| Linux Today News OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES TO GOOGLE
"Is it feasible to drop Google for a period of time in exchange for unfettered open source alternatives?" SCALE 9X ACROSS THE SNOWY HORIZON
"Vendors and experts from Linux and open source deliver top-notch content, at a level that belies the "amateur" label one might put on a community-organized show. There's nothing amateur about SCALE." THE NEW DEBIAN LINUX: IRRELEVANT?
"Once upon a time, a new Debian Linux release was a big deal in Linux circles. It still is, but its child, Ubuntu Linux, is the Linux distribution that gets all the headlines. There?s a reason for that." MYNOTEX A FREE NOTE-TAKING AND NOTES MANAGER SOFTWARE FOR LINUX
"MyNotex is a free software for Linux useful to take and to manage textual notes, also a large number of them. Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text" THE IPV6 TRANSITION: HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?
"What does it actually cost to move to IPv6? That's the final question that was posed this week at the official ceremony marking the end of IPv4 address space." FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SALINE OS 1.0
"Saline is a fairly new distribution to the Linux scene, having just reached the 1.0 mark in January. The distro is based off Debian Squeeze which, at the time of writing, is due to become the official Debian Stable branch any day." 6 LINUX GROUPWARE SERVERS
"The Linux/FOSS world offers a wealth of excellent Linux-based groupware server choices, suitable for small shops to giant enterprises. Eric Geier rounds up six to get you started." WHY DEBIAN MATTERS MORE THAN EVER
"Looks, however, can be deceiving ? Debian is as relevant as it ever was, despite opinions to the contrary." LISTEN TO YOUR PACKAGE MANAGER - IT KNOWS WHAT IT IS TALKING ABOUT!
"Many people instinctively click through any popup window that appears on their screen when they are trying to accomplish a task. A good deal of these people do not even read the message that is presented to them, they simply look for the Close/OK/Next/Yes button so they can move on" DEBIAN 6.0 "SQUEEZE" RELEASED FEBRUARY 6TH, 2011
"After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name "Squeeze"). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a "technology preview"." REVIEW: HANDS ON LIBREOFFICE 3.3
"The Document Foundation released the first new version of its LibreOffice suite on January 25th, and it was far too tempting not to grab a copy and run it through its paces. And while there are a few new features of note, this is still pretty much OpenOffice.org, with all the attendant advantages and foibles." DREAMPLUG PUTS A 1.2GHZ ARM LINUX PC IN A POWER OUTLET
"If you want a small PC the most common options are to buy a netbook, or if you want a larger screen a nettop. But there is an even smaller option that does not require any desk space at all: it?s called a plug computer." WEEKLY TEN: CHROME OS VS. ANDROID 3.0, GREAT PROGRAMMING IS NOT CODING, HACKING LINUX
"Over the last 6 years, I've come to believe deeply in the idea that that becoming a great programmer has very little to do with programming." ROSE BLOG INTERVIEWS: BARBARA IRWIN, LOADS OF LINUX LINKS MAINTAINER
"Recently I received an email from Barbara Irwin, a Linux user since 1997. After 30 years in the library business, Barbara retired about nine years ago. "After retiring, I was looking for a useful and interesting project in Linux and/or open source" Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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JOINING THE FRAY: WHY DEBIAN MATTERS
"As mentioned in this blog in the past, and as mentioned to various people who ask, I don?t like the six-month release cycle. I can go further: I hate it." SOFTWARE REVIEW: THE REKONQ WEB BROWSER
"Pros: Fast performance, Web Kit based, new tab page, simple and intuitive GUI, tight KDE desktop integration" 10 GIT VERSION CONTROL UTILITIES TO MAKE YOU MORE EFFECTIVE
"I'm one of many developers who really enjoy using the Git version control system. A Git Groupie, if you will. It's one of those software projects that just feels right practically from the very first commit." LINUX DISTRO: LINUX CONSOLE
"The strangely named Linux Console seems to be designed to work equally well as a Live distribution and as a permanent installation. It offers an LXDE based desktop alongside a collection of standard applications." COMMAND SUBSTITUTION IN A BASH SHELL SCRIPT
"Command substitution is when you take the output of one command and use it as the argument for another command. If you simply invoke the date utility, you?ll get the following output." GREG TAYLOR DISCUSSES MEDIA NOMMER WITH UBUNTU'S AHMED KAMAL
"Ahmed Kamal, the Ubuntu cloud community liaison interviews Greg Taylor to discuss ?media-nommer? an open-source cloud based distributed media encoding system that runs over the Ubuntu server platform over Amazon EC2." ... IF YOU THOUGHT 4.6.0 WAS GOOD
"I'm really happy with how the number of bug reports coming in is not a massive deluge of different bugs, but mostly just endless repetition of the same handful." USB AUTORUN ATTACKS AGAINST LINUX
