| Linux Today News ADA INITIATIVE SUPPORTS WOMEN IN OPEN SOURCE, COUNTERS SEXISM
"Now, women's advocates Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner are determined to change this situation by the creation of The Ada Initiative, a non-profit organization to encourage women's participation in both FOSS and related groups such as the Free Culture Movement and Wikipedia" DEBIAN LINUX 6 AND THE TRINITY DESKTOP
"Well, I am finally done with a week's efforts at almost successfully jumping from Lenny and a very familiar KDE3.5 environment to Sid and the Trinity Desktop." SONY LAWYERS EXPAND DRAGNET, TARGETING ANYBODY POSTING PLAYSTATION 3 HACK
"Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or ?distributing? the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console." USING MSMTP AS A LIGHTWEIGHT SMTP CLIENT
"Last week, I covered OfflineIMAP to sync IMAP for use with Mutt or other applications. Continuing with that theme, I want to talk about another tool I use with Mutt to handle the opposite problem -- actually pushing mail to an SMTP server. Let's take a look at msmtp." UBUNTU 11.04 ALPHA 2 HAS SUPPORT FOR SANDY BRIDGE
"What's new in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2? Well, lots of things are new in this second Alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system, but the most important change is that the old OpenOffice.org 3.2 office suite from Oracle has been finally replaced with the new and lightweight LibreOffice 3.3 open source office suite" CREATING SPRITES WITH BLENDER AND GIMP
"I?ve been using simple placeholder images for my game so that I could work on gameplay. But I?m getting to a point now where I think I?ve got the core of the game nearly complete and I need more than just placeholders." IS PCLINUXOS ON THE ROPES?
"With difficulties ranging from personnel shake-ups to hosting problems, it seems developing and managing a Linux distribution can be challenging work. Perhaps sometimes it's more trouble than it's worth." INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD STALLMAN (2011)
"Richard M. Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to RMS, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system" US INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: LINUX HELP WANTED
"In a just released "report card" on the use of open source technology at the federal level, the Defense Department received the highest rating -- 82 percent -- from Open Source for America." MANAGE SYSTEM STARTUP AND BOOT PROCESSES ON LINUX WITH UPSTART
"Want to start, stop, and manage services on your Linux box? Then you need to familiarize yourself with Upstart and take control of your startup and boot processes on Linux." WATCH YOUR BIOS SETTINGS WITH DMDEICODE AND BIOSDECODE
"The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server components , by abstracting these components from the software that manages them." WHAT THEY KNOW - MOBILE
"Marketers are tracking smartphone users through "apps" - games and other software on their phones. Some apps collect information including location, unique serial-number-like identifiers for the phone, and personal details such as age and sex." WINE 1.3.13 RELEASED
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WORDPRESS 3.0.5 UPDATES FOR 5 SECURITY ISSUES, 3.1 UPDATED FOR PHP 4?!
"The open source Wordpress blogging platform is out with version 3.0.5, a new update fixing at least five security issues." TOP 10 PHPMYADMIN TIPS AND TRICKS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
"One of the first utilities mentioned within PHP and MySQL tutorials, and ubiquitously available on Web hosting providers, over the years phpMyAdmin has grown to be an indispensable tool within every PHP developer's toolbox." DEBIAN LINUX WAS IMPORTANT: WILL IT CONTINUE TO BE?
