| Linux Today News 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." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE: WHAT REALLY WENT WRONG
"The London Stock Exchange has made a U-turn on the system requirements placed on data vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data and Bloomberg, after three weeks of problems since the launch of its new trading platform. " HOW TO INSTALL OPEN-XCHANGE ON DEBIAN LINUX
"Since its beginnings as a Microsoft Exchange alternative for small- to medium-sized businessed, the Open-Xchange collaboration suite has stretched a bit beyond just a messaging solution. The flagship product, Open-Xchange Server, is regarded as a full collaborative platform, particularly with the addition of the Infostore document sharing module." KDE DEVELOPERS ARE STICKING TO QT
"Announced at the beginning of this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia will see smart phones from the Finnish manufacturer running the Windows Phone 7 operating system" GOOGLE'S ANDROID SPURS MORE APP JOBS THAN IPHONE
"Online job board Dice.com says its listings show demand for developers of Android applications has eclipsed the desire for Apple app developers" EDITOR'S NOTE: 'BOOK OF AUDACITY' IS HERE!
A book is more than a pound or two of paper, it is the most valuable thing on Earth: Knowledge and experience in a compact, portable, durable form. WEB VIDEO RIVALRY SPARKS U.S. PROBE
"The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter." ANDROID, MEEGO & WEBOS NEED TO GET GOING ON TABLETS: NOW
"I have a confession to make. I use Linux more than I do any other operating system by a wide margin, but I also use a lot of Apple products." A 13 LINE PATCH THAT BOOSTS INTEL SANDY BRIDGE PERFORMANCE
"After some initial Linux troubles, last month we finally got Intel Sandy Bridge graphics working under Linux. The latest Intel CPUs (such as the Core i5 2500K) with integrated graphics are blazingly fast, and the classic Intel Mesa driver was fast compared to other open-source Mesa / Gallium3D drivers" KORORAA GNU/LINUX IS BACK
"GNU/Linux distributions are like ships in the night - they come and go and sometimes disappear from sight altogether. Some last just a few months, while others, despite being the brainchild of a single individual, stay on for years and years." RED HAT: 'YES, WE UNDERCUT ORACLE WITH HIDDEN LINUX PATCHES'
"Red Hat has changed the way it distributes Enterprise Linux kernel code in an effort to prevent Oracle and Novell from stealing its customers, making it more difficult for these competitors to understand which patches have been applied where." RHEL-BASED SCIENTIFIC LINUX 6.0 RELEASED
"The developers of Scientific Linux have released version 6.0 of their Linux distribution for x86-32 and x86-64 systems." JUDGE LETS SONY UNMASK VISITORS TO PS3-JAILBREAKING SITE
"A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz?s website from January of 2009 to the present." DEBIAN WINS TWO OF SEVEN CATEGORIES AT THE LINUX NEW MEDIA AWARDS 2011
"He particularly emphasized Debian's dedication to software freedom saying: "In Debian, quality is the focus of everyone's attention. But those who work on the Debian system know that great software is worth nothing without Freedom." LINUXPR: SOLVE SHELL SCRIPTING PROBLEMS USING PACKT'S NEW LINUX SHELL SCRIPTING BOOK
Solve real-world shell scripting problems with over 110 simple but incredibly effective recipes DO ROYALTY-FREE STANDARDS ?STIFLE INNOVATION??
