10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer: UPDATED 10 Things: "Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing." (Mar 12, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Linux Today Sticky Page On this page we'll maintain links to important articles and documents that pertain to Free Software, Linux, and the tech industry. Please submit your suggestions to editors@linuxtoday.com. Thank you! (Jun 15, 2009)
Small Features
The 10 Most Downloaded Open Source Apps Of All Time! Geek Trio: "Everyone loves open source software. After all… its free! Many times I’ve heard the question, “what is the most popular open source application of all time?” I decided to find out." Mar 10, 2010
Project: Building An All-Text Linux Workstation (Mar 20, 2010, 08:02 UTC) (347 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxCommand.org: "Over the next few weeks, I will show you how to take an old, slow computer and make it into a text-only Linux workstation with surprising capabilities, including document production, email, instant messaging, audio playback, USENET news, calendaring, and, yes, even web browsing."
Editor's Note: All This Great Technology Just to Reinvent Television (Mar 20, 2010, 00:02 UTC) (1071 reads)
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(feedback) The cloud, the smartphone, the tablet, the Web itself as a big giant operating system-- what's the fatal flaw in all of these? It's all about feeding content to passive "consumers". Plug me in, baby, I'm not lifting a finger ever again.
Kubuntu is not Ubuntu (Mar 19, 2010, 23:34 UTC) (1799 reads)
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(feedback) Apachelogger's Log: "This post is supposed to make it clear why Kubuntu is what it is. Writing this down is necessary because people constantly get the wrong picture."
Claws Mail: Mail with Attitude (Mar 19, 2010, 23:04 UTC) (801 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "When other mailers aren’t doing the trick, it’s time to break out Claws: An extremely configurable and extensible GUI mailer that gives you all the control you’d ever want over your mail without sacrificing ease of use."
SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC3 Is Here, the Final Release Candidate (Mar 19, 2010, 22:34 UTC) (623 reads)
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(feedback) Softpedia: "MEPIS has now made available the third release candidate of its upcoming Linux-based operating system, SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC 3. The new release comes with several updates, both upgraded packages and fresh features, and is available for 32-bit, as well as 64-bit platforms."
Ten Years of OpenOffice.org (Mar 19, 2010, 22:04 UTC) (394 reads)
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(feedback) WorksWithU: "But much more importantly, 2010 marks OpenOffice.org’s tenth year of existence. To celebrate, here’s a look–literally, because there are a lot of screenshots–at how OOo has evolved throughout the decade."
OpenOffice.org Project of the Month: the Irish community (Mar 19, 2010, 21:34 UTC) (1533 reads)
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(feedback) Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards: "Recently at OpenOffice.org we have decided to give more highlight to our many native-language communities, who are in charge not just of localization, but also QA, users support, documentation translation and marketing."
Intel Atom: NVIDIA ION vs. Radeon HD 4330 Graphics (Mar 19, 2010, 21:04 UTC) (1079 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Before devoting this hardware to the farm, we ran a few benchmarks comparing the performance of NVIDIA's ION GeForce 9400M graphics processor to the ATI Radeon HD 4330 graphics processor found on the MSI 6667BB-004US and several other Atom-powered devices."
Droid's Android 2.1 Update Halted (Mar 19, 2010, 20:04 UTC) (1526 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Mobile Today: "Motorola's planned rollout of the Android 2.1 operating system for its popular Droid smartphone has been delayed indefinitely -- with some reports blaming it on the discovery of a serious bug."
Laptops sit idle... (Mar 19, 2010, 19:34 UTC) (1275 reads)
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(feedback) Blog of Helios: "Over the past few weeks, we've received a number of quality laptops to give out to our kids. Unfortunately many of these laptops did not come with power adapters and pretty much qualify for doorstops."
Tech Comics: "Social Networking vs. Life" (Mar 19, 2010, 19:04 UTC) (1078 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Comics: "Social networking activities like Facebook and Twitter consumer so much attention that it may be hard to find a balance with life itself."
Don't trust that Web Address! (Mar 19, 2010, 18:34 UTC) (1145 reads)
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(feedback) Sure, It's Secure: "In the last 24-hours, I received e-mails about March Madness, Sandra Bullock's hubby, and Michael Jackson's estate and every one of them contained a link to malware."
4K-sector drives and Linux (Mar 19, 2010, 18:04 UTC) (1715 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Recently, there have been a number of reports that Linux is not ready to work with these drives; kernel developer Tejun Heo even posted an extensive, worth-reading summary stating that "4 KiB logical sector support is broken in both the kernel and partitioners.""
Linux alternatives for the iPad - and the future of netbooks, tablets and smartbooks (Mar 19, 2010, 16:34 UTC) (1493 reads)
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(feedback) LXer: "Apart from Apple, some other companies are bringing some interesting tablets. In contrary to the iTab, those other tablets do run Linux. Some are already available, such as the TouchBook from Always Innovating (AI), and some have supposedly better screens, like the Notion Ink Adam tablet."
