Open Source News
Linux Arpeggiators, Part 1
In my last article I looked at performance loopers for Linux. This week I begin a 2-part review of similar applications called arpeggiators. more>>
Tweaked: Ubuntu on a HTC Touch Pro 2 [Video]
Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas
GNOME's Google Summer of Code Admins are looking for a few good ideas. In case you missed it, here's the post from Ruben Vermeersch that went out to devel-announce and foundation-announce:
It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all but we need your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will start to roll in on March 29, but we'd like to make sure there are plenty of projects from them to chose from and have mentors ready to volunteer their time.
Interview with Linux Journal Virtual Editor Bill Childers
Carlie: Bill Childers is Linux Journal's Virtual Editor. How do you think your editor Jill Franklin came up with that one? more>>
OK Palm, We're Ready for the Foleo Now
Ahh, poor Palm. Sure, they have their fancy new WebOS toys -- but it wasn't that long ago they were banking on the Foleo changing the mobile world as we knew it. Sadly, they were just a little too early, and a little too lame. Here's the good news, Palm: We're ready now. Let me give you a bit of a vision, and you run with it... more>>
Book Excerpt: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
This article is an excerpt from the new 2nd Ed. of Mark Sobell's book, A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, published Nov. 2009 by Prentice Hall Professional, ISBN 0131367366, Copyright 2010 Mark G. Sobell. For additional sample content from a selection of chapters, please visit the publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0131367366 more>>
Report: North Korea Develops own Linux Distribution
Ubuntu dumps the brown, introduces new theme and branding
Ubuntu gets a new logo and ditches brown!!!!!!111
Illegal use of term - five yard penalty
From Thursday, March 4, 2010 Washington DC Express print edition:
Megan Fox Thinks She's Linux...Or Something Megan Fox has slept with only two men...."My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine -- the world owns everything else." more>>
Interview with Linux Journal Associate Editor Shawn Powers
Carlie: What is it that you do for Linux Journal?
Shawn: That's a scary question for your boss to ask... :)
Carlie: I meant "Tell our readers what you do for Linux Journal". :p more>>
Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently?
Sudo Axes Escalation Glitch
Among the important benefits of Linux's permission hierarchy is its ability to keep untrusted users from running amok. The all-or-nothing nature of root access, however, can present headaches when users are trusted, but only so far. That is a problem the sudo utility attempts to solve, and does so fairly well — except for the occasional glitch. more>>
Should Open Source Be An Enemy Of The State?
Linux Journal Insider - April 2010
Linux Journal Insider is your monthly peek at what to expect from the new issue of Linux Journal, before it even hits the newsstands. This month we discuss software development! Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin give you the inside scoop on topics, articles, and geekery in general. more>>
iPlayer On, iPlayer Off
The BBC's iPlayer has long been a thorn in the side of the Open Source community. Since it entered public beta in mid-2007, the BBC has consistently flip-flopped between completely ignoring FOSS users, serving them third-rate pacifier versions, and begrudgingly granting access to what Windows users have had all along. And the flipping continues. more>>
Working with Graphics Text in OpenOffice.org
One of the least understood features of OpenOffice.org is graphics text. People understand vaguely that it differs from regular text, but exactly how it differs or why anyone should care is mostly unknown. However, if you know the distinction, graphics text can work for you in ways that regular text cannot. more>>
The Move to Linux – “Daddy’s a penguin!”
It might come as a surprise that terms like Linux and Open Source and epithets like bloody Microsoft and it shouldn’t be this hard are fairly common in my household. And not always spoken by me! more>>









