| Linux Today News WHY STEVE JOBS WON'T RETURN TO APPLE "The legendary CEO has accomplished everything he ever wanted to accomplish." 5 VPN CLIENTS FOR LINUX "Administering heterogenous networks means making Mac and Windows play nice with Linux, and each other, even when they don't want to. Here are five Linux VPN clients for Cisco, Juniper, and other VPN servers." LCA 2011 TO GO AHEAD AS PLANNED "The 12th Australian national Linux conference, scheduled to be held in Brisbane from January 24 to 28, will go ahead as planned, chief organiser Shaun Nykvist announced last night." 50 OPEN SOURCE REPLACEMENTS FOR STORAGE SOFTWARE "According to researchers at IDC, the digital universe included 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, of data by the end of 2010. In case you have trouble picturing those numbers, that's enough data to fill a stack of DVDs that stretches to the moon and back." VYE JOLIBOOK REVIEW ? BEST IN CLASS OPEN SOURCE COMPUTING? "If you're looking for an original take on small-form-factor open source computing then you've come to the right place." IT MANAGEMENT FAIL: ALWAYS BLAME THE WORKER BEES ""Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad" has a great title. Then it's all downhill. I suppose it's appropriate for an audience of managers who want cheerleading for bad management more than good information." BEING A FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE CATALYST : PART I "Having trouble convincing the Boss when it comes to FOSS? This article discusses common pitfalls that arise when advocating Free / Open Source software in your organization. This is part I of a series of articles focused upon being a part of FOSS culture change." TEXAS LINUX FEST 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS IS OPEN! "We are proud to officially open the call for papers for Texas Linux Fest 2011, scheduled for April 2 at the Hilton Austin hotel in downtown Austin, Texas." HTML5 GETS A LOGO, WILL IT HELP ADOPTION? "A logo is a critical element of a brand. Now the W3C is attempting to brand the emerging HTML5 web standard with a new logo." 6 TRICKS WITH AWK "Awk has always been for me a source of great hatred and love, isan incredibly powerful command with which it is possible to build real programs." SHOULD YOUNGER DEVELOPERS BE PAID MORE? "I heard Facebook is paying new computer science graduates over $200,000." HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR LAPTOP WITH LINUX "You got a new laptop over the holiday, or want to spruce up your old one with Linux? Ready to take the plunge, but a bit hesitant? Despite the horror stories, migrating to Linux on a laptop can be easy." SETTING UP LINUX CGROUPS "Last week's column introduced Linux Control Groups (or cgroups), a feature initially developed to limit resource usage in the Linux kernel. But it can do much more..." REVIEW: CRUNCHBANG ("#!") 10 "STATLER" OPENBOX R20110105 "I've had a couple of encounters with #! before, starting with this review of version 9.04.01 and including this review of version 10 "Statler" Openbox (Alpha 2). I was pleasantly surprised by the features and minimalistic beauty of version 9.04.01" WHERE DOES STEVE JOBS' ABSENCE LEAVE APPLE? "The Martin Luther King holiday isn't usually a time of big tech announcements, but a brief email sent to employees by Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday set the tech industry abuzz." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here HTML5 PRIMER: HOW TO USE THE AUDIO TAG "In our series on HTML5, we've discussed geolocation, link relations, form and keyboard events, media events, mouse events, global attributes and multimedia. This week we're going to expand upon our discussion on multimedia and delve further into HTML5's audio tag." THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT LINUX: LINUX SKILLS LAND JOB FOR THIS LINUX LADY "Deborah Wazir says Linux helped her land her current job." THE QUEST OF FINDING LINUX COMPATIBLE HARDWARE "So just how hard/easy is it to find say a graphics card that has been tested to work on Ubuntu 10.10, with the stock 2.6.35 kernel, using a Mesa 7.9 Gallium3D driver, and has a price between $150 and $200 USD?" A LOOK AT LINUX MINT DEBIAN EDITION "I have a fairly wary relationship with Debian GNU/Linux, so I had to wonder how things would go with the new Linux Mint Debian Edition." 1-SECOND LINUX BOOT TO QT "At the end of last year, to demonstrate my company's swiftBoot service, I put together a rather impressive demo. Using a Renesas MS7724 development board I was able to achieve a one second cold Linux boot to a Qt application." OF SOFTWARE AND SOFFITS "Sourceforge: The place where good ideas go to die." CANONICAL AND SHUTTLEWORTH ADD QT TO UBUNTU LINUX "Want to start a fight in Linux desktop circles? Say, loudly and obnoxiously that Qt, the programming libraries behind the KDE desktop, are better than GTK+, the libraries backing GNOME." LINUX FUND AND ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY "What does an organization's anti-harassment policy -- or lack of one -- say about it? Is a policy as meaningless as a mission statement, or does the willingness to have one reflect an organization's values and how it operates?" 