| Linux Today News DEBIAN 6.0: STABILITY AND POWER TO THE PEOPLE
"Debian official releases are more rare than releases of other distributions, but tend to matter less to users. Judging by the second release candidate, Debian 6.0 will be no exception" A FRIGHTENING WEEK
"When something you have come to rely on is taken away from you, it is frightening." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE UNDER MAJOR CYBERATTACK DURING LINUX SWITCH
"The London Stock Exchange’s new open source trading system may have been hacked last year, according to a report." THREE EXCELLENT LINUX ROUTER DISTROS + 1 BSD
"Linux is an endlessly adaptable networking and security powerhouse, from tiny to enterprise. Here is a sampling of three specialty Linux router distros and one based on FreeBSD." FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CHAKRA GNU/LINUX 0.3.1
"Despite receiving several requests for a Chakra Linux review, it took me a while to get motivated to write one, mostly due to the project's website." IT SALARY LEVELS: STAFFERS VS. SUPERSTARS
"If you’ve worked in IT for any length of time, you know that IT salary levels can vary wildly between staffers with the same job title." IPAD LOSES SIGNIFICANT SHARE TO ANDROID TABLETS
"Apple's iPad still reigns supreme among tablets, but its grip on the market is starting to loosen." BUFFERBLOAT, FIXING INTERNET CONGESTION
"The dark buffers that lead to Bufferbloat and the congestion/latency problems that currently plague the internet are almost everywhere. The Bufferbloat project intends to address these problems by: " REVIEW: KDE 4.6
"A couple days ago, KDE 4.6 was released for the world to enjoy. It boasts myriad bug fixes, new features for applications like Dolphin and Marble (among others), a revamped Activities feature, and better integration of GTK+ applications." ANDROID TOPS LEADING SMARTPHONE LIST -- IN THE WORLD
"Android the giant continues to loom large among smartphone competitors. Today research firm Canalys said the Android platform had the most shipments globally of any other platform with 32.9 million Android-based devices shipped." POSITIONAL PARAMETERS IN THE BASH SHELL
"Special built-in environmental variables are positional parameters which hold command-line arguments to positions with the names 1,2,3,4, etc. which are indicated by $1,$2,$3,$4, etc. Argument $0 is the name of the script." AN UPDATE ON REISER4 FOR THE MAINLINE LINUX KERNEL
"We're now into 2011 with the merge window having closed earlier this month for the Linux 2.6.38 kernel and there's no sign of this open-source file-system designed to succeed the popular ReiserFS. So what gives? Well, we have another update from its lead developer." WHY WE INSIST ON LINUX ON THE DESKTOP
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WORDNET+ARTHA: A GREAT LINUX THESAURUS COMBO
"I am a writer. I write loads of technical documentation as well as novels (check out my fiction on Smashwords and Autumnal Press). Because of my trade I am always seeking out tools to aid in my own process." PIRATEBOX: AN "ARTISTIC PROVOCATION" IN LUNCHBOX FORM
"When NYU art professor David Darts shows people his lunchbox, "a smile just starts creeping up on their face."" ANDROID DEVELOPMENT 101: 'HELLO WORLD' IN FOUR MINUTES FLAT
"Start learning how to develop for the Android platform with the Android Development 101 video series. In this first episode, Chris L. Bennett demonstrates how to create a traditional Hello World application." GNOME 3 TEST DAY #1: COME TRY THE NEW HOTNESS
"This is a great opportunity to help both GNOME and Fedora development and help make sure you can work effectively in GNOME 3 when it lands on your desktop." BODHI LINUX RELEASE CANDIDATE
"Today the Bodhi team and I are happy to announce our release candidate (0.1.5) is now available to the general public. This disc includes a number of package updates, most notably Firefox beta 10 and EFL 1.0 stable release. For a full change log see here." HOTZ WILL ASK JUDGE TO RECONSIDER TRO ORDER
" Wired's David Kravetz reports that George Hotz's lawyers plan to ask US District Court Judge Susan Illiston to reconsider her recent temporary restraining order and the requirement to surrender all his computers and peripherals and retrieve from the Internet any information he put there..." HOW TO SAVE YOUR LINUX SCREEN SPACE
