| Linux Today News 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." LINUX MINT 11 "KATYA" TO USE GNOME 3
"Linux Mint Founder and lead developer Clement Lefebvre has announced that the next major release of his Ubuntu-based Linux distribution will feature the GNOME 3.0 desktop environment, which is expected to be finalised on the 6th of April." INTERNET EXPLORER GAINS WEB BROWSER MARKET SHARE FROM FIREFOX
"So, why, is the oldest, and the most insecure of the lot, IE 6, making the single biggest browser version gain according to Net Applications? latest Web browser survey?" HOW DID GOOGLE FIND ALL THOSE LOST E-MAILS?
"Answer: Google still stores e-mail data on tape." INSTALLATION OF PLAYSMS AND SMS SERVER TOOLS 3 ON DEBIAN SERVER
"This tutorial will show you how you can set up an SMS server on Debian with playsms and smstools. In my example I have used an old Nokia 5140i with a USB datacable." 7 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX COMPRESSION TOOLS
"To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 7 of the best free compression tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wishes to maximise their computer and network resources. We give our highest recommendation to Lrzip." OVERVIEW OF XRANDR
"I bought a new monitor at home and added a second monitor in the office, so I had a lot to do with the graphics of my Linux setup." THE MYSTERIOUS LINUX COMMAND LINE
"But If you open a terminal, you can find a whole new world of computing will open up for you, and it's not as hard as you might think!" DEMS PUSH FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF HBGARY FEDERAL
"HBGary Federal was hacked last month by Anonymous after Aaron Barr believed he had unmasked much of the group's leadership?and Barr's entire cache of corporate e-mails was made public." AN EARLY LOOK AT GNOME 3.0
"GNOME 3, the first major-version revision of the popular desktop environment in eight years, is slated for release in April." MYSQL INNODB FILE FORMATS
"Versions of MySQL now come equipped with the powerful and stable InnoDB plugin. The InnoDB plugin comes with a lot of new features, bug fixes and performance gains. We will be covering file formats today, which is a very important part of the InnoDB plugin feature set." YOCTO PROJECT ALIGNS TECHNOLOGY WITH OPENEMBEDDED AND GAINS CORPORATE COLLABORATORS
"Project gains momentum as the OpenEmbedded Community and an increasing number of companies collaborate to build Linux for variety of chip architectures" A INTRODUCTION TO BORDEAUX 2011.03 FOR LINUX FREEBSD AND PC BSD
"The upcoming Bordeaux for Linux and BSD 2011.03 release will see a major shift in how the program is written and the new features that will be available to current and future Bordeaux customers." TESTING FORMS IN PHP WITH SIMPLETEST
"Although not as well known as PHPUnit, SimpleTest is an immensely capable framework, having been adopted by popular PHP projects including CakePHP and Drupal. In addition to offer a complete suite of unit testing capabilities, SimpleTest is bundled with an internal Web browser which you can use to automate the navigation of your Web site..." TOM'S DEFINITIVE LINUX SOFTWARE ROUNDUP: AUDIO PRODUCTION
"Welcome to Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup: Audio Production. In this article, we're looking at Linux applications for audio content creation. Our previous segment covered general end-user audio consumption apps like media managers, audio players, and CD rippers. This segment is for the audio professional, hobbyist, and musician." TRACK ME! JUST TRACK ME, GNOME PROJECT!
"These design changes along with some inflexible and controversial Power Management settings, more and more people are expressing disinterest in GNOME 3." DOESN'T ANYONE LOVE UNIX ANYMORE?
"Does no one love Unix any more? IDC's newest survey of server vendors shows boxes running every kind of operating system ? except Unix -- sold more during the last three months of 2010, even mainframes." WRITERS REJOICE: FIRST LOOK AT SCRIVENER FOR LINUX
"Scrivener is a tool for outlining, storyboarding, writing, and editing longer-form writing ? think books, lengthy reports, movie scripts, and so on. Scrivener started as an app for Mac OS X, but there's been a steady stream of users who've asked the company to produce a Windows and/or Linux version." MALWARE DISCOVERED IN ANDROID MARKET
"The growing popularity of app stores for mobile applications has attracted the attention of malicious hackers hoping to spread malware that could potentially compromise a user's security and expose personal information." FLASH/NVIDIA HORRORS, GNOME/KDE FIGHTS IN FEDORA
"Basically, whenever I loaded that or other web pages that contain a Flash ad, that ad would remain on screen. This made working impossible again." LINUX LEADERS: DEBIAN AND UBUNTU DERIVATIVE DISTROS
"By any standard, Debian is the most influential Linux distribution ever. Not everyone uses Debian, but, both alone and second hand through Ubuntu, it is the source of more derivative distributions than any other." GNOME 3 DOES AWAY WITH THE MAXIMIZE AND MINIMIZE BUTTONS
"GNOME 3 is going for something more extreme - they have decided to actually remove the maximize and minimize buttons all together." KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.38 (PART 4) - STORAGE
"Expected in March, the forthcoming kernel will contain the new LIO target framework for implementing Storage Area Networks (SANs). Also new are a kernel-side media presence polling feature for disk drives and various Device Mapper optimisations that are relevant for desktop systems." WHAT'S HOT (AND WHAT'S NOT) FOR SERVERS
"A new survey by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) of Beaverton, Ore. reveals most IT managers and data center managers echo the sentiments of Rhett Butler at the end of "Gone with the Wind" when it comes to which server vendor they prefer: Frankly, they don't give a damn." NOVELL TRIES TO BEAT RED HAT WITH RED HAT'S OWN TECH
"Novell is using open source technology from rival Linux server vendor Red Hat to help Red Hat users migrate to SUSE Linux." BACK TO BASICS WITH KDE 4
"After our review of KDE 4.6, we received a great deal of positive comments, but not all of them were sparkling assessments of KDE?s functionality. For that reason, I have decided to get back to the basics this week with a little how-to guide" EXERCISE #6: SET VARIABLES IN SCRIPTS
"When you need to set variables, you can do that in the BEGIN section of an awk script. Here the variable firstuser is set to 1000. The BEGIN section sets that variable and it is then used later in the script." SOFTWARE PATENTS ARE A DISTRACTION
"It is interesting that a man like Nathan Myhrvold would start a company whose primary purpose seems to be acquiring software patents. It means that one of the deep thinkers of Seattle does not realize that software is math." QMAIL-SCANNER WITH CLAMAV AND SPAMASSASSIN ON UBUNTU
"In continuation of my document http://www.howtoforge.com/qmail-openldap-on-ubuntu about setting up qmail-ldap on Ubuntu this document will help you to set up Qmail-Scanner with ClamAV antivirus and SpamAssassin spamfilter." OPEN SOURCE PROCUREMENT: SUBSCRIPTIONS
"Buying open source subscriptions may seem like a junior version of buying proprietary software. But if your procurement process treats it that way, you're probably losing out on benefits you need." | 
