| Linux Today News TECHNOLOGY CHANGES 'OUTSTRIP' NETBOOKS
"Rising prices and better alternatives may mean curtains for netbooks." REVIEW: ASTAK 5" EASY READER PRO
"As an emerging sci-fi novelist (see my books here), I've actually been taking a vested interest in Ebooks of late. Of course, I've also been taking interest in them from the perspective that they've become yet another battleground in the widening war of media freedom, an important theater in the much larger war of user freedom." CALL FOR SPEAKERS FOR OPEN SOURCE DAYS 2010 @COPENHAGEN, MARCH 5+6
Open Source Days is the largest general Linux/BSD/Open Source conference in Denmark. We started in 1998 with Linux98, continued with LinuxForum - and in 2008 renamed the successful conference to Open Source Days. OPEN SOURCE PREDICTIONS FOR 2010
"Is it really almost 2010? The first decade of 2k is nearly at an end, a decade that has been quite prosperous for the Linux operating system." WHAT LIES AT THE HEART OF "AVATAR"?
"Oh, look: Linux. Why am I not surprised...?" LINUX AND WINDOWS PEOPLE ARE THE SAME
"There is a common belief propagated around the web that Linux users are a different breed of people than windows users." MOTOROLA TO DEBUT TWO ANDROID PHONES AT CES?
"Motorola is believed to be preparing two new Android-based cell phones for introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week, according to a market analyst." STILL LIVIN' LA VIDA LINUX
"It's been over a year since I wrote about my conversion to a Linux based digital media environment, and since it's the holiday season (or just after) I thought it was time to update the story, and describe some new Linux based devices I'm using that others might find useful" WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2010
"The coming year should be a good one for free software. Desktop environments are maturing, technology is improving. A lot of the ground work done in many areas over the past twelve months should propel free software further." GETTING STARTED WITH ARCH LINUX
"As a Linux distro addict, I�ve heard of Arch many times over the years but for some reason, I�d never actually given it a shot. In particular, one aspect that�s always interested me has been Arch�s homegrown package management system, pacman. Today we�ll be finding out what Arch is all about, how to use it, and what makes it special." RISKS FOR ITALIAN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN GOVERNMENT/MICROSOFT DEAL
"What would you do if a teacher tried to teach your children to write only with one brand and model of pens or pencils, "because that's what everybody uses"? Would you laugh in his face and immediately ask he's suspended from teaching or would you let him continue?" 2009: A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR FOR MOBILE LINUX
"In 2009, mobile consumer devices including netbooks, e-readers, tablets, MIDs, PMPs, and mobile phones were increasingly dominated by embedded Linux or the Linux-based Android." LEARNING IS CHILDSPLAY
"After I finished my recent articles on Teaching with Tux and Learning with Gcompris, I received a couple of suggestions from readers that I take a look at Childsplay. I spent some time looking at Childsplay and if you have small children, I think you should too." ARCH VS. SLACKWARE, A FRIENDLY COMPARISON
"They are the relative newcomer Arch Linux (created in 2002) and venerable battle-tested Slackware Linux (created in 1993 and currently the oldest actively-maintained Linux distro�kids who were born when Slackware was released are driving cars today)." SPAMASSASSIN WHITELISTS
"Once you have set up Spamassassin so it is working and you have run it for some time you may want to tune it to provide automatic whitelists and blacklists. The whitelist will provide a way to insure that the mail from a particular source will never get rejected" CALDERA GPLD ITS BRAINS OUT - WANT TO SEE?
"Would you like to see some places where Caldera has copyright notices in Linux on code it contributed under the GPL, and you're frustrated because some of us have Caldera CDs and you don't? Just go to Google code search and search for license:gpl "caldera.com"" FILELIGHT: WHERE MY DISK SPACE HAS GONE?
