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Friday March 25, 2011

Linux Today News

BETA VERSION OF RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6.1
"As usual in this phase of the RHEL version families' seven to ten-year life cycle, minor release 6.1 offers not only bug fixes and minor improvements, but also various new functions and hardware drivers."

RED HAT: THE FIRST $1-BILLION-A-YEAR OPEN SOURCE OUTFIT (ALMOST)
"The money just keeps rolling in at Red Hat, and it looks like this year will be even better as the company is poised to become the first open source software company to break through the $1bn mark."

RMS WEIGHS INTO GOOGLE GPL DEBATE
"Free Software Foundation chairman Richard Stallman has weighed into the debate over whether Google may be guilty of a GPL violation or not by saying that what the search giant has done is not limited by copyright."

NEW FEATURES IN DIGIKAM 2.0:�GEOLOCATION
"Geolocation is not a new feature, but in digiKam 2.0 it has been thoroughly reworked to streamline the process of geotagging photos."

HOW TO INTEGRATE CLAMAV INTO PUREFTPD FOR VIRUS SCANNING ON OPENSUSE 11.3
"This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an OpenSUSE 11.3 system."

FIREFOX 4 SYNC STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
"Firefox 4′s brand new Sync feature is one of the main attractions of the latest release. It allows you to sync browser data, such as bookmarks, preferences, history, and tabs ? but not extensions ? across multiple Firefox installations."

SPIRAL KNIGHTS, NEW GAME COMING TO LINUX THIS APRIL
"Spiral Knight's Technical Support page lays down minimum system requirements for Linux but I couldn't find installation instructions for Linux. So, I have written a small tutorial here to get it running on your system."

BUILD YOUR OWN LINUX TEST SERVER
"Last year, we built a DIY Linux workstation with an eye toward creating a high-end development machine with the ability to run multiple virtual machines at the same time. Now, we're going to build a machine fit for testing server operating systems to include functioning as a KVM or Xen virtual host."

STEVE JOBS VINDICATED: GOOGLE ANDROID IS NOT OPEN
"The reality is surely that Google and its partners don't want smaller name manufacturers eating into their tablets sales. Or perhaps they don't want larger names nabbing pieces of code for their own tablet OSes."

EXOTIC LINUX DISTROS CAN COME IN HANDY
"Linux seems to offer a distribution for every occasion. Among these obscurer flavors are a few that you may not have encountered, but could be just what you need."

USING GOOGLE'S WEBP IMAGE FORMAT WITH OPEN TOOLS ON LINUX
"Google's WebM project, the free and open video codec based on VP8, offers tantalizing benefits for fans of Linux and open source: better quality, plus full support in the browser and other applications, thanks to the lack of royalty-demanding patent holders."

MAKE BROWSERS CACHE STATIC FILES WITH MOD_EXPIRE ON LIGHTTPD (DEBIAN SQUEEZE)
"This saves bandwidth and makes your web site appear faster (if a user visits your site for a second time, static files will be fetched from the browser cache). This tutorial was written for Debian Squeeze."

30 GREAT TUTORIALS FOR GIMP
"It is certainly inspiring that a free piece of software gives you so diverse possibilities, comparable to any paid gimp-logosoftware you can get in the market. In this post I have attempted to collect the best tutorials of GIMP, in my view, around the web."

GNOME SHELL 3.0 NEARS RELEASE
"A couple of days ago GNOME Shell 2.91.92 (release candidate) was released for some last bit of bug hunting before the big day. The announcement stated that the code is frozen, but important bugs could still be fixed."

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