| Linux Today News WEEKEND PROJECT: LINUX FILESYSTEM TUNE-UP
"If the thought of getting up at 3AM on "Black Friday" and dragging yourself across town to stand in line for sales doesn't fill you with the holiday spirit, why not spend your weekend doing something more meaningful, like cleaning up your Linux filesystems?" SEVEN IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED IN KDE
"I use it about two-thirds of the time, with the rest of my desktop usage divided between GNOME, Xfce, and occasionally other desktops like LXDE. You could call me a generally happy user -- but, as with any desktop not designed for me personally, KDE has one or two quirks or deficiencies that make my computing less than ideal." LINUX RADIO : BROADCASTING THE LINUX KERNEL, ONE SOURCE FILE AT A TIME!
Listen to the listen kernel. FACEBOOK LOOKS TO TRADEMARK THE WORD 'FACE'
"The social networking giant Facebook is a few steps away from trademarking the word face, online documents reveal." DRBD, RAID-1 THROUGH THE NET
"You may need to have information replicated between two computers that actually are part of a cluster, in addition to?software? replica mechanisms such as Rsync you can use a product that is stable and included in the standard kernel: DRBD." YES, NOVELL OWNS UNIX
"Novell is selling over 800 patents to Microsoft, but not their Unix copyrights." HOW A "WELDED-TO KDE 3.5 USER" BEGAN A MOVE TO KDE 4.4 - PART 2
"In this second part of a two part guest editorial and tutorial Dr. Tony Young (an Australian Mycologist by trade) shares his trials, tribulations, successes and disappointments in working with the new version of KDE. In this installment he configures media players, K3b, Crossover Office, Lucid and Post Script and his final thoughts on his adventures." TRIAGING A TRIO
"A little while back I did a rapid-fire review of three distributions in one set. A few readers e-mailed to ask if I would do this again with new projects and this seemed like a good time to honour those requests. I grabbed three distributions which had recently been added to the DistroWatch waiting list and gave them each a one-day test run. Here are my first impressions of these projects in no particular order." HANDS-ON: A FIRST LOOK AT DIASPORA'S PRIVATE ALPHA TEST
"The Diaspora project has launched a private alpha test of its open source social network. It is opening up its own hosted instance of Diaspora to a select group of testers, starting with people who contributed financial support when Diaspora was first getting off the ground." CREATING CUSTOM STYLES AND FORMATTING IN OPENOFFICE.ORG AND LIBREOFFICE
"If you are a user of OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice you might be familiar with styles and formatting. These are pre-defined text formats that you can select from in order to change various aspects of your text." NEW LINUX USER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING YOUR FILES
"When we install computers for our kids at The HeliOS Project, one of the main sources of confusion is the differences between Windows and Linux file systems." PATENT SKULLDUGGERY: TANDBERG RIPS OFF X264 ALGORITHM
"The situation just got worse. We now have a company scraping open source commit logs and patenting them." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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TESTING RAIDPYCOVERY THROUGH MDADM
"I'm still working on polishing raidpycovery. I started doing real experiments today to recover data from broken RAID5s. In order to do it, I used linux' md. It allowed me to study md a little bit while testing raidpycovery." GHOSTS OF UNIX PAST, PART 3: UNFIXABLE DESIGNS
"In the second installment of this series, we documented two designs that were found to be imperfect and have largely (though not completely) been fixed through ongoing development." WHAT WE DO (AND DON?T) KNOW ABOUT THE NOVELL PATENT SALE
"Ever since the proposed acquisition of Novell by Attachmate Corporation there has been much curiosity, but almost no information, relating to the other major piece of the deal: the acquisition of 882 patents by a consortium led by Microsoft for $450 million." BEST NETWORKING TWEAKS FOR LINUX
"A Linux system can be tweaked to a degree Windows users may envy (or fear) especially for networking. Tweaking a Linux box for networking is a bit more mundane than other platforms: there are specific driver settings one can work with but its best flexibility comes from a mix of OS-level modifications and adherence to different RFCs" SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE STANDARD FOR PROVING INVALIDITY OF A PATENT
"Today the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Microsoft?s appeal in a case that could make it easier to invalidate a patent." 20 ESSENTIAL VIRTUALIZATION TIPS & TECHNIQUES
"These virtualization tips and techniques are presented to educate, save money and save endless Googling for answers. With luck they?ll propel your virtualization efforts forward with new momentum and with minimal frustration helping you to improve the performance, reliability and security of your virtual machines." 10 WEIRDEST CELEBRITY TECH ADS
"When it comes to technology advertising, some companies hire a celebrity, and have them do something ridiculous in the general vicinity of the product." TO THE CLOUDS WITH LINUX -- BUT WHO CONTROLS IT?
