| Linux Today News DELL U.S. WEBSITE SHOWS UBUNTU MORE RESPECT
"For roughly two years, readers have told WorksWithU they have a difficult time finding Ubuntu desktop and laptop options on Dell�s U.S. Website. Apparently, Dell heard the constructive criticism." MAKE LINUX LOOK AWESOME!
"It's now fair to say that the Linux desktop is at the forefront of visual effects, a cornucopia of eye-candy overflowing on to your desktop. And with a few tweaks, it can look even better." ARE MICROSOFT USERS MORE GULLIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO ONLINE ADVERTISING?
"Is there something about people who use Microsoft products that makes them more likely to click on an online ad?" THE BOOK OF INKSCAPE: A FINE, RARE PLEASURE
""The Book of Inkscape" by Dmitry Kirsanov (No Starch Press) calls itself "the definitive guide to the free graphics editor." I call it one of the best howto books of the year." RELEASED LAST WEEK: M0N0WALL 1.3, CDLINUX 0.9.5, LINUX MANGAKA CHU, PENTOO 2009.0
"Manuel Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.3, a minimalist firewall distribution based on FreeBSD: "After almost three years in beta, I have decided that m0n0wall 1.3 is now good enough for production." LINUX POWERS CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FOR CHARITY
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, especially if you happen to live within a few miles of Alek Komarnitsky's house and the massive Christmas display he puts on every year in the name of charity." 802.11N: FAST WI-FI'S LONG, TORTUOUS ROAD TO STANDARDIZATION
"For a technology that's all about being fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi sure took its sweet time to become a standard. In fact, until September 2009, it wasn't, officially, even a standard. But that didn't stop vendors from implementing it for several years beforehand, causing confusion and upset..." RED HAT OPEN SOURCES SPICE FOR DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION
"A year after acquiring the SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment) hosted virtual desktop protocol from Qumranet, Red Hat is now open sourcing it." NVIDIA ANTI-ALIASING, LINUX & LENVIK
"Recently via email we were asked to run a comparison of the different anti-aliasing and image rendering options between the ATI/AMD and NVIDIA Linux drivers and hardware. Well, we have now run a few quantitative and qualitative tests at different anti-aliasing levels under Linux." DECEMBER 2009 ISSUE OF THE NEW PCLINUXOS MAGAZINE RELEASED
"The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2009 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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LAWYER IN TENENBAUM MUSIC PIRACY CASE TO SEEK RETRIAL
"Charles Nesson, a law professor and the founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said he is also filing a separate motion challenging the constitutionality of the $675,000 fine assessed against Joel Tenenbaum..." UBUNTU-READY DELL DESKTOP LOOKS LIKE A NETTOP
"Dell announced new Ubuntu Linux-ready OptiPlex desktops, including a power-efficient model claimed to be the "world's smallest fully-functional commercial desktop."" OLD SCHOOL BROWSING WITH W3M
"Not to sound like a Luddite, but sometimes the old ways are best. When it comes to Web browsers, that�s not very often, but knowing your way around a text-mode browser like w3m does come in handy from time to time." WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH FREE SOFTWARE USERS WHO DON'T CONTRIBUTE TO IT IN ANY WAY?
"This page was born as an answer to an Italian article titled "Open Source, I want everything now and I won't give anything back"." WILL MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD 3 FAIL?
"Mozilla today officially released Thunderbird 3.0, it's next generation email client. It's got lots of interesting features, but is it too little too late" EDITOR'S NOTE: YES, I GUESS WE LINUX FOOLS ARE PRETTY WEIRD
Are fairness and honor strictly FOSS values? Are we smelly FOSS hippies anachronisms in a world of predators and parasites? CREATE A GRAPH OF YOUR SYSTEM�S PERFORMANCE
"Use Dstat and Gnuplot to monitor performance, then turn that information into neat-looking graphs that anyone, even your manager, can understand�" MICROSOFT URGES FLASH MAKERS TO PAY FAT DOLLAR FOR EXFAT FORMAT
"Sony, Canon, Sanyo and SanDisk have already agreed deals with Microsoft to licence the format. For that privilege, camera, camcorder and digital photo frame makers are charged a flat $300,000 licence fee." EASY FLOW CHART CREATION WITH DIA
"Dia has been around the Linux-verse for a while and has become the de facto standard for diagrams and flow charts. Dia is amazingly easy to use (so long as you understand the functionality of flow charts) and can have you up and running in no time." TECH COMICS: "SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION?"
