| Linux Today News SUN CEO SCHWARTZ RESIGNS ON TWITTER
"Jonathan Schwartz announced his resignation as CEO of Sun Microsystems in a message sent via Twitter early Thursday." FRESH VERSION OF LINUX MINT OFFERS TWEAKS AND UPDATES
"When we last reviewed Linux Mint, it received high marks for usability and productivity. Does the new release also rate highly? Paul Ferrill takes it for a test drive to find out." USPTO WON'T ACCEPT UPSIDE DOWN FAXES; DEMANDS RESENDS
"I know, the headline seems like a joke. After all, what do you do if someone inadvertently fed a page upside down into the fax machine? You simply turn the page over over..." PHASE CHANGE MEMORY: THE NEXT BIG THING IN DATA STORAGE?
"Phase change memory (PCM) — an emerging non-volatile technology pioneered by Intel, Numonyx, Samsung and others — could turn out to be a low-cost, more reliable, faster, and just plain better alternative to flash memory" SYMBIAN OS GOES OPEN SOURCE
"Symbian has annouced that it has completed the migration of its entire platform to open source. The move, which was completed four months ahead of schedule, now makes billions of dollars of code available to developers for free" HACKING FOR FUN AND PROFIT IN CHINA’S UNDERWORL
“Microsoft and Adobe have a lot of zero days,” he said, while scanning Web sites at home. “But we don’t publish them. We want to save them so that some day we can use them.” APACHE 1.3 HITS END OF LIFE AT 42 (DON'T PANIC!)
"As of today the Apache 1.3 HTTP Server is at its official End of Life with its 1.3.42 release, eight years after its successor Apache 2 debuted." GNOBSD - KILLED BY GUI-IS-FOR-WIMPS HACKER CULTURE
"Stefan Rinkes, a big fan of OpenBSD, had decided to make an effort and create something that is now common in the Linux world, but which had not been done in OpenBSD - an OpenBSD-based live DVD with automatic hardware detection which would boot into a popular graphical desktop and which would also have a point-and-click graphical system installer. The result was a "distribution" called GNOBSD." LINUX NEWBIE : WHY GREP ALMOST NEVER YIELDS SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE
"Every Linux newbie hears about power of grep sooner or later. But no sooner does newbie try to the grep command the experiment ends badly." NOKIA GOES EVEN MORE OPEN SOURCE, OPENS SYMBIAN
"Nokia, the new steward of Qt, and Linux kernel contributor, says it has has completed the largest transition from proprietary code to open source in software history." IFREETABLET: THE GNU/LINUX ANSWER TO THE IPAD
"Given the fierce competition in the market of the tablets where all the big companies in the sector: Apple, Google and Microsoft have an alternative in the market or in development, a Spanish company presents after Apple a cheapest option, based on free software." HTML VS. FLASH: CAN A TURF WAR BE AVOIDED?
"A difference of opinion among developers has become a high-profile debate over the future of the Web: should programmers continue using Adobe Systems' Flash or embrace newer Web technology instead?" SCO AND NOVELL FILE PROPOSED WITNESS LISTS. AGAIN. - UPDATED 2XS
"SCO expects to present its SCOsource announcement and some Novell memoranda from 1995, the SunSoft and Prentice-Hall (if you can believe it) letters from 1996, one to Microsoft from 1996, which I don't remember seeing, "IBM, Linux and You", and "all declarations the parties have filed in this case and all exhibits to those declarations." CODE IT THE GOOGLE WAY
"Google never seems to just be satisfied with the status quo, and when they run out of fields to compete in they create their own! Google�s new �Go� programming language is one of their newest ventures, a language which is an amalgamation of Python and C++." ORG-MODE IN YOUR POCKET IS A GNU-SHAPED DEVIL
"If the iPhone has helped me accomplish one thing, it has probably been to make it easier for me to stay away from Emacs." HEALTH CHECK: FREEBSD - "THE UNKNOWN GIANT"
"FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple's OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the Web, including Hotmail, Netcraft and Yahoo!, which before the rise of Google was the busiest site on the internet." THE LATEST, GREATEST, SCARIEST, AND THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION
"And yes, I'm just the sort of person who likes to mess with Alphas, so I downloaded the Kubuntu and Ubuntu versions, for the sheer unparalleled joy of seeing what's new under the hood. The big news is no more HAL..." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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ARM WILL FLY WITHOUT WINDOWS? THEN BRING IT ON!
