| Linux Today News OPENBSD BACKDOOR CLAIMS: CODE AUDIT BEGINS
"The OpenBSD project has found two bugs during an audit of the cryptographic code in which, it has been alleged, the FBI, through former developers, was able to plant backdoors." CODEWEAVERS 30% OFF WINTER SOLSTICE SALES ON CROSSOVER MAC AND LINUX
"While the big box stores and shopping malls run black Friday sales, and in recent years many of the online retailers have began to have black Monday sales. Leave it up to the wacky folks at Codeweavers to have a 30% off Winter Solstice Sales on CrossOver Mac and Linux." TECH COMICS: "OPEN SOURCE FIRMWARE"
"Sometimes non-geeks just don't understand the many advantages of open source." THE FUTURE OF UBUNTU
"Hence hardcore hackers swear by the likes of Fedora and Debian while casual users loved Ubuntu. Ubuntu has decided to take a brave leap into the future by replacing two core systems of it?s desktop UI." FEDORA 14 KDE REVIEW
"In my last look at Fedora 14, I covered the GNOME version. Fedora comes in other flavors though, including a KDE version. Since there are many KDE users out there, I thought it wise to cover the KDE release." MICROSOFT'S CRACKED WINDOWS: HOW THE WORLD'S TECHNOLOGY JUGGERNAUT LOST ITS BUZZ AND BECAME THE 'UNDERDOG'
""The thing that makes Microsoft a great partner for us is that they really are the underdog," Zuckerberg said. "Because of that, they're in a structural position where they're incentivized to just go all out and innovate."" NEW RELEASE OF LIGHTWEIGHT IMAGE VIEWER VIEWNIOR
"Lightweight image viewer Viewnior ? which reached number 5 on our 12 top applications of 2009 ? has gained a host of new features in its first update in 9 months." TOP 10 DISTRIBUTION DEVELOPMENTS IN 2010
"Yes, it?s that time of year. Eggnog, fruitcake, tangled lights, crowded stores, bad weather ? and the annual industry retrospectives. You can?t argue with tradition, though, and 2010 was a very interesting year for Linux and open source. Let?s take a look back at 2010 and see whether it was naughty or nice." PITHOS AND PIANOBAR, FOR THE WIN
"Lifehacker had an article on pianobar, a command line client for Pandora. I found it nicer to use than the web Flash player, but I just had to have my Last.fm scrobbling." IBM TOSSES IN FREEBIE LINUX WITH POWER SERVERS
"IBM has been hoping for years that Linux would drive new workloads on Power-based systems where OS/400-i platforms are the back-end systems ? just as Linux-based partitions have, to a certain extent, been the salvation of the System z mainframe." MY FIVE FAVORITE NOT-USUAL LINUX DISTROS
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COMMERCE DEPT. CALLS FOR PRIVACY BILL OF RIGHTS
"The Department of Commerce on Thursday issued a long-anticipated report outlining recommendations for protecting consumers' personal information in the digital age, including the establishment of an online "privacy bill of rights" that would expand on existing Fair Information Practice Principles." QUOTE-COUNT: A DEBUGGING TOOL FOR SHELL SCRIPTS
"One of my more common mistakes is an unmatched quote. These can be rather difficult to find so I wrote quote-count, a simple analysis tool that counts quotes in lines." RED HAT JOINS CHARGE TO FEND OFF PATENT MADNESS
"Current U.S. court ruling could jeopardise the future of software innovation ? Linux User & Developer magazine?s news reporter Rory MacDonald explains all" EDITOR'S NOTE: IF I WANTED TO BE NAKED I'D BE NAKED
In my younger days I read a lot of science fiction, and a lot of it has come true. Smart people, those crazy fiction writers. PARDUS CORPORATE 2 BETA REVIEW
"Pardus Corporate 2 is the corporate (professional) edition of Pardus, the Linux distribution developed and maintained by the National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), Turkey." SEVEN FREE OR LOW-COST RADIUS SERVERS FOR YOUR ENTERPRISE NETWORK
"What if you want to extend this beyond your wired infrastructure, to your wireless clients? That's where a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server comes in" METASPLOIT TAKES AIM AT CISCO INSECURITY
"The Metasploit security vulnerability testing framework is getting an update this week with the Metasploit 3.5.1 release, which includes new capabilities that take aim at networking gear from Cisco." GCC AND LLVM - WHAT'S IN A LICENCE?
"Richard Hillesley discusses the pros and cons of the GCC and LLVM compiler collections, and the difference a licence makes." MICROSOFT-ORGANIZED CONSORTIUM BUYING NOVELL PATENTS ARE APPLE, ORACLE, MS, AND EMC - UPDATED 5XS
"So what's the common interest? "Let's all kill Android"?" FACEBOOK AND SOCIAL NETWORKING: TIM BERNERS-LEE CLOSES THE STABLE DOOR AFTER THE HORSE HAS BOLTED
"the bitter truth is that the average computer owner using Windows, desktop apps and social networking websites knows little or cares even less about their privacy and security. That?s Google?s and Facebook?s trump card." PATENTS DO NOT PROTECT SMALL FIRMS, SAYS TRADE BODY
"Patents do not give protection to inventive small businesses because they are impossible to enforce, an organisation claiming to represent small technology companies has said." WEEKEND PROJECT: THEMING YOUR LINUX BOOTLOADER
"So why not put a new coat a paint on that tired, old text-based menu? Pull up a terminal, and we'll make booting something to look forward to." 2010 WAS THE YEAR OF UBUNTU, BUT CAN IT LAST?
