| Linux Today News LCA 2011: LESSONS FROM 13 YEARS OF WEB PUBLISHING
"Linux Weekly News is, probably, the best known website for geeks from the Linux community when they look for their quota of news about the community." THE PATENT SYSTEM -- USPTO IN PARTICULAR -- COMES UNDER MORE FIRE
"HOW MUCH does the USPTO want to be hated?" ITALY SUES MICROSOFT FOR BOX-BUNDLING BUNGLING
"The Italian consumer watchdog is suing Microsoft over the "Windows Tax" ? the near impossibility of an ordinary user getting a refund if they decide to delete Microsoft's software from a new computer or laptop." GENERATE SECURE PASSWORDS WITH PWGEN
"Coming up with good passwords is never easy. One of my favorite tools for creating secure passwords is Password Generator, also known as pwgen, a utility that generates random (but pronounceable) passwords." EIGHT COMPLETELY FREE LINUX DISTROS (AND ONE MORE)
"All Linux distributions are supposed to be free, but some distributions are freer than others." PHOENIX RC SIMULATOR IN ORACLE VIRTUAL BOX 4.0 ON UBUNTU 10.10
"It is now possible to run Phoenix from Linux host by using Virtual Box 4.0. During the last year, I've tried several times to run this sim in an Xp virtual box on my Ubuntu system" MORE TALES OF TERRIBLE IT MANAGERS
"Managing IT staff is crucial to the success of any business, and yet tales of abused IT workers and lousy management are legion. In part 2 of this series readers talk back." 'UNIVERSAL' MEMORY AIMS TO REPLACE FLASH/DRAM
"A single "universal" memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers." TEXAS LINUX FEST SEEKS KOHA GURU
"The first Texas Linux Fest was, by most measures, a success." QUICK LOOK: DREAMLINUX 3.5 GNOME
" Dreamlinux is based on Debian and it comes with Xfce or GNOME as the default desktop. I picked the GNOME version for this quick look." 50 OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS FOR SCI-TECH EDUCATION
"The open source community is also doing its part to improve STEM education. They've created dozens of quality open source apps that aid both teachers and researchers, raising the bar for STEM education" MAKE MAGAZINE LEADS THE "ARDUINO REVOLUTION" IN NEW ISSUE
"Give your gadget a brain! MAKE Magazine Volume 25 ("Arduino Revolution"), hitting newsstands Jan. 26, shows readers how to get started using such popular microcontrollers as Arduino, now changing the face of do-it-yourself technology." A SECURITY INCIDENT ON FEDORA INFRASTRUCTURE
"Summary: Fedora infrastructure intrusion but no impact on product integrity" FIRST LIBREOFFICE RELEASE ARRIVES
"No sooner than Ubuntu lets the world know that LibreOffice is its office suite of choice, than the next day the first full, shipping version of the program, LibreOffice 3.3, is released." LCA 2011: THE AWESOME POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD
"Among the open source legions, Dirk Hohndel stands out in one way. Among the hundreds of speakers who have delivered words of wisdom at the Australian national Linux conferences over the last four years, he is probably the only person to depend solely on his speaking prowess to do so." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
HUMAN LOVE, PROBE - TWO NEW SHORT FILMS USING BLENDER FOR VFX
"Here comes even more movies and short films made using Blender for visual effects. For starters, Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation application." WINE 1.3.12 RELEASED
"The Wine development release 1.3.12 is now available. Whats new in this release:" WILL IT BLEND? A LOOK AT BLENDER'S NEW USER INTERFACE
"The 3D powerhouse Blender is arguably the most complicated piece of desktop software in the open source world. It handles every part of the workflow used to create a CGI film or a 3D game: creating objects, rigging them to move, animating them, controlling lighting, rendering scenes, and even editing the resulting video." CISCO UPDATES LINUX POWERED SMALL BIZ ROUTERS
"Cisco rolls out new 200-series switches and a Linux powered router, which deliver SSL-VPN and management capabilities to small business professionals." HOST BASED INTRUSION DETECTION - SAMHAIN
"This article describes in some detail how to install Samhain, the host based intrusion detection system. For further information regarding Samhain, please see http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/" 5 OPEN SOURCE SECURITY PROJECTS TO WATCH
"Data security is always top of mind for CIOs and CSOs, and there is no shortage of challenges when it comes to picking the right tool for the job." IT TOOK A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR.... BUT NOVELL CRUMBLED NEVERTHELESS
"Do you remember when you opened your browser to get the latest news on Nov 3rd 2006? I do. I just couldn't believed my eyes when I learned that Novell had signed this deal with Microsoft.." SAMBA 4 'WILL BREAK DESKTOP MONOPOLY'
