| Linux Today News WILL ORACLE CONTROL JAVA MORE TIGHTLY THAN SUN?
"Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle's control as it did under Sun Microsystems'? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question. " MR. EDISON�S KINDLE: FIFTEEN AMAZING GADGET IDEAS THAT WERE WAY, WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
"�The best way to predict the future is to invent it.� So said legendary tech visionary Alan Kay." PERSONAL FINANCES ON LINUX WITH KMYMONEY
"Linux has several excellent personal finance applications. Today we're going to look at KMyMoney. Though specifically developed with the KDE desktop in mind, KMyMoney works with any Linux desktop." MICROSOFT AND LINUX WILL NEVER BE "BEST BUDDIES"
"I just read an article called: Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies?" The article made me think of what it really would be like without Microsoft. I didn't like it. We need Microsoft..." LINUX FOUNDATION LAUNCHES FREE TRAINING TO MEET GROWING DEMAND FOR LINUX PROFESSIONALS
Also expands its Linux training program to offer new classes in new geographies for developers and sys admins HTML5 VIDEO AND H.264 – WHAT HISTORY TELLS US AND WHY WE’RE STANDING WITH THE WEB
"The fact that they are being so unabashedly hyped along with the new darling of the web – HTML5 – means that most people don’t understand that something very dangerous is taking place behind the scenes." 65 OPEN SOURCE DOWNLOADS THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE
"Can an open-source application really change your life? To find out, we went looking for apps that users described as "indispensable."" ITC JUDGE RULES AGAINST NVIDIA IN RAMBUS SUIT
"An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a preliminary ruling in favor of Rambus against graphics vendor nVidia in three of five patent infringement allegations." GROW YOUR OWN CLOUD SERVERS WITH UBUNTU
"Have you been wanting to fly to the cloud, to experiment with cloud computing? Now is your chance. With this article, we will step through the process of setting up a private cloud system using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is powered by the Eucalyptus platform." TOO MANY LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS?
"I had to deal with the "why are there so many Linux distributions? It's too confusing!" whinging again over the weekend. I've decided to succumb to the tide, and agree..." RED HAT LAUNCHES OPENSOURCE.COM COMMUNITY SITE
"Red Hat has just launched a new portal at opensource.com - for information and articles about open source. The site uses the Drupal open source content management system..." CHROME 4: KING OF THE WEB BROWSER HILL?
"Firefox 3.6 has just come out and it's great. There's only one problem. Google has released the new version of Chrome, version 4, and it's even better. " SOURCEFORGE BLOCKS IRAN, NORTH KOREA, SYRIA, SUDAN AND CUBA
"In a move that must surely strike at the very core of open source, FOSS, and the heart of GNU crusader Richard Stallman, SourceForge has now blocked all access from by countries on the U.S. 'Foreign Assets Control sanction list'." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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THE REPLICATOR, NO LONGER A STAR TREK DREAM
"Twenty years from now," he told a 2006 conference in Berkeley, "we'll have Star Trek replicators that can make anything." BACULA SURPASSES ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS
"Bacula Systems SA today celebrated a year of impressive growth as its Open Source enterprise backup solution passed the one million download milestone" MIDGARD2 9.09.2 "MJOLNIR" RELEASED
"The Midgard Project has released maintenance release of Midgard2 9.09 "Mjolnir" - second release of the new generation of the Midgard content repository." DEVELOPERS: IS PROGRAMMING A LUCRATIVE PROFESSION?
"A pamphlet distributed by blogger Cameron Laird's local high school proclaimed that 'Computer Science BS graduates can expect an annual salary from $54,000-$74,000. Starting salaries for MS and PhD graduates can be to up to $100,000' and 'employment of computer scientists is expected to grow by 24 percent from 2010 to 2018." CENTOS SERVER EVALUATION
"There are a number of popular choices for Linux enterprise level servers including CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware and others including Red Hat Enterprise. This series of articles on a choice for a Linux Server will compare several of these Linux distributions to examine the advantages and disadvantages of each distribution." IS YOUR PASSWORD AMONG THE 20 MOST POPULAR (AND HACKABLE)?
"For your reading amusement, here are the rest of the Top 20 Most Popular Passwords -- not a popularity list you want to be on." SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE GEEKOS!
"January 31st will be my last day with Novell. I've given it a great deal of thought, and decided that it's time to move on." DISK-O-TECH: LINUX DISK MANAGEMENT
"Are you bewildered by disk management in Linux? Don’t be. Here are the nuts and bolts of adding a new disk to your system." LINUX ON THE MOVE: THE FUTURE OF PORTABLE DISTROS
"Over the last 12 months, netbook and mobile Linux has made massive advances in features and install base. This is primarily thanks to two netbook distributions – Moblin and Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR)." YAHOO PAYS CANONICAL, NOW THEY'RE THE UBUNTU DEFAULT
"The second change is that Canonical is changing the default search engine for Firefox in Ubuntu to Yahoo." BEST SMARTPHONE FOR IT: BLACKBERRY VS. IPHONE VS. ANDROID
"Yet, in the worst economic climate since the Great Depression, the mobile market had one piece of encouraging news: smartphone adoption spiked." FENCING AND TOLLGATING THE INTERNET
"This story about yet another attempt to raise a tollgate on the Internet deserves having some extra attention called to it." FIVE *NIX MYTHS BUSTED
"Here are the five myths related to *nix systems that I hear most often when dealing with technical and non-technical people alike. You'd be surprised as to how often even the most technical people spout these myths to each other and to the unsuspecting and unknowledgeable bystander." WHAT SHOULD THE GNOME FOUNDATION ACCOMPLISH IN 2010?
