How to read a CSV file in Perl?
(Feb 10, 2012, 12:00 UTC) (1231 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxInstall: Perl is used for manipulating text files and in this article I will teach how to read a CSV file in Perl?

New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues
(Feb 10, 2012, 10:00 UTC) (1899 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The H Open: A single bug fix allows PCIe power-saving technology ASPM (Active State Power Management) to be used on systems

Linux 3.3 rc3
(Feb 9, 2012, 15:28 UTC) (1939 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linus Torvalds: Another week, another -rc.

How can the layman get involved with free software?
(Feb 9, 2012, 13:02 UTC) (1466 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux User & Developer: "Successful code isn’t just about stringing bits and bytes together. Code has to be accessible to users and users have to know what the code is doing, and coders are not always the best people to document a project."

Time Drive - A User friendly Utility for Back Up your Files Under Ubuntu
(Feb 8, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3838 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
UbuntuPortal: Time Drive is a Userfriendly Utility for backup that allows easy and clean to backup any Files

mutter 3.3.5 Released
(Feb 8, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (2521 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Mutter: Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL.

Nine Rules for Designing a Linux Desktop
(Feb 8, 2012, 21:00 UTC) (3608 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: The Linux user revolts of recent times could be avoided by following these guidelines.

Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default
(Feb 8, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (2795 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: The Fedora / Red Hat developers working on the Beefy Miracle are tentatively moving ahead with their plan to use Btrfs as the default Linux file-system for Fedora 17 and beyond.

RIP Compiz
(Feb 8, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (4453 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TechRepublic: The Compiz desktop compositor, which looks all but dead now that Fedora is dropping it from its upcoming release

Python4Kids New Tutorial: Welcome back, Class Recap
(Feb 8, 2012, 10:01 UTC) (1727 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Python4Kids: "Towards the end of last year we started working on classes and a GUI toolkit called Tkinter. In this tutorial we will recap classes."

Creating a vDSO: the Colonel's Other Chicken
(Feb 7, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (1525 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxJournal: A vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is an alternative to the somewhat cycle-expensive system call interface that the GNU/Linux kernel provides.

LibreOffice developer shows prototype Android and HTML5 ports
(Feb 7, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (3325 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars: In a presentation this week at the FOSDEM conference, SUSE developer Michael Meeks shed some light on the current status of the porting project.

Google Summer of Code 2012 Kicks Off
(Feb 6, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (1863 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: Google set to pump $6 million+ into open source development this summer.

How to get started using awk
(Feb 6, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (3886 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Simple Help: awk, sed, and grep are three of my favorite tools in the Linux or UNIX command line.

Firefox: Aiming for One Million Contributors
(Feb 6, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (1681 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
ReadWriteWeb: Mozilla's Dietrich Ayala would like to have one million contributors to Firefox in 2012.

XFS: the filesystem of the future?
(Feb 5, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (16007 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
LWN: Linux has a lot of filesystems, but two of them (ext4 and btrfs) tend to get most of the attention.

Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
(Feb 5, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (8965 reads) (9 talkbacks) (feedback)
OSnews: If you've used UNIX or any of its derivatives, you've probably wondered why there's /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin in the file system.

Linux 3.3 Will Let You Boot Into Android: Greg-KH
(Feb 5, 2012, 06:00 UTC) (6220 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Muktware: The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management.

Weekend project: Zap Your Coworkers' Minds with Multi-Pointer X
(Feb 4, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (5096 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: Care to rethink your desktop user experience? It may be simpler than you think.

OpenStack Gets a HyperVsectomy
(Feb 3, 2012, 00:01 UTC) (3002 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: From the 'Microsoft Bashers' files:

Radio Software Airtime 2.0 Released With Easier Icecast And SHOUTcast Configuration, More
(Feb 2, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (1776 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
WebUpd8: Airtime is a free open source radio management application. The Airtime server runs on Linux, but the interface can be used from anywhere, using a web browser.