"Canonical's early bet on cloud and user experience let Ubuntu become the de facto cloud Linux distribution in 2010" MICROSOFT PATENT CHIEF: 2010 WAS A SIGNIFICANT YEAR OF INVENTION
"Microsoft Chief Patent Officer Bart Eppenauer notes in a blog post that 2010 will "go down in history as a significant year for creativity and invention at Microsoft."" GOOGLE LETS YOU DUMB DOWN YOUR SEARCH RESULTS WITH ?READING LEVEL? FILTER
"Google has added a new advanced search filter named ?reading level? to the advanced search page. I reported this at the Search Engine Roundtable after spotting a thread at the Google Web Search Help forum where a Google Web Search product manager somewhat announced this feature." NEW EU SOFTWARE RULES GIVE FOSS THE INSIDE TRACK
"New public procurement rules for technology issued by the EU encourages open specifications and open source software." RED HAT BUDDIES UP WITH EUCALYPTUS ON PRIVATE CLOUDS
"Eucalyptus Systems has struck a partnership with Red Hat that should ultimately ease the deployment of Eucalyptus private cloud platform on Red Hat software." GOOGLE BODY BROWSER
"Google has released experimental access to the resource, called Google Body Browser, that using the graphics acceleration within the browser, allows the user to know better the human anatomy." UBUNTU INDICATORS IN OPENSUSE?
"Ubuntu takes a lot of punches from time to time for its marketing and even its interface. Some feel Ubuntu is dumbed down and oversimplified, while many others think it's innovative and user-friendly." SOFTWARE FLAWS DON'T NEGATE "MANY EYES" IN OPEN SOURCE
"Bugs in Linux, OpenBSD are just human nature, not a flaw in the system" ASSAULTCUBE - REALISTIC FAST-PACED FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER GAME
"AssaultCube is a first-person shooter game based on the Cube engine with support for online multiplayer and single player games, with a fast-pace gameplay and entertaining gaming modes. The latest version was released on November 14, 2010 and brings several bug fixes and tweaks." LEIGH HONEYWELL TAPPED AS FIRST OF TWO SCALE 9X KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
"The Southern California Linux Expo is happy to announce that Leigh Honeywell has been chosen as the first keynote speaker for SCALE 9X." BANK OF AMERICA REP RESPONDS TO NO LINUX SUPPORT
"This isn't exactly fresh news but I think some of you might find this interesting." HUMBLE INDIE BUNDLE #2 JUST MADE ONE MILLION BUCKS
"Yesterday we figured the Humble Indie Bundle #2 would earn a million dollars during its seven day sale and likely hit that mark today. Well, it has succeeded in doing so! Literally just seconds ago it crossed the million dollar USD mark." 'SOFTWARE VENDORS ARE MERE STEWARDS FOR IDEAS'
"From the outside, the world of open source software can appear turbulent, disorganised and disparate. But when it comes to the creation of software, these consequences work to its advantage." UBUNTU ROCKED IN 2010, BUT CAN IT LAST?
"A prediction in 2009 that Ubuntu usage was going to grow in the face of Red Hat's Linux operating system dominance could easily have been laughed off. Yet that's exactly what Ubuntu has been able to pull off, thanks in part to developers and growing adoption of cloud computing" LG B COULD MAKE THE IPHONE LOOK FAT AND DULL
"Leaked photos of an LG Android smartphone supposedly called the "B" reveal what could be the slimmest smartphone yet -- even skinnier than the iPhone 4." OPERA 11 RELEASED WITH TAB STACKING
"Opera Software is out with a new release of its namesake browser for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. Opera 11 includes new features aimed at improving usability, extensibility and security." TEN WAYS TO STOP NOVICE USERS QUITTING LINUX
"It's all very well handing out Linux machines to users unfamiliar with the operating system, but you risk running into problems that a little preparation could easily avoid, says Jack Wallen." KEEP AN EYE ON NETWORK USAGES WITH NETCOUNTER FOR ANDROID
"Many (if not all) wireless carriers have bandwidth caps, so it makes a lot of sense to keep an eye on your network usage to avoid going over the limit." 21 MORE NOTABLE FREE LINUX GAMES (PART 2 OF 3)
"This article is the second instalment in a three part series, identifying free games that are worth giving a whirl. If you missed the first part, it is available to read here. We have again tried to cover a wide range of game genres. Hopefully there will be something in this article which will be of interest to any type of gamer." SETTING UP REMOTE GRAPHICAL DESKTOPS ON LINUX
"Linux offers multiple remote graphical desktop options for other Linux hosts, but what if you run a mixed Linux-Windows shop? Eric Geier shows how to run remote Windows desktops on Linux." UBUNTU MYOPIA CONTINUES AMONG USERS
"Ubuntu is a good Linux distribution, but does the large user community realize that there are others?" SOLVED! WIFI WORKS ON THE TOSHIBA SATELLITE L675 UNDER 64-BIT FEDORA 14 PART 1
"In a recent article, I discussed the fact that I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite L675 laptop. I absolutely love the machine, but I did have two problems with it under Fedora 14 64-Bit Edition:" IS NOKIA DOOMED?
"There?s been a lot of discussion regarding whether or not Nokia is Doomed or not. The people who say Nokia are doomed basically point out that Nokia doesn?t have any attractive products at the high end, and at the low end the margins are extremely thin." THE MOST IMPORTANT FREE SPEECH ISSUE OF OUR TIME
"This Tuesday is an important day in the fight to save the Internet." APACHE TOMCAT GETS NEW SUPPORT WITH WSO2 APPLICATION SERVER 4.0
"The worlds of web services and web application hosting are coming together in a new release from software vendor WSO2. The new WSO2 Application Server 4.0 platform integrates SOA capabilities with Apache Tomcat for Java middleware applications." ANDROID 2.3 CODE HITS THE NET
"The Android 2.3 code is being posted in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repositories. It would have been nice to see it while it was under development, but this is far better than nothing" | 
