| Linux Today News SHINY NEW WORDPRESS 2.9 HAS UNDO, IMAGE EDITING FEATURES
"WordPress 2.9 was released last week with several compelling improvements, including a built-in image editor." LINUX + MULTITOUCH DISPLAY = OPEN SOURCE 10 FINGERED GOODNESS
"Thinking about picking up one of those newfangled multitouch displays for your netbook, but holding off because you’re worried that there won’t be support for multitouch gestures under Linux? It looks like there’s nothing to worry about." THE ROLE OF WORST PRACTICES IN INSECURITY
"Deploy Best Practices in your organization, the advisors say, and your security will improve. That's true, as far as it goes, but often we can make more progress by working to eliminate Worst Practices." KDE 4 WINDOWS SWITCHING PREVIEW – OPENSUSE
"I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods which are:" MOZILLA MESSAGING BUILDING NEST FOR THUNDERBIRD 3.1
"Mozilla Messaging has published a proposed schedule for Thunderbird 3.1, the next release of the popular e-mail client. The organization is refining its development process and could potentially shift towards shorter release cycles and a more incremental approach to development." CANONICAL'S OPPORTUNITY TO SIMPLIFY UBUNTU
"Ubuntu has led the Linux community's efforts to improve on form, not simply function, and thereby make the Linux experience as good or better than Mac OS X in terms of usability. Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, the company set up to shepherd development and commercialization of Ubuntu, is the heart of that effort." GREAT AND DISAPPOINTING OPERATING SYSTEMS OF THE DECADE
"We loved them, we hated them, we nursed them in the wee hours..." 8 PRACTICAL USES FOR YOUR OLD LAPTOP
"Of course, you inevitably have to think about your old laptop, and what price you can sell it for on Craigslist. But before you dump an old laptop or retire it to the den of forgotten gadgets, here are eight practical ideas on how you can extend its life." MANAGE YOUR SECURE SHELL CONNECTIONS FROM THE GNOME PANEL
"One tool to help you manage your secure shell connections is the GNOME SSHmenu tool. This helpful application adds a small applet to the GNOME panel that allows you to make secure shell connections with a single click." ON “CUSTOM XML” (AND WHY NOBODY SHOULD CARE)
"I see that Microsoft lost an appeal in the “Custom XML” litigation, and may be forced to disable that functionality in Microsoft Office. This is a short backgrounder explaining what “Custom XML” is about, and why nobody should care." OLPC UNVEILS SLIMLINE TABLET PC
"The group behind the $100 laptop has revealed the design for its latest computer aimed at connecting children in the developing world." HOWTO: RESETTING "MOST USED APPLICATIONS" LIST IN KDE 3.X
"I'm sure from time to time each of you likes to reset their most used applications list in KDE. Especially if it's become the goto item for most of you legacy KDE users like myself. Well, before this I'm sure you've searched high and low to find a way to reset that, and ultimately come up with nothing." FINISHING UP THE COMES COLLECTION - PLEASE CAN YOU HELP?
"We are particularly interested in any materials that talk about Novell and to drill down even more in any materials about APIs and sharing, or not sharing them, with Novell. To review, this is particularly what Novell and Microsoft, locked in litigation over WordPerfect (next hearing on this in February), can't find:" VIM TIP: USING "PASTE" TO AVOID THE STAIRCASE EFFECT
"If you're working in Vim and paste something into the terminal, sometimes you'll get a "staircase" effect where each line is progressively spaced farther outward" Get Ready for Windows 7!
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MEEKS: SOME THOUGHTS ON COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT
"Michael Meeks's posting on copyright assignment is not a quick read, but it's worth the effort; this is a more thorough look at the issue than your editor has seen elsewhere." FULL REVIEW: NEXUIZ 2.5.2 - FREE FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER FOR LINUX
"Nexuiz is a free, GPL-licensed, first-person shooter developed online by the Internet-based team Alientrap, and it comes with ports for Linux, Windows and Mac." AN EARLY LOOK AT VLMC
"It is OK, if you don't know what is VLMC because it hasn't been released yet. VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a free video editing software, offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with the aim to stay simple and user-friendly." NEW LIFE FOR DEAD SOFTWARE
"If you yearn for the operating systems or arcade games of the past, and are willing to make the effort to bring them back to life, free and open source software is definitely the way to go" VIA'S LINUX TODO LIST... MAYBE LOOK FORWARD TO 2011?