"When I asked the rhetorical question, ?Is Debian Linux still relevant?? I knew I?d cause a ruckus. But, I also felt the question needed to be asked: For Debian?s own good. Seriously." LANTRONIX LAUNCHES PREMIERWAVE EN TO ENABLE SECURE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF VITAL DATA
Lantronix (NASDAQ: LTRX), a leading global provider of smart connectivity solutions that enable access to any device, anywhere, anytime, today announced the official launch of its PremierWave EN? embedded Linux wireless device server. GLUSTER EXPANDS OPEN-SOURCE SCALE-OUT NAS
"Open-source storage vendor Gluster has introduced a couple of new additions to its scale-out NAS platform. The company claims these are the first scale-out virtual NAS appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS)." THE HELIOS PROJECT GETS STONED
"I can't remember where I left that word...I think it was in the same decade I dropped off phrases like "groovy" and "far out"." PREVIEW: GNOME 3
"Usually, when I review desktop environments, I review KDE, specifically version 4. Why? It's constantly evolving and improving, and it's nice to be able to see such changes occurring on all fronts so quickly. By contrast, GNOME and Xfce (not to mention other WMs like Openbox) have remained relatively the same" MIDGARD2 10.05.3 "RATATOSKR" LTS RELEASED
"The Midgard Project has released the third maintenance release of Midgard2 10.05.3 "Ratatoskr" LTS. Ratatoskr LTS is a Long Term Support version of Midgard2 Content Repository." ARDUINO IN THE THIRD PERSON
"was fussing around with the Arduino IDE's settings and got this adorable error message" WHAT IS KAMOSO
"A lot of people has been asking me (or complaining) what is Kamoso and what we intend to do with it, so I?ve decided to use a blog post to explain it. Short Description: Kamoso is an application for taking Pictures and Videos using any webcam." MANDRIVA LINUX 2011TP (TECH PREVIEW) - QUICK LOOK
"After laying-off a significant portion of its employees, is Mandriva going to remain a viable distribution? While many distros, including Mandriva, are furiously working on their Spring 2011 releases, Mandriva announced a two-week slip from their previously announced release dates." REACTOS ? OPEN-SOURCE WINDOWS CLONE SOFTWARE TO SERIOUSLY LOOK FORWARD TO
"ReactOS is an effort to provide a Windows NT-like architecture that is compatible with existing drivers and applications. An easy way to look at it would be to say that it is a clone of the Windows OS (which is closed-source so it?s not possible to really clone it), when in reality, it?s an alternative to the Windows OS" ORACLE AND IBM TO SHARE OPEN-SOURCE JAVA LEADERSHIP
"Oracle has agreed to share governance of the OpenJDK Java community with IBM, in a move that demonstrates considerable good will, according to one analyst." NORWAY TO PROBE SONY'S PS3 LINUX 'DOWNGRADE'
"A government agency in Norway has reported Sony to the Consumer Ombudsman after floods of complaints over removal of "Other OS" functionality from PlayStation 3 consoles." FACEBOOK JAPAN TAKES HARD LINE, BANNING PSEUDO NAMES AND REQUIRES ID
"Today February 8, some Japanese web users who are influential in tech communities like Hatena and Twitter, started reporting they were locked out from Facebook." FIVE OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT TIME FORGOT
"When the world was young and lush forests covered the globe..." 5 KEY THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT DEBIAN 6.0 'SQUEEZE'
"Squeeze was officially released on February 6th, and here the 5 most important things to know about it:" CUPS AND SUN
"In my posession I also had an old mini-itx board with passive cooling (large heat sinks) and a pair of sun portable scsi hdd cases. Incidentally, the latter fit into the former. The plan for a new print server was born." LINUS TORVALDS: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
"Torvalds is an excellent subject for an interview; he never evades a question, not even if he has a single word to offer as reply. And despite claiming to have a big ego, he is indeed very approachable." TOP 5 TABLET PCS: COMPARE AND CONTRAST
"Which begs the question: which ones should you consider? If you are thinking of buying a tablet this year, here, in no particular order, are the top 5 devices to check out:" CRUNCHBANG STATLER REVIEW
"A few Years ago, I was given an old amd 800mghz machine which was deemed to ?slow? to run xp with service pack 3. I tried a few distro?s on it and had settled with Wolvix. But shortly after that, a new distro with a weird name,?#! crunchbang?, was introduced on distrowatch" LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE SUSE LINUX SYSTEM AT FOREFRONT OF PROPOSED TORONTO MERGER
"The London Stock Exchange's Linux-based trading system is at the forefront of a proposed merger between the venue and Toronto Stock Exchange parent TMX, announced late last night." ALFRESCO: CONTENT MANAGEMENT FOR SMALL BUSINESS
"You might think of a simple publishing platform when you think CMS, but Alfresco is a bit more than that -- it supports document sharing, storage, workflows, collaboration, and it serves as a publishing platform. For many businesses, Alfresco functions as an alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint." PINGUY OS 10.10.1 QUICK REVIEW ? EVEN MORE MAINSTREAM THAN MINT?
"Pinguy OS 10.10.1 offers an optimised build of Ubuntu with an even greater focus on ease of use and functionality for the home user. Russell Barnes takes it out for a quick spin to see how it performs" LINUX SERVERS ARE THE SMART BUSINESS CHOICE
"Linux servers are the smart business choice; Windows servers are not. In this series we'll look at how server and network admins can get started learning Linux, and in future installments learn about excellent Linux/FOSS servers and software for all business tasks." 6 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX DICTIONARY TOOLS
"So, let's explore the 6 dictionary tools at hand. For each application we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources and reviews." | 
