| Linux Today News U.S. ENABLES CHINESE HACKING OF GOOGLE
"In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access." WAN OPTIMIZATION THE OPEN SOURCE WAY
"Even if you aren't running a branch office in Africa over ISDN, the need for WAN optimization and acceleration exists within nearly every business. The problem is that these products are extremely expensive. Wouldn't it be great if the same functionality could be accomplished with commodity PC hardware and free open source tools? " GOOFY PRO-LINUX STORY TO COUNTER PUNDIT'S AWKWARD EFFORTS TO INSTALL FIREFOX
"Emery Fletcher muses on how a rank Linux beginner can figure out how to install the latest Firefox release, even when professional tech journalists can't." RED HAT'S JBOSS AIMS TO IMPROVE USER PRODUCTIVITY, UI IN 2010
"Red Hat's JBoss middleware division is set to have a busy 2010 as it continues to improve its developer tools and Java servers. While feature improvements are always important for JBoss, this year's focus will be on improving the way that developers work with their tools and servers." 6 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX OFFICE SUITES
"This article selects 6 of our favourite office suites which run under Linux. Please be aware that three of the entries (Google Docs, Zoho Office Suite and Lotus Symphony) are released under proprietary software licenses, but all of the software listed below is available to download for no charge." YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH LINUX: PART 3
"We've covered the basics of editing video clips, adding text and audio, and using different effects in Part 1 and Part 2. Although there are a lot of moving parts in putting together a video, learning and experimenting with different elements can be profitable and fun." SUN CEO UPBEAT IN GOODBYE LETTER
"The final missive from Jonathan Schwartz encourages those keeping their jobs to think 'Sun is a brand, Oracle is your company." 10 SCRIPTS TO CREATE YOUR OWN LINUX DISTRIBUTION
"Those familiar with Linux will be able to tweak settings, add and remove apps and customise the menu, toolbars and other desktop elements. Incredibly, those are about all the skills you need to create your very own Linux distro." LINUX PERFORMANCE BASICS
"I want to write about Cassandra performance tuning, but first I need to cover some basics: how to use vmstat, iostat, and top to understand what part of your system is the bottleneck -- not just for Cassandra but for any system." SMARTER LINUX FILE STRUCTURE AIMS TO EASE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT
"The Unix file system hierarchy has been used for decades and remains the model for most of today�s modern Linux systems, but one distribution, GoboLinux, is making software management easier with an innovative directory structure." HOW TO SET UP A USB-OVER-IP SERVER AND CLIENT WITH DEBIAN LENNY
"This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Debian Lenny as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Debian Lenny). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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TOR PROJECT SERVERS HACKED
"This is because, in early January, two of the project's seven directory authorities (moria1 and gabelmoo) as well as the metrics.torproject.org statistics server were found to have been hacked." KDE VS. GNOME: CONFIGURATION AND ADMIN TOOLS
"Linux has a strong do-it-yourself tradition. Although new users are transitioning rapidly to the desktop, that tradition remains. Even on the desktop, users expect to be able to administer their systems directly, and to work in an environment customized to their tastes and needs." DISCOVERING NCURSES, THE GUI FOR THE LINUX CONSOLE
"The Linux world has everything, if you know where to find it, including an in-between option to the command-line interface, and a full-blown X Window System environment. Juliet Kemp talks about ncurses, the excellent graphical environment for the console." A TALE OF TWO QUBITS: HOW QUANTUM COMPUTERS WORK
"But as far as we've looked, it's turtles all the way down." BUYING A LINUX LAPTOP ...
"I really liked my XPS, and the smaller display form factor, but I wanted to do something different this time, order a laptop pre-installed with Linux, or at least not loaded with any OS." TILTOS INTRODUCES KDE APPLICATIONS FOR HAIKU
"Continuing the theme of "KDE Everywhere", recently it was announced by the folks over at TiltOS that KDE applications are now available for download and use." ONLINE CD, DVD AND USB MEDIA SALES
"In a recent issue of DistroWatch Weekly we took a brief look at the number of CDs, DVDs and USB Flash drives sold through the OSDisc.com affiliate program run by DistroWatch. In response to the article, Ramsey Brenner, the founder of OSDisc.com, was kind enough to offer us more data on the sales..." THE IE FIX IS IN
"First, the good news, Microsoft's fixed the IE bug used to attack Google. The bad news: the bug had been known for months." NMAP 5.20 RELEASED
"Happy new year, everyone. I'm happy to announce Nmap 5.20--our first stable Nmap release since 5.00 last July! It offers more than 150 significant improvements..." WHY THERE IS NO KERNEL HACKER SELL-OUT
"A statistic that he mentioned along the way has garnered much comment: the fact that "75% of the code comes from people paid to do it.� In particular, some have leapt on this figure as proof that kernel coders have �sold out�, and that the famed altruistic impulse behind free software is dead. I think this is nonsense." SCALE ADDS TALKS, PUBLISHES SCHEDULE
The schedule of weekend talks for SCALE 8X has been finalized and are posted on the SCALE web site at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org. The topics are interesting and wide-ranging - check them out! BANSHEE AND ANDROID ROCK TOGETHER . . . OR WHY UBUNTU SHOULD DROP RHYTHMBOX
"To a Linux user like myself, an iPod is more or less a fancy paperweight; since Apple does not provide a version of iTunes for Linux. Yes, it sorta works in Wine and does work well in a VirtualBox... but, really, why bother? " COUNTERPATH INTRODUCES BRIA FOR ASTERISK
"CounterPath and Digium recently launched Bria for Asterisk, a co-branded VoIP softphone solution that�s pre-integrated with the open source Asterisk platform." NZ SCHOOL DITCHES MICROSOFT AND GOES TOTALLY OPEN SOURCE
