| Linux Today News TOP 20 OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS TO CUT BUSINESS COSTS
"In this economy, employees who can save their employers money are highly regarded and will potentially be in line for advancement. Using open source technology is one great way to help your company cut down on costs across the board." LINUX COMMANDS FOR SHARED LIBRARY MANAGEMENT & DEBUGGING PROBLEM
"As a sys admin you need to manage and install these shared libraries. Use the following commands for shared libraries management, security, and debugging problems." ARDUINO THE DOCUMENTARY. HOW OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE BECAME CHEAP AND FUN
"No longer do we have to leave hardware creation to the large corporations with access to manufacturing plants and skilled workers. Instead, we can spend a few dollars buying an Arduino board, a bunch of components, and start experimenting with the support of a growing online community." THE LIMITS OF EVANGELISM
"I should know better, but every now and then I make the mistake of trying to explain why people should use free and open source software (FOSS). Often, the effort occurs at end of the year gatherings when someone asks me what I do for a living, and almost always the ensuring conversation is torturous." THE BEST WAY TO MOVE DATA
"Or scp VS tar+ssh VS rsync+ssh VS tar+netcat" NASA TECH GETS OPEN SOURCE APACHE BLESSING
"Some open source tech is literally, out of this world." LINUX FOUNDATION GROWS, ADDS BROADCOM
"As Linux adoption grows, so too does the Linux Foundation as it continues to add new members to its ranks. So far in 2011, the Linux Foundation has added at least three new members companies including Broadcom, Timesys and Protecode." ANGRY BIRDS MAY BE COMING TO UBUNTU
"But what about Ubuntu? We?ve had an App store capable of supporting paid applications for a good few months now: will we see some of the more popular cross-platform games and apps heading our way?" ARM DEAL 'WILL END MICROSOFT AND INTEL'S DOMINANCE'
"Microsoft's decision to make its new operating system run on Arm chips will leave it playing catch-up in the growing tablet computer market, says analyst" 10 TIPS WHEN CONSIDERING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
"Welcome to 2011. I hope one of your New Year's Resolutions is to use more open source in your small business. If so, there's no time like the present. But before you jump in, take the time to consider a few tips on how to evaluate an open source project." APPLE IPAD: A LINUX ADMINISTRATOR?S NEW ASSISTANT
"Will the iPad gain acceptance among staunch Linux supporters or will the mere mention of such cross-species contamination stir up thoughts of lighted torches and pitchforks? Truth be told, it?s a great device for some administrative tasks." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
DOJ RUFFLES FEATHERS WITH TWITTER-WIKILEAKS PROBE
"The U.S. Justice Department has sent a court order to microblogging service Twitter seeking information about users involved in its criminal investigation of Wikileaks, a probe initiated in response to last year's release of hundreds of thousands of secret government and military documents." LCA 2011 KEYNOTES: ALLMAN TO FOCUS ON SENDMAIL
"Anyone who has received an email in his or her lifetime has probably made use of Eric Allman's code at some time or the other." JANUARY 2011 ISSUE OF THE PCLINUXOS MAGAZINE RELEASED
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine BLACK DUCK GETS BIGGER
"Today, Black Duck is becoming a one-stop, open-source business advisor for organizations, government bodies, and businesses." KDE 4.5.4 FOR WINDOWS ANNOUNCED
"The KDE Windows team continues their progress in bringing KDE applications to MS Windows." AMD BOMBSHELL: DIRK MEYER OUT AS CEO
"In a surprise announcement, AMD said today that CEO Dirk Meyer has resigned as president, CEO and director of the company effective immediately." PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
"I have written about my frustrations with service before, but I wanted to share three more items." OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY BUILDING: A GUIDE TO GETTING IT RIGHT
"The easiest and gravest error that companies make is to sprint headlong into free/open source development with unrealistic expectations." YOUTUBE-- "BE FREE WITH KDE" ADVERTISEMENT
"Created as part of the Google Code In program" WINDOWS TEAM RELEASES UPDATED KDE APPLICATIONS
"The KDE Windows team is delighted to announce the release of Windows packages from KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4. This release is doubly important because it returns the KDE Windows Initiative to the headlines after a lot of hard background work, and because it brings the some of the latest KDE software to Windows users." HOW ARE LINUX DRIVES NAMED BEYOND DRIVE 26 (/DEV/SDZ, ..)?
