing it with Scribus will be a manual job, and it's time to practice. This article will lead you through several design steps and will show some of the Scribus workflow basics in action" BUILDING A CENTRAL LOGHOST ON CENTOS AND RHEL 5 WITH RSYSLOG
"Gathering log messages is important. In a lot of situations you'll want to store all entries of logfiles on another server. If a server crashes or gets hacked you want to be able to browse through logfiles from this machine and you want to be sure these log files are not altered in any way." CYANOGENMOD CM7: TEACH YOUR OLD DROID NEW TRICKS
"CyanogenMod CM7 brings Android 2.3 ?Gingerbread? to a wealth of devices, including the original Motorola Droid." OPEN FILES IN LINUX
"I had recently problems with servers running application server Java and suddenly began to see strange errors like ?broken pipe? or exausted resources, this is often due to the high number of open files that a modern server can bind" Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
SHOULD YOU MOVE TO ARCH LINUX?
"Suppose that you have been using GNU/Linux for a number of months now. You had previously been using Windows or Mac OS X, but heard about the freedom, openness, and performance inherent to open source operating systems." A LOOK AT SOME FREE RSS READERS
"Like many people, I get almost all of my news online. To get it quickly and efficiently, I use a newsreader to skim the RSS or Atom feeds from sites (like LWN) that I find useful." YET ANOTHER 5 UBUNTU ADDICTIVE GAMES
"My last post about Ubuntu gaming generated alot of interest, and I was kindly asked to write about more cool Ubuntu games. So, here you go, another five Ubuntu games for your pleasure" CANONICAL'S QT DECISION MAY ALSO BE MOBILE POWER PLAY
"When Mark Shuttleworth informed the world yesterday the Qt libraries would be included in the next Ubuntu release alongside the Gtk+ libraries, my very first thought was "Huh. Qt on GNOME. Sounds like MeeGo."" TOP 5 CONSIDERATIONS FOR MYSQL ADMINISTRATION IN THE CLOUD
"Cloud deployments of internet sites are becoming much more prevalent everyday. Let's take a look at what type of special considerations we'll need to make for hosting MySQL successfully in the cloud." FUZZY BOUNDARIES: THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF VAGUE SECONDARY LIABILITY DOCTRINES ON INNOVATION
"If a technology company induces its customers to use its product for infringing purposes, for instance, both the users and the company should be liable for such infringement?the users for direct infringement and the company for contributory infringement, which is a species of secondary liability." TINE 2.0 "NEELE" (2011-01) RELEASED
Tine 2.0 was started by former eGroupWare core developers who now work fulltime on Tine 2.0. FORGET GNOME AND KDE, XFCE 4.8 RUNS SIMPLER AND FASTER
"A few times each month, I tire of the complexities of GNOME and KDE. Then I turn to a simpler, faster desktop for a couple of days or a week -- and that desktop, more often than not, is Xfce." UBUNTU HAS NO OPEN RESPECT, NEEDS INTROSPECTION
"Summary: Suggestions for Canonical regarding eradication of Internet trolls in Ubuntu Forums and discouragement of trolling by Mono boosters who masquerade as Ubuntu members" FFMPEG TURMOIL
"A group of FFmpeg developers has announced that the project has a new set of maintainers - news which came as a surprise to existing maintainer Michael Niedermayer." 5 OPERATING SYSTEMS STARTING 2011 WITH A BANG
"3. Novell SUSE Linux: Patent Deal Still on Despite the Germans" USE JQUERY TO BUILD A NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION POPUP WITH A MYSQL/PHP BACKEND
"More recently, websites have taken a more aggressive approach in terms of inviting visitors to subscribe to a newsletter or consider some other special offer. The approach involves displaying a popup window the very first time a visitor navigates to the website." 7 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX PASSWORD MANAGERS
"To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 7 of the best free password managers." DEBIAN SQUEEZE TO RELEASE FEB 5TH OR 6TH
"Once again, and hopefully for a final time, I'm writing to you with a release update." NOVELL FILES DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT: SOMEONE MAY BE INTERESTED IN THE PATENTS AND "MAYBE MORE"
