| Linux Today News LINUX AGAINST POVERTY 2010 IS A GO...
"First, we have made the move to our new location in Lakeway Texas. Lakeway is a small community about 30 minutes drive from my home and sits on Lake Travis. It gives us not only room to work but room to grow...and that's a good thing." KDE 4.4 BETA: INCREMENTAL DOESN'T MEAN DIRECTIONLESS
"Incremental releases for large projects are often grab bags of unrelated features. However, KDE SC 4.4 beta 1 (aka KDE 4.3.80) is a welcome exception to the rule." THUNDERBIRD IS GO!
"But, then Mozilla put Thunderbird on the back burner to focus its attention on Firefox, and, frankly, Thunderbird slowly aged into a second-rate e-mail client. Now, at long last, a new, and vastly improved version of Thunderbird has just been released, and, let me tell you, it's back to being great." AMAZING ANDROID APPS - TEXT EDIT
"One of the tools I needed was a text editor, because, let's face it, with a "mini computer" in your pocket you'll need a way of creating and editing text files. After testing several text editors I found that Text Edit was the best." MAKE YOUR OWN HOLIDAY CARDS WITH GIMP
"It's the holiday season! Regardless of which holidays you celebrate, it's a good time to connect with relatives and absent friends. GIMP is a great tool for creating your own custom holiday cards; Akkana Peck shows how to do this using your own images." MANDRIVA: THE CHOICE OF A NEW(BIE) GENERATION?
"Mandriva is a long surviving Linux distribution, often touted as the best for new users. Is this really so? With an ever changing game, will Mandriva�s methods last long term?" GOOGLE CHROME 4.0 BETA FOR LINUX ARRIVES
"Just in time for holidays, the wonderful developers at Google announced a few minutes ago that the Chrome browser for Linux is finally in a beta state and has been added on the official Chrome website for download!" TECH TIP: ADD LATITUDE/LONGITUDE INFORMATION TO PHOTOS
"Since my camera doesn't have built in GPS support, I wrote this script to add the location information to the pictures when they are on the computer already." HEALTH CHECK: RED HAT - THIS YEAR'S MODEL
"Red Hat has long been the poster child of Linux and open source, the distribution that has been there since the beginning, grew up right, got all the luck, usually made the right decisions, and fetched up on top of the pile." GOOGLE REVS WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH OPEN SOURCE GWT 2.0
"Key to Google's Web application development effort is its Google Web Tools (GWT) applications, which became open source in 2006. This week, Google debuted GWT 2.0, which provides new developer workflow improvements as well performance enhancements." FEDORA SWITCHING FROM CVS TO GIT
"Package source control for Fedora has relied upon CVS since the inception of this Red Hat Linux distribution, but it's soon going to switch over to using Git instead." IBM INTRODUCES NEW SYSTEM Z LINUX SOLUTIONS FOR LARGE-SCALE CONSOLIDATION AND SAVINGS
With 1,300 Linux customers, IBM is responding to strong customer appetite for running Linux on System z with a fully dedicated, standalone Linux server. LINUX KERNEL VULNERABILITIES CLOSED
"Several Linux distributors are releasing updated kernel packages to close security holes in the kernel." YET MORE MALWARE FOUND ON GNOME-LOOK
"Yesterday we were the first to bring you the news about malware being targeted at Ubuntu users, and today, sadly, another malicious file was uploaded to gnome-look, this time masquerading as a theme called 'Ninja'." LOOKING FOR NEWBIES THAT WANT TO LEARN PYTHON
"This is a Python tutorial that tries to touch on most areas of the Python language, but attempts to be very simple so that people who have never done any sort of programming can grasp it." MY REACTION TO ERIC SCHMIDT
"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control." DRBD AND MYSQL - EXCELLENT LOW-COST HA SOLUTION
"DRBD is a Linux project to provide a real-time distributed filesystem. Although it has some clustering support, it's not really a true clustered filesystem like OCFS2 or GFS2. What it provides is a mirrored copy of a block device across a network" Get Ready for Windows 7!
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HOW TO CONFIGURE COMPIZ FUSION IN UBUNTU 9.10(KARMIC)
"In order to make life easy, let us go through a few pre-flight checks to ensure all is well once we enable Compiz/Desktop Effects and start using it." THE MALWARE PROBLEM (AND A SOLUTION)
"Some of you might have heard about the Malware incident that recently has hit our friends from gnome-look.org... Noone could tell until it's too late." IF IT LOOKS, ACTS AND SMELLS BROWN THEN IT MUST BE.
"I am a big believer in that people are defined not by what they say but by what they do. If a person talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk then what they say, according to me, holds as much water as a vegetable strainer." #61 JAZZ, JAZZ STANDARDS, AND OPEN SOURCE
"But that only leads us to a different mystery: what did all the software programmers do before there was software to program?...He gave me a pitying look, and stated what to him was obvious: "They were car mechanics and jazz musicians." MONO AND C# 4.0
"I am very happy to announce that the Mono C# compiler is now C# 4.0 feature complete." THE PERFECT DESKTOP - OPENSUSE 11.2 (GNOME)
"This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.2 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops." GEAR6 EXPANDS MEMCACHED TO THE CLOUD
"Memcached, the open source distributed memory-based object caching system that enables Web 2.0 application to scale in order to meet the needs of highly traffic production usage, is headed to the cloud thanks to commercial IT services vendor Gear6." THE X86 INSTRUCTION PROPRIETARY EXTENSIONS: A WASTE OF TIME, MONEY AND ENERGY
"Agner Fog, a Danish expert in software optimization is making a plea for an open and standarized procedure for x86 instruction set extensions. Af first sight, this may seem a discussion that does not concern most of us." UBUNTU LUCID TO GET WINDOWS AERO STYLE LOOK THANKS TO ENHANCED GTK+
"Lucid may not be getting a new GTK theme but it will still be getting an entirely new look." PROJECT RENAISSANCE IMPRESS IMPROVEMENTS - FOUND THE REQUIRED SLIDE LAYOUT YET?
"As indicated in the previous posts, we have started to redesign a few really basic interactions in OpenOffice.org Impress in order to reduce the overall complexity of the UI. Currently, we focus on navigation through slides in various contexts, the visual appearance of different slide selection states and the handling of slide layouts." GOOGLE DNS: THE GIANT PUTS ONE FINGER ON YOUR PULSE
"From web search to mail to operating systems to applications in the cloud, Google is slowly making its way into nearly every aspect of public life online." IBM: MANAGE DATA LIKE CASH
"IBM today released a report tracking the effective use of business analytics at successful businesses. The report, "Breaking away with business analytics and optimization," said that all businesses can differentiate their performance by analyzing data better and by delivering insight to decision makers at all levels of an organization." STREAMING WILL NEVER STOP DOWNLOADING
"Far from being a cure for the industry's woes, substituting streams for downloads wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy and slows innovation" FRENCH MILITARY CONTRIBUTES TO THUNDERBIRD
"A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source -- the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook." 10 YEARS GONE: THE VA LINUX SYSTEMS IPO
"Ten years ago today, shares of LNUX, the Nasdaq symbol for VA Linux Systems, went on sale to the eagerly awaiting public." 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." | 
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