When dealing with complex software, we naturally hope there's adequate documentation. Well.. EXPLORING NEW NEPOMUK FEATURES IN MANDRIVA LINUX 2010
"So what is this thing called Nepomuk, what can it do for us now and what will it bring us in the future? We asked two of the driving forces behind Nepomuk, St�phane Lauri�re and Sebastian Tr�g of Mandriva, to tell us about the real Nepomuk features that are already available in KDE software and those that have been introduced with Mandriva Linux 2010." BLANK ROME SENDS A FIRST BILL - SCO BILLED FOR CAHN'S LAWYER TO READ GROKLAW
"So I'd call this bill The Education of Blank Rome. And my preliminary impression is that they are honest people, who got an unholy mess dumped in their laps and are carefully picking through everything, trying to figure it all out. And they've made real progress in doing so. The bill is for $229,214..." NOUVEAU TO GO INTO LINUX 2.6.33 KERNEL!
"These DRM changes were accepted, but Linus Torvalds went off on a bit of rant wanting Nouveau merged into the kernel." RESEARCH SHOWS FOSS BUGS GET RAPID RESPONSE, COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE NOT SO MUCH
"Evidently, only 24 percent of open source projects meet "an acceptable level of security" compared to an equally dismal 23 percent of commercial software." THE SPEED OF TECHNOLOGY'S 'CREATIVE DESTRUCTION'
"Activists worry about the environmental cost of discarded mobile phones, personal computers, and other technology. Perhaps they should also worry about the swelling graveyard of start-ups and tech titans gone bad." FILESHARING IS GOOD FOR SOCIAL WELFARE
"Does filesharing reduce profits of the music industry? This paper claims so, and that should not be that much of a surprise." BETWEEN FEDORA 12 AND 13
"In many minds, the Fedora 12 release is likely to remain forever associated with the project's ill-advised decision to allow any local user to install packages without the root password. That mistake is now in the past and, in any case, there is far more to Fedora 12 than this particular problem." REVIEW: RED HAT VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE 2009
"Red Hat held the Red Hat Virtual Experience 2009 today and it was awesome. What was it? It was a completely online conference that offered everything you'd find at a traditional face-to-face show like the annual Red Hat Summit." JOOJOO (SUPPOSED-TO-BE-CRUNCHPAD) LINUX-BASED TABLET PC UNLEASHED
"The Linux-based tablet PC that was supposed to be named CrunchPad will be available to consumers real soon. The JooJoo is the product of the CrunchPad project started by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington..." RETRO DELIGHT: GALLERY OF EARLY COMPUTERS (1940S – 1960S)
"And they certainly weren’t small. Some of them had imaginative names like Whirlwind, Colossus and Pegasus, while others were slightly less poetic with names like Z4, AN/FSQ-7 and ENIAC." SMART PHONES, EBOOK READERS, AND THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD
"Ah yes — "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Isn't that how the old saw goes? Or, in the more impatient parlance of today, simply "Same old, same old."" RED HAT HEADS BACK TO THE DESKTOP WITH SPICE
"Red Hat is the number one Linux company, but they haven't been interested in the Linux desktop for years. With the open-sourcing of SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment), that's changing." #DIWD NEW YORK STATE SENATE: NEW REGIME, NEW WEB MANDATE
"For example, there was a small army of people hand-clipping articles they thought the Senators would like. The clippers would then scan in the articles, print out copies for all interested parties and mail or deliver them." GNOME DEV PROPOSES VOTE ON SPLIT FROM GNU PROJECT
"A senior member of the GNOME Desktop Project has proposed that the project hold a vote on whether it should remain a part of the GNU Project." MICROSOFT ENCROACHING ON SPANISH SCHOOLS... AGAIN
"The Spanish Government announced in a surprising move that an agreement with Microsoft has been signed to give out laptops to primary schoolchildren next year." OPEN SOURCE LICENSING DETECTION GETS MORE COMPETITIVE
"However, one of the potential issues with open source software adoption is license compliance�ensuring that developers and enterprises are not in violation with a particular license." POULSBO MESS CASTS A SHADOW ON INTEL'S MOBLIN PROJECT
"Intel's puzzling refusal to address the problems with the Linux drivers for its GMA500 integrated graphics component is raising serious questions about the company's commitment to Linux compatibility." OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE 2009 - THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE PROJECTS IN 2009
"Welcome to definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009. First up - What is open source hardware?" PERSONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR LINUX - CONTINUED
"During the past week I was able to look at a few more candidates in the Personal Financial Management area, and to gain some experience with the one that I have decided to use for now." IS DESKTOP LINUX HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE?
"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." | 
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