"It?s surprisingly hard to find a definitive answer to the question of what happens with Linux block device names when you get past drive 26" INTRODUCTION TO LINUX CGROUPS
"A number of users made use of cgroups recently by following the four-line script from Lennart Poettering, rather than patching the kernel, to improve Linux desktop performance. Many users (myself included) tried the script but didn't at the time pay attention to the fact that it was using the cgroups feature." IN MEMORIAM: THE FREE SOFTWARE PROJECTS WE LOST IN 2010
"Whatever your feelings about procmail itself, the story prompted a discussion in the comment threads that we revisit periodically as a community: what exactly does it mean for a free or open source project to die anyway?" SCRIBUS: CREATING A LAYOUT
"Layouts can be visualized in our minds, but doing it with Scribus will be a manual job, and it's time to practice. This article will lead you through several design steps and will show some of the Scribus workflow basics in action." 20 THINGS WE'D CHANGE ABOUT INSTALLING SOFTWARE IN LINUX
"Software installation in Linux can confuse new users, while it pleases and irritates more experienced campaigners in equal measure. Here are 20 things we'd change about it." REALTIME GROUP SCHEDULING DOESN'T KNOW JACK
"Now it seems that a feature merged for the 2.6.25 kernel is, two years later, beginning to cause grief for some JACK users." THE RIGHT GEEK SKILLS CAN MAKE YOU A TROUBLEMAKER...
"We are currently looking for programmers for a 3-6 month contract on-site at Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas." SET UP RH VIRTIO SCSI&NETWORK DRIVERS ON WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS XP KVMS AT KVM-QEMU INSTANCE ON F14
"Create Windows KVM via virt-manager as usual. Download Latest VirtIO Win drivers from Fedora." UBUNTU'S UNITY DESKTOP: TRAGICALLY IRONIC PRODUCT NAME
"The criticism began instantly, and, given new life by the alpha release of Ubuntu 11.04 and articles about what to expect in open source software in 2011, has hardly stopped since." 4PANE - A MULTI-PANE, DETAILED-LIST FILE MANAGER FOR LINUX
"4Pane is a multi-pane, detailed-list file manager for Linux. It is designed to be fully-featured without bloat, and aims for speed rather than visual effects." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE DELAYED LINUX SYSTEM FINALLY LAUNCHES ON 14 FEBRUARY
"The London Stock Exchange's delayed Linux-based trading system has finally been given a go-live date of 14 February, for the exchange's main cash markets." LEARN LINUX, 101: RUNLEVELS, SHUTDOWN, AND REBOOT
"Learn to shut down or reboot your Linux system, warn users that the system is going down, and switch to a more or less restrictive runlevel. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn about shutting down, rebooting, and changing runlevels." WINE 1.3.11 RELEASED
"The Wine development release 1.3.11 is now available. What's new in this release:" THE LONG SLOG TOWARD ADVANCEMENT OF LINUX
"The Ubuntu Community is now working on a bold move toward updating the user interface of the Linux-based desktop operating system, by adding a shell called "Unity" that, on paper, could make it even easier to navigate than Windows or Mac OS X. That is, if it can work." BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - SQL OR NOSQL - WHICH IS BETTER
"The ability for a modern BI application to be able to use mashups of data to provide agility when dealing with integrations of multiple types of data sources has led to NoSql being promoted by many as the next big thing within BI. Does this mean that we have seen the end of the SQL style RDBMS system" INTEL PAYS $1.5B IN NVIDIA SETTLEMENT
"Although it started out as the plaintiff in a lawsuit it filed against graphics processor maker Nvidia nearly two years ago, Intel announced Monday that the two companies have settled their disagreements, inked a new patent cross-licensing deal -- and, in a surprise move, said that Intel will pay Nvidia $1.5 billion to boot." 9 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SWITCH TO KDE 4.5
"There are two kinds of Linux users in the world ? those who use Gnome and those who dislike KDE." USING LINUX ZONEMINDER FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
"If you're looking for a fully-featured, sophisticated video surveillance system, look no further than Linux and ZoneMinder." | 
