| Linux Today News LINUX BACKUP SERVER: REFINING RSYNC, PASSWORDLESS AUTHENTICATION
"At last here are the final two parts of this series. Today we learn how to tell rsync which files to include or exclude, set up passwordless login on the backup server, and safely test everything." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE WOES NOT LINUX'S FAULT
"The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has had better times. First, it had reoccurring problems with its integration with large-stock market data players such as Thomson Reuters Eikon, Interactive Data, and Morningstar." 3 FUN CONDITIONAL TRICKS FOR YOUR WORDPRESS CUSTOM FIELDS
"To quickly recap the idea of custom fields, they are made of two parts: the key and the value. You define a key once, which is usually universal to your WordPress setup, and the value can be defined on a per post basis" OPEN SOURCE EXPERT TAKES ON THE HARDEST JOB AT MICROSOFT
"A few months ago, Gianugo Rabellino traded his Linux and Mac PCs for a Windows 7 laptop, left the open source company he founded and moved to Redmond for a new job with Microsoft. His goal: improve Microsoft's credibility within open source circles." LIVE PERFORMANCE MONITOR FOR YOUR MYSQL SERVER
"If you are a Linux system administrator or have a Linux server running a LAMP stack, you might want to be able to keep an eye on the different elements that contribute to keeping your applications and websites alive." FRUGALWARE 1.4 NEXON REVIEW
"I?ve gotten a fair number of requests to look at Frugalware in the past so I decided to take a peek at Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon). Frugalware has always had a reputation for not being very accessible to newer Linux users or those who simply wanted an easy to use desktop version of Linux." IBM DB2, NOVELL PARTNER FOR LINUX SOFTWARE APPLIANCES
"Novell is expanding its SUSE Studio Linux appliance technology today with the addition of new templates for IBM's DB2 database." WHO CONTRIBUTES THE MOST TO LIBREOFFICE?
"Cedric Bosdonnat has been tracking contributions to LibreOffice since its announced fork from OpenOffice.org. He uses Git Data Miner to gleen results from the main branch of LibreOffice Git repositories." DICTATORS, LIBYA, AND THE UNRELIABLE INTERNET
"The recent unfortunate doings in Libya have made an example of how the Internet works around problem areas. And it reminded me that if you are going to put your content in the hands of a dictator, it is nice to know whom you are dealing with." KAJONGG: TRUE MAHJONG AT LAST
"I am not talking, you understand, about the matching game that masquerades as Mahjong. That is a game sometimes called Shanghai that uses Mahjong tiles, but has more in common with solitaire or patience than true Mahjong." LEARN LINUX, 302 (MIXED ENVIRONMENTS): SAMBA ROLES
"Samba isn't a single program; rather, it's a series of interrelated servers and utilities, each of which has its own specific purpose. Understanding the differences between these servers and utilities will help you manage your Samba system." FIVE IDEAS FOR ESCAPING THE BLU-RAY BLUES
"Some of us want to be able to release high-definition video (possibly even 3D) without evil copy protection schemes. I?ve been avoiding Blu-Ray as a consumer since it came out, mostly because Richard Stallman said it has an evil and oppressive DRM scheme. After my first serious investigation, I can confirm his opinion, and frankly, it?s a pretty bleak situation." FEDORA INTERNATIONALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION TEST WEEK THIS WEEK
"After the highly successful Graphics Test Week last week (thanks to everyone who came out! A full recap will be posted soon), it?s another Test Week this week: this time for internationalization and localization." WINDOWS LIVE MESH GOES LIVE WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR LINUX
"The more Microsoft chases me to other cloud tools and products, the less reason I have not to ditch Windows altogether" SHUTTLEWORTH ON THE UBUNTU BANSHEE CONTROVERSY: MISTAKES WERE MADE
"The conflict between Banshee and Canonical over what should be done with Banshee's Amazon Store revenue stream, while it was finally resolved, was not Ubuntu's most shining moment." INCRON -- A CRON BASED ON FILE SYSTEM EVENTS
"inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem, and report those changes to applications. It replaces an earlier facility, dnotify, which had similar goals." WELCOME TO THE SECOND DESKTOP SUMMIT
"The Desktop Summit is the get-together of the yearly free software conferences Akademy and GUADEC. This year, the Desktop Summit will take place from August 6-12, 2011 in Berlin" SECURE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE: CAMERA SHY
"Unless your surveillance cameras are wired directly to a video board, they are notoriously insecure. We show you how to keep your cameras from being compromised." THE INS AND OUTS OF OPEN SOURCE AUDITS: PART ONE
"No matter what industry your business is in, you?re almost certainly using open source software. The question is whether you know how you?re using open source, what licenses are in play, and whether you?re meeting all of your license requirements." ANNOUNCE: DEBLOAT-TESTING KERNEL GIT TREE
"The bufferbloat project [1] is pleased to announce the availability of the debloat-testing Linux kernel git tree:" WEB DEVELOPER CLASS: HOW TO USE TEMPLATES IN JOOMLA!