"Imagine a world where you can develop software unconstrained by the normal rules of software, which requires a local installation. CPU, memory, security...each of these issues are now someone else's problem." 5 OF THE BEST FREE AND OPEN SOURCE DATA MINING SOFTWARE
"The process of extracting patterns from data is called data mining. It is recognized as an essential tool by modern business since it is able to convert data into business intelligence thus giving an informational edge." FIVE REASONS TO BE GRUMPY ABOUT 2010 -- 2010 BEGINS ORACLE'S REIGN OF TERROR
"Maybe it's the post-holiday letdown, but looking back on 2010 I'm not sure the open source community has that much to be grateful for this year. Not only have we missed another year for the Linux desktop, but there's been plenty to gripe about in 2010." LPC: MICHAEL MEEKS ON LIBREOFFICE AND CODE OWNERSHIP
"Back when the 2010 Linux Plumbers Conference was looking for presentations, the LibreOffice project had not yet announced its existence. So Michael Meeks put in a vague proposal for a talk having to do with OpenOffice.org and promised the organizers it would be worth their time." LINUX E-READER SHIPS WITH 2450-DPI PEN INPUT
"Asus launched its Linux-based Asus Eee Note EA800 (previously Eee Tablet) e-reader, available now available in Taiwan for about $230 and due in the U.S. in 1Q 2011, according to various reports." SYMBIAN FOUNDATION TO SHUTDOWN WEBSITES
"The Symbian Foundation announces website closures starting mid-December 2010." THE GOOD AND BAD NEWS ABOUT DELL AND UBUNTU
"She wasn't happy because it was already moving slower than her ancient XP Pentium M machine. When, out of the blue she got an Ubuntu Light (PDF Link) v1.0 Setup window. What the heck?" QUICK LOOK AT 0 A.D. - FREE LINUX RTS GAME
"0 A.D. is an open-source, 3D real time strategy game with an ancient warfare theme, developed by Wildfire Games, and using the Pyrogenesis engine." EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: UBUNTU IS THE NUMBER 1 DESKTOP OS
"What are the challenges? Is Canonical planning to enter the hardware business and offer an Apple-like solution, fully optimized hardware for the OS?" WHY I'M ROOTING FOR MICROSOFT
"Although I'd prefer the entire system to be swept away at a stroke, I think that is somewhat unlikely, so I may have to settle for progressive improvements." SALARY LEVELS FOR LINUX ADMINISTRATORS
"Job Description for Linux Administrator -- Installs, configures, and maintains Linux operating systems. Analyzes and resolves problems associated with the operating system's servers, hardware, applications, and software" EASY CRONTAB EDITING WITH CORNTAB
"Never memorize what you can look up. This is one of the essential rules of system administration, and it applies very well to creating crontab entries. If you're not an expert on cron, don't worry -- just use the Corntab site or iPhone app." THE BAD GUYS ARE WORRIED - DID WE WIN?
"The thing most of us think of when we hear the word open is Windows" HOMELAND SECURITY'S DOMAIN NAME SEIZURE MAY STRETCH THE LAW PAST THE BREAKING POINT
"We had a bunch of questions concerning the legality of Homeland Security's seizure of domain names via its Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group. The whole thing seemed of extremely dubious legality. And it appears we're not the only ones to think so." WIKILEAKS DIPLOMATIC CABLE CACHE LINKS CHINA TO GOOGLE HACK
"Included in the massive trove of classified diplomatic cables the website WikiLeaks began releasing on Sunday is evidence reportedly linking Chinese authorities to a massive computer hacking campaign that included a high-profile assault on Google nearly a year ago." RED HAT AT $1 BILLION
"Based on the run rates of the current quarter, Red Hat will likely reach $1 billion in annual revenue in 2011. Only a handful of companies, probably less than 20 software firms, have ever hit this milestone." WHEN LINUS IS AWAY, LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPERS WILL...
"Normally, you'd think that when the 'boss' is away, that the 'employees' will slack-off. But the exact opposite is what happens with Linux kernel developers." A SCHIZOPHRENIC LOOK AT MICROSOFT, NOVELL, AND PATENTS
"No matter how you look at it, Microsoft's open purchase of Novell's patents was very sane." PMML MAKES PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS AND DATA MINING EASIER
"Predictive analytics ? the art of mining and analyzing historical data patterns to predict the future ? is not a common term among IT types, let alone consumers. Yet predictive analytics is practiced widely, and its use affects millions of consumers and businesses every day." 2010'S 5 BIGGEST LINUX AND OPEN-SOURCE STORIES
"The story behind the story is that Linux has become totally mainstream. No, you may not have a Linux desktop in front of you the way I do, but you if you spend most of your day visiting Google, Facebook, and Twitter, you're using Linux." | 
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