| Linux Today News OPENSUSE 11.4: SUSE LINUX REVITALIZED
"It may not be as cool as Ubuntu or as cutting-edge as Fedora, but I?ve always had a soft spot for openSUSE Linux. Like MEPIS, another old favorite of mine, openSUSE just works and works well." MOZILLA MOVES ON
"Back in August last year, I wrote the following: we no longer live in a simple binary world of Internet Explorer as the dominant player and Firefox as the doughty but distant challenge." LASTING DIGITAL ARCHIVES: MILLENNIATA'S NEW ARCHIVAL DVD TECHNOLOGY
"A new optical disk technology offers a fundamental new capability ? which is storing offline archives in a format with a shelf life of many decades (or even centuries)." IS IT TIME TO REBUILD & RETOOL PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MAKE ?TECHSHOPS??
"To me, public libraries ? the availability of free education for all ? represent the collective commitment of a community to their future. They symbolize what is most important, a commitment to educating the next generation." NOVELL SALE TO ATTACHMATE DELAYED UNTIL APRIL - DUE TO PATENT INVESTIGATION
"Novell shareholders are going to have wait just a bit longer until they can cash in and be acquired by Attachmate for $2.2 billion" INTEGRATING UBUNTU SOFTWARE CENTER WITH LAUNCHPAD(MOCKUP)
"USC Launchpad Concept integrates Ubuntu Software Center with Launchpad and thereby provide easy access of hundreds of awesome applications hosted at Launchpad to its users." BOOT PORTABLE LIVE USB LINUX ON OLDER HARDWARE
"Portable USB Linux distros are wonderful go-anywhere Linuxes for troubleshooting and repair. The catch is older hardware doesn't always support booting from a USB stick-- but there is a workaround called Plop Boot Manager." RIGHTHAVEN ACCUSES DEFENDANT OF RUNNING UP LEGAL FEES IN COPYRIGHT CASE
"Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is complaining that one of its litigation foes is needlessly running up legal costs that Righthaven may end up paying for." TECH COMICS: "SMARTPHONE ETIQUETTE"
"Is it permissable to check your smartphone at all times in every environment?" GNOME CREATOR, MIGUEL DE ICAZA, RESPECTS PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE, CAN'T WAIT FOR IPAD 2
""If you are not planning on getting an iPad 2 on Friday at 5 p.m., the terrorists win." So said open source icon Miguel de Icaza on his Twitter feed this week, and he wasn't joking." PWN2OWN: BLACKBERRY AND IPHONE FALL, CHROME AND FIREFOX UNTOUCHED
"The Pwn2own hacking challenge claimed two more victims this week." CREATING AND MANIPULATING PDFS WITH PHP AND FPDF
"FPDF is an open source PHP class released under a permissive license, which indicates that the software can be used for any purpose, commercial or otherwise" FUDUNTU 14.9 STABLE RELEASED
"Fuduntu 14.9 Stable has been released and is now available for download in ISO format, and also available as a regular update for existing Fuduntu users" GPL EXPERT GIVES RED HAT THE ALL-CLEAR
"Well-known free software activist and GPL expert Bradley Kuhn says Red Hat's recent change of policy with regard to provision of its kernel source appears, on the surface, to be GPL-compliant." 5 PRODUCTIVITY-ENHANCING ANDROID APPS
"With the number of apps available on the Android market growing by the minute, selections of apps have steadily proved to be among the most productive Android apps. These apps, already in use by millions of Android users are simply must-have apps." QUIZ: ARE YOU A LINUX TRIVIA GURU? FIND OUT.
"Hi, there Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols your host today. I?ve been using and writing about Linux and open source for entirely too long. Suffice it to say that while I didn?t use Linux 0.01, I was running Linux not long after that. So, with introductions out of the way, let?s move on to the quiz shall we?" TILEMILL PUTS WEB GIS ON THE MAP
"If you're anything like me, you love a good map graphic, particularly one that brings what would otherwise be dull and boring data to life. The technical term for tools that render statistics into visual form with maps are geographic information systems (GIS)." ALLURA, THE OPEN SOURCE FORGE
"So in kind of a soft launch, SourceForge released the project I've been working on (Allura) under the Apache license last month. The project happens to be the actual software underlying the SourceForge.net 'beta' tools" GETTING STARTED WITH INKSCAPE
"Use the fascinating Inkscape graphics editor to create attractive layout designs, images, and icons for your website" CHROME 10 BRINGS FLASH SANDBOXING AND NEW SETTINGS UI
"Google has issued a new stable release of the Chrome Web browser and is rolling it out to users. The new version introduces some noteworthy JavaScript performance enhancements, new plug-in security features, improved support for synchronization, and a new user interface for managing the browser's settings." JOHN CARMACK FINALLY PREFERS DIRECTX TO OPENGL
"If you look at the recent history of video games then you will notice one stand out fact. While many game engines and games have embraced Microsoft?s DirectX for PC games, id Software and John Carmack have stuck with OpenGL." QUICK LOOK: OPENSUSE 11.4
"I last looked at openSUSE on Desktop Linux Reviews when it hit version 11.3. This update takes openSUSE up to version 11.4 so I opted to do a quick look instead of a full review on DLR." 5 OF THE BEST RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR LINUX
