| Linux Today News OPENSHOT 1.3.0 RELEASED - GETS BUCKETLOADS OF NEW FEATURES
"A new version for OpenShot, one of the most popular video editors for Linux has been released. The new version brings plenty of new features, better integration with Gnome, new themes, Youtube upload feature and many many more updates." THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE MOVES TO NOVELL LINUX
"September 8th 2008 was one of the worst days ever for the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and high-end Windows server-based applications. That was the day that the LSE came to a crashing stop." USE LOGGER TO WRITE MESSAGES TO LOG FILES
"Want a quick and easy way to write to system logs? Check out logger, a shell utility that works with syslog." SAVE YOUR PC: BOOTABLE LINUX RESCUE TOOLS
"Linux is now a respected, mature operating system that's free and open source, so it shouldn't be surprising that it has a generic role as a platform for tools for the repair and rescue of both Linux and Windows operating systems" 53 OPEN SOURCE REPLACEMENTS TO SPICE UP YOUR DESKTOP
"We've collected 53 different open source projects that can make your desktop environment faster, prettier, easier to use or just a little different. They run the gamut from small utilities that do just one thing to open source operating systems that can replace Windows." TINY CORE LINUX 3.5 RELEASED
"Version 3.5 of Tiny Core Linux has been announced on behalf of "Team Tiny Core", by lead developer Robert Shingledecker." JOOMLA VS. DRUPAL: AN OPEN SOURCE CMS SHOOTOUT
"For many organizations (or individuals) with content to post and manage, blog tools like the highly popular WordPress may be more than adequate. But for companies with greater amounts of content, users, or complexity, including integration with ecommerce and also with other internal and external applications, a more comprehensive content management systems (CMS) is needed." IRONBEE OPEN SOURCE WAF PROJECT LAUNCHES
"In the open source world, the ModSecurity project has helped to lead the charge for WAFs, but there is now a group that is aiming to build a new open source WAF called IronBee." ADVANCED IP SUBNET CALCULATOR SIPCALC
"Sipcalc is an advanced console-based IP subnet calculator. It can take multiple forms of input (IPv4/IPv6/interface/hostname) and output a multitude of information about a given subnet." LAST CALL FOR HTML5
"After three years of development and debate, there is light at the end of the tunnel for HTML5. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday announced that the "last call" date for HTML5 would occur in May of this year." TESTING LINUX MAIL SERVERS WITH OPENSSL
"Yesterday Juliet Kemp showed us how to perform basic server tests with telnet. Today Carla Schroder shows how to test TLS/SSL-enabled POP3 and IMAP servers." HTC UNVEILS FLYER TABLET WITH DIGITAL PEN, FACEBOOK PHONES AND UPDATED ANDROID SMARTPHONES
"Android pioneer HTC today is introducing five new smartphones and its first tablet PC -- a portfolio designed to appeal to a variety of demographics, from the Facebook fanatic to the enterprise user." MICROSOFT CONTINUES PUSH FOR INFECTED COMPUTERS TO BE QUARANTINED
"Microsoft Scott Charney is pushing ahead with a proposal to implement a public health model to curb the damage from botnets of malware-laden computers around the world." HOW TO RECOVER A BROWSER-STORED PASSWORD IN 4 CLICKS
"So you have a little naughty password hidden behind your browser's asterisks, and for some reason you couldn't recover it. " Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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UBUNTU DEVELOPER WEEK 2011: FEBRUARY 28TH - MARCH 4TH
"Canonical, through Daniel Holbach, announced the schedule of this year's first Ubuntu Developer Week." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE: THE ROAD TO LINUX
"LSE dumps C# based program in Microsoft Windows and SQL Server, for a C++ written system running on SUSE Linux platforms" CAN FREE, "OPEN-SOURCE" SOFTWARE BRIDGE THE GENDER GAP IN TECHNOLOGY?