"Novell in a filing with the SEC it calls its Definitive Proxy Statement reveals that this month, on January 11, someone contacted Novell wishing to discuss buying the notorious 882 patents and maybe more:" OPENSSH TIPS AND TRICKS: BEYOND SECURE SHELL
"OpenSSH is one of the most vital tools on any Linux system, at least if you ever need to connect to another Linux system. But OpenSSH is capable of doing much more than just providing a secure shell into another system." QT APPS ON UBUNTU
"As part of our planning for Natty+1, we?ll need to find some space on the CD for Qt libraries, and we will evaluate applications developed with Qt for inclusion on the CD and default install of Ubuntu." CRITICS WARN AS DOJ, FCC CLEAR COMCAST-NBC MERGER
"After more than a year spent selling a blockbuster media merger to financial analysts, a skeptical public interest sector and government regulators, Comcast has won approval from the federal government to complete its $30 billion takeover of NBC Universal." THE EU WON'T STAND IN THE WAY OF MICROSOFT & FRIENDS ACQUIRING NOVELL'S PATENT
"CPTN Holdings?a Microsoft-led group with fellow-members Apple, EMC, and Oracle?isn?t just still try buying Novell?s patents, the group?s patent acquisition attempt recently received an OK from the European Commission (EC) vice president and competition commissioner Joaqu�n Almunia." BOT ATTACKS LINUX AND MAC BUT CAN'T LOCK DOWN ITS BOOTY
"From the department of cosmic justice comes this gem, spotted by researchers from Symantec: a trojan that targets Windows, Mac, and Linux computers contains gaping security vulnerabilities that allow rival criminal gangs to commandeer the infected machines" CYBERCRIMINALS SHIFTING FOCUS TO NON-WINDOWS SYSTEMS
"In a major cybercrime turning point, scammers have begun shifting their focus away from Windows-based PCs to other operating systems and platforms, including smart phones, tablet computers, and mobile platforms in general, according to the Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report." USE THE LEVELS ADJUSTMENT TOOL IN DIGIKAM
"When it comes to tweaking photos, Levels is the most important weapon in digiKam?s arsenal. This tool lets you adjust brightness and contrast by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and midtones" OPENERP MAKES OPEN SOURCE ERP SOFTWARE EASY TO USE
"OpenERP has released the latest version of its open source ERP software, and the company is also offering a SaaS version for $39 a month per user." UBUNTU 11.04 NATTY NARWHAL - FIRST IMPRESSIONS
"At the time of writing this article, Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is still very much in its nascent stages of development. I really wanted to take it for a spin and write about my first hand impressions on latest build Ubuntu Natty." ADVENTURES IN COPYRIGHT
"A few events took place that affirmed for me that pushing forward with the agenda to rid our room of copyright violations and plagiarism is the right course of action." UNTANGLING CODE: MUCH CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ABOUT PROGRAMS WRITTEN BY VOLUNTEERS IS WRONG
"Yet sometimes the hype is justified, in particular in the case of open- source software, free programs developed by loosely knit groups of developers. Within just 15 years they have completely changed the landscape of the software industry, turning it from a mostly capitalist economy into a mixed one." 50 ANDROID APPS FOR YOUR LUNCH BREAK
"A fun android app can really come in handy. Let?s face it: when you're sitting behind a desk, sometimes the most productive thing you can do is take a break." INSTALLING A DEBIAN GNU/LINUX TEST SERVER WITH VIRTUALBOX
"There are a number of good reasons for installing a virtual machine on your computer ? as a way to run software that isn?t compatible with your primary operating system, as a sandbox for development, or as a place to test package installations, new distributions, or new server configurations. Setting one up with VirtualBox OSE is quite easy." SUPPORTING OOXML IN LIBREOFFICE
"An extensive and sometimes bitter debate on whether LibreOffice should write files in the OOXML format is a good example of differing views of how this project (and free software in general) should work." | 
