| Linux Today News LINUX LOOKS TO APPLE MODEL
"Surely there must be a way of making the process of installing and removing software in Linux suck less?" FEDORA GNOME 3 TEST DAY #1 COMING TOMORROW
is taking place tomorrow (Thursday 2011-02-03) PARDUS 2011 REVIEW
"It’s been a while since I last took a look at Pardus and much has changed since then. The distro has been upgraded to Pardus 2011. Pardus is a KDE distribution created in Turkey by the National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE)" CREATE YOUR OWN UBUNTU PACKAGES WITH GIFTWRAP
"GiftWrap is a really cool tool that helps you create Ubuntu packages. Whether you are a system administrator or a package developer, you can use GiftWrap to make the installation of these apps easier for your users" REVIEW: LIBREOFFICE BEATS OPENOFFICE.ORG BY A WHISKER
"The new LibreOffice open-source office suite "proves that forking isn’t always the kiss of death," says this eWEEK review. New features in the Linux-ready release -- including wider document format support, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) import into Draw and Writer, enhanced presentation support, and an improved "save as" feature -- should give OpenOffice some robust competition." CANONICAL & DELL BRING PRIVATE UBUNTU CLOUDS TO SERVERS
"Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux has partnered with Dell to bring its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) to business users on Dell’s PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 rack servers." AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S VIEW OF AN OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY
"In the first session of FUDCon talks this past weekend, Diana Harrelson reported on her anthropological study of the Fedora community, which she used to find ways to sustain and grow an open source development community." SIEVE THROUGH PHOTOS WITH DIGIKAM’S LIGHT TABLE TOOL
"Fortunately, digiKam provides a simple yet efficient tool that can help you to compare and analyze multiple photos side by side and pick the one you like most. The name of this wonderful tool is Light Table, and you can evoke it by choosing Tools � Light Table from the main toolbar." GOOGLE: BING IS CHEATING, COPYING OUR SEARCH RESULTS
"Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this." HANDS ON DEMO: IPAD LINUX TERMINAL
"After a quick session of Angry Birds, Senior Systems Editor, Ken Hess, gives us a tour of how you can turn your iPad into a handy Linux terminal."(video) MANDRIVA 2011 DELAYED DUE TO MAJOR CHANGES
"Mandriva 2011 has been delayed primarily because of the team's major changes to RPM5. RPM5 is a fork of RPM, (Red Hat Package Management) which was currently at 4.8.1, that offers faster performance and fewer operational errors" VIEWS AND A CONVERSION
"Back in July I blogged about the maturity of KWord. Or, more accurately, the lack of that. I attacked the problem head-on of why KWord is not really used for serious work. In this blog I want to revist the issue and show the progress made since then." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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ONE YEAR AFTER NOVELL...
"I’m usually big on milestones — anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, etc. But it wasn’t until I was going to bed last night that it hit me: It’s been a year since I left Novell and started working for myself full-time." ORACLE WRITES NEW OPENJDK RULES
"Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle has announced on his blog that he...has been drafting a set of OpenJDK community rules, or bye-laws, by which the community will operate." MOZILLA PRISM GOES CHROMELESS
"Back in 2007, Mozilla launched the Prism effort to create web applications that could run on the desktop. Essentially Prism offered users a way to run a browser loaded to a specific web application." CODEWEAVERS CROSSOVER COMETOTHELIGHT SALE HAS BEEN EXTENDED
"Codeweavers offers downloads of its Crossover Games for $39.95 and Crossover Professional for $69.95 but if you apply coupon code "ComeToTheLight" this will drop CrossOver Games to $29.96 And Crossover Professional to $52.46 That's 25% off the normal retail selling price." PUPPET HEADS TO THE ENTERPRISE: A DISCUSSION WITH LUKE KANIES
"Puppet has come a long way since its early days as an alternative to cfengine. The open source configuration management system has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, and is now officially taking on the enterprise." DELL PARTNERS WITH UBUNTU FOR LINUX CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY
"Ubuntu Linux vendor Canonical is expanding its cloud horizons this week, thanks to a new cloud partnership with Dell." GUIDE TO CMUS - MUSIC PLAYER FOR YOUR TERMINAL
"CMus is a free, powerful, terminal-based music player using the ncurses toolkit. CMus supports various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, AAC and MP4." FEDORA GOES TO THE DOGS - HOT DOGS THAT IS
"There's a new dog in the house at Fedora, and he just might end up on your Fedora 15 desktop. Chris Lumens, Red Hat Anaconda developer, has proposed a new theme for the upcoming Fedora release built around hot dogs." FREE AS IN FREEDOM: EPISODE 0X08: STRICTLY COMMERCIAL (OGGCAST)
"Bradley and Karen discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free Culture/Software ones. This show was released on Tuesday 1 February 2011; its running time is 00:49:32." LINUX WITH BADRAM SAVES THE DAY!