"Tutorial: Tiling window managers can boost productivity" SONY ANNOUNCES NGP (AKA PSP2) AND TALKS PLAYSTATION GAMING ON ANDROID
"It was quite a day for Sony portable fans. Earlier today (well, technically yesterday) Engadget posted about some hands-on experience with the Xperia Play, aka the Playstation Phone." REVIEW: SABAYON 5.5 KDE
"If you are a regular reader of this blog, Sabayon needs no introduction. Suffice it to say that version 5.5 has been released, and as has become tradition for me (so to speak), I am testing the KDE version of this new release." AMD-POWERED MOTHERBOARDS READY TO TAKE YOUR MONEY
"Acrosser announced two Linux-ready AMD-powered motherboards designed for slot machines and other gaming devices." UBUNTU AIMS TO MAKE OPEN-SOURCE DEVELOPMENT ‘PERSONAL’
"If leading members of the Ubuntu community have their way, however, the process of contributing to Ubuntu is set to become more “personal.” Here’s their plan, and how it fits into the bigger picture." RECORD YOUR TERMINAL WITH SCRIPT
"tuxThe script command is part of the util-linux-ng package and so should be available already installed in any distribution, or you should be able to easily add it." A LINUX COMPILER DEATHMATCH: GCC, LLVM, DRAGONEGG, OPEN64, ETC...
"Started by one of our readers more than a week ago was a compiler deathmatch for comparing the performance of GCC, LLVM Clang, PCC (the Portable C Compiler), TCC (Tiny C Compiler), and Intel's C Compiler under Arch Linux." WANT TO LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM ON ANDROID?
"Tomorrow, February 1st, the Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, will be announcing six new training courses dedicated to the development of Linux-based mobile operating systems Android and MeeGo." CLICK A LINK - WE GET MONEY....MAYBE.
"We just need you to click a "like" button." SOURCEFORGE ATTACK: FULL REPORT
"As we’ve previously announced, SourceForge.net has been the target of a directed attack. We have completed the first round of analysis, and have a much more solid picture of what happened, the extent of the impact, our plan to reduce future risk of attack." KDEVELOP 4.2 SUPPORTS LATEST KDE RELEASES
"Only three months after the last feature release, the KDevelop hackers are proud and happy to announce the release of KDevelop 4.2. As usual, we also make available updated versions of the KDevelop PHP plugins." LAST OF THE IPV4 ADDRESSES ALLOCATED
"IPv4 is dead. Long Live IPv6." 35 GREAT OPEN WEB GAMES
"Game On 2010 is Mozilla Labs‘ first international gaming competition. Game On is all about games built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser." THE LINUX DESKTOP CAME ON LITTLE CAT FEET
"Somehow, some way, the year 2010 may have finally been the year of the Linux desktop -- but no one noticed. Maybe no one needed to." ENLIGHTENMENT NEWS - 1.0 RELEASE OF CORE EFL
"Finally after a long time coming, we are pleased to announce the 1.0 release of the core EFL libraries (With the exception of Eet at 1.4). The following libraries have been released:" WHERE 3 TIMES 3 IS 8.
"Do you use Linux? Have you ever heard of OpenOffice.org? If you answered “yes” to first question and “no” to second, you are really rare individual! That is because OpenOffice.org (OOo) is one of the first software packages installed in Linux." SETTING UP AN ANDROID APP BUILD ENVIRONMENT WITH ECLIPSE, ANDROID SDK, PHONEGAP
"This tutorial describes how you can set up a development environment for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap." WHY A DISTRO-PROVIDED OPENSSH IS BETTER THAN A THIRD-PARTY OPENSSH
"When a third-party vendor tells you their custom OpenSSH is better than your Linux distro's OpenSSH, here is why you should be skeptical." USE OFFLINEIMAP TO SYNC EMAIL ON THE GO
"Mail is the lifeblood of system administrators. Having a great, not good, mail system in place is key to being productive in many cases. If you can escape the corporate horror of Microsoft Outlook and use a more capable client like Mutt, you can be much more productive." FUTURE TRANSISTORS MAY REPLACE SILICON WITH MOLYBDENITE
"Researchers in the field of microprocessors are always looking to the future to see what new materials are available as our chips get ever smaller, faster, and closer to the limits of current component manufacturing." | 
