Linux Vendors Head to the Cloud in Search of Cash
InternetNews: "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"

Editor's Note: Freedom is Not Embarrassing
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.

How To Configure SSH Keys Authentication With PuTTY And Linux Server In 5 Quick Steps
HowtoForge: "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 o... Read more

Eschalon Review - Commercial Role-Playing Game for Linux
Tuxarena: "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 ... Read more

Will AES crypto go the way of MD5?
Netstat -vat: "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."
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Black Duck Highlights Diversity in Open-Source Licensing
A study by Black Duck Software shows increasing diversity in license types being chosen for open-source projects. Black Duck makes software for analyzing open-source code. - Black Duck Software, a maker of software for analyzing open-source code, on Ju... Read more

OASIS: New IP Policy Makes Room for Open Source
In a nod to the open-source community, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, revises its intellectual property policy to include a non-assertion mode, which means standards contributors must forgo royalty clai... Read more

Canonical to Certify Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition on HP ProLiant G6
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux project, is expected to announce a collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to deliver an additional high-performance server configuration for Ubuntu users. - Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubun... Read more

Labs Gallery: Fedora 11 Shows Significant Virtualization Gains
Fedora 11, the latest release of Red Hat's community-oriented Linux OS, can serve in a full gamut of Linux roles on the server and desktop. And, as usual, Fedora 11 gives users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux an early look at what's to come in their operating... Read more

Fedora 11's Biggest Improvements Are in Virtualization, eWEEK Labs Finds
REVIEW: Fedora 11 provides a sneak peak at what's coming in the more staid and stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux. During tests, eWEEK Labs found that the biggest improvements in Fedora 11 come in the area of virtualization, although Fedora still lags system... Read more
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Stable kernels 2.6.30.1, 2.6.29.6, and 2.6.27.26
Stable kernels 2.6.30.1, 2.6.29.6, and 2.6.27.26 have been released by the stable team. Each contains quite a number of patches (111, 35, and 32 respectively) all over the tree, some with security implications. The 2.6.29.6 release comes with an ... Read more

Pianoteq3 For Linux: A Product Review (Linux Journal)
Dave Philips reviews the Linux version of Pianoteq (commercial software) on Linux Journal. "On the 15th of May 2009 the Modartt company announced the release of version 3.0.3 of their award-winning Pianoteq, a professional-quality digital keyboard ... Read more

Fellowship interview with Smári McCarthy (FSFE)
The Free Software Foundation Europe presents an interview with Smári McCarthy. "Stian Rødven Eide: One of the most profiled projects you have been involved with is the Fab Lab, having headed the Icelandic branch for over a year now. While b... Read more

GNOME Journal Issue 15
The July, 2009 edition of the GNOME Journal has been published. Contents include: "a review of Project Hamster by Les Harris, an interview on working with upstream with Laszlo Peter by Stormy Peters, using git for GNOME translators by Og Maciel, an... Read more

Thursday Security Updates
CentOS has updated seamonkey (arbitrary code execution). Fedora 9 has updated xorg-x11-xfs (race condition). Fedora 10 has updated xorg-x11-xfs (race condition). Red Hat Enterprise Linux has updated pidgin (denial of ... Read more
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A new year, a new Linux.com

Android-powered G1 phone is an enticing platform for app developers

Municipalities open their GIS systems to citizens

Interclue and the pitfalls of going proprietary

Patterns and string processing in shell scripts

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Configuring storage in FreeNAS
An excerpt from Hungry Pengiun's book Learning FreeNAS has been published by Linux.com. The excerpt is called "Configuring storage in FreeNAS"... Here is an excerpt from the excerpt!!!The essence of the FreeNAS server is to provide storage that ... Read more

Hungry Penguin's PC-BSD 7 review
I (Hungry Penguin) have written another article for Linux.com, this time about PC-BSD.Until recently FreeBSD lacked an easy-to-use desktop version. In 2005 the PC-BSD project was started to provide just that. This month PC-BSD version 7 was released. I do... Read more

LearnFreeNAS.com
Hi,To coincide with the release of my "Learning FreeNAS" book I have started a new website LearnFreeNAS.com.It is a one stop site for tips, articles, tutorials and videos about FreeNAS the Open Source Network Attached Storage OS.Thanks,THP

Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros
The Hungry Penguin's latest article “Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros” has been published on Linux.com.In the article I review the mini-distros DSL and PuppyLinux and also the full desktop distributions PendriveLinux, Ubuntu and Mandriva Flash.I als... Read more

File Synchronization with Unison
Linuxjournal.com have an interesting HOWTO on File Synchronization with Unison
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Celebrate the 4th of July From the Command Line
Download in .ogv format For the source code see fireworks-command-line. read more

Fireworks from the Command Line
To kick off the upcoming 4th of July celebrations we present the following bash script for your enjoyment. read more

Tech Tip: Color man Pages
To add a bit of color to your man pages install the most pager. For most DEB based distros: $ sudo apt-get install most For most RPM based distros: $ yum install most Failing these, get the source here. read more

Reserve Your Space on the Australian Stage
The Triple Crown of Linux conferences — if there is one — is surely the Linux Symposium, the Linux Kongress, and linux.conf.au. It was just a month ago that we passed on the message to LinuxJournal.com readers that the time to get their name o... Read more

Making Processes Feel Important
How to use nice and renice to change the priority level of your processes. Download in .ogv format read more
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Municipalities open their GIS systems to citizens

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Patterns and string processing in shell scripts

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SimpleHomeNet Unveils Revolutionary, Flash-based User Interface for its EZSrve Gateway Controller
Released today SimpleHomeNet's new Flash-based application for its EZSrve™ simplifies home automation control through speed and ease of use. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/pr... Read more

NCH Software Simplifies Interactive Voice Response
New Web Console Offers Easy Management and Remote Access of Voice Services (PRWeb Jul 2, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NCH_Software/IVM/prweb2604234.htm

Penguin Computing Delivers University Of Delaware's Fastest Supercomputer to Global Computing Laboratory
Custom GPGPU cluster to be used for the development and testing of next generation parallel computing algorithms for molecular modeling (PRWeb Jun 30, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/06/prweb2592404.htm ... Read more

Application Server Software Platform Market to Reach $4.43 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Application Server Software Platform market. Over the years, modification in application server architectures to meet evolving market needs have revolutionized the application server... Read more

IGEL's New Linux Universal Desktop Firmware Helps Customers Save Time, Money and Energy
• New standby power management functionality eliminates long boot times• New firmware also adds important Linux multimedia and virtualization upgrades (PRWeb Jun 29, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases... Read more
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