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"With proprietary operating systems, there are programs readily available for those who need accessibility assistance with their computers. But what is it like for someone who needs accessibility options on the Linux desktop?" THE 2009 LINUX AND FREE SOFTWARE TIMELINE - Q1
"Here is LWN's twelfth annual timeline of significant events in the Linux and free software world for the year. 2009 offered few surprises to those that have been following Linux and free software for as long as we have. As expected, there were new releases of many of the tools and underlying infrastructure that we use on a daily basis." KENNARDS HIRE OFFLOADS LINUX MACHINES AFTER COSTLY EXPERIMENT
"KENNARDS Hire has decided to ditch 300 desktop machines running Fedora Linux for Windows-based thin clients." INTERACTIVE TIMELINE OF SECRET COPYRIGHT TREATY
"Michael Geist writes, "The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is generating growing concern as many people learn about the secret copyright treaty for the first time. I've create a visual timeline to trace its emergence that includes links to the leaked documents, official government statements, and NGO letters and work in the area."" DISTRIBUTIONS: NO WINTER BREAK IN LINUX LAND
"With Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 now out the door, developers are already turning their attention to the spring releases. KDE3 has definitively gone the way of the dodo as far as openSUSE and Mandriva are concerned." THE LEARNED HELPLESSNESS OF WINDOWS
"How much of the market dominance of Windows over Linux is due to people who either cannot or do not want to use pliers, who are afraid that any attempt to alter their machine is doomed to failure? " PERL AND THE FLIP-FLOP OPERATOR
"Experimenting with the Perl flip-flop operator (see under "Counting Variables"), I hit what looked like an oddity." INSTALL VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH QTEMU
"There are a few methods of running virtual machines on a Linux host: VirtualBox, VMWare, KVM, and QEMU are four of the most popular. Each method has it�s pros and cons." WITH LINUX 2.6.32, BTRFS GAINS AS EXT4 RECEDES
"To see how this changes the Linux file-system landscape, atop the latest Linux kernel we have a fresh set of benchmarks for EXT3, EXT4, XFS, ReiserFS, and Btrfs." ORACLE'S PLEDGES ON MYSQL ARE 'PURELY COSMETIC', SAY CRITICS
"Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database are paper thin, and even if they were confirmed they wouldn't safeguard MySQL's future..." WHY THE BSDS GET NO LOVE
"Many of the modern distributions are a live CD and a few clicks from going from CD media to your hard disk. But what about the BSDs? That, my friend is a different story." SFLC HAMMERS GPL VIOLATORS
"Some companies, however, think that they can use Linux and open-source software for their products without releasing the source code or, in some cases, paying the creators. Wrong." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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ANSWERING SCO BIT BY BIT - THE ROBERT SWARTZ MEMO, TAKE 2
"The report states, in part, "First, many portions of Linux were clearly written with access to a copy of Unix sources. This of course would be a violation of the License agreements under which Unix is distributed." DISTROWATCH WEEKLY: OPENSUSE WINS KDE DISTRO COMPARISON, ARCHISO-LIVE, UBUNTU 10.04 FEATURE LIST
"Let's start this week's news section with a link to an interesting article published recently at TuxRadar. Entitled "Get the best KDE Linux distro", it evaluates some of the more interesting KDE-centric distributions" OPPOSITION MOUNTS TO ORACLE'S MYSQL ACQUISITION
"You might have thought it was just open-source advocates objecting to the deal out of the fear that Oracle, the world's biggest proprietary DBMS (database management systems) company, would close down the most popular open-source DBMS. You'd be wrong. Microsoft wants to block the deal, too." FRUGAL TECH SHOW: EREADERS SUCK, JOOJOO, NEXUS ONE, NET PRIVACY, SPICE AND VDI, REDHAT
"Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I talk about the limitations of today�s eReaders, the JooJoo and the tablet MID phenomenon, the Google Nexus One phone..." WATCH OUT MICROSOFT: GNOME IS POISED TO HAVE A KILLER 2010
"The GNOME Foundation features a powerhouse roster of vendor sponsors who are committing more money than ever to support desktop Linux." FEDORA, OPEN SOURCE TRADEMARKS AND FUD
"Trademarks and open source have an interesting and often confusing relationship. The whole point of open source is freedom of code and usage." WHY USE GNOTE WHEN THERE’S TOMBOY?
"GNote is interesting is an interesting application because it is a sticky notes application which allows wiki-like syntax, linking, and so on. And it looks very much like Tomboy, as it’s a re-write of that application." UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP BUILDS DESKTOP SUPERCOMPUTER WITH 13 NVIDIA GPUS
"Almost a year and a half ago researchers of the University of Antwerp were among the first to take advantage of the latest developments in GPGPU technology to create FASTRA, a desktop PC with supercomputer power." NOOK TORN OPEN, HACKED AND ROOTED
"Barely weeks after its launch, Barnes & Noble’s Android-based Nook e-reader has been hacked and ‘rooted’" BACK UP YOUR DATA
"There are many different ways to make backups. To a large extent the backup solution used depends on what you are backing up. In this article we explore the key methods which are ideally suited for the home user." UBUNTU KARMIC SERVER PV & HVM DOMUS SHARING SAME IMAGE AT SUN XVM 3.4.2
"Set up Sun xVM 3.4.2 on top of opensolaris 1002-128a via binary packages been built by Pascal Gienger at Index of /software/xvm/3.4.2." COULD GOOGLE PHONE MARK END OF NETWORK DOMINATION?
