| Linux Today News IBM ROLLS 20GBPS IPS NETWORK APPLIANCE (YES IT'S LINUX POWERED)
"The IBM Network Intrusion Protection System (IPS) GX7800 has an underlying Linux operating system and provides up to 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) of performance and includes both traditional IPS as well as web application security features" SEAGATE GOFLEX IS REALLY A POGOPLUG IN DISGUISE
"Little Linux-powered plug servers pack a big punch, serving up file sharing and multi-media streaming. Paul Ferrill explores the innards of the Seagate GoFlex, which offers USB 3.0 and streaming anywhere to anything." DEBATE OVER INTERNET BACKDOORS HEATS UP IN CONGRESS AND IN COURT
"Two hearings tomorrow?one in court and one in Congress?will highlight the brewing debate over whether Congress should expand federal surveillance laws to force Internet communications service providers like Facebook, Google and Skype to build technical backdoors into their systems to enable government wiretapping." HOW TO FIND DUPLICATE IMAGES ON DIGIKAM!
"Here is how to filter and locate duplicate images and look alikes on your library. If you are like me and if you have a huge amounts of pictures in your database then this feature is definitely worth it." ALFRESCO 3 BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: TYPES OF E-MAIL INTEGRATION
"The long-term vision for most ECM systems is to be able to handle almost any kind of content, and for many organizations e-mails are often next in line to manage after content such as documents, images, web content, and records. Alfresco can be used as an e-mail management solution and we will discuss what the difference is between that and an e-mail archiving solution." RSA: JAVA IS THE MOST VULNERABLE BROWSER PLUG-IN
"According to Qualys' data, 42 percent of users were running vulnerable out-of-date Java plug-ins. Adobe's Reader was in second at 32 percent followed by Apple QuickTime at 25 percent. Adobe Flash came in fourth at 24 percent." READ ODF DOCUMENTS ON ANDROID WITH OPENOFFICE DOCUMENT READER
"Despite its name, the OpenOffice Document Reader (OODR) app for Android can handle not only OpenOffice.org Writer documents, but also LibreOffice and ODF files." 4G BASE-STATION ON A CHIP RUNS LINUX
" Freescale Semiconductor announced a Linux-ready system-on-chip family for femtocell and picocell 4G base stations. The QorIQ Qonverge SoCs combine a Power-PC core for the PSC9130/31 femtocell version -- or dual cores for the PSC9132 picocell model" SPLASHTOP RELEASES ITS MEEGO-BASED OS
"While Nokia has effectively abandoned the MeeGo Linux operating system, Intel is still supporting MeeGo along with AMD and other vendors, including SplashTop. SplashTop has today announced the release of their MeeGo-based operating system." GNOME SHELL IS ALMOST READY TO ROCK YOUR DESKTOP
"Since then, time has gone by, and while Ubuntu may have decided to go with Unity instead, others have taken Gnome Shell up to the next level. Fedora, among others, will be putting it front and center in future releases." CRUX PPC 2.7 RELEASED
"CRUX PPC 2.7 is now available. It works on Apple 32bit "NewWorld" G3/G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER and IBM Power Systems servers." CHOOSING JAVA SIDES
"One of the FOSDEM sessions that caught my eye was "IcedRobot: The GNUlization of Android," which announced a new project that hopes to take Android and change it so it has a clean-room OpenJDK-based Java VM and will be based on what they refer to as a more standard Linux kernel." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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MINTY FRESH KDE AND LXDE: LINUX MINT LXDE AND KDE 10
"Fans of Mint and KDE or LXDE, February is a good month for you. The Linux Mint project has unleashed the release candidates for Mint 10 LXDE and Mint 10 KDE, and they're looking really good." ANONYMOUS SPEAKS: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE HBGARY HACK
"It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot...HBGary and HBGary Federal position themselves as experts in computer security." GOOGLE FILES MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON ORACLE'S COPYRIGHT CLAIM
"Google has sent a letter [PDF] to Judge William Alsup, asking leave to file a motion for summary judgment on Count VIII of Oracle's Amended Complaint in Oracle v. Google." 3 SCREEN SAVER ON LINUX
"Tired of the ?usual? screensaver present on the major Windows Manager? Today we will see some alternative programs that can be used on our linux to have new and original effects." ATOM IS DEAD, STRANGLED SLOWLY BY INTEL -- MS AND NOKIA SOUGHT AS ACCOMPLICES
"THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future." EMBRACE EYE CANDY WITH COMPIZ ON THE LINUX DESKTOP
"Tired of a looking at a flat, bland desktop? It's time for some eye candy, Compiz-style. Using Compiz you can enable all sorts of fantastic desktop effects and attractive themes." DEBIAN 6 REVIEW
"The Debian Installer is one of the most versatile you are ever going to find on any Linux distribution. It has an ncurses mode, a text-based mode, and a fully graphical installation mode. And there are Live media installation images, regular installation images, and netinst images." APPLE REPORTEDLY BREAKS IBOOKS FOR JAILBREAKERS
"Apple iBooks users who jailbreak their iPhone may find themselves locked out of their own book collection." HAPPY BIRTHDAY KSPLICE UPTRACK!
