| Linux Today News 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." 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." WHAT COUNTS AS ANDROID?
"A recent market report included Android-derived but incompatible handsets sold in China as Android - begging the question "what is Android?"" Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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GNOME3 POWER SETTINGS
"Richard Hughes recently posted about the recent GNOME3 Power Settings design that got a lot of people (myself included) hot and bothered. As I said in my comment, I think that a lot of people prefer that their laptop stay on when the lid is closed." UNATTENDED STREAM RECORDING WITH MPLAYER
"The Linux movie player program MPlayer has an option to record an Internet-broadcast video stream for playing later. The recording can be done from the command line. This is useful for two reasons: (1) you can record at a time when you are too busy to watch, (2) if your Internet connection is poor for realtime video..." SIX SECURITY SINS TO AVOID: THE IT DARWIN AWARDS
"You've heard of the Darwin Awards, which are given out for the rather grim achievement of doing something particularly dumb and usually fatal. We've heard of a few security mishaps that may have been career suicide, but thankfully none that have actually proven fatal." IPV4 OFFICIALLY DEPLETED, EYES ON IPV6
SCALE 9X SCHEDULE FIRMS UP
"The 9th Annual Southern California Linux Expo is less than four weeks away. This Expo is shaping up to be the best SCALE ever, with five tracks of quality presenters, over 80 exhibitors, and more content than it?s ever had." UBUNTU NATTY NARWHAL ALPHA 2 RELEASED TODAY
"Alpha 2 for Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal was released today and as with any releases still in development comes with all the usual developers only warnings." DON?T PANIC! IT?S ONLY THE INTERNET RUNNING OUT OF ADDRESSES
"The various Internet management groups made it official this morning. We?re now out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet address blocks." FREESPEAK, AN HANDY TRANSLATOR
"FreeSpeak is a free (as in freedom, developed and released under the terms of GPL) frontend to online translator engines (such as Google, Yahoo, etc.). It is written in Python, it uses the GTK toolkit and some GNOME infrastructure features." ANDROID: WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
"You have probably heard by now, as reported in the WSJ, that findings from market researcher Canalys placed Android sales in the fourth quarter of last year as the clear #1 handset OS" KDE 4.6 REVIEW: IT?S FULL OF AWESOMENESS
"On January 26th of this year, KDE released version 4.6.0 of its Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. While many major versions of KDE have focused on features, 4.5 was mostly a stabilizing release, fixing thousands of bugs." HOTZ FILES MOTION TO DISMISS FOR LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION, IMPROPER VENUE
" George Hotz's lawyers said they'd file a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue, and they have just done it. They ask not only that the temporary restraining order and impoundment order be dismissed, but that the complaint be dismissed as well." MICROSOFT SAYS GOOGLE USED CLICK FRAUD TO ORCHESTRATE BING STING
"Microsoft is now accusing Google of using a form of click fraud to set up its Bing Sting, a stunt unveiled by the search giant at the Farsight 2011 tech conference in Silicon Valley." FLASHVIDEOREPLACER CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
"We covered FlashVideoReplacer, a video add-on for Firefox, last year, but the new 2.x series offers several improvements. We look at what the new version offers and ask the developer a few questions." OPENSTACK EXPANDS WITH GLANCE, UBUNTU AND CISCO
"The OpenStack open source cloud computing platform is out today with a new release codenamed Bexar, introducing new cloud computing and storage technologies. Bexar provides support for IPv6 as well as the ability to have unlimited storage." LINUX-BASED HOME NAS DEVICES USE AS LITTLE AS SEVEN WATTS
"Qnap Systems announced additions to its Linux-based Turbo NAS family of network attached storage devices for the home/SOHO market. The TS-x12 lineup includes the four-drive (up to 8TB) TS-412, the two-bay TS-212, plus the single-drive TS-112, each providing a 1.2GHz Marvell 6281 processor, 256MB of DDR2 memory, plus gigabit Ethernet and USB connectivity." PAINLESS PASSWORD MANAGEMENT: THE BEST FREE AND PAID TOOLS
"Once upon a time, you might have thought you could get away with a single user ID and password for all your favorite Web sites. Then, the popular gossip Web site Gawker was hacked, and more than a million user IDs and passwords were revealed." A POSSIBLE GAME CHANGER FOR INVALIDATING BAD SOFTWARE PATENTS
"A case now before the Supreme Court could lower the threat level created by bad patents in a meaningful way." GET YOUR OWN OPEN SOURCE TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE FOR $69
"It?s really easy to go out and spend a few hundred dollars buying yourself a personal media player (PMP). But why not build your own instead, save some money, and have a completely open platform to experiment on?" FINDING THE FASTEST FILESYSTEM, 2011 EDITION
"In my previous report about journaling filesystem benchmarking using dbench, I observed that a properly-tuned system using XFS, with the deadline I/O scheduler, beat both Linux?s ext3 and IBM?s JFS." PLATFORM EMULATION WITH BOCHS
"Bochs, like QEMU, is a portable emulator that provides a virtualization environment in which to run an operating system using an emulated platform in the context of another operating system." BEST FIREFOX EXTENSIONS
"It's been nearly a year since the last major release of Firefox -- version 3.6 -- and development of the Firefox 4 seems to have slowed down a bit, with the planned release of late 2010 getting set back to February 2011." MADBOX 10.10 REVIEW - AN UBUNTU BASED OPENBOX DISTRO
"MadBox is a relatively new Ubuntu-based Openbox distribution. It tries to cater to CrunchBang (?#!?) Linux users who want an Ubuntu-based Openbox distribution (as #! switched to a Debian base almost a year ago), as well as to users who want a fast and lightweight OS or one that will work on a slower computer without sacrificing polish." DEBIAN 6.0 RELEASE PARTIES AROUND THE WORLD THIS WEEKEND
"DebianSqueeze is not released yet but it is scheduled to be released the weekend of the 5th-6th of February. So it is a good time to plan squeeze release party in your country." LINUX 2.6.37: SCALABILITY IMPROVEMENTS ABOUND
"While 2.6.37 might be considered a quiet release, there are some very nice scalability improvements for file systems and one cool new feature that warrant a review." TECH COMICS: "SOCIAL NETWORKING MADE EASY"
"Consistency, if not politeness, is essential for successful social networking." JSE?S NEW, FASTER TRADING SYSTEM
"The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is getting a new trading system that will make equity market transactions 400 times faster." (Linux and Unix-based) THE FIVE BEST OPEN SOURCE CALENDAR SERVERS FOR LINUX
"Finding Linux-based calendar clients, like Evolution or Mozilla Lightning, is easy ? but what about the server-side software? You'll find some great calendar servers for Linux, if you know where to look." BOOTSTRAP? WHAT BOOTSTRAP? I WANT MAGEIA ISO!
"As stated in previous blog posts, our build system has been in active operation for the past weeks and more than 4,000 packages have already been built. This set of packages is what we call a bootstrap." SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE WINS AT FINAL JEOPARDY!
"Which operating system powers the world?s most famous supercomputer and Jeopardy! contestant? The answer is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11." GOOGLE CHROME 9 RELEASED, ACCELERATING 3D AND FIXING BUGS
"Google has released its first major version update to the Chrome browser in 2011, with the release of Chrome 9. The new browser has been in beta since the beginning of the year." CREATE PROFESSIONAL VIDEOS ON LINUX WITH OPENSHOT
"Open source has come a long, long way and video editing has not been left behind. You'll find a number of video editing tools on Linux, but none of them are both as user-friendly and create as high-quality video as OpenShot Video Editor." | 