"Having said that, building a template from scratch is a complex and time intensive process. Right now we're going to focus on how to use an existing template, rather than build one." MIDGARD2 10.05.4 "RATATOSKR" LTS RELEASED
"The Midgard Project has released the fourth maintenance release of Midgard2 10.05.4 "Ratatoskr" LTS. Ratatoskr LTS is a Long Term Support version of Midgard2 Content Repository." GOOGLE UPDATES CHROME AHEAD OF PWN2OWN
"Google is out with an update for its Chrome Web browser with fixes for at least 19 security issues." MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD 3.1.8, FIREFOX 3.6.14, 3.5.17 UPDATES RELEASED
"Mozilla Messaging has released a new version of the desktop email client Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3.1.8. is a security, stability and performance upgrade for the stable version of the email software." LUBUNTU: FINALLY, A LIGHTWEIGHT UBUNTU!
"This article details how Lubuntu differs from Ubuntu. It also compares Lubuntu to other lightweight Linuxes. It focuses on Lubuntu 10.04, which is based on Ubuntu's 10.04 Long Term Support release." MANDRIVA 2011 ALPHA 2 RELEASED, SCREENSHOT TOUR
"Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced on the last day of February the immediate availability for testing of the second Alpha version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system." MARCH 2011 ISSUE OF THE PCLINUXOS MAGAZINE RELEASED
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. INSTANT PHOTO SHARING WITH MIN.US
"Photo sharing services are a dime a dozen these days, but Min.us stands out from the crowd for two reasons. Firstly, it makes the process of sharing photos ridiculously simple. Secondly, it offers software for the Linux desktop and the Android platform" WEB DESIGN CLASS: CUSTOMIZING A JOOMLA! TEMPLATE
"In this article we pick up from where we left off in the last one and continue to customize our Joomla! template. In this section I want to customize the FlipPhoto Pro extension by adding some of my own images." WHY DID THEY TAKE MY GNOME BUTTONS AWAY?
"With the latest GNOME 3 development snapshots came a lot of disappointment. Several blogged and dozens commented about the missing minimize and maximize buttons." COMPILING COLOURED RTORRENT FROM SVN IN UBUNTU 10.10/DEBIAN SQUEEZE WITH RUTORRENT
"rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze." NESTED-RAID: THE TRIPLE LINDY
"Thus far we have talked about single-level RAID configurations and Nested RAID configurations. But we've artificially restricted ourselves to only two levels in Nested RAID. Couldn't we have three RAID levels or more?" SUDO 1.8 BRINGS PLUGGABLE POLICIES TO ROOT ACCESS CONTROL
"This weekend at SCALE, Todd Miller introduced Sudo 1.8, a major update that brings "enterprise" features to Sudo that put it on par with proprietary alternatives." UNATTENDED LINUX WAKEUP, BACKUP, SHUTDOWN (PART 5)
"At last we come to the end of this series and put all the pieces together, and put our fabulous unattended automatic backup scheme to work. You need never lift a finger except to run periodic checks to make sure everything is working correctly." A 2004 UNIX/LINUX CODE COMPARISON FOR SCO SHOWED ESSENTIALLY NOTHING - UPDATE ON BAYSTAR
"A consultant hired by SCO in 2004 to compare UNIX and Linux, with the thought he could be used as an expert at trial, says that, after days and days, his comparison tool found "very little correlation". When he told that to SCO, it paid him and he never heard from SCO again." UPSTART 1.0 RELEASED
"The trouble with a "1.0" release is that the temptation is for that version to be the one with all the features you want when your users want it to be stable. This is a 1.0 release of the latter kind" UBUNTU 11.04 NATTY NARWHAL AND THE UNITY DESKTOP, FOR REAL THIS TIME!
"If you're interested in "what has gone before", my previous article is for you. This entry will pick up where that one left off, with the actual successful loading and launching of Canonical's Unity Desktop." SPLASHTOP: LINUX FOR WINDOWS USERS
"Ever just want to turn on your laptop and get right to work on the Web without any delay? If that?s you, even if you?d never consider switching from Windows to Linux, you might want to give the new release of Splashtop a try." A MARKETPLACE TO DOWNLOAD THEMES, ICONS, TWEAKS IN UBUNTU SOFTWARE CENTER
"Tweak-Center is an idea, albeit a brilliant one, to create a marketplace to download themes, icons, tweaks etc. within Ubuntu Software Center. We have featured a number of very unique mockups and ideas before, but Tweak Center is different in a very good way." | 