"One year ago, we announced the general availability of Ksplice Uptrack, a subscription service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux. Since then, a lot has happened!" TOM'S DEFINITIVE LINUX SOFTWARE ROUNDUP: AUDIO APPS
"Today we are looking at consumer audio applications. This includes apps for organizing and listening to music, CDs, podcasts, Internet radio streams, and other audio sources. Also, apps for burning CDs, tagging, fixing, and converting digital audio files, as well as a few light recording and editing packages." DEBIAN PACKAGING TUTORIAL
An Introduction to Debian Packaging (raw PDF presentation) THE COGNITIVE STYLE OF UNIX
"That belief is: the learning curve has value, it is essential for learning, and it needs to be preserved, not whittled away in the name of ?ease-of-use.?" RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 4.9 MARKS THE END OF 4.X
"After 6 plus years of service, Red Hat is moving its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) into a bug and security fix maintenance phase. The move follows the release of RHEL 4.9 which is the last update of RHEL 4.x that will include new features and hardware support." BLEEDING EDGE: UNIVERSAL SOFTWARE INSTALLER FOR UBUNTU
"Bleeding Edge is a Linux script designed for the popular Ubuntu operating system, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. It installs players, codecs, media players, fonts, drivers, etc. It also cleans up the system." MOZILLA'S "MODERN BROWSER" ATTACK ON IE OVERLOOKS FIREFOX SHORTCOMINGS
"Microsoft and Mozilla traded barbs this week in a dispute over what constitutes a "modern" Web browser. The competitive friction is starting to heat up because the Redmond software giant and Silicon Valley nonprofit are preparing to release the next major versions of their respective Web browsers." ELECTRIC CAD PROGRAM ON LINUX
"If you are an electrical engineer, or someone who likes to dabble in designing electrical circuit boards (or anything with regards to electricity) and you?re looking for a FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) CAD program to aid you in the process, then Electric might be the solution." WEB DEVELOPER CLASS: HOW TO MANUALLY INSTALL JOOMLA! 1.6
"In this article you'll learn how to install Joomla!. At the beginning of this series, we looked at the minimum system requirements to install Joomla! For reference, I've included that information again." LIBREOFFICE COMMUNITY STARTS 50,000 EURO CHALLENGE FOR SETTING-UP ITS FOUNDATION
"The community around LibreOffice, the free office productivity suite, today announced its fifty-thousand Euro challenge for setting-up The Document Foundation as a legal entity. The race for funds is open until March 21st 2011, which marks the beginning of Spring in the northern hemisphere. All users - especially enterprises - are invited to donate to the capital stock of the future foundation." KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.38 (PART 2) ? FILE SYSTEM
"Linux 2.6.38 contains patches to improve the scalability of VFS that has been the topic of much discussion for the past six months and that Torvalds himself was waiting for. Ext3 and XFS now support batched discard, which is interesting for SSDs, while Btrfs and SquashFS support additional compression technologies." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE'S LINUX MOVE HITS TROUBLE
"The London Stock Exchange's move to a new low-latency trading platform based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has met with a few hiccoughs - but the LSE claims the platform isn't to blame." A VERY EARLY LOOK AT FEDORA 15 THROUGH THE 2/17/11 NIGHTLY BUILD: IT'S SURPRISINGLY STABLE
"After a commenter on my entry about the Ubuntu Natty alpha called me "pathetic" for expecting basic functionality from an alpha release, I decided to go deep and look at a pre-alpha for Fedora 15 in the form of a nightly build of the distribution that won't have its official alpha release for another 12 days" TECH COMICS: "A GEEK IS BORN"
"A newborn geek makes his or her geekdom clear from their very first utterance." FAREWELL MS EXCHANGE, HELLO LINUX OPEN-XCHANGE
"Where oh where can we find refuge from Microsoft Exchange? One attractive option is Open-Xchange-- but what if your users revolt?" MICROSOFT BANS ITS OWN LICENSE
"The rules for Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace appear to mean that even Microsoft's own MS-RL open source license is banned. And perhaps Nokia should worry too." CANONICAL RE-LICENSES UBUNTU WIKI TO CC BY-SA
"Elizabeth Krumbach on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council announced in an email to various mailing lists, and posted on the Ubuntu Fridge that the licensing for the Ubuntu wiki will be CC-BY-SA and barring a "substantial number of objections" this change should take place in approximately one month." PIRATES ARE NOT HACKERS AND SOFTWARE PIRACY IS ALSO THE GOVERNMENT?S FAULT
"In January 2011 Italian newspaper Repubblica published an article that is a nice example of how much confusion there still is, in mainstream press, about the nature of software and copyright, their relevance for all citizens and the responsibilities of Public Administrations in these fields" ALCATEL-LUCENT EXPANDS IP ADDRESS AND DNS MANAGEMENT - WITH RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
"On the DNS side, the VitalQIP 1200 can deliver up to 100,000 DNS queries per second. For DHCP services, it can deliver 12,000 leases per second. The VitalQIP 1200 is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and is also available as a software appliance." | 
