| Linux Today News ORAGOOGLE - THE JOCKEYING FOR POSITION BEGINS IN EARNEST WITH DUELING PROTECTIVE ORDERS
"The Oracle v. Google Java litigation now begins in earnest, with each side offering a proposed protective order, along with a handy table of the disputed provisions. Say, I think Groklaw has a claim for prior art on that kind of table." GNU JURIS PENGUINUS
"Electronic court filing. Paperless record management systems. Twittering jurors. Web-surfing secretaries. Web-surfing judges. Thumb drives, gigaflops and terrabytes. Cell phones smarter than law partners. LANS, WANS and Wifi. Welcome to the brave new world of the digital Information Age." DEVELOPER CLAIMS FBI IMPLEMENTED BACKDOORS IN OPENBSD
"The US Federal Bureau of Investigation implemented a number of backdoors in the open cryptographic framework used in OpenBSD, according to a former developer of the operating system." WHO GOOGLE HAS IN MIND FOR ITS CHROME OS USERS
"Google isn?t telling me any secrets about its plans for Chrome OS. Indeed, I?m not even one of the 60,000 or so people that Google has given a Cr-48 Chromebook prototype to play with." SPOTLIGHT ON LINUX: ZEVENOS-NEPTUNE 1.9.1
"ZevenOS is a German-born project that offers Debian-based and Ubuntu-based versions of their BeOS-like system. " WAITING FOR THE RAPTURE
"I get tired of waiting for FOSS to fulfill its potential. While it has come a long way, FOSS still isn't as universal as I thought it would be by now." RETURN OF VAMAN IN AN E-GOVERNED E-SOCIETY
"Summary: This talk explains the importance of open source and open format. And why their use is crucial in e-governace and e-society." NVIDIA AND AMD RELEASE NEW VIDEO DRIVERS FOR LINUX
"Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the two major companies specialized in programmable graphics processor technologies, released a couple of days ago new and improved versions of their video drivers for Linux systems, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures." PHP SCRIPTS FOR INTERACTING WITH NETWORKS
"PHP has a great many tools for interacting with a network and also with the Internet. In this article, I examine some of those tools and functions to show how exactly you can use them to make your scripts more useful in a network environment. Click here to download the accompanying source code." CLEMENTINE 0.6 GETS LOTS OF NEW FEATURES - REVIEW AND INSTALLATION IN UBUNTU
"Clementine gains more and more popularity with its port to KDE4 based upon the Amarok 1.4 player, and the latest version bundles a fair amount of new features." FREEBSD 9.0 HEADED TO THE CLOUD AS 8.2 NEARS RELEASE
"The open source FreeBSD operating system is headed to the Amazon cloud. Not the mainline FreeBSD 8.x release, but rather the next generation FreeBSD 9 release that is currently in development." BEST GIFTS FOR THE LINUX GEEK, MAKE YOUR OWN RAILGUN, AND MORE
"Tis the season! Linux is the gift that keeps on giving; here is a roundup of my suggestions for treating yourself, your loved ones, or other people with Linux goodness." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
OPENBSD/FBI ALLEGATIONS DENIED BY NAMED PARTICIPANTS
"Update: Government shilling accusations refuted by both similarly named persons" ORACLE RELEASES MYSQL 5.5
"One of the biggest hurdles that Oracle faced when acquiring Sun Microsystems was handling the open source MySQL database." HUMBLE INDIE BUNDLE IS BACK IN ACTION, PAY WHAT YOU WANT FOR A SET OF 5 IMPRESSIVE GAMES
" They are doing it again! Last time, Humble Indie Bundle created a small revolution of sorts by quite literally giving away their awesome games to everyone and asking users to pay-what-they-want for the games. No, this is not Utopia. This is for real." LIVING IN THE CLOUD: A JOLICLOUD CHROME EXPERIMENT
"Most people don?t make their work machine their test bed, but my work tends to be my tests. For the next couple of weeks, I?ll be working and blogging exclusively with JoliCloud running on my MacBook and using Google Chrome web apps. What?s the deal?" CAN OPEN SOURCE BE TRUSTED?
"Unfortunately, de Raadt raises the disturbing possibility that there is a big problem with part of OpenBSD - and one that undermines that ?emphasis on security? in a deeply troubling way" HAVE YOURSELF A VERY LINUX CHRISTMAS
"Whether you cut your teeth downloading Linux 0.x source code or you want to give Linux a try for the first time, we've got presents for you." WHAT DO WE NEED? VENDORS OR USERS?