"One task that every one should do it is deleting useless files. If you do not, you will run out of disk space inevitably. Then, you will wonder where my disk space has gone?" THE ONGOING MYSQL CAMPAIGN
"If the deal is approved based on the fact that 'MySQL can be forked', that will be a big blow to open source Software." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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BROADCOM RELEASES LINUX DRIVERS FOR THEIR CRYSTAL HD VIDEO DECODER
"Broadcom has released Linux drivers for the Crystal HD video decoder accelerator card. This card can be put into a netbook to enable HD video playback." ONE MONTH OF MONITORING THE LINUX KERNEL PERFORMANCE
"For those that may have forgot, at the start of December we launched the Phoronix Kernel Test Farm to begin benchmarking the Linux kernel on a daily basis using the automated tools that we provide via the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoromatic." PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY: JANUARY 1, 2010
"What is entering the public domain in the United States? Sadly, we will have nothing to celebrate this January 1st." PRETZEL COMPANY'S OWNERS ALLEGE TAX LAWYER GOT LOST IN TWISTS OF IP LAW
"That's the nub of a malpractice suit by former clients, the owners of a pretzel business who say the Philadelphia lawyer's inexperience cost them lots of dough -- $100 million's worth." FALLON�S GETTING A DELL!
"There were already two computers in our kitchen but that wasn�t enough for Fallon, age three, who needs his daily fix of YouTube Scooby-Doo clips." OVERVIEW OF ALL PINEVIEW ATOM BASED MOTHERBOARDS
"The market for low power draw (below 20 Watts), passively cooled, small form factor motherboards was until recently dominated by rather expensive VIA boards and to a smaller extent AMD (with the Geode)." WHAT'S NEW IN KDE SC 4.4 WITH VIDEOS !
"In this post, I will try to collect all the videos which talk about next KDE SC version. KDE SC 4.4 will be released on February 9th, 2010." SIX OFFICE ALTERNATIVES
"In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over their money to Microsoft there are still many great alternatives" AMD MARKS ENTRY INTO LENOVO THINKPADS
"Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors will soon be available in two upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad models, breaking Intel's longtime monopoly on the notebook line." SIDUX 2009-04 BRINGS KDE SC 4.3.4 AND LINUX KERNEL 2.6.32.2
" On the last day of 2009, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann uploaded and released the latest version of the sidux Linux-based operating system (codename "Moros")." SCO'S IP RIGHTS AFTER DISTRIBUTING UNITEDLINUX UNDER THE GPL
"You can't distribute your code under a license that allows recipients to copy, modify, and distribute and then sue them for doing those things." EYEWITNESS REPORTS FROM THE SCO BANKRUPTCY HEARING ON SUSE'S MOTION TO LIFT STAY - UPDATED 2XS
"I have now the notes from our own reporters at the hearing in the SCO bankruptcy today. And I have to say, it's looking good for SUSE, judging from MikeD's notes. I think these notes also clarify what SCO's problem is." DRBD AND MYSQL - VIRTUALBOX SETUP
"DRBD is a Linux project to provide a real time distributed filesystem. Part two of this series will dig deep into a real-world installation example. We'll use Sun's virtualbox software to create a couple of VMs, then configure those VMs with DRBD, and finally install and test MySQL running on volumes sitting on DRBD." I/O BOTTLENECKS: BIGGEST THREAT TO DATA STORAGE
"Data storage has become the weak link in enterprise applications, and without a concerted effort on the part of storage vendors, the technology is in danger of becoming irrelevant" FREESCALE UNVEILS A SMARTBOOK TABLET RUNNING ANDROID AND LINUX AT CES 2010
"The Freescale Tablet is intended to enable a second generation of smartbook products with prices less than $200 and featuring form factors that fully leverage the power, performance and functionality advantages of ARM processor technology." CHROME: LINUX'S BEST WEB BROWSER?
"Up until now though I've stuck with Firefox on Linux, but now that Chrome is available as a beta on Linux, I'm being tempted to switch." MONTY STILL TRYING TO "SAVE" MYSQL
"What Widenius and (oddly) Richard Stallman seem to be arguing is that MySQL must not only be a successful FLOSS project, but a successful proprietary business venture as well." LOAD TACKLING IN CPANEL SERVERS
"As we all know, server stability is directly dependent on server load. Based on my experience as an Linux Server Administrator in Cpanel servers, I am writing this article to share some of my ideas regarding load tackling." MOVE OVER BOXEEBOX, HERE COMES POPBOX!
"Following closely on the heels of the December announcement of D-Link�s BoxeeBox, Syabas Technology today said it will ship a $129 Internet-based A/V streaming set-top box (STB) in March. Both new gadgets have the potential to give Roku�s popular Netflix-streaming STB a run for its money." | 
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