"Free software dynamos Andrew Tridgell and Andrew Bartlett are both hopeful that their next baby, Samba 4, will be due for delivery sometime in the not-too-distant future." TORTOISESVN: GETTING STARTED
"In this article you will get your first taste of using TortoiseSVN. This article will explain the concept of working copies and will cover how to check out a working copy, how to manage copy depth, and how to commit a copy after you have made some changes to it." RECLAIM DELETED FILES AND REPAIR FILESYSTEMS ON LINUX
"Linux is as solid an operating system as you'll ever use -- but that doesn't mean that the hardware you're running it on is equally solid. Hard drives are as prone to errors as are file systems" BODHI LINUX IS BLOSSOMING
"Not even three months ago Bodhi Linux was nothing more than a thought in my mind. Today Bodhi is a thriving young project. If you have visited our team page lately or seen our news posts then you know our small team has been steadily growing." CORETRACE BRINGS APPLICATION WHITELISTING TO LINUX, MAC
"Application whitelisting is coming to Linux and Mac platforms. To date, application whitelisting vendor CoreTrace has offered its Bouncer technology just for Windows, yet is now set to expand the effort due to market demand and opportunity." LINUX SKILLS ARE HOT ON IMPROVING IT HIRING FRONT
"IT professionals enjoyed a dramatically improved hiring landscape in 2010, marked in particular by the fewest job cuts in a year since 2000." APPROPRIATION ? AND THE KINGDOM DID NOT FALL
"Linux and open source verteran, Richard Hillesley, wonders if the much-used aphorism that ?information wants to be free? is still prescient in the light of of current events" BECAUSE YOUR DISTRO SHOULD BE COOL!
"It is with my Community Manager hat and as a Linux enthusiast that I bring you this post about the Foresight Linux distribution, literally born and brewed where I work and filled to the brim with the technology developed at rPath." WHAT'S UP WITH OPENSUSE?
"This post is not intended as criticism of the openSuSE project in any way. Most of what I am writing about here concerns their next release, which is currently at Milestone 5" LIBREOFFICE 3.3 FREES OPEN SOURCE OFFICE SUITE
"Stick a fork in it, LibreOffice 3.3 is done." HOW A ?WELDED-TO KDE3.5 USER? BEGAN A MOVE TO KDE4.4 PART III ?KONQUERING THE DOLPHIN?
"In this extension of his two part guest editorial and tutorial Dr. Tony Young (an Australian Mycologist by trade) goes into detail comparing the functions of Konquerer and Dolphin and along the way discovers that he might actually keep Dolphin as his file manager." UBUNTU FONT FAMILY GETS MUSEUM EXIBITION IN LONDON
"The Ubuntu Project has announced today, 25th of January a new exhibition, at London?s Design Museum, which is dedicated to the Ubuntu Font, with the collaboration of its creators, Dalton Maag." ONE PACKAGE MANAGER FOR THEM ALL
"The idea of one universal package format for all distributions has been batted around a few times over the years. One of the most notable was Ryan C. Gordon's idea of FatELF files." DEBIAN SETS RELEASE TARGET, UBUNTU WARMS TO QT TOOLKIT, JOLIBOOK REVIEW, GHOSTBSD UPDATE
"Good news for those readers who wait impatiently for the new stable release of Debian GNU/Linux - we now have a target date for a release, set for the 6th of February" KEN THOMPSON, DENNIS RITCHIE WIN JAPAN PRIZE
"When Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie began creating the Unix operating system in 1969, they did not envision that their work would become a backbone of the computer revolution that has transformed the world." LCA 2011: CERF CALLS FOR 'RE-IMAGING' THE INTERNET
"Given that the focus of the 12th Australian national Linux conference is the internet, it was fitting that Dr Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the global network, gave the first keynote in Brisbane this morning." WHAT DOES A GOOD IT MANAGER LOOK LIKE?
"So let's take a look at what a good IT manager does. Because there are such persons, and they make all the difference between satisfaction and pain, between feelings of accomplishment and feelings of time-killing soul-sucking despair." FEDORA 14 OFFICIALLY RELEASED FOR IBM SYSTEM Z 64-BIT
"Phil Knirsch announced a last evening, January 25th, the immediate availability for download of the Fedora 14 operating system for IBM System z (s390x) 64-bit systems." MOZILLA UPDATES FIREFOX 4 BETA 10 WITH 506 BUG FIXES
"There are a lot of bugs in Firefox 4. Mozilla this week updated the next gen Firefox browser to Beta 10, quashing no less than 506 bugs." INSTALL XFCE AND XFCE GOODIES ON UBUNTU 10.10 ?MAVERICK MEERKAT?
"Xfce is the default desktop enviornment for Xubuntu and just like KDE (from Kubuntu) it can be installed from the Synaptic Package Manager or using a Terminal command line. I will show you how to install Xfce using the command line in a Terminal window." | 