"As I noted last week, the British government recently came out strongly in favor of royalty free standards and active consideration of open source software in public procurement. As expected, this decision was greeted with less than universal enthusiasm. " IPV6 ON HOME ROUTERS AND DSL/CABLE MODEMS: FAIL
"When it comes to IPv6 support, consumer home networking gear lags far behind other devices, like enterprise equipment and PC operating systems. Most devices certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are full of implementation bugs, experts say." BACK UP EMAIL WITH A SINGLE COMMAND
"The Web is awash with tutorials on how to back up your email. Strangely, none of them covers probably the easiest and most efficient email backup system based on the excellent IMAP Grab utility." WEEKEND PROJECT: SET UP A PERSONAL WIKI ON LINUX WITH TIDDLYWIKI
"Want to use a wiki to store your notes, thoughts, recipes, or just the best Charlie Sheen quotes you've heard today? Try setting up a personal wiki, like TiddlyWiki." NEW FEATURES OF OPENVPN 2.1 AND 2.2
"This article by Jan Just Keijser, will focus on some of the new features found in OpenVPN 2.1 and the upcoming 2.2 release." HOW TO BEAT THE WATSON JEOPARDY COMPUTER
"This command formats a hard drive" MY THOUGHTS ON BODHI LINUX
"Bodhi Linux is a relatively new Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu but uses the Enlightenment desktop environment/window manager. I�??ve recently mentioned Bodhi here, but since then I�??ve installed the second release candidate (0.1.6) of Bodhi Linux on my upstairs computer, and after using it for about five or six days I can definitively say that I love it!" GANETI WEB MANAGER 0.6
"We�??ve released Ganeti Web Manager 0.6. Ganeti Web Manager is a Django based web application that allows administrators and clients access to their ganeti clusters." BOOK REVIEW: INVENT YOUR OWN COMPUTER GAMES WITH PYTHON, 2ND EDITION BY AL SWEIGART
"The best recommendation I can give for this book is simply this: just a few days after I gave a copy to my 13-year-old son for his birthday, and without any more intervention from me, he showed me his first completed game program." THE SLUR "OPEN CORE": TOWARD MORE DILIGENT ANALYSIS
"I certainly deserve some of the blame, and for that I certainly apologize: the phrase "Open Core" has apparently become a slur word, used by those who wish to discredit the position of someone else without presenting facts." ADVENTURES IN DEBIAN
"When one's computer becomes unstable, it's natural to think first of a particular app or the desktop. After that, one may tend to suspect the operating system. Finally one may find it turns out to be hardware at fault." GETTING STARTED WITH LINUX: FINE-TUNING YOUR HARDWARE
"On some systems, Ubuntu and other Linux systems will install as if they they had always been right there on your system. Other times, there�??s a piece missing. Here�??s how to patch up the last piece (or two) of your system if not everything�??s working right off." ZAREASON TEO PRO NETBOOK: TEST DRIVE READY FOR TAKEOFF
"Now that Atom CPUs are getting more powerful, drives are getting smaller, and components are maturing, ZaReason has decided to pack together a good chunk of that new hardware into its new Teo Pro Netbook, and the company was kind enough to send me a review unit." NOKIA DROPS COMMERCIAL QT SERVICES
"More likely they will see it for what it is: Nokia's new partner bullying out any non-Windows codebase." UBUNTU 11.10 NAMED: ONEIRIC OCELOT
"Mark Shuttleworth releases the codename for what has until today been referred to as "-O" and what will eventually become Ubuntu 11.10." MOTOROLA: TO COMPETE AGAINST IPAD 2, YOU NEED A CHEAPER XOOM
"It's the same great Android Honeycomb taste, but less expensive. In order to repel Apple's iPad 2 onslaught, Motorola's XOOM needs to come down in price." JAPANESE SCIENTISTS DEVELOP PHONE THAT FEELS LIKE HUMAN SKIN
"Science is always marching forward, but does it need to carry a human-shaped phone in its pocket?" PYTHON4KIDS: NEW TUTORIAL - TIME FOR SOME INTROSPECTION
"Did you notice some errors in the previous tutorial? One was fatal. The fact that no one commented on them indicates to me that no one is actually typing in the code -- naughty naughty! Type it in. It's important." 5 EXCELLENT LINUX MEDIA SERVERS FOR THE ENTERPRISE
"A good stout Linux media server has a home in the enterprise because it's a better tool than traditional file shares for storing, archiving, and sharing multimedia presentations." RED HAT BID TO UNDERCUT ORACLE, NOVELL
"Red Hat has decided to release its kernel source with all patches pre-applied to make it difficult for its competitors to lure away its customers." GOOGLE KIND OF, SORT OF, ADDRESSES ANDROID MALWARE
"I prefer Google?s Android over Apple?s iOS for smartphones. I?ll take my Droid 2 over an iPhone 4, even though my carrier Verizon, now supports the iPhone. But, if Google can?t do better with its malware mess, I may be forced to change my mind." UBUNTU LIGHT REVIEW ? THE FUTURE OF UBUNTU IN MOBILE DEVICES?
"With Ubuntu Light Canonical is offering swift boot times, access to media in Windows partitions and the fastest route to the internet possible on small form factor computers. Russell Barnes investigates to see if it?s ready for prime time" TOP 8 NEWEST GNOME GTK THEMES WORTH TRYING OUT
"On top of the classic and most popular GTK themes for Ubuntu/GNOME we have featured here before, here are a bunch of very new and very awesome GNOME GTK themes worth taking a look at." | 