"A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a DBMS in which data is stored in the form of tables, and the relationship among the data is stored in the form of tables as well." MYSQL DATA FRAGMENTATION - WHAT, WHEN AND HOW
"MySQL tables, including MyISAM and InnoDB, two of the most common types, experience fragmentation as data is inserted and deleted randomly. Fragmentation can leave large holes in your table, blocks which must be read when scanning the table. Optimizing your table can therefore make full table scans and range scans more efficient." FIRST EVER BROWSER ADDRESS BAR GAME CREATED IN HTML 5
"If you have ever played a game directly in your web browser, then chances are it was created using Adobe Flash. But with the introduction of HTML 5 and the Canvas tag it?s now possible to create animation, and therefore games, simply by using JavaScript and HTML files and no plug-ins." RED HAT JBOSS SOA PLATFORM 5.1 GOES AFTER ENTERPRISE DATA SERVICES
"Red Hat is expanding its JBoss portfolio this week with the release of JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform 5.1. As part of the release, JBoss is updating its Enterprise SOA (define) platform as well as the JBoss Developer Studio." 'FREE' CULTURE FOLKS DISCUSS MODELS FOR SUSTAINABLE CREATIVITY
"It digs into what the current state of the market is in music, filmmaking, writing & publishing, fashion and software, and then looks at various economic models that can be used to support all of those." WHERE IS RSS IN MOZILLA'S FIREFOX 4?
"There are a lot of new features in Mozilla's Firefox 4 web browser. There are also a number of old features that are now gone -- or at least appear to me." WEEKEND PROJECT: BENCHMARK YOUR BROWSERS ON LINUX
"With the Firefox 4.0 release right around the corner, the big question for a lot of users is how fast is Firefox 4.0? How does the new Moz compare with Google Chrome, Opera, and the rest?" MY (FIRST) 10 YEARS OF GNU/LINUX USAGE
"Just about these days it's my 10th anniversary as a GNU/Linux user and it all started, irony of ironies, as a consequence of BSA's activities (or so the gossip said at the time)." METASPLOIT 3.6 DELIVERS THE 'LOOT' FOR OPEN SOURCE AND COMMERCIAL VULN/PEN TESTING
"The Metasploit vulnerability testing framework is out with a major update this week, providing new capabilities to help enterprises ensure security compliance." US PROPOSALS FOR SECRET TPP 'SON OF ACTA' TREATY LEAKED; CHOCK FULL OF AWFUL IDEAS
"The USTR has shown what it's learned from the ACTA negotiations: which is that it can absolutely get away with unprecedented levels of secrecy. It has no problem sharing details with industry representatives, but the public and consumers who will be most impacted by the intellectual property rules found in TPP are kept completely away." OPENSUSE THINKING ABOUT NAMING CHANGE
"Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager at Novell for openSUSE, has posted about an on-going discussion concerning the naming convention of openSUSE" THE AUSTIN PROMETHEUS PROJECT
"Anthony now has a computer, and The HeliOS Project was privileged to give him one. But there's one thing Anthony doesn't have...and probably wouldn't have for a while. Anthony Gilbert has no access to the Internet." EASYDRIVER AT CODEMOTION 2011
"I?ve received from Paolo Proni the slides that he presented at the ignite session at codemotion in Rome. I thank Paolo and i gladly publish this short presentation that introduces the concepts behind the design of Easy Driver." FOURTH QUARTER PC SALES HIT NEW RECORD
"Reports of the PC's pending demise may be a little premature, according to the findings of the latest PC sales report from tracking firm IHS iSuppli. In fact, sales of new PCs hit a new high last quarter." WILL MICROSOFT'S 'MAKE WEB NOT WAR' ATTRACT OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS?
""Make Web Not War" sounds like a slogan that an aging ad executive would coin in a desperate attempt to sound hip to twenty-something developers -- most of whom have probably never heard the original catchphrase opposing the Vietnam War." CALXEDA'S ARM CHIPS DESIGNED FOR 480-CORE SERVERS
"Calxeda on Friday revealed initial details about its first ARM-based server chip, designed to let companies build low-power servers with up to 480 cores." CUSTOMISE UBUNTU WITH GRUB
"The boot loader for Ubuntu, and indeed most all Linux distributions, is GRUB: the GRand Unified Bootloader. We show you how to get your hands dirty." XKCD:SERVER ATTENTION SPAN
"Hi! I'm a server. Who are you?" OPENSUSE 11.4 ROCKS DESPITE MISSING GNOME
"Review: openSUSE 11.4 brings a host of KDE and GNOME updates, the first release of OpenOffice fork LibreOffice, and numerous speed improvements." 7 OF THE BEST FREE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR R
"R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It consists of a language together with a run-time environment with a debugger, graphics, access to system functions, and scripting." UBUNTU LINUX AND GNOME: THE DISPUTES CONTINUE
"But, when it comes to the desktop, no matter how you measure it, Linux has never how more than a tiny share of the desktop market. Why?" | 