"Which came first? The chicken or the egg? According to the big headed boffins we call scientists, the egg came first." EFF LOCATION PRIVACY VICTORY AT THIRD CIRCUIT STANDS, WITH IMPLICATIONS FAR BEYOND YOUR CELL PHONE
"In EFF's second major privacy victory in as many days, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the government's request that it reconsider its September decision regarding government access to cell phone company records that reveal your past locations." OPENBSD BACKDOORED BY THE FBI?
"The open source OpenBSD operating system may have been infected by a backdoor setup by the FBI." IS 2011 THE YEAR OF OPEN SOURCE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR?
"As budgets tighten, governments around the world are firming up their open source pledges. Rory MacDonald investigates if 2011 might well be the year open source breaks into the public sector" EXPERIENCES WITH (VERY) RARE LINUX CRASHING, UPGRADES
"One of the really nice things I love about Linux is that it can be upgraded from version to version of most mainstream distributions. This means that ideally, a system can be kept up to date over time while preserving settings." EASY LINUX FOR YOUR GRANDPARENTS
"Does Linux need a 1 button OS solution?" GOOGLE MAKES CHROME BROWSER MORE ENTERPRISE FRIENDLY
"Google announced its first concerted effort to get its Chrome browser in the hands of more enterprise users. Today Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced controls designed to let IT administrators easily configure and deploy the browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems of their choosing." ROLL YOUR OWN LINUX DISTRIBUTION WITH NOVELL'S SUSE STUDIO
"One of the advantages of Linux is that you?ve always been able to build your own Linux distribution? if you were an expert programmer. But, today thanks to programs like Novell?s SUSE Studio it?s easier than ever to create Linux appliances or your house-brand Linux." CREATE A LOCAL FEDORA MIRROR SYSTEM AND GET BLAZING-FAST UPDATES
"Fedora makes it easy to run a public mirror, and a local private one, and gives you the means to do so easily, without clumsy reconfiguration of all your local systems." WINE ADVANCES ACTIVEX SUPPORT FOR LINUX AND GTA
"For those Linux users that need or want to run Windows applications in LInux, here is some good news for you" FACEBOOK TRACKS AND TRACES EVERYONE: LIKE THIS!
"As an alternative business model this allows Facebook to track and trace users and to process their data. It appears that non-Facebook members can also be traced via the Like button." DEBIAN 6.0 ?SQUEEZE? TO COME WITH A COMPLETELY FREE LINUX KERNEL
"The Debian Project has announced that the upcoming release ? Debian 6.0 ?Squeeze? ? will have a completely free Linux kernel. This means that the Linux kernel which ships with Debian 6.0 will not have any non-free firmware." DONATE (OR FUND YOUR PROJECT) VIA CROWDFUNDING
"An extension of this concept is crowdfunding, whereby masses of people fund your project. Think of virtual microlending combined with Internet philanthropy." HOW TO CREATE A SCREENCAST OF YOUR LINUX DESKTOP
"Screencasts have become a very popular way to make tutorials to explain how software or services work in recent years. Let?s look at how you can make them of your own cool project, or anything cool you?re doing with Linux" INSTALLING AND USING OPENVZ ON FEDORA 14
"In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Fedora 14 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project." CAN ANDROID DO SERIOUS LINUX WORK, OR IS IT JUST A TOY?
"The Linux-based Android is the hot new mobile platform, but is it more than an entertainment device? Can it do remote server administration? What about the also red-hot iPad?" TOP 6 EYECANDY COMPIZ ANIMATIONS AND EFFECTS THAT COMES WITH COMPIZ EXPERIMENTAL
"Who doesn't like some eyecandy for their desktops, definitely not me. Compiz has enthralled Ubuntu users for years now. When GNOME officially ditched Compiz for Mutter for its next version, Ubuntu decided to stick with Compiz for its Unity Shell." CREATIVE SUITE FOR LINUX: AN UPDATE
"An Adobe employee has asked Linux users wanting native Creative Suite applications for their OS to submit a ?feature request directly? to the company?s engineering team." GETTING GRUBBY WITH ZFS
"ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems, and is now owned by Oracle. It offers some nice features that Linux does not (yet) have in a production-quality filesystem." SYSTEM CALL FUZZING CONTINUED.
"Work is ongoing on the system call fuzzer I wrote about last month. Since I initially talked about it, it?s found a few more bugs." | 