What's been going on with Ardour? (Mar 19, 2010, 15:34 UTC) (992 reads)
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(feedback) Ardour: "There hasn't been much news posted here for a while, so I thought it was appropriate to update subscribers and other supporters of my work on Ardour on what has been going on."
Bye Ubuntu (Mar 19, 2010, 15:04 UTC) (5587 reads)
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(feedback) fewt@blog:~$ _: "By now my launchpad, brainstorm, and Ubuntu forum accounts have been removed .. at my request. I have decided to completely unequivocally leave the Ubuntu community."
A rich web interface for mailing lists (Mar 19, 2010, 14:34 UTC) (733 reads)
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(feedback) Máirín Duffy: "Luke Macken and I had a little mini hackfest today on improving collaboration in Fedora. This is an idea we came up with this afternoon and I mocked up most of it on the bus ride home tonight."
Snap Spiffy Linux Screenshots with Shutter
(Mar 19, 2010, 14:04 UTC) (879 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "Paul Ferrill introduces us to the Shutter screen grab for Linux application. Shutter offers a simple interface and a whole lot of functionality. including cursor capture, whole Web page capture, and annotations."
Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. The Cloud Log (Mar 19, 2010, 13:04 UTC) (894 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is also in danger of losing, because those same services now represent a huge threat to our freedom..."
Allianz CIO 'lost hair' over Linux upgrade (Mar 19, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (2888 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet: "Allianz Australia Insurance chief information officer (CIO) Steve Cole said yesterday he had done the equivalent of losing hair while undertaking an upgrade that saw the company move from multiple Wintel servers to a Linux mainframe."
Tim O'Reilly: 'Whole Web' is the OS of the future (Mar 19, 2010, 12:04 UTC) (1229 reads)
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(feedback) The Open Road: "Open-source developers and businesses are focused on the wrong opportunity, according to industry luminary Tim O'Reilly. The future isn't programming for Linux or MySQL. The future is programming for the "whole Web.""
Linux Arpeggiators, Part 2 (Mar 19, 2010, 11:04 UTC) (823 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "Part 1 of this series introduced arpeggiators in general and profiled the QMidiArp application. This week we conclude our survey with a look at two more arpeggiators for Linux musicians: Hypercyclic and Arpage."
Google Denied Trademark for Nexus One (Mar 19, 2010, 09:04 UTC) (1988 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "Google doesn't get embarrassed too often, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just dealt it a loss of face by rejecting its application for a trademark for the Nexus One smartphone."
5 of the Best Free Linux Medical Practice Management Software (Mar 19, 2010, 07:04 UTC) (1618 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 5 practice management applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."
Phoromatic 1.0 Unleashed & Ubuntu Joins The Party (Mar 19, 2010, 03:04 UTC) (1618 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Phoromatic has been a huge success, but today we are announcing that Phoromatic has reached a 1.0 status and additionally we are providing the Ubuntu Linux community with a new performance tracker in collaboration with Canonical."
How to Make a Steve Jobs Cheese Head (Mar 19, 2010, 01:34 UTC) (1549 reads)
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(feedback) Serious Eats: "Carve Steve's head out of a block of mozzerella, add some black pepper for hair, stick on a pair of glasses, and you've got the perfect centerpiece for your iPad launch party."
Fanboys: A Field Guide (Mar 18, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (2069 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "We’ve identified eight species of “fanboys”--people who revere one tech platform above all others. Here’s what makes them tick."
Marvell promises $100 tablet for students (Mar 18, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (1772 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "Marvell announced its intent to deliver a $100, Android-ready tablet computer built around a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor. Aimed at students, the "Moby" will offer WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM receiver, and Adobe Flash compatibility, the company says."
Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" released (Mar 18, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (1599 reads)
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(feedback) Amarok: "Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)."
The Tortoise and the Hare (Mar 18, 2010, 22:03 UTC) (1213 reads)
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(feedback) Legal World and Childhood Dreams: "Summary: The paper explains how computer software is protected and the relationship between open source software and copyright."
Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: Ubuntu's Most Innovative (Mar 18, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (3858 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) is still six weeks away from release. However, on the eve of the first beta release, the daily builds and news releases suggest that Lucid will be one of the most innovative versions of Ubuntu for several years."
Google and Linux are coming to your TV (Mar 18, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (1902 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "In what may have been Google's worst kept secret in years, Google, along with its partners, Intel, Logitech and Sony, is on its way to delivering the Web to your television. What will they be using to do this? Why, they'll be using Google's Android Linux, of course."
ROSE Blog Interviews: Margarita Manterola, Debian Developer (Mar 18, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (755 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Pro Magazine: "The activity I like the most is fixing bugs. It's one of the great things of open source and the one that I enjoy the most: by having the code available, I'm able to fix a program and make it do what I want without having to go through the original developer."
