| Linux Today News LIBREOFFICE RC2 NOW AVAILABLE
"The second release candidate of the Document Foundation's fork of OpenOffice, LibreOffice, has been made available and announced in the Document Foundation's blog." CONFIGURING SOURCE AND DESTINATION NAT WITH FIREWALL BUILDER
"Firewall Builder is a firewall configuration and management GUI that supports configuring a wide range of firewalls from a single application. Supported firewalls include Linux iptables, BSD pf, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco router access lists and many more." LINUX MINT DEBIAN EDITION REVIEW
"Linux Mint Debian Edition, or LMDE, is the edition of Linux Mint based on Debian Testing. The latest release was made available for download on December 24, 2010." WARY PUPPY 5.0 NOW AVAILABLE
"Wary Puppy, a project developed to provide on-going Puppy Linux solutions for older hardware, announced today that version 5.0 is ready and available for download." OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE CHIMES IN ON NOVELL SALE
"The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is stepping into the Novell sale. The organization is asking the German Federal Cartel Office to investigate the sale of Novell's patents to the Microsoft-led CPTN." HOW TO GET THE ?WINGPANEL? IN UBUNTU WITH THE CURRENT GNOME PANEL
"Many users are excited about the idea of the new ?wingpanel?, a floating, panel-replacement which floats at the top right hand corner of the screen and holds the indicator applets, application indicators and session indicators." KVM & VIRTIO (DISK/NIC) ON SCIENTIFIC LINUX 6 SERVER (ALPHA 3)
"KVM as a ?full virtualization? is a nice feature because it allows you to run any operating system virtualized." PAUL ALLEN AMENDS LAWSUIT AGAINST FACEBOOK, APPLE AND OTHERS
"Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed a last-minute amendment to his patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, Facebook, Google and others, according to media reports. The amended suit targets Google's Android mobile operating system in a move that could spell trouble for phone manufacturers and app developers." INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATOR OF JAJUK
"Today I present you an interview with Bertrand Florat the creator of Jajuk. "Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music." SSL CERTIFICATES FOR POSTGRESQL
"This describes how to set up ssl certificates to enable encrypted connections from PgAdmin on some client machine to postgresql on a server machine." PARTED MAGIC 5.8 COMES WITH LINUX KERNEL 2.6.36.2
"Parted Magic 5.8 is out and comes with a bunch of updates and some new packages. The latest version is mostly a bug-fixing release and doesn't really add any new features." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
A REALITY CHECK ON RIGHTEOUS PRIVACY INDIGNATION
"According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some of my iPhone apps are spying on me. They apparently know when I use them, my location, my age and my gender. Then they send it all to marketing companies." MULTI BOOT LINUX FROM USB
"But running a single, monogamous distribution can be a little limiting, and there's only one reason why you can't squeeze a few more alongside on any decent-sized USB stick: it used to be quite a difficult process." 2010 TREND WATCH UPDATE: GLOBAL INTERNET CENSORSHIP
"At the beginning of this year EFF identified a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we thought would play a significant role in shaping digital rights in 2010, with a promise to revisit our predictions at the end of the year." THE INTERESTING TALE OF AMD'S FIREPRO DRIVERS
"Earlier this week we published our annual look at AMD's Catalyst driver releases from the past year. Not only did the Catalyst Linux driver this year picked up a couple new features, its driver performance had improved slightly over the past twelve months." THE H YEAR: 2010'S WINS, FAILS AND MEHS
"Meh ? Oracle took over Sun ? With the completion of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a new regime of Oracle's "special" brand of communications took over from Sun's bloggy, chatty style. The Oracle brand of communications mostly involves Oracle not saying anything or so little that the community is left to fill in the blanks." MY 5 ESSENTIAL ANDROID APPLICATIONS
"There are lots of lists of the best Android applications. As the proud owner of a new Motorola Droid 2 and in-house tech. support for my wife?s Droid Pro, though, I started thinking about what the essential applications are for a new Android phone user." TWO NON-BUNTU ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUR NETBOOK - PART 1: FLUXFLUX-SL
"Chances are several of you, or somebody close to you, got a new netbook over the festive period, and now you are faced with the agonising question what to put on it to make it usable." TWO NON-BUNTU ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUR NETBOOK - PART 2: ARCHONE
"ArchOne is a customization of Arch Linux specifically aimed at use on netbooks, in live mode from USB or installed." KDE SC 4.6 RC1 ? ANOTHER LOOK
"A few weeks ago, I put up a post about the first beta release of KDE SC 4.6. Unfortunately, due to a number of bugs, I?ve had to revert back to 4.5 on a couple of machines." OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTION ETIQUETTE
"When you contribute fixes or new features to an open source project you should use the existing coding style, the existing coding patterns and stick by the active maintainer's choice for his code organization." TUXERA RELEASES GPL-COMPLIANT FAT32 REPLACEMENT PACKAGE FOR ANDROID
"Unlike other file system vendors Tuxera works closely together with operating system manufacturers to make sure IP issues and legal compliance is taken care of." MOST ANDROID TABLETS FAIL AT GPL COMPLIANCE
"Matthew Garrett has been doing a bit of Saint Nick's job for him ? checking to see who's naughty and nice for GPL compliance on Android tablets." THE INQUIRER'S TOP 10 CEO FIASCOS OF 2010
"The INQUIRER presents its top ten CEO fiascos with bizarre arguments about the ways of the world or simply decision making that saw multiples of their salaries flushed away along with thousands of jobs." OSU LAB TO BENEFIT FROM $1.2M GRANT
"CrisisCommons was founded after the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 to enable collaboration between volunteers worldwide using the Internet, open source technology, data collection tools and other means." 6 FREE LINUX-FRIENDLY OFFICE SUITES FOR GETTING THE JOB DONE
"Distributions like Ubuntu and Mint target the curious inexperienced user and provide a complete suite of free software to tackle most PC-related tasks." 5 REASONS TO TRY ZORIN OS LINUX
"Today, however, I'd like to make a pitch for Zorin OS, an Ubuntu-based distribution that offers a number of advantages with particular appeal for Windows users." ANALYTICS AND IN-MEMORY DATABASES ARE CHANGING DATA CENTERS
"As data analytics demand more and more memory because of the increase in CPU core counts, new memory technologies will need to be developed and brought to market to address the requirements." | 
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