7 BEST NETWORK SECURITY LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS "On our previous posts, we have featured several Linux distributions specifically made for hard drive data recovery and for web servers. Today, we would like to share with you another list of special purpose distros" THE FALL OF WINTEL AND THE RISE OF ARMDROID "The main story ? which almost nobody covered ? was that this year's CES marks the beginning of the end for Microsoft and Intel." ORTA 1.4.0 RELEASED - THE BEST GTK THEME FOR UBUNTU JUST GOT BETTER "We have discussed about Orta GTK theme in length before and also about the impressive Orta GTK theme + Faenza icon theme combination, which in my view is the best theme I have used with Ubuntu in a long time." SONY FILES EXHIBITS TRYING TO LINK HOTZ TO CALIFORNIA - UPDATED - A SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF " I know you are wondering what happens next in Sony v. Hotz if the judge in California decides Sony hasn't proven her court has jurisdiction, which she expressed doubts about. And some of you may wonder what jurisdiction means." XFCE 4.8 UPDATES OPEN SOURCE LINUX DESKTOP "The Xfce open source desktop is out with its first major update in two years this week. Xfce 4.8 brings the low-resource desktop into the modern era and provides usability improvements across the board." MOONOS 4 NEAKE REVIEW "It?s been quite a while since I last looked at MoonOS. The last review covered version 3.0, this time around it?s MoonOS 4.0. MoonOS is another Ubuntu-based derivative, so if Ubuntu appeals to you then MoonOS 4 might be right up your alley." XEROUND EXPANDS CLOUD DATABASE PLATFORM "The MySQL database is headed to the cloud, thanks to software vendor Xeround. Starting this week the Xeround cloud database is being made available as a public beta." WEBOPEDIA TERM OF THE DAY: IPNG - IPV6 "Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is also called Internet Protocol next generation (IPng) and it is the newest version of the Internet Protocol (IP)" HOW UNEMPLOYED DEVELOPERS USE OPEN SOURCE TO GET HIRED "It's a tough economy out there. It doesn't matter which industry you happen to be experienced in, people need to be focused on keeping themselves as competitive as possibl" MIDORI VS EPIPHANY REVIEW "In the last couple months I've been seeing a lot of articles concerning the Midori web browser. It's a lightweight GTK-based browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine also used by browsers like Chromium and Safari." LINUX 2.6.38 ELIMINATES LAST MAIN GLOBAL LOCK, IMPROVING PERFORMANCE "The first release candidate for the upcoming Linux 2.6.38 kernel is now out and it could further improve Linux performance." MANDRIVA PROVIDES AN EDUCATIONAL SOLUTION FOR SCHOOLS AND OEMS "Mandriva has announced on January 18th a new OEM distribution, designed for Intel ClassMate PC and several others educational netbooks, which was integrated with Mandriva-Mythware Educational Solution educational application." GNOME ACCESSIBILITY APPLICATION OCRA 2.91.5 RELEASED "GNOME's Orca screen reader is providing users accessibility to their graphical desktop using assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI)." MORE DEEP DISCOVERY ON YOUR LINUX SERVER WITH /PROC "Linux's amazing and powerful pseudo-filesytem proc isn't just for peering into a running kernel. Juliet Kemp shows how Linux admins can also change kernel parameters on the fly. " RACKSPACE'S CEO ON OPEN SOURCE AND OPENSTACK "I wrote about the open source OpenStack back in October, based largely on wandering around the main OpenStack site. But there's no substitute for talking to people involved - especially when they are Lanham Napier, CEO of Rackspace" CONTROL YOUR NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH WONDERSHAPER IN UBUNTU/ DEBIAN LINUX "If you are a Network Administrator with little knowledge in Network Protocols and IPtables, don't worry you can also control your network traffic with a simple tool named wondershaper. It Works on Linux 2.4 & higher." SCRIBUS: MANIPULATE AND PLACE OBJECTS IN 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" BUILDING A CENTRAL LOGHOST ON CENTOS AND RHEL 5 WITH RSYSLOG "Gathering log messages is important. In a lot of situations you'll want to store all entries of logfiles on another server. If a server crashes or gets hacked you want to be able to browse through logfiles from this machine and you want to be sure these log files are not altered in any way." |