| Linux Today News FIREFOX 4 DEBUTS FASTER, MORE SECURE BROWSER
"After 12 betas, 2 release candidates and over nine months of development, Mozilla today is officially releasing its next generation open source Firefox 4 web browser." COMPARISON TEST: FUDUNTU 14.9 VS. FUSION 14 "THORIUM"
"So let's look at the contenders. Fuduntu is, despite its name, not based on Ubuntu. It is based on Fedora (version 14.9 being based on Fedora 14 "Laughlin")." THE KING OF LINUX DISTROS
"Debian is one of the original true-blood linux distributions. It is perhaps the wheel of Linux. In human civilization, the invention of the wheel was one of original inventions, which helped civilization grow." OPEN NETWORKING FOUNDATION FORMED
"Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo, announce the formation of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a nonprofit organization promoting Software-Defined Networking (SDN)." COMPLETE YOUR LINUX DESIGN TOOLKIT WITH 'ARDESIA'
"Ardesia is one best of the design applications available for Linux which can be used to create mockups, sketches, hand drawn annotations, interactive presentations, live demos etc. with ease right on your current desktop view or with custom images." WILL GNOME 3.0 REPEAT THE USER REVOLT OF KDE 4.0?
"In January 2008, the long awaited KDE 4.0 was released. Immediately, a user revolt erupted. This April, GNOME 3.0 is scheduled for release. Just as KDE 4.0 was a radical departure from KDE 3.5, GNOME 3.0 is a radical departure from GNOME 2.32." LIBREOFFICE 3.3.2 IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
"The Document Foundation company launched the second maintenance release of the LibreOfficeb 3.3 open source office suite for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms." PYTHON4KIDS: NEW TUTORIAL - INCREASINGLY TRIVIAL QUESTIONS
"If you remember back a few tutorials ago, we learnt how to pickle objects so that we could get them back later." DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS A FORK OF MPLAYER?
"The project looks small with probably only a few participants. It's been up and running for a short time, but they're already on a release candidate of version 2." WHY I LEFT RACKSPACE AND WHAT ABOUT OPENSTACK
"I think that Rackspace is trying to control Openstack rather than influence it. A perfect example is the recent change in governance. Basically, Rackspace made governance changes without talking to the development community or the sitting governance board." WHIRLWIND INTRO TO AUDACITY ON LINUX: FROM RECORDING TO CD IN ONE LESSON
"To get started, I'll show you how you can create your own CD in Audacity on Linux. From simple recording all the way to mastering the CD, you'll learn the basics of doing audio production in Audacity." JUDGE REJECTS GOOGLE'S ATTEMPT TO CREATE A UNIVERSAL LIBRARY
"Google's vision of a universal library archiving all books ever published on Earth is once again at odds with laws protecting the authors of those books." LINUS TORVALDS: ANDROID COPYRIGHT VIOLATION CLAIM IS BOGUS
"Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has said new claims that Android violates the Linux license are 'totally bogus.'" AN INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED LINUX, BEAGLEBOARD & ITS LINUX KERNEL PORT
"Enter BeagleBoard. This is the brainchild of a small group of volunteers (many of whom are Texas Instruments employees ? TI's chips are used in the design) who were frustrated at the lack of affordable development boards, and with the kinds of concerns faced by those seeking to get involved with embedded development." OUTLOOK ALTERNATIVES: FREE OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS
"The question remains, can one of the above mentioned open source applications replace Outlook? The short answer is yes - it all comes down to how Outlook is being used by an organization and how well Outlook is integrated into other business process." HOW TO POST CONTENT TO A WORDPRESS BLOG FROM THE COMMAND LINE
"Wordpress is a great publishing system, but managing it manually can be a very time consuming process. This is especially true when you want to upload lots of posts, or if you would like to write content in your preferred, full-blown text editor and then have it magically appear online." EDITOR'S NOTE: PICKING OURSELVES UP, DUSTING OURSELVES OFF
A lot of readers have noticed we've been through a rough spot in the last few days. | 
