http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:04:31 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-007-35-RV-SW-RL <b>Tuxarena:</b> "Firefox is currently the most popular browser on the Linux platform and the top choice on Windows after Internet Explorer (although there are statistics showing it beats IE in terms of popularity in some countries)." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-007-35-RV-SW-RL Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:04:31 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-006-35-OS-DT-SW <b>Linux.com:</b> "Which do you spend more time interacting with: your operating system, or your software?" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-006-35-OS-DT-SW Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:04:31 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-005-35-RV-DT-SW <b>Desktop Linux Reviews:</b> "They say that good things come in small packages and so it is with Tiny Core Linux, a diminutive but powerful distribution. " http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-005-35-RV-DT-SW Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:04:31 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-004-35-RV-SW-NT <b>Tech Source From Bohol:</b> "For Linux users, here's my list of top of the line Twitter desktop clients that can surely help you better organize your friends, followers, and tweets, and overall make tweeting a lot more fun:" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-004-35-RV-SW-NT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:04:31 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-003-35-SC-BZ-MS <b>ITWire:</b> "An attack by the Conficker worm, that infects Windows systems, has cost the Manchester Council in England around £1.5 million - and Microsoft has benefitted too, according to a report in the Manchester Evening News." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-003-35-SC-BZ-MS Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:04:31 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-002-35-NW-RH <b>InternetNews:</b> "Is there a silver lining in the cloud for Linux vendors? This week, two of the largest Linux vendors each announced new initiatives to provide commercial services for cloud customers" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-002-35-NW-RH Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:04:31 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-001-35-OP-BZ-CY We've all heard the scornful criticism against idealism, as though it were something to be ashamed of, and mocking of the fundamental ideals of Free Software. I'm not embarrassed to have ideals, I am proud. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-001-35-OP-BZ-CY Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:34:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-031-35-OS-MS-NT <b>HowtoForge:</b> "This tutorial explains how you can replace password-based SSH authentication with key-based authentication which is more secure because only the people that own the key can log in. In this example, we're using PuTTY as our SSH client on a Windows system." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-031-35-OS-MS-NT Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:04:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-030-35-RV-GM-SW <b>Tuxarena:</b> "Eschalon is a turn-based RPG (role-playing game), which tries to reproduce the feeling of classic RPG games. It's closed-source, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and it comes with a demo too. The full version is available as a download for $19.95." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-030-35-RV-GM-SW Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:34:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-029-35-SC-SW <b>Netstat -vat:</b> "The AES (Advance Encryption Standard) (Define:AES) is a standard encryption mechanism in use by the US Government and many others - and it is now at risk from a very theoretical attack." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-029-35-SC-SW Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:04:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-028-35-NW-SW-DV <b>Business Week:</b> "So Ken Saunders, a 41-year-old, legally blind volunteer for Mozilla, took it upon himself to create a tool that makes the player easier to use for people with vision problems." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-028-35-NW-SW-DV Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:34:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-027-35-PS <b>Linux Magazine:</b> "VirtualBox 3.0, with its improved 3D support, can ensure that some users won't need to boot Windows even when gaming." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-027-35-PS Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:04:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-026-35-PR-LL <b>Electronic Frontier Foundation:</b> " But as part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of the mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in a public place, the phone user has violated copyright law." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-026-35-PR-LL Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:34:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-025-35-RV-BR-DV <b>A Million Chimpanzees:</b> "Welcome to "Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python". Not a book about learning Python as such, but an introduction to the discipline of Computer Science with Python as your guide." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-025-35-RV-BR-DV Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:04:28 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-024-35-NW-SW-RL <b>InternetNews:</b> "In total, PostgreSQL 8.4 includes 293 enhancements from the previous 8.3 release, an update that was primarily centered around performance." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-02-024-35-NW-SW-RL