"He goes on about how ARM will succeed with or without Windows (not ME) supporting it once it starts being pumped into markets in the shape of a new architecture for netbooks." MOZILLA SPONSORS GNOME ACCESSIBILITY EFFORTS
"The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce a substantial donation from the Mozilla Corporation to benefit the GNOME Project's accessibility efforts. The donation will help continue the collaborative efforts between GNOME and Mozilla on Accessibility. " LYX – EASY LATEX WITHOUT SPELL CHECK
"Of course some people just don’t like to learn, and this is why we have Lyx – an editor that gives you a lot of the nice features of LaTex without any of the hassle." WORDPRESS FOR ANDROID - A BLOGGER'S DREAM APP
"Android devices will now allow users to post articles on their Wordpress blogs through the newly released Wordpress for Android app." INTEL CLARKDALE LINUX GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE
"Last week we delivered our first Linux benchmarks of Intel's Core i3 Clarkdale processor with a variety of computational tests through the Phoronix Test Suite. While the Core i3 packs a nice performance punch, that is not all it has to offer." SLIGHT INCREASE IN IT SALARIES A RAY OF HOPE
"IT salaries appear to be on the rise, but don't get too excited. According to the just-released Computer Economics 2010 IT Salary Report, IT organizations are budgeting to give the typical IT worker a 1.8 percent pay boost." HOW TO BACK UP MYSQL DATABASES WITH MYLVMBACKUP ON DEBIAN LENNY
"mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so." MORE RELIABILITY PROBLEMS AT SKYPE
"It seems there was another round of connectivity/reliability problems at Skype this past weekend. From their own Heartbeat Blog:" GET FULL VERSIONS OF WEBSITES ON AN ANDROID PHONE
"Many websites use the user agent identification string to decide which type of content will be served to the client. This is why you may see a smaller version of a website on a mobile phone and a larger version of the same website on a desktop computer." UBUNTU GLOBAL JAM: SHOULD CUSTOMERS JOIN IN?
"Canonical and the Ubuntu community are busy polishing Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), a major upgrade set to debut in April 2010. But before the new Linux distribution arrives, the Ubuntu community will host an Ubuntu Global Jam from March 26 to March 28." MYSQL FOUNDER MONTY WIDENIUS ON WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT
"With the Sun acquisition going forward, we reached out to Monty for an interview and he was kind enough to share his thoughts with us. In this two-part interview he speaks candidly about MySQL and Sun..." INTEL PREVIEWS DEEP DIVES ON CPU TECHNOLOGIES
"The International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is not a show for the casual technology enthusiast or mere mortals with less than a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. They don't simplify the topics for easy, mass consumption. It's a forum for serious engineering discussions and it's up to you to keep up." MICROSOFT�S CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
"At worst, you can say it�s a highly repentant, largely accidental monopolist." DISAPPOINTED (SO FAR) BY IMPACTS ON FREE SOFTWARE OF ITALIAN OPEN LEGISLATION EXPERIMENT
"In may 2009 I announced on the P2P Foundation blog what I believe is the first collaborative law writing experiment in Italy: "Two senators of the Italian Democratic party, Vincenzo Vita and Luigi Vimercati, have written a law proposal which defends Net Neutrality and promotes non proprietary formats and software in public administrations and Universities"" TODAY, DELAYED GPU SWITCHING COMES TO LINUX
"Two days ago we reported on hybrid graphics coming to Linux in a crude form that allowed switching between graphics processors on notebook computers that utilize dual graphics processors, one that's meant to deliver the best energy efficient performance while the other GPU is for maximizing the graphics performance in demanding environments" CAN YOU TRUST CHINESE COMPUTER EQUIPMENT?
"China may not only be breaking into Google's network, but giving people deliberately bugged technology gear. Can we trust any technology that comes from China?" THE LINUX COMMUNITY - BRINGIN' IT...
"I don't know if you realize it or not, but you are doing some pretty good things. It took me a while to grasp it...this "global community" thing. It took longer than it should have." TECH COMICS: "DEVELOPMENT KICK-OFF MEETING"
"THIS time we'll write tests for each and every line of code." GOOGLE CHROME OS TABLET DEMO VIDEO LIKE A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
"With the Apple iPad buzz going around, there can't be a better time to demonstrate the 'tablet' implications of Google Chrome OS." BUYING GUIDE: ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
"If you’re reading this article, chances are you don’t need to be convinced about the importance of anti-virus software. But since the “Do I really need it?” question does frequently come up, let’s address it right off the bat." THE LINUX FOUNDATION'S 2010 WE'RE LINUX VIDEO CONTEST: THE LINUX SUPER BOWL AD
"This year we want to up the game and uncover more talent. What if the Linux community had its own ad running during the Super Bowl? How would you convey the power of Linux in a 30 � 60 video spot that would air during the big game?" FROM ALFRESCO TO CANONICAL
"After more than four years at Alfresco, I have joined Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, as its chief operating officer." WHY YOU'LL USE A TABLET. YES YOU!
"But I'm going to make an even bolder prediction. I'm going to predict that you, personally, will be using a tablet within 18 months." X2 LAUNCHES ITABLET FOR WINDOWS AND LINUX
"X2 Technology has capitalised on Apple's decision not to call its tablet the iTablet. Its X2 iTablet will run Windows or Linux and support Flash." | 
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