Tech Comics: "Daydream of a Tech Salesman"
(Feb 4, 2012, 01:00 UTC) (628 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: Tech salesman have daydreams just like everyone else.

Simplify Administration with Directory Services
(Feb 3, 2012, 23:01 UTC) (797 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Wazi: "Imagine a hundred-user network where people come and go, and you, the systems administrator, have to create and delete users not only for access to the operating system but on the many applications that also require authorization."

The Best Filesystem for an external hard disk of 1TB with cross platform support
(Feb 3, 2012, 22:03 UTC) (1968 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linuxaria: "Which Filesystem should I use with this big disk ?"

SECURITY: Bouncing malware from Android Market
(Feb 3, 2012, 21:02 UTC) (800 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxBSDos.com: "The battle between malware writers and those trying to make their life miserable is a never ending one."

Alfresco Embraces SaaS and the Cloud with Its New CMS Platform
(Feb 3, 2012, 20:03 UTC) (766 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OSTATIC: "Alfresco has done a good job of competing with alternative platforms, such as Microsoft's Sharepoint, through an open source-centric model."

Android, Tizen and the End of Java
(Feb 3, 2012, 19:04 UTC) (1988 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Power Base: "I wanted to call this piece Life, the Universe and Everything. Allow me to explain."

Hardening Postfix For ISPConfig 3
(Feb 3, 2012, 18:01 UTC) (785 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "The goal of this tutorial is to harden the mail server postfix used by ISPConfig for internet mail servers where authenticated users are trusted."

Is Facebook's IPO an exit strategy?
(Feb 3, 2012, 17:04 UTC) (1686 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Consumerization: BYOD: "I think Facebook’s IPO comes at a time when Facebook is on its way out–out of our lives and out of our gadgetry–for good."

PCLinuxOS KDE 2012.02 Has Been Officially Released
(Feb 3, 2012, 16:03 UTC) (1226 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Softpedia: "PCLinuxOS KDE 2012.02 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.38.8bfs, optimized for maximum desktop performance, and the KDE SC 4.6.5 environment."

GhostBSD 2.5 review
(Feb 3, 2012, 15:01 UTC) (1144 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxBSDos.com: "The latest edition, GhostBSD 2.5, based on FreeBSD 9, is the project's fourth release, and was made available for public download on January 24 (2012)."

Webopedia Term of the Day: What is Debian Goodies
(Feb 3, 2012, 14:04 UTC) (895 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Webopedia: "Debian Goodies is a set of utilities that work with Debian packages and provide more information than you can get out of the standard APT (Advanced Package Tool) utilities."

Microsoft Vows to Fix 'Broken' Code In Open Source Cloud Project
(Feb 3, 2012, 13:10 UTC) (1444 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cloudline: "Microsoft says it is committed to making good on its OpenStack promises just as it did with Hyper-V and Linux."

Five most downloaded extensions of awesome (gnome) shell
(Feb 3, 2012, 11:03 UTC) (2552 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Justin Stories: "The gnome shell extensions are a great to way to customize your awesome shell."

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released
(Feb 3, 2012, 10:01 UTC) (2294 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Web Upd8: "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin alpha 2 is available for download, we'll do a recap of all the changes since the previous milestone (alpha 1)."

Red Hat unveils 10-year support plan
(Feb 3, 2012, 06:03 UTC) (1207 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Red Hat has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years."

OpenStack Gets a HyperVsectomy
(Feb 3, 2012, 00:01 UTC) (2109 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: From the 'Microsoft Bashers' files:

Open source software should be used to secure public sector systems, IT bosses are told
(Feb 2, 2012, 23:02 UTC) (1679 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Inquirer: "Ian Levy, technical director at the Communication Electronics Security Group (CESG) said local authorities need to realise the organisation supports the deployment of non-proprietary software for security purposes."

Facebook IPO Highlights Hacker Culture
(Feb 2, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (1607 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: Facebook's S1 filing reveals insights into the company's finances and its hyperactive culture, whose ethic Mark Zuckerberg describes as 'The Hacker Way'.

Spark: The first free-software, Linux tablet is on its way
(Feb 2, 2012, 21:00 UTC) (3525 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDnet: Thanks to Android, Linux is well represented on tablets, but there hasn't been a free software tablet, without any proprietary bits, until now.

Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens
(Feb 2, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (1374 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Niemen Journalism Lab: The software can help journalists create infinitely interactive visualizations.

Radio Software Airtime 2.0 Released With Easier Icecast And SHOUTcast Configuration, More
(Feb 2, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (1295 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) (1119 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) (5255 reads) (7 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) (2477 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.

Raspbmc - XBMC Linux Distribution For Raspberry Pi Announced
(Feb 2, 2012, 15:03 UTC) (2391 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu Vibes: "A specific Linux distribution Raspbmc is being developed by Stm Labs which is specially optimized for Raspberry Pi."

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.2 x86_64)
(Feb 2, 2012, 14:01 UTC) (1152 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database."

Textbook of the Future: The hardware
(Feb 2, 2012, 13:02 UTC) (2324 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Broiler: "So the iPad and iBooks Textbooks are too expensive and also too proprietary. That much is a given. What do you replace it with?"

Komodo 7.0 IDE Syncs Up Development
(Feb 2, 2012, 12:00 UTC) (1691 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Developer.com: Developer tools vendor ActiveState is out with a major new release of their Mozilla-powered Komodo IDE.

The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9
(Feb 2, 2012, 11:02 UTC) (1485 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and creating your first test database."

Nano quadrotors demonstrate complex swarm behavior
(Feb 2, 2012, 07:04 UTC) (2199 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Geek.com: "A new video posted by the GRASP Lab shows that development of quadrotors isn’t slowing down."

Understanding Open Source Licensing
(Feb 2, 2012, 03:17 UTC) (3064 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
PC Quest: "We demystify the major licenses from an enterprise perspective"

Firefox 10 and Thunderbird 10 Arrive on Ubuntu 12.04
(Feb 1, 2012, 23:02 UTC) (3120 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Softpedia: "Canonical updated its default web browser and email client to Firefox 10 and Thunderbird 10, respectively."

SECURITY: Endian Firewall Community 2.5.1 released
(Feb 1, 2012, 22:01 UTC) (1639 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxBSDos.com: "The new dashboard is now fully customizable through the use of configurable widgets."

The open source behind gov.uk revealed
(Feb 1, 2012, 21:03 UTC) (2383 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The H Open: "The new beta version of the gov.uk web site should give proprietary software vendors and contractors pause for thought, as it is almost entirely built on or with open source."

Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0
(Feb 1, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (2332 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) (1624 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) (2233 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) (2392 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: From the 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' files:

Do Mandriva's current troubles mark the end of standalone Linux sales?
(Feb 1, 2012, 16:00 UTC) (1841 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ITWorld:More and more, Linux vendors aren't just selling Linux... They're selling Linux as a vehicle for their big idea

Linux 3.2 Kernel: What To Consider Before Updating
(Feb 1, 2012, 15:00 UTC) (3521 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: A kernel update offers advantage, yet can also create big headaches without proper preparation and testing.

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