"Nearly two years ago at the Linux Foundation Summit in Austin was VIA's most recent announcement about becoming serious with open-source support. This was not VIA's first time they claimed to back an open-source strategy, which led a number of open-source developers to immediately call VIA's open-source strategy a bluff." GETTING TO SAMBA 4
"The Samba 4 code has been worked on for over five years, and the Active Directory code is reaching a state where it's being run in production at several test sites. When the Samba Team met at the CIFS conference this year, we had a meeting to put together a plan for shipping a production Samba 4 code-base. Here's how we think it might work." FREE SOFTWARE, OPEN DATA GIVE MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO YOUNG KOSOVARS
"During summer of 2009 I received an invitation to explain how Free Software can help developing countries at SFK09, the first Software Freedom Conference in Kosova. Here is why and how, after SFK09, some people continue to propose "Free as in Freedom" digital technologies as an important tool to solve the serious problem of people in Kosova (or any other country, really)." NO WINDOWS!
"There was just no way I was going to get my step daughter a Windows netbook for Christmas. No way, no how. I couldn�t find a good way to articulate why, and so for a couple weeks I was just responding, �No Windows!� to my wife�s questions." 10 GREATEST OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OF 2009
"These are full-featured cross-platform softwares, free as in beer and speech. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2009." LCA 2010: GETTING DISTROS TO PLAY TOGETHER, NICELY
"For the second time in its 11-year history, Australia's national Linux conference (LCA) has a distro summit on its agenda. The last distro summit was held in 2008, when former Linux Australia president Jonathan Oxer was the organiser." CHINESE PIRATES LAUNCH WINDOWS XP CLONE BASED ON UBUNTU
"China is notorious for copying/cloning everything, now Chinese pirates hacked Ubuntu 9.10 to look exactly like Windows XP." DIGIKAM 1.1 SPLASH-SCREENS: CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS!
"Next digiKam 1.1 is planed for end of January 2010, as a bugfixes release, to consolidate code with users feedback after production using... So, time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam!" PANDORA GETS A HANDS-ON REVIEW
"The recent reports on Pandora�s case design and controls have been nothing short of glowing. It�s pretty satisfying information for the most part; there is no doubt that what we�re hearing from the team is genuine delight in what they�ve achieved. But the question has been asked � what would some guy off the street think of it?" A DECADE OF LINUX
"Let's take a look at this last decade and see how Linux made its journey from niche operating system to its current prominence." ALLOW REMOTE CONNECTIONS TO YOUR MYSQL SERVER
"Now, it�s time to see how you can extend that MySQL server to remote machines. Why would you want to do this?" GETTING CONNECTED: A HISTORY OF MODEMS
"Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a major role in the explosion of the internet. We're talking, of course, about modems." OPENMOKO'S WIKIREADER
"Openmoko, the company that first gained attention for its Linux-based phone platform, launched a new pocket-sized open source product in time for this holiday season, the WikiReader. The WikiReader is an inexpensive ($99), low-power, 4-inch square touchscreen LCD display device pre-loaded with the text of three million Wikipedia pages on a microSD card." 15 GAME-CHANGING LINUX MOMENTS OF THE DECADE
"If you were sat at your Linux computer one dark evening in late 1999, things would have been considerably different." MIGUEL DI ICAZA REMOVES ALL GPL CODE FROM MONODEVELOP
"A couple of weeks ago (Dec 12, 2009 to be exact) Miguel di Icaza made a bold move and pulled all GPL code out of MonoDevelop, replacing it with LGPL Of course the open source community had a lot to say about this." FIX SLOW BROWSING — AND MORE — WITH OPENDNS
"Switching your business over to the independent DNS service provider OpenDNS, on the other hand, can make Internet access a bit speedier and safer for everyone on your network, as well as provide added features like content filtering so you can determine which Web sites your employees can and can’t visit." GOOGLE CHROME REVIEW ON LINUX
"I would like to share with you my short experience with Google Chrome on openSUSE 11.2. Although it is in a beta stage, it is stable and fast." | 
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