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Kernel Space

↺ Kernel Sandbox

Applications

↺ The best Linux desktop search tools
↺ GloobusPreview & CoverGloobus Sneak Peeks
↺ CodeWeavers Road Map for 2010
↺ Wine 1.1.36 Released
↺ The rise of web applications and Chrome: it’s all about timescales
↺ Download Google Chrome 4.0.288.1
↺ e-Book Collection Management on Linux

Instructionals

↺ Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12
↺ 10 things to know about Linux and Open Source: Compilation
↺ 6 Steps for Minimal Ubuntu Installation Using debootstrap
↺ Possible solutions to Fix the Missing Network Manager Icon in Ubuntu 9.10
↺ Anatomy of the libvirt virtualization library
↺ Automate Backups With Back In Time
↺ Setting Full Duplex mode Ethernet Interface
↺ Single instance apps using D-Bus
↺ Inkscape Class Day 1
↺ A few cool plugins for The GIMP (and how to add them)
↺ Mount Windows partition automatically using PySDM
↺ Mastering a DVD using QDVDAuthor
↺ Binutils Porting Guide To A New Target Architecture

K Desktop Environment (KDE SC)

↺ Silicon – auto image mounter for KDE 4
↺ Searching and Filtering Photos in digiKam — Part 2

Distributions

↺ On the road again with Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring Alpha1

Red Hat Family

↺ Enterprise Virtualisation Powers Cost-Effective Growth
↺ Open source may be a venture capital dry hole

Debian Family

↺ Does Ubuntu Make Linux Look Bad?

Devices/Embedded

↺ Hands-On With the Boxee Set-Top Box and Remote

Phones

Nokia N900

↺ gTranslate – Translation Anywhere on N900

Palm

↺ Palm opens developer program, adds plug-in support
↺ Palm Prē lands in France
↺ Palm fishes for devs with $1m lure
↺ Palm updates devices, opens App Catalog, boosts gaming
↺ AT&T Will Add Android, Palm Devices, Boost Apps
↺ AT&T to begin selling Android and Palm smartphones in the U.S.

Android

↺ Android Unleashed
↺ 400,000 Motorola Backflip Android phones ordered by AT&T?
↺ The Backflip: Motorola’s Innovative Android Phone

Sub-notebooks

↺ Are Tablet PCs Destined to Flop?
↺ Does a Tablet PC Market Exist for Apple and Others?
↺ Hands On With the Litl [GNU/Linux] Webbook
↺ Screens From Former OLPC CTO Now in Devices
↺ After the Hype: The current state of OLPC and Sugar Labs

Free Software/Open Source

↺ Symbian Lays out Mobile OS Roadmap
↺ Tool King rebuilds its e-commerce site on an open source platform
↺ WSO2 Launches Open Source BAM for SOA
↺ Yahoo Helps IIT Bombay Set up Hadoop Cluster Lab
↺ Happy Birthday, Chris Messina, And Enjoy Advocating The Open Web At Google
↺ Lucid Imagination Streamlines Apache Solr for Enterprise Search Applications
↺ I Run 13 Browsers At Once; 11 of Them Just Went Open Source
↺ GlassFish ESB 2.2 released
↺ OrangeHRM – 300,000 Downloads and Counting…
↺ HIE deploys open-source interoperability software
↺ Asterisk – A Disruptive Force in IP Communications
↺ WANdisco Names Hyrum Wright to Lead Subversion Open Source Efforts
↺ Jan 14: Emerging Technologies & Trends Series in RTP presented in partnership with WorkSmart (Raleigh)

Mozilla

↺ Mozilla Drumbeat Aims to Expand Web Participation
↺ Firefox for Maemo closing in on final release
↺ Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 RC1
↺ Intelestream Extends Free Trial for intelecrm, the On Demand CRM Application for Small and Medium Businesses

Databases

↺ MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing

CMS

↺ Movable Type 5 Released, Adds Versioning, Better Management
↺ Bespoke CMS – bad news for you, good news for your agency
↺ VT4 using Drupal
↺ Ragnaroek 8.09.7 released

BSD

↺ BSD Magazine goes free

Openness

↺ Unreliable evidence? Time to open up DNA databases
↺ ISCB Licenses Virginia Tech’s GenoCAD Software to Ensure Long-Term Availability to Open Source Code

Programming

↺ What Java EE 6 Offers the Enterprise and Integration

Leftovers

↺ Acer Recalls Notebook Computers Due to Burn Hazard
↺ No, a nearby supernova won’t wipe us out
↺ Testing, Testing

Crime

↺ Former CEO of BetOnSports.com Sentenced to Prison Term
↺ Killing Organizers in Honduras
↺ Iraq files case against Blackwater: PM
↺ Cancer – The Deadly Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq

Security

↺ American Civil Rights Just Died. Again.
↺ More Surveillance Can Make Us Less Safe
↺ Dominic Lawson: If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened

Environment

↺ First Carbon Tariff Will Tax CO2 at the Border
↺ Copenhagen gatecrash protesters released after 20 days

Finance

↺ House panel wants Geithner to testify about New York Fed and AIG
↺ 2010: Giant Gathering Storm Clouds
↺ Fighting Trend, China Is Luring Scientists Home
↺ Keeping America’s Edge

Censorship/Civil Rights

↺ Wikileaks Funding Plan Could Be Risky

Internet/Web Abuse/DRM

↺ Court Notices That The FCC Appears To Have No Legal Mandate To Enforce Net Neutrality
↺ Court Questions FCC Authority to Impose Net Neutrality

Intellectual Monopolies/Copyrights

↺ The FFII calls to remove the chapter.
↺ Karel de Gucht grilled
↺ Fox News Sued For Copyright Infringement

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