"But when computer classes involve being taught to use products from Apple, Adobe and Microsoft -- and include activities like field trips to the Apple Store -- who's benefiting from them? The girls, or the corporations that sponsor their classes?" NOKIA PLAN B CALLS FOR ELOP?S OUSTER
"Some Nokia investors have launched "Nokia Plan B," aiming to stack the company's board of directors and, among other things, show new CEO Stephen Elop the door." LINARO OPTIMIZES ST-ERICSSON'S SNOWBALL ARM BOARD
"Announced today, the open source community will be able to buy the Snowball development boards that use ST-Ericsson's AP9500 chipset and run free open source software and tools that have been optimized by Linaro." EXERCISE #3:USING AWK WITH PRINT AND PRINTF
"This is the action part of the awk command and it is enclosed in curly braces. This command by itself prints the input line, but with one argument it prints the argument." BODHI LINUX 0.1.5 AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT DESKTOP
"Bodhi Linux 0.1.5 has been released, and I wanted to get a look at it. I'm glad they are using BitTorrent to distribute the install disk, even though its 380MB size makes distribution easy on the bandwidth." ARCHOS 28: A VERY AFFORDABLE ANDROID POCKET TABLET COMPUTER
"Some consider the Archos 28 as the first Wi-Fi connected Android device that has a price tag of less than $100. But I disagree (See: Affordable Android-powered iPad-like Tablet Computers)." MICROSOFT: TYPHOID MARY WANTS OTHERS TO CARRY THE CAN
"Passing the buck is a game at which Microsoft is adept. In the computer security industry, one needs to have tons of chutzpah to hold others responsible for one's own security stuff-ups." LIVING ON THE BLEEDING EDGE: DEBIAN WHEEZY/SID
"I've decided to start this blog and share my experience with Debian sid/unstable, the development version of Debian GNU/Linux. It's the leading edge, but sometimes also the bleeding edge of Debian development." MAN DECIDES TO OPEN SOURCE HIS GENETIC DATA USING GITHUB
"Manu Sporny, founder and CEO of Digital Bazaar, has decided to use GitHub to store a project of a very different nature. Rather than a piece of software, he is listing his own genetic data as an open source project." WORKING WITH FRAMES AND OBJECTS IN SCRIBUS
"A Scribus document consists of a series of objects that are added to a page, and contained within a frame. In addition to the usual cut, copy, and paste functions available in most applications, frames in Scribus share a general set of editing attributes and, so far as possible, the same set of properties." FEDORA, OPENSUSE GIVE UP ON UNITY
"Some bad news came across the wire today. In a bit of a coincidence, the contributors from both openSUSE and Fedora who were working on Unity announced on the same day they were giving it up. So, those wishing to test this new interface will have to fire up Ubuntu after all." THE FOUR CAPITAL MISTAKES OF OPEN SOURCE
"How do you develop a successful open source business that lasts? Of the more than 250,000 open source projects on SourceForge, few will be successful at that goal. But one way they might think about how to do it is by doing it in reverse: What should an open source project or business not do?" NOVELL UPDATES MOONLIGHT FOR SILIVERLIGHT 4
"Want to run any type of Microsoft Silverlight 3 media on your Linux computer? Now you can." REMOTE BUG FOUND IN UBUNTU KERBEROS
"There's a vulnerability in the Kerberos implementation in several versions of Ubuntu, which could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service on vulnerable servers. The bug is in Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10." HOW HP CAN SAVE ITS DOOMED TOUCHPAD TABLET
"HP launched a competitor to the Apple iPad today, called the HP TouchPad. It?s breathtakingly awesome. Too bad it will fail" BANSHEE AMAZON STORE DISABLED IN UBUNTU 11.04 BY CANONICAL
"Faced with sharing 75% of revenues from Amazon with Canonical, the Banshee maintainers have opted to disable the Amazon store by default when Banshee ships in Ubuntu 11.04. Instead, the media player will ship with support for purchasing music through Ubuntu One's service, and users will have to change the defaults to be able to support GNOME." 10 WAYS TO E-PUBLISH WITH LINUX
"If you?re looking for a low-cost way to create, publish, and market an e-book, be sure to check out these Linux tools." NINE CURRENT FLAME WARS IN OPEN SOURCE
"The number of flame wars at any one time is impossible to count. However, here are nine of the hottest arguments in FOSS at the moment:" 5 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX ROBOTICS SOFTWARE
"Linux has a good range of open source toolkits for building robotic control systems. To provide an insight into the open source software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 of our favorite robotics software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to conduct research in robot systems." IBM'S WATSON TAKES ONE SMALL STEP FOR A COMPUTER
"IBM is working with scientists and other experts on developing uses for Watson's skills in healthcare, financial services and government, for starters." MONEY GONE, PEOPLE GONE: ORACLE'S OPEN-SOURCE BLOWBACK
"Oracle loves open-source projects and technologies -- it's just not crazy about other people running them." | 