"A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a government deal mandating the use of Microsoft software in all schools." THE ALEXANDRIA PROJECT, CHAP. 2: THE PLOT THICKENS
"Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego has been passed over to lead a major project at the Library of Congress, but discovers that the Library has been hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown." SETTING UP AN SSL CERTIFICATE IN APACHE
"SSL certificates are used by web servers on a different port - port 443, as opposed to port 80 used for HTTP. Port 443 is for HHTPS traffic. Let's look at how to set this up for your server. You need an SSL certificate, access to an installation of the Apache web server compiled with SSL support, and the operating system on which it is running, and the port 443 to be open" SHELL SCRIPTS AND HERE DOCUMENTS
"A here document (or heredoc) is a way of getting text input into a script without having to feed it in from a separate file. If you've got a small quantity of data you don't expect to change often, it's a quick and tidy way of keeping script and data together." RECORD-SETTING LINUX
"Recently, French software engineer Fabrice Bellard calculated the value of pi to 2.7 trillion numbers � with a souped-up but otherwise ordinary home PC running Red Hat's Fedora Linux." ANDROID WILL SOON TRAIL ONLY SYMBIAN, SAYS IDC
"Android will trail only Symbian in mobile phone market share by 2013, according to IDC. Android phones such as the pictured Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, which is now heading for NTT DoCoMo, will grow 150.4 percent to 68.0 million units by 2013, but other Linux-based phones will struggle, says IDC." UBUNTU LUCID 10.04 ALPHA 2: FIRST IMPRESSIONS ON 'DIFFICULT' HARDWARE
"My feelings for Ubuntu have run hot and cold since I first discovered the "Linux for human beings"-nicknamed reimagination of Debian during the Dapper (6.06) era. I've had Ubuntu be the best distro on a given computer, sometimes it won't even boot..." NOTICE OF AGENDA FOR SCO BANKRUPTCY HEARING ON THE 27TH
"I don't know why they bother with all the paperwork. In bankruptcy court in Delaware, the corporate debtor always wins and creditors get nothing, from what we've seen, or at least 99% of the time. They seem to like it that way. Approving this motion ... well, it sticks in my craw..." HOW TO SET UP A TERMINAL SERVER IN LINUX USING UBUNTU 9.10 AND FREENX
"What was once old is new again and the desktop-centric computing is making way for return of thin client/mainframe computing again. This tutorial will walk you through setting up a Ubuntu desktop to act as a "mainframe", capable of being accessed by a thin clients or regular desktops, using the excellent FreeNX server." IS LINUX TOO HARD?
"Despite booming enterprise server sales, some in the industry continue to grumble that Linux is too hard. Designed by geeks for geeks, the theory goes, Linux will never be mainstream." FEDORA, DEBIAN, FREEBSD, OPENBSD, OPENSOLARIS BENCHMARKS
"We have now extended that comparison to put many other operating systems in a direct performance comparison to these Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD snapshots of 6.0 Squeeze to Fedora 12, FreeBSD 7.2, FreeBSD 8.0, OpenBSD 4.6, and OpenSolaris 2009.06." WILL ORACLE CONTROL JAVA MORE TIGHTLY THAN SUN?
"Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle's control as it did under Sun Microsystems'? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question. " MR. EDISON�S KINDLE: FIFTEEN AMAZING GADGET IDEAS THAT WERE WAY, WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
"�The best way to predict the future is to invent it.� So said legendary tech visionary Alan Kay." PERSONAL FINANCES ON LINUX WITH KMYMONEY
"Linux has several excellent personal finance applications. Today we're going to look at KMyMoney. Though specifically developed with the KDE desktop in mind, KMyMoney works with any Linux desktop." MICROSOFT AND LINUX WILL NEVER BE "BEST BUDDIES"
"I just read an article called: Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies?" The article made me think of what it really would be like without Microsoft. I didn't like it. We need Microsoft..." LINUX FOUNDATION LAUNCHES FREE TRAINING TO MEET GROWING DEMAND FOR LINUX PROFESSIONALS
Also expands its Linux training program to offer new classes in new geographies for developers and sys admins HTML5 VIDEO AND H.264 – WHAT HISTORY TELLS US AND WHY WE’RE STANDING WITH THE WEB
"The fact that they are being so unabashedly hyped along with the new darling of the web – HTML5 – means that most people don’t understand that something very dangerous is taking place behind the scenes." 65 OPEN SOURCE DOWNLOADS THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE
"Can an open-source application really change your life? To find out, we went looking for apps that users described as "indispensable."" ITC JUDGE RULES AGAINST NVIDIA IN RAMBUS SUIT
"An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a preliminary ruling in favor of Rambus against graphics vendor nVidia in three of five patent infringement allegations." GROW YOUR OWN CLOUD SERVERS WITH UBUNTU
"Have you been wanting to fly to the cloud, to experiment with cloud computing? Now is your chance. With this article, we will step through the process of setting up a private cloud system using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is powered by the Eucalyptus platform." TOO MANY LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS?
"I had to deal with the "why are there so many Linux distributions? It's too confusing!" whinging again over the weekend. I've decided to succumb to the tide, and agree..." RED HAT LAUNCHES OPENSOURCE.COM COMMUNITY SITE
"Red Hat has just launched a new portal at opensource.com - for information and articles about open source. The site uses the Drupal open source content management system..." CHROME 4: KING OF THE WEB BROWSER HILL?
"Firefox 3.6 has just come out and it's great. There's only one problem. Google has released the new version of Chrome, version 4, and it's even better. " | 
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