| Linux Today News 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." OPEN SOURCE GAME COUNTERFEITED IN MAC APP STORE
"The developers at game software house Wolfire have found that the Lugaru HD game, which they open sourced last May, has appeared in what they describe as a counterfeit version on the Mac App Store." WHAT MAKES IBM'S WATSON RUN?
"It?s looking pretty good for Watson, IBM?s Linux-powered computer cluster, as IBM engineers get it ready for its mid-February showdown with Jeopardy?s all-time champs, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter." A DEBIAN BLOG CREATED WITH FLATPRESS
"After writing my entry on CMS and blog software that doesn?t require a database, one of the commenters recommended FlatPress." LINUX SHELL SCRIPT: MONITORING ACTIVITIES
"An operating system consists of a collection of system software, designed for different purposes, serving different task sets. Each of these programs requires to be monitored by the operating system or the system administrator in order to know whether it is working properly or not." HONEYCOMB IS HERE: GOOGLE UNVEILS ANDROID 3.0, NEW WEB-BASED MARKET
"Google held a special event this morning to launch Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb. The latest version of Google's mobile operating system introduces a new user interface for tablet devices and brings a number of other compelling features" OPEN SOURCE OFFICE APPLICATIONS COMPARISON.
"This my post will be about comparison of features of some of them. For my tests I will take OOo, KOffice and Gnome Office." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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A MAJOR OPEN-SOURCE ATI LINUX DRIVER UPDATE
"If you use the open-source ATI Linux graphics driver, there's a major stable update available. At long last, xf86-video-ati 6.14.0 has been released." A WEEK WITH PINGUY ? THE SLICK UBUNTU REMIX
"These days, Linux distros are a dime a dozen, especially in the field of the Ubuntu remix. Just about anyone thinks they can create a usable spinoff (they?re probably right) and that it?ll be wildly successful (they?re probably wrong)." FUJIFILM STARTS SHIPPING 5TB MAGNETIC TAPES
"This week Fujifilm has started shipping by far the largest magnetic tape cartridges ever produced while maintaining a very respectable 240MB/s transfer speed." WEEKEND PROJECT: SET UP A FAST AND LIGHTWEIGHT DESKTOP WITH FLUXBOX
"Would you like a faster computer this weekend? We can't spot you the cash for a faster machine, but by embracing a faster and lighter desktop, you can enjoy a speedier computing experience on your Linux desktop. If you're ready to soup up your system, dive in and give Fluxbox a shot." UBUNTU WEEKLY Q&A SESSIONS ANNOUNCED
"According to the Ubuntu wiki pages there will be a weekly question and answer series to be lead by community leaders and Canonical managers." WHY I USE GENTOO: DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
"Some of us in the computer world aren?t just users?we?re developers too. Whether we?re working on personal projects or large software packages, we find ourselves in need of various programs and data required for software development, such as compilers and library headers." HOW TO CREATE AN IMAGE GALLERY IN WORDPRESS 3
"In this article by April Hodge Silver, author of WordPress 3 Complete, we will see how to add and manage built-in image galleries to display photos and other images." PEOPLE BEHIND DEBIAN: MIKE HOMMEY, FIREFOX/ICEWEASEL MAINTAINER
"For as long as I have known Mike, he?s been maintaining one of the largest (and most widely used) package: Iceweasel, Debian?s default web browser." SOFTWARE REVIEW: THE CLEMENTINE MUSIC PLAYER
"Okay, I?ve had it with Amarok 2.x. I was patient; I gave them plenty of time to get the kinks worked out. But Amarok 2.4 (which I?ll be reviewing shortly) was the final straw, so I decided to check out Clementine, which is a fork of the wonderful old Amarok 1.4." UBUNTU 11.04 NATTY NARWHAL ALPHA 2 REVIEW
"Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" alpha 2 was released a day ago. A lot has changed with Ubuntu since we reviewed the first alpha release of Ubuntu Natty some weeks ago. Here is a quick review of the latest release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal." BASH AS CGI LANGUAGE
"Sometimes it can be useful with a simple CGI to show the contents of a directory, or run a command with some parameters." BEYOND FUDCON: FACES, FEATURES AND FUTURE OF FEDORA
