| Linux Today News 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." AS LINUX BECOMES EASIER IT CAN BE MORE DANGEROUS
"Before it used to be a challenging task to install Linux onto a computer and have it recognise and configure all devices. Now, modern Linux distributions aimed for desktop usage are, dare I say it, almost windows like in the ability to detect and configure new devices." UBUNTU STUDIO FUN FACTS
"There are two commonly preferred ways to install Ubuntu Studio. Many people start with a regular, vanilla Ubuntu installation and "upgrade" their package selection by installing the Ubuntu Studio meta-packages." NOKIA SHAREHOLDER 'REVOLT' AGAINST MICROSOFT WP7 DEAL ENDS AFTER A DAY (PLAN B IS A HOAX)
"It turns out the ?revolt? was nothing but a hoax. The Plan B blog page began redirecting to a @NokiaPlanB Twitter account on February 16." VIRGIN GOES BACK TO THE MANUAL AFTER SYSTEM CRASH
"This latest computer crash, which looks to be as serious as the 2010 fiasco, will place more question marks around the integrity and robustness of the .NET based Navitaire New Skies system which claims to be able to handle load spikes and scale easily as passenger volumes increase." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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MAN SEEKS USED LAPTOPS TO REFURBISH, GIVE TO STUDENTS
"A co-worker?s purchase of a new laptop computer was inspiration for the idea that Mark Cloyd of Chadron is putting into action as a means to help more Chadron students take advantage of the opportunities that technology provides." LINUX IPTABLES: HOW TO ADD FIREWALL RULES (WITH ALLOW SSH EXAMPLE)
"This article explains how to add iptables firewall rules using the ?iptables -A? (append) command." DECENTRALIZING THE INTERNET SO BIG BROTHER CAN?T FIND YOU
"On Tuesday afternoon, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke in Washington about the Internet and human liberty, a Columbia law professor in Manhattan, Eben Moglen, was putting together a shopping list to rebuild the Internet ? this time, without governments and big companies able to watch every twitch of our fingers." CHANGE GRUB BACKGROUND IMAGE IN SQUEEZE
"This is the first post of two on how to get rid of the SpaceFun theme. Obviously the first step is to change the desktop background. After that, it gets more difficult." THE PERFECT SERVER - DEBIAN SQUEEZE (DEBIAN 6.0) [ISPCONFIG 2]
"This tutorial shows how to set up a Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc" HILLARY CLINTON'S SPEECH: SHADES OF HYPOCRISY ON INTERNET FREEDOM
"Last year, the US secretary of state criticised the 'firewall' approach. Yet after the WikiLeaks affair it is harder to moralise" EXERCISE 4: STARTING WITH AWK SCRIPTS
"Awk scripts allow you to create a script that could be reused and enter a path into a file or execute it from the command line." NOKIASOFT: WHO ARE THE OPEN SOURCE WINNERS AND LOSERS?
"The dust has barely settled on the announcement of the major deal between Nokia and Microsoft, weird possibilities have been and gone, and we are all still pondering the implications." NO MORE DESKTOP LINUX SYSTEMS IN THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE
"In response to a questionPDFGerman language on "the use of open source software in the Foreign Office and other Government departments" submitted in parliament by the SPD (Social Democrats, the main German opposition party), the German government has confirmedPDFGerman language that the German Foreign Office is to switch back to Windows desktop systems." FREEDOM BOX: FREEING THE INTERNET ONE SERVER AT A TIME
"Free software isn?t about free services or beer, it?s about intellectual freedom. As recent episodes such as censorship in China, the Egyptian government turning off the Internet, and Facebook?s constant spying, have shown, freedom and privacy on the Internet are under constant assault." MICROSOFT: ABSOLUTELY NO FREE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS PHONE AND XBOX APPS.