GNUnited Nations 0.5 Released
(Feb 2, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (1543 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
GNU.org: GNUnited Nations (or GNUN for short) is a build system for www.gnu.org translations, supposed to make translators' lives easier.

Google is killing Free Software
(Feb 2, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (6838 reads) (10 talkbacks) (feedback)
Swfblag: Google is the greatest danger to the Free Software movement at the current time.

Unity 5.2: What's new, and a call for testing
(Feb 2, 2012, 16:00 UTC) (3289 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu Fridge: It has been a few weeks since the last drop of unity, and now the unity team has readied the new version of unity 5.2.

Komodo 7.0 IDE Syncs Up Development
(Feb 2, 2012, 12:00 UTC) (2148 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Developer.com: Developer tools vendor ActiveState is out with a major new release of their Mozilla-powered Komodo IDE.

Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0
(Feb 1, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (2875 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Dev.Twitter : Six months ago we open-sourced Twitter Bootstrap, an extensive front-end toolkit for developing web sites and applications.

Brocade Leveraging Perl to Boost ADCs
(Feb 1, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (2050 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Perl isn't just for apps, it's for big service provider networking gear now too.

OpenStack developers consider dropping Microsoft Hyper-V support
(Feb 1, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (2745 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ComputerWorldUK:Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code, which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained, from the stack.

Greg Kroah-Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow - Gives SUSE the Boot
(Feb 1, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (2893 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: From the 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' files:

Arch’ed in a day; a noob experience
(Feb 1, 2012, 13:00 UTC) (3286 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Justin Stories: Yesterday morning 9 am -was reading some reviews and suddenly felt the urge to install and try Arch (Oh boy…).

Drush: Managing Drupal from the Command Line
(Jan 31, 2012, 15:02 UTC) (1658 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Wazi: "Drush can make it easy for you to perform an internal cleanup, do a fresh Drupal install, install and enable modules, or create users, among other things."

Share And Discover Cool Bash Tricks With Bash One-Liners
(Jan 31, 2012, 06:00 UTC) (3523 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TechLaze: Wanna impress your friends with some cool one-liners?

Where Mozilla Ubiquity Failed, Ubuntu HUD will Succeed
(Jan 31, 2012, 00:01 UTC) (4220 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: From the 'Mozilla Labs is Ok; Real implementation is Better' files:

GCC 4.7 Moves Along Into Stage 4
(Jan 30, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3183 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: GCC 4.7 is still on track with its development plans for an official release in March or April and this popular open-source compiler will deliver on many new features.

KDE Telepathy releases first beta version
(Jan 30, 2012, 15:14 UTC) (1981 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Dot KDE: The KDE Telepathy team has made the first beta release of the new KDE Instant Messaging suite.

More Systemd Fun: The Blame Game And Stopping Services With Prejudice
(Jan 28, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (6627 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: Systemd, Lennart Poettering's new init system that is taking the Linux world by storm, is all full of little tricks and treats.

Kernel Log: Coming in 3.3 (Part 1) - Networking
(Jan 28, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (4993 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The H Open: Version 3.3 of the Linux kernel offers another way to team multiple Ethernet devices.

Canonical HUD Brings Apps to Life on Ubuntu Linux Desktop
(Jan 28, 2012, 10:00 UTC) (5632 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseAppsToday: Ubunutu's desktop lead explains why HUD will succeed where Mozilla Ubiquity failed.

People Behind Debian: Josselin Mouette, founder of the Debian GNOME team
(Jan 28, 2012, 06:00 UTC) (3500 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
apt-get-install-debian: Josselin Mouette is one the leaders of the pkg-gnome team, he takes sound technical decisions and doesn’t fear writing code to work-around upstream issues.

The Grand /usr-fication of Linux
(Jan 27, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (5892 reads) (19 talkbacks) (feedback)
ITWorld: The Fedora Project is currently mounting a concerted effort to merge Linux filesystem directories into a more organized structure, an effort known as /usr merge.

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