| Linux Today News XBMC 9.11 RELEASED
"What once started as an mediacenter project for hacked Xboxes is now grown into one of the best mediacenter applications: XBMC." ADD ACTIONS TO EXTEND NAUTILUS FUNCTIONALITY
"GNOME�s file manager, Nautilus, (as you would expect) is much more than just a plain file manager. There are so many configuration options and ways to extend the default GNOME file manager." 2009: THE YEAR IN TECH
"Palm's Pre smartphone, which Sprint began selling in June, hasn't become an iPhone-like megahit. But it's the most interesting new phone since the original iPhone." SIMPLIFY YOUR APPS WITH THE XML BINDING LANGUAGE 2.0
"With the stabilizing of the AJAX space, and the resources of a company like Google behind it, XML as a binding language has a great deal to offer." LINUX 2019
"And, please, don't get me started on people wearing iContact lens! At least when you saw someone with smart-glasses on you knew they might, or might, not be actually looking at you." 2009: A LINUX YEAR IN REVIEW
"Was 2009 the year of the Linux desktop? It�s a rather silly question, honestly, and a Google search will show that for the last number of years, there have been constant predictions that that year was the year of the Linux desktop" ARCHLINUX + MODULAR KDE 4 + TOOLS = CHAKRA (ALPHA 4)
"Yet for another time, I find myself switching distros. I hope am not addicted or something :) . If not for anything else, I am enjoying the ride! This time is Chakra, and I must admit, am impressed!" STILL WAITING FOR A 64-BIT FLASH PLAYER
"Adobe is hard at work on its next Flash Player release. Or, to be more accurate, it�s hard at work on the 32-bit version of its next Flash Player." INTEL FTC CASE 'OVERBLOWN,' SAYS ANALYST
"Intel isn't going to be broken up or forced to license x86 IP. So what will happen? " OPEN SOURCE IN 2010: NINE PREDICTIONS
"We can take for granted, I think, that open source will continue to gain popularity." ALL QUIET ON THE CODEPLEX FRONT AS 100 DAY MARK PASSES
"But December 19 - the 100 day mark - passed quietly, with no announcement of a new Board or a status update on the other goals. So what's up with the CodePlex Foundation, and its pledge to promptly transition into a more independent organization?" NEW RELEASE: MULTIMEDIA GNU/LINUX JUNTADADOS 1.04R2
New release of juntaDados Multimedia GNU/Linux...juntaDados works to simplifies the creation of Linux-based multimedia workstations for social projects in Brazil like Pontos de Cultura. IBM WILL OFFER THE OPEN SOURCE WEB EYEOS TO ITS SYSTEM Z CUSTOMERS
"We�re happy to present to the eyeOS community the result of more than six months of work together with the great IBM US team, where eyeOS will be the Sample Workload of the new System Z serie Solution Edition for Cloud Computing" A TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT STACK FOR JAVA: MAVEN, JETTY, MOCKITO, AND JAX-RS
"Afterwards, the project manager gathered all the other developers in a separate room and told them flat out: "We do not have time to write unit tests, so just disregard everything he said."" Get Ready for Windows 7!
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10 USEFUL LINUX COMMANDS
"Here's a list of 10 commands which may come handy when using the command line in Linux:" INTERNET ACCELERATION APPLIANCE - SPEEDING UP THE INTERNET
Here is an interesting project, a preseed Debian caching proxy server and network analyzer, the Internet Acceleration Appliance. MAKING A GAME WITH OGRE 3D
"This tutorial series steps you through the process of creating a 3D shoot'em'up game using the popular and powerful Ogre 3D engine. The tutorials compile on both Windows and Linux." TOP STORAGE STORIES OF 2009: RAID, CLOUDS, SSDS AND MERGERS
"In a year of dramatic change and mergers for the data storage industry, it should come as no surprise that the most-read stories on Enterprise Storage Forum this year were about ... dramatic change and mergers." SUPEROS: LIKE UBUNTU BUT EASIER
"One problem I run into a lot when recommending Ubuntu to complete Linux newbies is they aren't used to installing codecs or using the terminal when they want to play DVDs, MP3s and other file types." LINUX-POWERED PACKET FENCE PROTECTS YOUR NETWORK
"Packet Fence bundles many useful and powerful network protection tools into an attractive, integrated package. Such as network access control, monitoring, intrusion detection, VLAN isolation, DHCP fingerprinting, and captive portal. Eric Geier introduces us to this protective powerhouse." A SHORT TUTORIAL ON LINUX DIALOG UTILITY
"'dialog' is a utility for building console-based 'front ends' in UNIX like operating systems. In this brief tutorial I am mentioning the usage of few important basic controls available with this 'dialog' utility and later I have created a very simple front end application in UNIX bash scripting using dialog." MICROSOFT MULLS RESPONSE TO LINUX-BASED XP CLONE
"Take a look at the image above. That's Windows XP, right? Nope, it's Ylmf OS � an Ubuntu Linux-based operating system that looks almost exactly like XP." WEEKLY TEN: SUING MICROSOFT AND WINNING, BLUE MOON ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, GOOGLE'S IDEA OF OPEN
"For a tiny Toronto software manufacturer nestled in the city's grimy garment district, winning a $290 million court judgment against Microsoft is more than simply a long-awaited victory." RELEASE EARLY, RELEASE OFTEN, ADOPT SLOWLY
"Things move pretty fast in the open source development world. A new kernel release comes out around every three months. Projects like GNOME, KDE, and PostgreSQL pop out releases every six months..." NETWORKING WITH OPENVPN
"In this article we will discuss the basic networking concepts of OpenVPN, and also have a brief look at the configuration." ATI LINUX 2009 YEAR IN REVIEW
"Compared to past years when recapping the AMD/ATI Linux advancements over the past calendar year, 2009 was not quite as exciting, which can be viewed as both good and bad for their Catalyst Linux driver." NEW MALWARE TACTICS, TARGETS EXPECTED IN 2010
"New operating systems, social networking sites, and the emergence of the HTML 5 Web markup language will give hackers and malware designers even more opportunities to ply their crooked trade in 2010, according to security software vendor McAfee." MONODEVELOP: VISUAL STUDIO LITE FOR THE LINUX DEVELOPER
"MonoDevelop is an open source integrated development environment for Linux platform users. This IDE is a replica of the original Microsoft .NET editor and also contains Windows support." UBUNTU 32-BIT, 32-BIT PAE, 64-BIT BENCHMARKS
"Coming up in our forums was a testing request to compare the performance of Linux between using 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, and 64-bit kernels. This is coming after Linus Torvalds has spoke of 25% performance differences between kernels using CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and those without..." LINUXCERTIFIED ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT EMBEDDED AND REAL-TIME LINUX DEVELOPMENT CLASS
LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from January 20th - 22nd, 2010 HOW TO DESTROY THE BOOK, BY CORY DOCTOROW
"These licenses of course can run up to thousands of words. If you have an iPhone and buy an audiobook from Audible using the iTunes store with it, you agree to an estimated 26,000 words of license agreement. The Canadian Copyright Act itself only runs to 33,000 words." | 