"Have I said lately that I love Linux? No? Okay then, "I love Linux!" I found yet another reason to promote Linux over other operating system software this week. Bad RAM chips. Some of you may now be thinking to yourselves, "What? Is this guy nuts?"" ANDROID MOBILE OS ALERT: GOOGLE SWEETENS HONEYCOMB POT, DEMOS UPDATES ON XOOM
"Google was handing out little Android toy robots at the registration line for its Android "Honeycomb" press event here, but the search giant's real agenda was more serious, specifically to show that it's ready to take on market leader Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad." CHROME TAKES 10% USAGE SHARE, IE CONTINUES TO HEMORRHAGE
"Chrome's usage share for January has made it into double digits: the browser was used by 10.7 percent of Web users last month, up from 9.98 percent in December. It was a good month too for Safari, up to 6.30 percent from 5.89 percent the month before." A LINUX AUDIO CHRISTMAS
"Some interesting items showed up under Dave's Christmas tree, including a new book by some old friends, a laptop keyboard (music, not QWERTY), and an excellent Linux audio plugin for high-quality reverb. Dave must have been a very good boy last year." BIG BROTHER (COMPUTER) IS WATCHING YOU
"The 1993 sci-fi action movie Demolition Man depicted a future without violence or disorder. They achieved this, in part, by using technology to automate penalties for rule-breaking." WHY LINUX IS A PERFECT FIT FOR CHARITIES AND NON-PROFITS
"Linux and charity go hand in hand. From cost savings to reliable computing environments, Linux fundamentally belongs in non-profits. Jack Wallen champions the cause of providing Linux solutions to organizations in need." THE REASON WHY I HAVE SWITCHED TO ZSH - PART 1
"Over the years, I have blown the minds of so many Windows users with the power of the shell that I cannot help but smile when I think about it. Yet I have never given much thought to other shells." CLOUD COMPUTING SET TO DOMINATE DIGIUM ASTERISK WORLD CONFERENCE
"Until now, Digium hasn’t said much about its cloud computing strategy for Asterisk — the wildly popular open source IP PBX. But cloud computing is set to dominate conversations at this week’s Digium Asterisk World conference in Miami Beach, Fla." OPENOFFICE.ORG VS. LIBREOFFICE
"On September 28, 2010, LibreOffice was announced as a fork of the OpenOffice.org office suite. In the weeks since then, there have been promises of innovation and change from LibreOffice, and an attempt at dignified silence from OpenOffice.org." MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SUED FOR SHARING MOVIES IN PAST YEAR
"Since we first broke the news about a new Washington D.C. enterprise using an innovative legal tactic to pursue movie torrent downloaders, U.S. courts have seen an explosion of activity on the file-sharing front." GNOME SHELL REVIEW - IT'S STARTING TO LOOK GOOD ALREADY
"GNOME is among the most widely used Linux desktop environments out there, if not *the* most widely used one. GNOME Shell is the latest incarnation of GNOME which is still undergoing heavy development." FEBRUARY 2011 ISSUE OF THE PCLINUXOS MAGAZINE RELEASED
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the February 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. THE EMERGING ELEMENTARY EXPERIENCE
"Today saw ‘Slingshot’ – a new application launcher project headed up by the elementary team – leak in to the wild. But just what is it and what does it form part of?" IS GNOME 3 GOING TO MELT YOUR LAPTOP?
"In GNOME 3.0, we’re defaulting to suspending the computer when the user shuts the lid, and not providing any preferences combobox to change this. This is what the UI designers for GNOME 3.0 want, and is probably a step in the right direction." IPV4 OFFICIALLY DEPLETED, EYES ON IPV6
"At a ceremony held in Miami, the last five blocks of IPv4 address space were officially handed over to the five global Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)." THE TINY HACKABLE LINUX POGOPLUG PRO
"The CloudEngines line of tiny Pogoplug plug computers are fully-hackable little Linux servers. Paul Ferrill shows us what the Pogoplug Pro can do, and how to use it." INSTALL AND CONFIGURE OPENLDAP ON CENTOS 5
"This tutorial describes OpenLDAP installation on a computer running Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS or any distribution based on the package installer "yum."" CONVIRTURE AND EUCALYPTUS SYSTEMS TO PARTNER ON OPEN-SOURCE, CLOUD MANAGEMENT
"Later this week, sources tell me that Convirture, maker of open source-based virtualization management software, will announce a very close partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the eponymous private cloud platform." | 
