http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:57 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-21-001-35-OS-SV Last week I wrote "Cloud is Just Another Word for "Sucker". My objections to buying into this whole "cloud" services fad are three-fold: trust, reliability, and performance. But why not do-it-yourself? Linux has everything you need. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-21-001-35-OS-SV Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-028-35-NW-RL <b>Ghacks:</b> "The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It&#8217;s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual machines." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-028-35-NW-RL Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:03:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-027-35-NW-KN-RL <b>Kernel Log:</b> "The kernel development team have enhanced various aspects of Btrfs, one effect of which is to significantly improve the experimental file system's write performance." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-027-35-NW-KN-RL Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-026-35-MM-RL <b>Linux Magazine:</b> "The MythTV hard disk recorder software is available in a new version that is based on Qt4 and supports new hardware and the VDPAU decoder." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-026-35-MM-RL Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:03:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-025-35-OS-SS <b>Linux.com:</b> "So you've got that shiny new openSUSE 11.2 system up and running. Now what? The default repositories have plenty of software, but there's much more for openSUSE in community and semi-official repositories that you might find useful." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-025-35-OS-SS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-025-35-OP-CY <b>Ridenbaugh Press/Northwest:</b> "It would be fitting to honor that international effort by giving a Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds, perhaps in 2011 on the 20th anniversary of the August 1991 Linux announcement, or in 2012 on the 50th anniversary of Pauling's award." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-025-35-OP-CY Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-024-35-SC-SV-NT <b>Help Net Security:</b> "ENISA's report is the first to take an independent, in-depth look at all the security and privacy issues of moving into the cloud, outlining some of the information security benefits of cloud computing, as well as 35 key security risks." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-024-35-SC-SV-NT Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-023-35-OS-DV <b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "Programming is more fun when you keep score. The extreme programming (XP) development model popularized the idea of test-driven development (TDD) with professional programmers in mind. But TDD turns out to be even more useful for lone amateur programmers, because it provides much needed motivation in the form of more visible rewards for your work." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-023-35-OS-DV Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:03:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-022-35-NW-GM-HW <b>Wine Reviews:</b> "Any customer purchasing CrossOver Games or CrossOver Professional until November 25th will be automatically registered to win this loaded CodeWeavers Gaming PC." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-022-35-NW-GM-HW Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-021-35-SC-SW <b>Netstat -vat:</b> "The first update to PHP 5.3 is now available providing 5 security fixes in addition a long list of bug fixes to the popular open source dynamic language." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-021-35-SC-SW Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:03:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-020-35-RV-SW <b>Phoronix:</b> "Intel's Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL extensions in Mesa." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-020-35-RV-SW Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-019-35-NW-SW <b>Help Net Security:</b> "One of the reasons behind Firefox's popularity is the availability of a vast library of extensions. Users use them to modify the browser to their liking and make their browsing experience easier and more pleasant. The problem is, unbeknown to them, these extensions are exposing them to risk." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-019-35-NW-SW Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-018-35-OS-HL-UB <b>Johannes Eva:</b> "Welcome to the third edition of Eva's Useful Guide to Ubuntu! This guide contains many tips to enhance and customize a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" installation." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-018-35-OS-HL-UB Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-017-35-OS-UB <b>Click:</b> "The OMG!Ubuntu blog reports on the decision, however preliminary, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas to remove the GIMP image editor from the 10.04 Lucid LTS release of the wildly popular Linux distribution." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-017-35-OS-UB Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:33:15 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-015-35-NW-SW-RL <b>Experimenting with GNU/Linux:</b> "GO language promoted by google is a new system programming language said to be expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected. The language is still very young and there is no ready made package available for ubuntu. You can install it and try out the features from the version control repository of go." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-20-015-35-NW-SW-RL