"The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people." PYTHON4KIDS: NEW TUTORIAL - AN AWFUL PICKLE
"pickle is a module which allows you to store Python objects including their structure. That means after you have pickled an object to a file, you can later load that object back up from the file and all the structure associated with that object will be preserved." CANONICAL BRINGS UBUNTU TO THE OPENSTACK CLOUD
"Cisco, the 800-pound gorilla of networking, and Canonical, parent of Ubuntu Linux, have both joined forces with OpenStack." DEBIAN 6.0 "SQUEEZE" RELEASED IN LINUX, FREEBSD FLAVORS
"Here's some good news for all you Debian fans: Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) has now been released." ALSA 1.0.24 HAS ARRIVED, BRINGING BETTER LINUX AUDIO
"ALSA 1.0.23 was released in April 2010 as a major update to the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, but it's finally been outdone by ALSA 1.0.24. The ALSA 1.0.24 update is also very significant and delivers on quite a number of sound card / audio processor driver improvements." DESIGNING UBUNTU
"Jono Bacon, community manager for Ubuntu, explores the history of the distro's desktop design" LCA: IP ADDRESS EXHAUSTION AND THE END OF THE OPEN NET
"Geoff Huston is the Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. His frank linux.conf.au 2011 keynote took a rather different tack than Vint Cerf's talk did the day before. According to Geoff, Vint is "a professional optimist." Geoff was not even slightly optimistic" HOW TO ASSIGN/REMAP KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR BETTER PRODUCTIVITY [LINUX]
"By default, Ubuntu comes with a set of keyboard shortcut that you can use straightaway. However, some of these keyboard shortcuts might not be desirable, troublesome, or obstructive and disrupting your productivity." UNOVYX ON KICKSTARTER! RAPIDDISK, A NEW TYPE OF RAM DISK FOR LINUX.
"Unovyx, LLC would like to announce that it is currently on Kickstarter.com attempting to seek funding for the development and testing of a large software-based project. The project is called RapidDisk (abbreviated to rxdsk) and is currently trying to raise $2,500 to help purchase all necessary equipment" OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES TO GOOGLE
"Is it feasible to drop Google for a period of time in exchange for unfettered open source alternatives?" SCALE 9X ACROSS THE SNOWY HORIZON
"Vendors and experts from Linux and open source deliver top-notch content, at a level that belies the "amateur" label one might put on a community-organized show. There's nothing amateur about SCALE." THE NEW DEBIAN LINUX: IRRELEVANT?
"Once upon a time, a new Debian Linux release was a big deal in Linux circles. It still is, but its child, Ubuntu Linux, is the Linux distribution that gets all the headlines. There?s a reason for that." MYNOTEX A FREE NOTE-TAKING AND NOTES MANAGER SOFTWARE FOR LINUX
"MyNotex is a free software for Linux useful to take and to manage textual notes, also a large number of them. Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text" THE IPV6 TRANSITION: HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?
"What does it actually cost to move to IPv6? That's the final question that was posed this week at the official ceremony marking the end of IPv4 address space." FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SALINE OS 1.0
"Saline is a fairly new distribution to the Linux scene, having just reached the 1.0 mark in January. The distro is based off Debian Squeeze which, at the time of writing, is due to become the official Debian Stable branch any day." 6 LINUX GROUPWARE SERVERS
"The Linux/FOSS world offers a wealth of excellent Linux-based groupware server choices, suitable for small shops to giant enterprises. Eric Geier rounds up six to get you started." WHY DEBIAN MATTERS MORE THAN EVER
"Looks, however, can be deceiving ? Debian is as relevant as it ever was, despite opinions to the contrary." LISTEN TO YOUR PACKAGE MANAGER - IT KNOWS WHAT IT IS TALKING ABOUT!
"Many people instinctively click through any popup window that appears on their screen when they are trying to accomplish a task. A good deal of these people do not even read the message that is presented to them, they simply look for the Close/OK/Next/Yes button so they can move on" DEBIAN 6.0 "SQUEEZE" RELEASED FEBRUARY 6TH, 2011
"After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name "Squeeze"). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a "technology preview"." | 
