| Linux Today News ANDROID AND THE LINUX KERNEL COMMUNITY (ANDROID CODE REMOVED FROM KERNEL)
"As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I'm starting to get a lot of questions about what happened, and what to do next with regards to Android. So here's my opinion on the whole matter..." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE LINUX SWITCHOVER SET FOR SEPTEMBER
"The London Stock Exchange will switch on the first module of its Linux and Unix-based trading platform in September, replacing existing Microsoft .Net architecture." CRAFTING DIGITAL MEDIA: A BOOK REVIEW
"I don't usually write book reviews, but this one is special. My friend and colleague Daniel James has written an introduction to the world of media production with Linux, or as the subtitle describes it, "A manual for creative media on a modest budget"." TPC BENCHMARKS NOW MEASURE SERVER POWER USE
"The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced its newest specification, TPC-Energy, which measures the energy usage of a server to gauge not only transactions per second but transactions per watt as well." IS ANDROID FORKING FROM LINUX?
"Which brings up this unpleasant question: did Android just become a fork from Linux? And, if it did, what might that mean?" F-SPOT: AN ABLE-BODIED ALL-IN-ONE IMAGE MACHINE
"No image editing and organizing application is perfect, but F-Spot can be a solid choice to manage your photo collection." OPTIMISE YOUR LAPTOP'S BATTERY LIFE WITH LINUX
"Squeeze the last drop of power from your meagre laptop battery with our guide to streamlining your Linux-based operating system" ARM: OUR NETBOOKS WILL FLY WITH OR WITHOUT WINDOWS
"ARM chief executive Warren East has claimed that netbooks could swallow 90% of the PC market, in an exclusive interview with PC Pro." AN INTRODUCTION TO XML
"An Introduction to XML provides students and entry-level professionals with demonstrations of the basics of learning XML, covering topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, RSS, Web Services and managing XML data. These short Web-based video modules provide clear examples of XML as well as references to popular Web sites that use XML." THE BOYCOTT (VIMEO)
"We fully support Ogg/Theora as an upload format. As for playback, the likeliness of that happening is close to zero at the moment." JANE SILBER INTERVIEW
"This Ubuntu Women interview in the Women of Ubuntu Series is with Jane Silber, the current Canonical COO, but as of March 1st, 2010, she will be taking the reins of Canonical as the CEO." WHAT'S JAVA'S FUTURE?
"With all of the screaming about the fate of MySQL under Oracle's thumb, there's been far less discussion about a much more important software project now under their control: Java." CODESION EMERGES FROM CVS
"There was a time when CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) dominated the open source, software-version-control landscape, but no more." GOOGLE ISSUES NEXUS ONE SOFTWARE UPDATE
"Over-the-air update adds new features to Google's first branded mobile phone and addresses some of its problems." CONFIGURE OR REMOVE ETAGS IN APACHE/HTTP
"ETag is a validator which can be used instead of, or in addition to, the Last-Modified header. By sending a ETag, the server promises that the content is not changed until the ETag changes for a specific resource." WEEKLY TEN: RED HAT'S OPEN THOUGHTS, VBOXHEADLESS, BITTORRENT 99% ILLEGAL
"BitTorrent has plenty of practical and legal uses, but sadly, if you're one of the millions of people using it, you're probably breaking the law." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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SIZE CAN MATTER: THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE WITH A DISK-BASED JOURNAL - PART 4
"Turning from Metadata performance to throughput performance, we examines the impact of journal size on ext4 when the journal is disk-based. Dig into the numbers and see what you can do to improve throughput performance." AUTOMATING SSH LOGINS (WITHOUT KEYS) WITH 'EXPECT'
"You need to automate a task across many machines...Well, not to give up hope just yet, because there is a nice little tool that is extremely powerful, yet not widely utilized. it's called 'expect'." LINUS TORVALDS IS LISTED AMONGST “THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME”
"Linus Torvalds is listed amongst “The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time”" TEN MORE ESSENTIAL PYTHON TIPS
"Following on from the popularity of our Ten essential Python tips for beginners article, we’ve compiled a further collection of ten gems to make your Python experience that much more worthwhile..." MANAGING SOUND IN UBUNTU 9.10
"In this tutorial I will show you which tools to use to help troubleshoot sound on your Ubuntu-based machine as well as make that sound sound as good as possible. This article will focus not only on Ubuntu but GNOME as well." WHY UBUNTU SERVER INSTALLATIONS WILL SURGE IN 2010
"While desktop Ubuntu shines as the leader among Linux distributions, with analysts estimating their share up to 95 percent of the Linux desktop market, Ubuntu's server version lags." TWO NIFTY FEATURES IN DIGIKAM 1.1.0
"Hot on the heels of digiKam 1.0, Gilles Caulier announced the 1.1.0 release of the popular open source photo management application. While the main focus in version 1.0 was on squashing bugs, the new release of digiKam does sport a couple of new nifty features and improvements." THE TOP 7 BEST LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS FOR YOU
"There are various approaches to answering this question. The broad answer is: "any of them," but that's not very helpful if you're just looking for a place to start." NOKIA N900 LINUX TABLET REVIEWED
"Nokia’s N900 is not a phone, OK. Well, it is a phone, in that it has a SIM slot, and you can use it to make voice calls. And it supports HSDPA and has a front facing camera so you can make video calls. But actually it is more a mini computer than a mobile phone." KUHN: I THINK I JUST GOT PATENTED
"Indeed, the process described is so simple-minded, that it's a waste of time in my view to spend time writing a software system to do it." CODEPLEX FOUNDATION PICKS PAULA HUNTER AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
"As you may recall, the CodePlex Foundation indicated in January that it expected to name a permanent Executive Director within a few weeks' time. That has now happened..." SAVE "SITA SINGS THE BLUES" FROM THE FLASH FORMAT: CAN YOU CONVERT FLA?
"There’s only one sad thing about this for free software fans, and that’s that “Sita” was made using proprietary software, and the “source code” is in a proprietary format: Adobe Flash’s “FLA” format, to be precise. Paley has posted these files on the Internet Archive, but she doesn’t know how to translate them into any free software friendly format (and neither do I). Can you help?" HOW TO CONFIGURE MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE STORAGE SPACE FOR DEBIAN GNU / LINUX ON IBM
"The IBM DS 8300 Data Storage Systems are multi millions dollars flexible high availability and performance SAN machines. But you may left much of such performance and availability behind if you do not configure then correctly for Debian GNU / Linux." LINUX UPGRADES THE EASY WAY
"I've been re-assembling my office-all 28 computers of it. I decided to update an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop to Ubuntu 9.10 and an openSUSE server from openSUSE 11.1 to openSUSE 11.2. " THE GREATEST KDE DISTRO EVER: AN EARLY LOOK AT OPENSUSE 11.3
"This week the first milestone release of openSUSE was made available. Together with the KDE 4.4 release candidate and excellent integration of GTK applications such as Firefox, openSUSE simply provides the greatest KDE experience available to date. Here�s why." HANDS-ON: NEW SINGLE-WINDOW MODE MAKES GIMP LESS GIMPY
"The venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will introduce an improved user interface with an optional single-window mode." 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." | 
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