| Linux Today News 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-IMAGINING' 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." NVIDIA SET TO UNVEIL TEGRA 3 WITH QUAD-CORE PROCESSOR FOR ANDROID DEVICES
"Although the Tegra 2 chip with integrated dual-core processor has recently been released, NVIDIA is already poised to announce its successor at the Mobile World Congress next month." 4G SMARTPHONE SPEC SMACKDOWN: HOW DO THE NEXT-GEN SMARTPHONES COMPARE?
"If there was any doubt that 2011 would be the year of 4G smartphones, this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) trashed that doubt with demos of some very hot 4G devices." MY FIRST LOOK AT DIASPORA*
"Consequently, when I finally got around to getting to getting an account for the DIASPORA* alpha, what I mainly noticed was the difference in the privacy policy and interface" 4 LINUX MASQUERADING
"Or put a different suit to your Linux…. Maybe you love so much the look of your previous operating system?" GLX-DOCK 2.3 ENTERS BETA
"This version was the occasion to refactor a fair amount of the core. GLX-Dock is now built on top of libgldi (for GL Desktop Interface), which will also be used for another project: GLX-Desklet. Having a minimalistic core ensure better stability and performances, and less bugs." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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LCA 2011: APNIC SCIENTIST WARNS OF IMPENDING IPV4 DOOMSDAY
"Many who warn of an impending doomsday can be put into the chicken little class. Geoff Huston does not fit into that bracket." LINUX IS A WIN-WIN FOR EDUCATION
"Articles on the use of Linux for educational purposes have come up frequently, some focus on the use of Linux in educational institutions. Often times, these institutions are looking to save as much money as possible, and using Linux can be a good option for just that reason." ALL-IN-ONE PC OFFERS CORE 2 QUAD CPU
"Cybernet has released a Linux-ready all-in-one PC that supports Intel Core processors up to and including a Core 2 Quad." BODHI LINUX REVIEW - INCREDIBLY GOOD, LIGHTWEIGHT, VERY MINIMAL UBUNTU DERIVATIVE
"Bodhi Linux is NOT yet another Ubuntu based Linux distro. Bodhi Linux is among a very few number of Ubuntu based distros that run Enlightenment(E17) window manager instead of the popular alternatives like GNOME or KDE." BUH BYE SKYLINECOWBOY.COM - "THIS SITE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED"
"This is for historians, in case any of them wonder who was behind the scurrilous smear campaign that showed up on SkylineCowboy.com: if you visit today, you get redirected to a WebHost4Life message that says the site has been "suspended". I guess somebody didn't pay his bills." THE AUDACITY OF CARLA SCHRODER
"In this exclusive Linux Pro Magazine interview, tell-it-like-it-is, Linux Today editor Carla Schroder talks about her latest book, The Book of Audacity , shares facts about herself you won’t find anywhere else, a peek into her current projects, and offers advice for women on making their own paths, encouraging children, and more." HOUSE PANEL PRESSES FOR ISP DATA RETENTION MANDATE
"Members of a House Judiciary subcommittee on crime Tuesday expressed bipartisan support for new rules that would direct Internet service providers to retain information about their users for a set period of time" THE WORLD IPV6 DAY
"June 8, 2011 has been declared World IPv6 Day. The event, being led by Google, will see a handful of the Internet's large websites enable Internet Protocol version 6." LINUXFEST NORTHWEST 2011: CALLS FOR EXHIBITS AND PRESENTATIONS
"LinuxFest Northwest, which will be held in Bellingham, Washington from April 30 through May 1, is calling for exhibit and presentation proposals." IS NOKIA PLANNING TO ENTER THE TABLET MARKET WITH MEEGO?