"We've been working on the GNOME Foundation's goals for 2010. We distributed them for comment on the Foundation list. I've also created a quick survey if you want to show which goals you like." NOVELL UPDATES SUSE APPLIANCE TOOLKIT FOR ISVS
"With SUSE Studio, users are able to build their own software appliance with an application running on top of a SUSE Linux operating system. The market of Linux-based software appliance was originally pioneered by rival rPath." MAYBE INFORMATION REALLY DOESN'T WANT TO BE FREE
"Even at mighty Google, online advertising isn't the final answer." KDE GEARS UP TO A FREE CLOUD
"Day 2 of Camp KDE kicked off with a bang when Frank Karlitschek announced the start of a significant new KDE project. The ownCloud initiative will complement the Social Desktop and Get Hot New Stuff efforts which are already dealing with social and collaborative data" LINUX PERFORMANCE: IS LINUX BECOMING JUST TOO SLOW AND BLOATED?
"This is an aspect of FOSS that is regaining some measure of interest: for years, it was considered that writing production-ready FOSS meant lean and mean software. However, recent events have shown that, in the case of the Linux kernel, this is no longer exactly true: performance is dropping slowly yet steadily. How come?" 10 OLD-SCHOOL LINUX TOOLS I REFUSE TO LET GO OF
"I thought it would be fun to list 10 of these old-school Linux tools and then see what other people refuse to let go of (regardless of platform). Not only will it be a trip down memory lane for some users, it might show others a tool they hadn�t thought of that could solve a perplexing problem." ENNA � A NEW AND EXCITING LINUX MEDIA CENTER
"Although Boxee seemed the more obvious choice, it loses the high ground if you lack a decent internet connection. Just when I was about to give up hope, I heard about Enna � an incredible open source Linux media center, developed by the GeeXboX team, and ready for its first public release." OPENSUSE WEEKLY NEWS, ISSUE 107 IS OUT!
" Updated GNOME for openSUSE 11.2, and why it's good-- "Luis already unleashed the word: GNOME 2.28.2 will be released as an online update for openSUSE 11.2" THE FREE SOFTWARE WAY, BY RICHARD FONTANA, ESQ.
"Red Hat has a new website, opensource.com, where they intend to explore how open source affects more than just software, and they're publishing articles on open source in education, business, law, and government. And life. It's designed to be a community forum, one way to give back to the community, as expressed by Red Hat's CEO Jim Whitehurst in his welcoming article, and they hope you'll join in the conversation." THE FIGHT TO SAVE MYSQL: INTERVIEW WITH MONTY WIDENIUS
"According to Widenius, the Oracle acquisition will mean the eventual loss of MySQL as a first-class database without any adequate open source replacement." KDE 4.4 KREEPS KLOSER TO KOMPLETE
"The KDE team is getting very close to a final release of KDE 4.4. The second release candidate came out yesterday as a testing platform for users and developers to find and squash bugs before the final release date of February 9th." FAREWELL TO SOLARIS EXPRESS COMMUNITY EDITION
"...earlier this month Sun Microsystems put out their last bi-weekly build of SXCE and as of the end of this week all downloads will cease. OpenSolaris has superseded Solaris Express Community Edition, but with this article, we are taking one last look at Build 130, the final version of Solaris Express Community Edition." UBUNTU UNLEASHED 2010 EDITION REVIEW
"The Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition was updated with an Ubuntu 9.10 DVD and a �Free Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04″ which I found out that if you buy the book before the end of 2010 you can get an upgrade kit in the mail." IS UBUNTU CHEATING MOZILLA WITH YAHOO SEARCH DEAL?
"So Canonical will make money from Yahoo searches (really Microsoft now with Bing powering Yahoo search) to help fund their efforts." DOES UBUNTU NEED SERVER HARDWARE PARTNERS?
"But as I heard more about Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) in 2009, I realized Ubuntu in 2010 may find a back door into the server market. Here�s why." MICROSOFT-COMPATIBLE APIS IN MONO 2.4
"Mono is an open source project led by Novell to create a .NET-compatible set of tools that include, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows operating systems." LINUX MOTHERBOARD FOLLIES
"It all started with upgrading a CPU. It should have been a simple, inexpensive task, but it has taken on a life of its own, resulting in battles with warranty service and shopping for yet more new parts. Will the madness ever end?" KDE SOFTWARE COMPILATION 4.3.5 RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
"KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates" FORKING VS THREADING
"So, finally after long time, i am able to figure out the difference between forking and threading :)" THE IPAD IS POTENTIALLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, CULTURE-CHANGING PRODUCTS IN HISTORY!
Steve Jobs once again weaves his magic spell, and the world is all agog over the announcement of Apple's latest gadget, the iPad. At prices ranging from $499 to over $800, Mr. Jobs better have some powerful magic. Here are several news stories about this latest Apple product release. SIZE CAN MATTER: WOULD YOU PREFER THE HARD DRIVE OR THE RAMDISK THIS EVENING? PART 3
"The past couple of weeks we ran the numbers on metadata performance for ramdisks and hard drive-based journals for ext4. Now let�s compare/contrast the two journal devices and see what trends emerge." | 
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