| Linux Today News 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." MANAGING PERSISTENT DATA WITH DOCTRINE 2 PHP ORM
"Under development for more than two years, the first stable release of Doctrine 2 was made available this past December. This release provides users of PHP's leading object-relational mapper with even more expansive capabilities for effectively managing data and relations using a convenient object-oriented interface." LINUX 2.6.32.30
"I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.32.30 kernel. All users of the 2.6.32 kernel series must upgrade." MOZILLA IS TRACKING YOUR FIREFOX 4 START TIME
"Firefox 4 is nearly done and one of the first things that most users are likely to notice occurs right at the start-up." QT AND THE FUTURE OF KDE
"Following Nokia's recent announcement about its future smart phone development strategy, KDE has received a lot of questions. Many of these questions have been related to the future of KDE and KDE's commitment to the Qt framework. In this statement we set out what we see as a bright future for Qt and KDE software." CENTOS 4.9 RELEASED
"Almost exactly two weeks after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.9, the CentOS project has completed CentOS 4.9. " BUILDING THE ULTIMATE LINUX TEST SERVER, PART 1
"We're going to build a stout machine fit for testing server operating systems, that can be quickly re-configured and run whatever we throw on it. Follow along as Paul Ferrill walks us through the hardware, and then the software." USING THE /PROC FILESYSTEM
"The proc filesystem is a special filesystem found on most UNIX-based systems. It holds a great deal of information, in ASCII format, most of which is not very friendly to the average user." BUILD A LOG PARSER WITH BASH
"The idea behind a log parser is to create a loop that will check all of your required logs to return information about specific needs that you may have as an administrator. For example, with this script you may want to search a specific log for one or two text strings that are very important to the function of your system." GNACKTRACKR6 JUST RELEASED!
GnackTrack is a Live (and installable) Linux distribution designed for Penetration Testing and is based on Ubuntu. Although this sounds like BackTrack, it is most certainly not; it's very similar but based on the much loved GNOME! APACHE AXIS2 WEB SERVICES: WRITING AN AXIS2 MODULE
"In this article, we will learn that the Axis2 module provides a very flexible way to extend the Axis2 core functionality and provides quality service" IPTSTATE, PKTSTAT ? 2 SMALL PROGRAMS TO GET NETWORK STATS ON YOUR LINUX
"Today I?ll show you two tools to be used int the terminal to monitor your network and the active connections: iptstate and pkstat" IS RED HAT VIOLATING THE GPL?
"Right from the time it was set up in the early 1990s, Red Hat has always been some kind of a beacon to the GNU/Linux community." OPENSUSE 11.4 AND KDE
"KDE fans must definitely watch out for openSUSE 11.4, which will be the first major Linux distribution to feature KDE?s Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform version 4.6." DELL INSPIRON M101Z REVIEW - AMD AND UBUNTU IN A DELL?!
"Dell?s latest netbook cum sub-notebook boasts the latest AMD technology and dual boots with Ubuntu. We?re still in shock, but have pulled ourselves together long enough to bring you a full review" LIST OF RPM LINUX CONFIGURATION FILES
"This list features all configuration files related to packages commonly found on RPM ( Redhat Package Management ) Linux systems. List was extracted from Fedora Linux, however it may also find its use by all Linux users running any RPM based Linux systems." IS LINUS? LAW STILL VALID?
"A few weeks ago my Fedora Linux computer became so damn slow that I had to urgently ask for help. Things are better now, thanks to the valid help I promptly got from the communi" BATCH PROCESS PHOTOS IN�DIGIKAM
"When you need to apply the same action to multiple photos, digiKam?s batch processing capabilities can come in rather handy. And the photo management application provides different ways to apply actions to a photo batch in one fell swoop." SSH, X11, AND YOU
"Recently I read an article where the author went through great pains to launch an application on a remote system and display it locally, over an encrypted session." DUAL-BOOT ZFS-BASED PC-BSD 8.2 AND WINDOWS 7
"In continuation of a series of articles on dual-booting Linux and BSD desktop distributions with Windows 7, this article presents a step by step guide on how to dual-boot the latest stable release of PC-BSD, PC-BSD 8.2, on a computer with an existing installation of Windows 7." MORE FUN WITH ANTI-OPEN SOURCE FUD
"One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by a strange, insubstantial beast going by the name of FUD." LINUX SCHEDULER SIMULATION
"Scheduling is one of the most complex?and interesting?aspects of the Linux kernel. Developing schedulers that provide suitable behavior for single-core machines to quad-core servers can be difficult." ORACLE MAKING JAVA, SOLARIS CERTIFICATIONS PRICIER
"Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars." FIREFOX 4 WEB DEMOS: ANNOUNCING WEB O? WONDER
"Firefox 4 is almost here, and comes with a huge list of awesome features for web developers. In order to illustrate all these new technical features, we put together several Web demos." SPOTLIGHT ON LINUX: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 6.0 "SQUEEZE"
"Debian is a bit unique in the Linux world. It's one of the most respected projects, it's one of the oldest distributions, and it is one of the most versatile systems." UBUNTU PEPPERED WITH HOLES
"Almost 40 vulnerabilities, which allow remote and local exploits, have been discovered in the Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel." NOVELL EARNINGS FALL, BUT LINUX PRODUCTS OFFER HOPE
"Novell reports a loss for the first quarter of its fiscal year as earnings decline. However, Linux continues to hold its own and new services are emerging." IMPOUNDMENT ISSUES AND AN AGREEMENT ON "NARROWED" SUBPOENAS IN SCEA V. HOTZ - UPDATED
"The parties in SCEA v. Hotz have been trying to work out their differences about the impoundment protocol. The parties can't agree, so they have written a joint letter to the magistrate judge, Judge Joseph Spero, laying out their conflicting positions" SAAB SQUASHES APPLE FOR ANDROID
"Shove over, Apple. There's a new, equally smart in-car computer system in town, and Saab is not afraid to use it." UBUNTU SECURITY: HOLES FOUND, HOLES FIXED
"Oh my God! There are security holes in Ubuntu 10.04! The sky is falling!" TECH COMICS: "WHAT ARE THESE GEEKS TALKING ABOUT?"
"Given certain product release cycles, it's not hard to discern what some geeks find worthy of discussion." | 
