| Linux Today News WITH PAGE AS CEO, OPEN SOURCE IS STRONGER THAN EVER AT GOOGLE
"When Google announced that Eric Schmidt was stepping down as CEO and Google co-founder Larry Page was moving up to the CEO chair, you could have knocked Wall St. analysts over with a feather." OPENSTREETMAP'S POINT OF NO RETURN
"Back in 2008, LWN reported on the OpenStreetMap project and its plan to change the licensing of its map database. This change was controversial, to say the least, but the project as a whole appeared to be determined to press forward with it" GLOBAL DIGITAL MUSIC SALES SLOWING DESPITE PIRACY CRACKDOWN
"Industry looks to subscription services such as Spotify to help reverse drop in total worldwide music sales of up to 9% in 2010" REPORTS FROM THE COURTROOM: ORAL ARGUMENT AT 10TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS - SCO V. NOVELL
"Our reporter at the oral argument in SCO's appeal of its loss to Novell before the jury and before the judge in Utah District Court today has now filed his reports. It sounds from the reports like it went quite well for Novell, although we can't be sure until the order issues, which could be months." CRITICS' CHOICE: SMARTPHONE REVIEW OF MOTOROLA ATRIX 4G
"Raise your hand if you saw this one coming: A phone maker that had lost its considerable cachet in recent years scored one of the recent Consumer Electronics Show's biggest hits." THE PERFECT PC
"A couple of weeks ago I rebuilt my writing PC using Debian Squeeze and lxde. I wrote about it here and mentioned that I was so impressed with the performance that I was thinking about rebuilding my current main PC in the same way." TECH COMICS: "GEEK MARRIAGE PROPOSALS"
"A geek relies on strict logic when coding the all-important marriage proposal." ASK THE EXPERTS: HOW TO GET PAID TO WORK ON LINUX
"Looking for a job? If so, you're certainly not alone. Millions of people continue to be on the hunt." MAKING MUSIC IN LINUX AND BEYOND
"You can do a lot with free open-source software, also known as FOSS. Musicians with a yen for Linux are in luck; the array of choices for creating, editing, producing, and publishing music using nothing but FOSS software is staggering." RESEARCH SEEMS TO POINT TO GOOGLE INFRINGEMENT OF JAVA CODE
"Fans of Google who were rooting for the company in the Oracle v. Google copyright infringement case over Java may be a bit dismayed after reading the claims by one free software advocate made this morning. According to Florian Mueller, there is mounting evidence in the original source files from Oracle's Java and Google's Android that code was indeed infringed." CHUCK SHORT DISCUSSES COBBLER ON UBUNTU
"Yesterday, I wrote about Cobbler, a linux installation server, originally developer by Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group, that allows users to deploy a large number of Ubuntu Servers in a data center quickly and effortlessly, was accepted into the Ubuntu Archive." CAN LINUX OPEN-XCHANGE REPLACE MICROSOFT EXCHANGE?
"Whether you're replacing Microsoft Exchange or just looking for a competent groupware suite, Open-Xchange is one of the leading contenders for Linux. How does it rate? Very well, with a few caveats." Whitepaper: Cloud Computing -- Do More with Less
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GOOGLE CHROME 10 ADVANCES WITH NEW V8 3 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE
"Google is updating its dev-channel version of the Chrome browser this week with an updated JavaScript engine and a long list of bug fixes." WEBOPEDIA TERM OF THE DAY: UBUNTU CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL
"The Ubuntu Certified Professional (also called Ubuntu Professional) is a training certification based on LPI level 1." SETTING UP AN NFS SERVER AND CLIENT ON MANDRIVA 2010.1 SPRING
"This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on Mandriva 2010.1 Spring. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk." GETTING ENLIGHTENED WITH BODHI LINUX
"In our recent discussion about Ubuntu Remixes, there were a few names that kept popping up in the comments. One of them was a distro mostly unknown to MTE but immediately of interest, and that?s Bodhi Linux." QEMU VS. VIRTUALBOX
"I thought I?d take this relatively quiet period to do a quickie comparison between a couple of virtualization tools: QEMU and Oracle's VirtualBox." REVISITED: 3 NEWBIE-FRIENDLY KDE DISTRIBUTIONS
FORGET ABOUT HTML 6 - HTML5 IS THE LAST 'VERSION' OF HTML
"From the 'Dumb Ideas' files: HTML5 (yeah with its new logo), could be the last 'version' of HTML. " 3 COMMAND LINE TOOL TO TEST BANDWIDTH BETWEEN 2 SERVERS
"But how do you accurately measure the speed between two servers?" SPEEDING UP THE INTERNET WITH PDNSD AND SQUID
"Living, as I do, in rural France, I suffer from rather slow internet connectivity. My normal line speed is only 512Kbs and sometimes I struggle to achieve even this." HACKING, OLD-SCHOOL
"When you mention hacking in the general public, the image most people think of is a nerdy guy breaking into a computer system from his bedroom." WEEKEND PROJECT: GETTING ORGANIZED WITH EMACS ORG-MODE
"Fancy planners and complicated systems may be more trouble than they're worth when trying to get organized. But Linux users have a secret weapon for getting organized that's as simple as writing a text file: Org-Mode for GNU Emacs" VIRTIO INSTALL WINDOWS 7 KVM (X64/X86) ON UBUNTU 10.04.1 SERVER VIA DNJL PPA
"First of all setup DNJL PPA to upgrade KVM/QEMU up to Qemu 0.12.5 & Libvirt 0.8.3 on Ubuntu Lucid Server and download the most recent Fedora virtio-win drivers from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin as floppy and ISO image." XPLANETFX - INCREDIBLE TOOL FOR RENDERING REAL TIME EARTH WALLPAPER IN UBUNTU