"Over the past few months, there have a lot of potential iPad competitors entering (or preparing to enter) the market. The most common are Android-based tablets running either the current/recent Android releases or models that will ship with Google’s tablet-optimized Honeycomb release" KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.38 (PART 1) – GRAPHICS
"Kernel version 2.6.38 supports AMD's new Fusion CPUs and offers 2D and 3D acceleration with many current GeForce and Radeon graphics cards." LCA 2011: TRAVELLING FAR AND WIDE TO SPREAD THE DEBIAN GOSPEL
"It's a long way from the cold boulevards of Paris to the searing heat of Brisbane but Stefano Zacchiroli has spent the 20-odd hours needed to make the trip because he wants to tell people in the FOSS community about the vital role that the Debian GNU/Linux Project still has to play." GOOGLE CLOUD PRINT COMES TO ANDROID, IPHONE
"Developed initially for Google's Linux-based Chrome OS as way to print remotely or locally without using drivers, the current mobile version requires the printer to be connected to -- a Windows PC." PROPRIETARY LINUX SOFTWARE: A BIG DILEMMA FOR MANY LINUX USERS
"Jack Wallen re-visits a very touchy topic among Linux users - open vs. closed source. It’s always been a hot debate and he wants to know the opinion of the TechRepublic community." SHOULD WE ABOLISH USER ACCESS TO RM?
"A wild idea I’ve heard to solve the problem is getting rid of user access to the rm command. Is this truly a crazy idea?" KDE PUTS YOU IN CONTROL WITH NEW WORKSPACES, APPLICATIONS AND PLATFORM
"KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE's three product lines." TEN MORE ERP TRENDS: OPEN SOURCE AND PRICING PRESSURES
"Last month, eCRM Guide wrote an article on the top ERP trends. As it turns out, there's a lot more going on in this vibrant $20 billion market than could be squeezed into one article. So here are 10 more major trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP)." GOOGLE HAS FORKED ANDROID
"The last thing I wanted to see was Android to split into two “official” versions. Well, guess what, for all intents and purposes that’s what’s happened. Ack!" POPULAR FREE *BSDS IN FULL DEVELOPMENT
"Three well-known BSD clones are in their latest developmental cycles and have recently released test versions. FreeBSD is closing in on version 7.4 with a RC2, GhostBSD just released their 2.0 Beta 2, and PC-BSD 8.2 has seen its second release candidate as well." LCA 2011: STUDENTS ESPOUSE THE VIRTUES OF FOSS
"Shane Geddes and his mates from the Albany High School in Auckland - the first school in New Zealand that uses only free and open source software - were back at the Australian national Linux conference in Brisbane today." SAMSUNG UNVEILS 4 NEW GALAXY ANDROID SMARTPHONES
"Samsung today announced four new smartphones from its Galaxy line as the electronics giant looks to capitalize on consumers' infatuation with Android-powered devices in markets far and wide." PRIVACY SUPERHERO REVEALS HER PLAN
"By virtually every measure, 2010 was a remarkably successful year for Canadian privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. Riding the wave of high profile investigations into the privacy practices of Internet giants Facebook and Google" OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.3 RELEASED TO DEAF EARS
"One day after the announcement of LibreOffice 3.3, Oracle released the free version of OpenOffice.org. Perhaps it was due to the lack of fanfare, but it seems this release was met with a collective indifference." REVIEW: THE LINUX PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
"Michael Kerrisk's (relatively) new book, The Linux Programming Interface (TLPI), is targeted at Linux system programmers, but it is not just those folks who will find it useful. While it is a hefty tome ("thick enough to stun an ox" as Laurie Anderson might say), it is eminently readable" TINY LINUX PLUG COMPUTERS: WALL WART LINUX SERVERS
"Little bitty wall-wart size Linux servers are handy for all kinds of kinds of lightweight deployments; Akkana Peck shows us what to look for and how to get connected" WEBM VS. H.264: GOOGLE BETS BIG ON ITSELF
"Chrome will soon turn its back on the H.264 codec in favor of Google's own WebM technology. It's risky to ditch a working standard such as H.264 for one under development, but there are potential benefits for both Google and anyone now paying licensing fees." | 