"This is rather uncool, IMHO, I stumbled upon this forum entry and was quite astonished. It points to the Microsoft Application Provider Agreement that governs the Windows Marketplace, the App Store where users can get apps and developers publish them." PCLINUXOS 2011 KDE: A REVIEW AND RETROSPECTIVE
"PCLinuxOS is a great distro for individuals who favor rolling updates, performance, and a dedicated community. If you?re a first-time Linux user or if you favor aesthetics over technological prowess, better choices are available." A KERNEL BY ANY OTHER NAME
"For legacy reasons we standardized our environment on Ubuntu Server. Generally when a new Ubuntu LTS release comes out, we, like many others, start deploying any new installations on the new release while we start planning upgrades for our most out-of-date servers." HANDS ON WITH INTEL'S MEEGO TABLET UI: GOOD IDEAS, ROUGH EDGES
"Although Nokia is gutting its commitment to MeeGo, the platform still has support from a number of other prominent hardware vendors. Intel, which originally cofounded MeeGo with Nokia last year, has released an experimental "pre-alpha" build of its MeeGo tablet environment." IMPROVING PERFORMANCE WITH CUSTOM-COMPILED SOURCE PACKAGES
"Feeling-the-need-for-speed asks: Can custom-compiled source packages really improve performance compared to pre-compiled binary packages? If yes, by how much?" MOGLEN ON FREEDOM BOX AND MAKING A FREE NET
"Our freedom, he said, depends on reengineering the network to replace vulnerable, centralized services with alternatives which resist government control." IBM ROLLS 20GBPS IPS NETWORK APPLIANCE (YES IT'S LINUX POWERED)
"The IBM Network Intrusion Protection System (IPS) GX7800 has an underlying Linux operating system and provides up to 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) of performance and includes both traditional IPS as well as web application security features" SEAGATE GOFLEX IS REALLY A POGOPLUG IN DISGUISE
"Little Linux-powered plug servers pack a big punch, serving up file sharing and multi-media streaming. Paul Ferrill explores the innards of the Seagate GoFlex, which offers USB 3.0 and streaming anywhere to anything." DEBATE OVER INTERNET BACKDOORS HEATS UP IN CONGRESS AND IN COURT
"Two hearings tomorrow?one in court and one in Congress?will highlight the brewing debate over whether Congress should expand federal surveillance laws to force Internet communications service providers like Facebook, Google and Skype to build technical backdoors into their systems to enable government wiretapping." HOW TO FIND DUPLICATE IMAGES ON DIGIKAM!
"Here is how to filter and locate duplicate images and look alikes on your library. If you are like me and if you have a huge amounts of pictures in your database then this feature is definitely worth it." ALFRESCO 3 BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: TYPES OF E-MAIL INTEGRATION
"The long-term vision for most ECM systems is to be able to handle almost any kind of content, and for many organizations e-mails are often next in line to manage after content such as documents, images, web content, and records. Alfresco can be used as an e-mail management solution and we will discuss what the difference is between that and an e-mail archiving solution." RSA: JAVA IS THE MOST VULNERABLE BROWSER PLUG-IN
"According to Qualys' data, 42 percent of users were running vulnerable out-of-date Java plug-ins. Adobe's Reader was in second at 32 percent followed by Apple QuickTime at 25 percent. Adobe Flash came in fourth at 24 percent." READ ODF DOCUMENTS ON ANDROID WITH OPENOFFICE DOCUMENT READER
"Despite its name, the OpenOffice Document Reader (OODR) app for Android can handle not only OpenOffice.org Writer documents, but also LibreOffice and ODF files." 4G BASE-STATION ON A CHIP RUNS LINUX
" Freescale Semiconductor announced a Linux-ready system-on-chip family for femtocell and picocell 4G base stations. The QorIQ Qonverge SoCs combine a Power-PC core for the PSC9130/31 femtocell version -- or dual cores for the PSC9132 picocell model" SPLASHTOP RELEASES ITS MEEGO-BASED OS
"While Nokia has effectively abandoned the MeeGo Linux operating system, Intel is still supporting MeeGo along with AMD and other vendors, including SplashTop. SplashTop has today announced the release of their MeeGo-based operating system." | 