"XPlanetFX is an incredible tool for rendering high quality real time earth wallpaper in Ubuntu." OPENOFFICE.ORG AND LIBREOFFICE RELEASE CANDIDATES DUKE IT OUT
"Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org and independent LibreOffice are both nearing their freely available 3.3.0 versions and show their wares with recent release candidates." THE PENTALOBE SCREW, AND APPLE'S WAR AGAINST SELF-REPAIR
"Consumerist tells us that Apple is switching to a special new screw called by some a Pentalobe, by iFixit an "Evil Proprietary Tamper Proof Five Point Screw"" EXPANDING UBUNTU RECOVERY MODE
"Recovery Mode is a text-based interface to a few quick repair tools that is installed by default with most Ubuntu releases and derivatives. I wrote a few add-ons for it that increase its usefulness in remote repair and diagnostics situations. These were developed and tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)." PEOPLE BEHIND DEBIAN: MICHAEL VOGT, SYNAPTIC AND APT DEVELOPER
"Michael has been around for more than 10 years and has always contributed to the APT software family. He?s the author of the first real graphical interface to APT?synaptic" LATVIA: ODF ACCEPTANCE MANDATORY
"Last Wednesday, Simon Phipps, former open source evangelist at Sun, reported on his blog, on a presentation he had given at a conference in Latvia concerning the Open Document Format (ODF)." UBUNTU OPTS FOR LIBREOFFICE OVER ORACLE'S OPENOFFICE
"The Ubuntu developers met last week in Dallas to make final design decisions about the popular Linux distribution?s features and decided to use LibreOffice for its office suite." LINUX: SUCCESSFUL UPGRADE-- SBS 2003 TO LINUX
"Late in 2010 one of our charitable organization clients, a local church, came to these decisions: 1) The aging XP Professional systems in their office needed to be replaced with new systems. 2) The existing XP Professional systems that were not so old needed to be upgraded to newer operating systems. 3) The existing SBS 2003 system needed to be upgraded to a new OS as well." MICROSOFT AND HP COULD RESHAPE THE IT LANDSCAPE
"At the same time, the choice of platform becomes ever clearer. Two "movements" have survived and thrived in the chaos of Internet innovation: the Windows platform and the Linux one." INTEL CORE I5 2500K LINUX PERFORMANCE
"Earlier this month Intel released their first "Sandy Bridge" processors to much excitement. However, for Linux users seeking to utilize the next-generation Intel HD graphics found on these new CPUs, it meant problems." QT IN THE LAND OF GNOME-BASED DESKTOPS: THE ISSUE OF COPYRIGHT IN FREE SOFTWARE
"Recently Mark Shuttleworth wrote about how Qt will become part of the Ubuntu 11.10 desktop, and that Qt-based apps will eventually be considered as possible default Ubuntu apps. Obviously, this would be a big change from using GTK-only applications" SABAYON 5.4 KDE - MORE MATURE, LESS FUN - AND BUGGY
"Sabayon is no stranger to Dedoimedo. 'Tis a weird beast, this Sabayon. A Linux distribution based on Gentoo, so you might expect all kinds of perils and troubles. But no, it actually manages to be quite reasonable, if not as perky as the top notch candidates." HOW TO DEVELOP FOR LINUX
"The community is making it easier for developers to contribute code - and that means you too!" MOZILLA SKYWRITER BECOMES PART OF AJAX.ORG CLOUD EDITOR
"The Mozilla Skywriter project is no more. It's moving from Mozilla, and the code is being integrated into the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor (ACE)." IS PARALLEL PROGRAMMING HARD, AND, IF SO, WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?
"The purpose of this book is to help you understand how to program shared-memory parallel machines without risking your sanity." BOXEE BOX REVIEW
"Designed to deliver Internet TV, movies, music, web browsing, photos and other local media to the television, this Linux based set-top device will free you from the confined of your computer and bring you back to the epitome of comfort, your couch" UBUNTU EMBRACES QT TOOLKIT: BLURRING LINUX DEVELOPMENT?
"Ubuntu succeeded with lots of GTK applications. Do we really want QT being tossed into the mix?" HOW NOT TO GET SNOOKERED BY CLAIMS OF "PROOF" OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
"I guess you heard that Florian Mueller is at it again. He made strong claims of a smoking gun regarding alleged copyright infringement of Oracle files by Google. Well, in the cold light of day, some of the media who printed it without fact checking are now awakening to the news that the news wasn't as reliable or unchallengeable as they assumed." 3 PHOTO COLLAGE PROGRAMS ON LINUX
"It happens every now and then you have a set of photos and you want to do with them a background image with a collage of them, or perhaps a mosaic, it?s possible in Linux?" VIDEOLAN UPDATES OPEN SOURCE VLC 1.1.6 VIDEO FOR SECURITY, VP8
"VLC is among the most popular open source video players. According to the VideoLAN project, the 1.1.5 release has had 58 million downloads." IN PRAISE OF CLONEZILLA
"To really understand this article, you have to understand how things work around our house. It's pretty simple - I am forbidden, under penalty of grievous bodily harm, from touching my partner's computer unless I am specifically asked to do so" HOW TO CREATE SPEECH BUBBLES FOR SCREENSHOTS IN GIMP
"Previously we have looked at some tutorials for anyone, new or advanced, to try his/her hand at creating artwork in GIMP because it CAN accomplish phenomenal works, especially in conjunction with other open-source software." | 