"Many people think that Linux is immune to the type of Autorun attacks that have plagued Windows systems with malware over the years. However, there have been many advances in the usability of Linux as a desktop OS - including the addition of features that can allow Autorun attacks." HOW TO INSTALL TOMCAT6 WITH SUN-JAVA AND APACHE2 INTEGRATION ON UBUNTU 10.04 [LU
"Apache Tomcat (or Jakarta Tomcat or simply Tomcat) is an open source servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run." LOADS OF LINUX LINKS-- LATEST 100 LINKS
"Openmeetings - An open source, browser-based software that can instantly set up a conference on the Web using a microphone or webcam. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your server with no limitations in usage or users. It integrates with Moodle and SugarCRM. Latest release is 1.6, 2010-11-11" JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE TO MOVE TO LINUX
"The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has announced that it is moving to an all Linux based trading platform when it relocates to Johannesburg." ORACLE V. GOOGLE: FOOD FIGHT IN DISCOVERY ALREADY - HEARING FEB. 9 - UPDATED 2XS
"Believe it or not, there is already a discovery dispute in Oracle v. Google. And I'm really glad, because that's the only way we can find out what has been going in discovery." UBUNTU FONT ON SHOW AT THE DESIGN MUSEUM, LONDON
"The Ubuntu font goes on display at London?s Design Museum, along with world-renowned type designer Bruno Maag?s Shape My Language installation" DEBIAN 6.0 BREAKS FREE OF RESTRICTIVE LICENSES
"The new Debian release is notable in many ways, not least of which is that it is the first version ever to incorporate an entirely free Linux kernel, using only software published under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or other free licenses compliant with the official Open Source Definition." OPENSCENEGRAPH: METHODS FOR IMPROVING RENDERING EFFICIENCY
"Real-time rendering is in quite demand in computer science today, and OpenSceneGraph, being one of the best 3D graphics toolkits, is being used widely in the fields of virtual reality, scientific visualization, visual simulation, modeling, games, mobile applications, and so on." CAMP KDE 2011 & LINUX FOUNDATION COLLABORATION SUMMIT
"The KDE developers have announced Camp KDE 2011 which will be held at the Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco, California, on 4 and 5 April." LEARN LINUX, 302 (MIXED ENVIRONMENTS): CONCEPTS
"In preparation for taking the Linux Professional Institute Certification exam LPI-302 for system administrators, learn the fundamental concepts surrounding SMB/CIFS, file sharing, and print services in a mixed environment." ADA INITIATIVE SUPPORTS WOMEN IN OPEN SOURCE, COUNTERS SEXISM
"Now, women's advocates Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner are determined to change this situation by the creation of The Ada Initiative, a non-profit organization to encourage women's participation in both FOSS and related groups such as the Free Culture Movement and Wikipedia" DEBIAN LINUX 6 AND THE TRINITY DESKTOP
"Well, I am finally done with a week's efforts at almost successfully jumping from Lenny and a very familiar KDE3.5 environment to Sid and the Trinity Desktop." SONY LAWYERS EXPAND DRAGNET, TARGETING ANYBODY POSTING PLAYSTATION 3 HACK
"Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or ?distributing? the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console." USING MSMTP AS A LIGHTWEIGHT SMTP CLIENT
"Last week, I covered OfflineIMAP to sync IMAP for use with Mutt or other applications. Continuing with that theme, I want to talk about another tool I use with Mutt to handle the opposite problem -- actually pushing mail to an SMTP server. Let's take a look at msmtp." UBUNTU 11.04 ALPHA 2 HAS SUPPORT FOR SANDY BRIDGE
"What's new in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2? Well, lots of things are new in this second Alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system, but the most important change is that the old OpenOffice.org 3.2 office suite from Oracle has been finally replaced with the new and lightweight LibreOffice 3.3 open source office suite" CREATING SPRITES WITH BLENDER AND GIMP
"I?ve been using simple placeholder images for my game so that I could work on gameplay. But I?m getting to a point now where I think I?ve got the core of the game nearly complete and I need more than just placeholders." IS PCLINUXOS ON THE ROPES?
"With difficulties ranging from personnel shake-ups to hosting problems, it seems developing and managing a Linux distribution can be challenging work. Perhaps sometimes it's more trouble than it's worth." INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD STALLMAN (2011)
"Richard M. Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to RMS, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system" US INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: LINUX HELP WANTED
"Want to start, stop, and manage services on your Linux box? Then you need to familiarize yourself with Upstart and take control of your startup and boot processes on Linux." MANAGE SYSTEM STARTUP AND BOOT PROCESSES ON LINUX WITH UPSTART
"Want to start, stop, and manage services on your Linux box? Then you need to familiarize yourself with Upstart and take control of your startup and boot processes on Linux." | 