"News "leaked" this weekend of an unlocked Google-branded phone. On the upside, an unlocked phone means you aren't tied to any particular carrier, nor are you required to sign a contract, but on the downside, you don't get the large provider subsidy..." DOES A FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY EXIST?
"I admit that I often do refer to the community. So, since I believe in never leaving an assumption unquestioned, I started wondering: Does such a thing exist?" LINUX SECURITY KERNEL CLEAN-UP
"Two significant Linux bugs have been founded and smashed. Here's what you need to know." FIVE PRODUCTIVITY EXTENSIONS FOR GOOGLE CHROME
"Good news for Google Chrome users: the latest version of the browser supports extensions, so you can extend its default functionality by installing extensions from the official extension repository." HOW TO RUN GOOGLE'S CHROME OS FROM A THUMB DRIVE
"Don't want to wait until November 2010 to take the Chrome OS for a spin? Grab a USB thumb drive." LINUX CONTROLS IBM MAINFRAMES
"Consolidation for everyone is IBM's stated reason for releasing a Linux version of its System z mainframe. The new Enterprise Linux Server (ELS) is a stand-alone system specifically designed for Linux environments." FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO (NO KIDDING) MICROSOFT, OPEN SOURCE SHINED IN '09
"For open source and Linux, 2009 has been another year of big and surprising milestones, from the White House adopting open source technology to Microsoft submitting code for the Linux kernel." PUPPY LINUX: JUST FOR FUN
"Puppy Linux is something different, a tiny version of Linux that can be stored on a USB memory drive, will run in memory, and can be used for working on the move." RECESSION'S LATEST VICTIM: U.S. INNOVATION
"Patent filings fell in 2009 for the first time in 13 years, worrying Silicon Valley that it is losing its place as the leader in global innovation." AUSTRALIA EDGES US TOWARDS THE DIGITAL DARK AGES
"The Australian Government today announced further details of its approach to improve safety on the internet for Australian families." UBUNTU'S JONO BACON: MANAGING AN OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY
"For the past three years, Jono Bacon has worked as community manager for Ubuntu, one of the largest and most diverse projects in open source software. Consequently, when he recently published his thoughts on building and managing communities, people listen." 15 MINIMALIST LINUX WALLPAPERS FOR A DISTRACTION-FREE DESKTOP
"I always keep my desktop workspace clean and without distraction. One of the most important things that I do to keep it clear is by using only wallpapers with simple design." GWENVIEW THE BEST IMAGE VIEWER !
"KDE4 users know Gwenview the default image viewer for KDE, but may not know that Gwenview is one of the best image viewers ever existed" CODE RED: HOW SOFTWARE COMPANIES COULD SCREW UP OBAMA�S HEALTH CARE REFORM.
"Almost all experts agree that in order to begin to deal with these problems, the health care industry must step into the twenty-first century and become computerized. Astonishingly, twenty years after the digital revolution, only 1.5 percent of hospitals have integrated IT systems today..." BEST BUY CAUGHT IN GPL TUSSLE
"Retail giant is among 14 vendors sued over a GPL violation. Now how did Best Buy violate the GPL? " CONFIGURING STRONG WI-FI (802.1X) AUTHENTICATION IN LINUX, PART II
"As the weaker forms of wireless encryption fail, migrating to stronger encryption protocols becomes more urgent. Eric Geier shows how to configure Linux clients to use strong encryption to connect to wireless networks." TERRY CHILDS: ANOTHER CHRISTMAS IN JAIL
"Childs is still in jail, his bail is still set at a ridiculous $5 million, and he still hasn't had his day in court. It's been nearly 18 months since his arrest for refusing to hand over administrative passwords to San Francisco's city network." DOWNLOAD LINUX MINT 8 FOR 64-BIT PLATFORMS
"After the release of Linux Mint 8 back in November, Clement Lefebvre and the developers behind the Linux Mint community announced last evening (December 14th) the immediate availability for download of the 64-bit edition of Linux Mint 8." LINUX KICKS MICROSOFT BACK
"Microsoft says “. . . over 93% of worldwide small notebook PCs run Windows today.” They can’t both be right." BEST LINUX AND KVM SWITCH PRACTICES
"I have at least four machines running at all times – all using one monitor. Not only does space dictate this setup, so to does budget. Because of this I am relegated to using a KVM switch." | 
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