| Linux Today News 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." UK POLICE NAB 5 MEMBERS OF 'ANONYMOUS' PRO-WIKILEAKS HACKER RING
"British authorities have arrest five suspects allegedly connected to the hacking group "Anonymous," a loosely organized network that most recently grabbed headlines for bringing denial-of-service attacks against companies that severed ties with WikiLeaks." LG SHOWS ANDROID'S LOW-END SMARTPHONE PROMIS
"My test of an LG Optimus One smartphone began inauspiciously with a combination of consternation and revulsion at its keyboard. But after two months using it as my primary phone, I wound up with a much more favorable impression of it and the prospects for Android on lower-end phones." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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FIVE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT LIBREOFFICE 3.3
"The 3.3 release isn't a huge leap away from OpenOffice.org, but it does have some features that make it worth the switch. There's a long list of new features for the 3.3 release, but a couple stand out above the rest for me." SCAN TAILOR: A FUSSY YET EFFECTIVE SCAN SCRUBBER
"It seems that no matter how many times you wipe down the glass on a scanner, the resulting image still has specs, flecks and imperfections galore." LCA 2011: HOW TO CATCH FOSS INFRINGERS OUT
"The phenomenal growth in the use of Linux in the embedded market means that many people use and sell the kernel without knowing they are doing so. Others are aware, but choose to stay quiet, knowing that they are, in one way or another, not keeping to the terms of the licence under which Linux is published." 1.8-INCH HARD DISKS OFFER MORE ROOM, SMALLER FOOTPRINT
"Toshiba announced three new 1.8-inch hard disk drives intended to save space in embedded applications. Featuring special connectors and a footprint that's ten percent smaller than before, the three MK2x39GSL drives are available in capacities of 160GB, 200GB, and 220GB" SECURE HYPERVISOR MICROKERNEL READY FOR DOWNLOAD
"OK Labs announced the availability of a verified, "bug-free secure microkernel" version of its Linux-compatible OKL4 hypervisor. Currently downloadable free for non-commercial evaluation on embedded ARM11 or x86 platforms..." HOW TO INSTALL OCS INVENTORY NG SERVER 2 ON CENTOS 5.5
"This article explains how to install OCS Inventory NG Server 2 on Linux Server. OCS Inventory is a great software to make inventories. The NG Server is formed by: communication server, deployment server, and administration console" PYTHON FOR NEWBIES
"What is Python? Python is a computer programming language created initially by Guido Van Rossum, who released it to the world as an “Open Source” “Free”program" SWITCHING TO DESKTOP LINUX? 6 WAYS TO EASE THE MIGRATION
"With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly relying on the free and open source operating system. After all, it's free, flexible, reliable, and highly secure--to name just a few of the most attractive features." VIRTUALBOX 4: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
"It might seem strange to post a “first impressions” article an entire month after developers release a new version but the original wasn’t stable and first impressions weren’t positive." UBUNTU UNITY PLAYS A FRUSTRATING SHELL GAME
"Ubuntu Natty Narwhal will usher in a major change to the distro's desktop appearance. The new Unity shell design will present a new appearance, a version of which I've been using on netbooks and laptops" VIDEO: AN EXPLORATION OF PHP'S OBJECT-ORIENTED FEATURES
"In the first of this two-part video series introducing PHP's object-oriented fundamentals, you learned how to create and interact with a PHP class, which might be used as the basis for a video game character." HAS AMD FINALLY FIXED TEARING WITH ITS LINUX DRIVER?
"AMD put out a rare beta Linux driver this Monday and they have now just announced the release of the Catalyst 11.1 driver as their stable monthly update for Linux and Windows users." HOME ACCOUNTING: YOUR PERSONAL ACCOUNTANT ON UBUNTU
"Most of us have a love-hate relationship when it comes to keeping a tab on the finances that flow through our lives. It's a complicated task" LCA 2011: MCKUSICK TELLS OF THE BSD DAYS AS ONLY HE CAN
"The drought of those who speak without depending on slides has ended at the 12th Australian national Linux conference." ADDING PRINT CAPABILITY TO PEPPERMINT ICE OS
"Printer support has purposely been left out of Peppermint Ice" SOURCEFORGE.NET ATTACK
"Yesterday our vigilant operations guys detected a targeted attack against some of our developer infrastructure." LIBREOFFICE 3.3: HANDS-ON WITH THE FREE OFFICE SUITE
"The LibreOffice project came about late in 2010 when it became increasingly uncertain what Oracle's intentions were for OpenOffice.org, which it acquired after purchasing Sun." GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS CAN’T BE TURNED OFF, WON’T REPLACE SILICON IN PROCESSORS
"Over the last three years we’ve been hearing some impressive claims about what the material graphene can do for the future of processors. Graphene is a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms that looks like a chicken coup-like mesh." OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.3.0 FINAL RELEASED
"After more than seven months of development and ten release candidates, the OpenOffice.org development team has issued the final version of OpenOffice.org 3.3.0." DEBIAN PROJECT AT SEVERAL CONFERENCES AND TRADE FAIRS
"The Debian Project is pleased to announce that it will be present at several events in the coming weeks, ranging from developer oriented conferences to user oriented trade fairs. As usual, upcoming events are also listed on our website." BENCHMARKS OF THE OFFICIAL KQ ZFS LINUX MODULE
"Last summer we delivered the news that a native ZFS file-system implementation for Linux was coming by an Indian company known as KQ Infotech where they leveraged the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories ZFS Linux code, finished it off in some areas, and took care of the POSIX support." INTERNET, TELECOM NETWORKS SHUT DOWN IN EGYPT
"As anti-government protesters planned a day of massive demonstrations in cities throughout Egypt on Friday, state authorities took dramatic steps that effectively shut down the Internet and wireless communications networks in that country." SONY WINS TRO, IMPOUNDMENT
"Sony's motion for a temporary restraining order, asking for an injunction and impoundment, has been granted [PDF]. The Hon. Susan Illston says she thinks Sony has demonstrated that it is likely to prevail on its DMCA claim" PITHOS – BEST PANDORA.COM CLIENT PLAYER FOR LINUX
"Pithos is a Linux based client for the GNOME Desktop for the online music platform: Pandora.com. Although there is a official Flash based Linux client for Pandora.com but it is a RAM hog and does not leave you with a tasteful experience." TECH COMICS: "YOUR MOBILE CARRIER"
"Your relationship with your mobile carrier is win-win, sort of." 8 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX E-LEARNING TOOLS
"To provide an insight into the software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 of our favorite e-Learning tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to embrace electronically supported learning and teaching. We give our strongest recommendation to Moodle." INTEL OPENS UP FCOE , OFFERS FREE UPGRADES
"Intel is ramping up its effort to expand Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The company today announced that its Open FCoE technology is being supported by a variety of vendors, including Cisco, EMC, NetApp, Red Hat and Oracle." THE DEEPER SIGNIFICANCE OF LIBREOFFICE 3.3
"Over on the RedMonk blog, there's an entertaining post by James Governor on the subject of forks, prompted by the imminent arrival of a major new version of Android, version 3.0, code-named “Honeycomb”, designed with tablets in mind:" | 
