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It's time to name Fedora 17 - Make It So Picard !

  • InternetNews; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Sep 14, 2011 8:27 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Red Hat
From thefedora 'Where's Beefy Miracle?' files:

It's that time of year again - when the Fedora community is asked to come up with the name of an upcoming Fedora release. This time it's Fedora 17, which won't be out until 2012.

Fedora 16 is currently set for release on November 1st and has the codename Verne.

The way that the Fedora naming system works is that there is supposed to be some kind of connection in name to the previous release. The Fedora 15 release was codenamed Lovelock.

Good Luck Linux Foundation

  • InternetNews; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Sep 14, 2011 7:29 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
From the 'So Say We All' files: I'm a huge fan of The Linux Foundation. It has had an incredibly positive impact on the Linux landscape. It is a unique vendor neutral organization that is an essential and integral part of Linux. The Linux Foundation this week was hit by a security breach that has taken its sites including LinuxFoundation.org and Linux.com offline. Yes, I really feel for the Linux Foundation, I know from experience that dealing with security breaches is a time consuming and involving process. Forensic analysis of logs and events is a challenging thing to do, especially when it's not entirely clear what your looking for.

Web content management's march to democratization: An open source perspective

  • FierceContentManagement; By Cheryl McKinnon (Posted by rsmiller on Sep 14, 2011 6:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
The WCM market today is a march to democratization of web communication. The rise of social business, online collaboration, cloud and SaaS applications could never have occurred at the rapid pace we see today without the open source WCM and web infrastructure tools that power so much of the Internet.

Fedora 17 Could Be Called Hugo Or Shakespeare

It's time for Fedora contributors to go crazy again... a.k.a. Red Hat is looking for codename proposals for Fedora 17, which will be their first community Linux release in 2012 to succeed the soon-to-be-released Fedora 16. Here's some of the names that have been proposed thus far...

LibreOffice 3.3 – One of the Finest Things Open Source

  • techiesguide.com; By Naweed Chougle (Posted by linuxsavvy on Sep 14, 2011 4:35 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups:
This article is about why LibreOffice is one of the finest things in open source, and a great software to use for those looking to fulfill basic needs with an office suite.

Centralized vs. Distributed SCM

The model that works for open-source projects might not work in the enterprise — or is that a false dichotomy?

Parallel Programming Crash Course



I've been covering various scientific programs the past few months, but sometimes it's hard to find a package that does what you need. In those cases, you need to go ahead and write your own code. When you are involved with heavy-duty scientific computing, you usually need to go to parallel computing in order to get the runtimes down to something reasonable. more>>

HOWTO: Scale Your Display under Linux

  • Thoughts on Technology; By Jeff Hoogland (Posted by Jeff91 on Sep 14, 2011 1:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Something that has always annoyed me about a good deal of netbooks is the fact that someone decided that 1024x600 was an acceptable maximum resolution. While this isn't always an issue, it becomes extra annoying when you attach an external display to your tiny computer. By default your are typically forced into one of two choices...

File Servers - The Business Case for High Availability

  • Managing FOSS for Business Results; By Laird Hariu (Posted by cjfsyntropy on Sep 14, 2011 12:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Debian
Inexpensive Linux based Pacemaker clusters can provide a cost effective way keep a file server operational even if one system fails. Read this business case analysis.

OpenTeacher – learn a new language with Linux

  • Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Sep 13, 2011 11:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
OpenTeacher is an opensource vocabulary training application that helps you learn a foreign language! Enter a list of words in both a known and a foreign language, and OpenTeacher will test you, you can save your list and repeat the test over time. OpenTeacher is an open source cross-platform application which works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Ready for Gnome shell 3.2? Meet the new user menu

The gnome released the gnome desktop 3.1.91 including the gnome shell 3.1.91. This will eventually become the 3.2 version of the awesome desktop. There are many changes happening in this new version. Within these are the new online accounts, new user menu, onscreen keyboard, gnome contacts, new font manager and numerous other changes. The new gnome shell version 3.1.91 have many of these changes already implemented.

Ghost in the Wires: The Kevin Mitnick Interview

  • ZDNet Zero Day Blog; By Ken Hess (Posted by khess on Sep 13, 2011 9:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview
The world’s most famous hacker discusses his new book, his exploits, his imprisonment and his success. Meet the Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick.

Linux Game Devs Upload Their Own Game on Pirate Bay, Strangely It Increases Sales

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Sep 13, 2011 9:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
To counter the piracy problem, Tiny Build Games who released Linux game 'No Time To Explain' few days back, uploaded their own version of game on Pirate Bay. But there is a difference is this version and the original game that you can buy from the game website.

Is Google Being Anti-Competitive?

  • ReadWriteHack; By Joe Brockmeier (Posted by jzb on Sep 13, 2011 8:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
It's not new to suggest that Google is too big, too influential, or trying to glom onto too many important bits of the Web. But some recent discussions on Reddit and news of Google Dart has raised the question again. Is Google being anti-competitive or threatening the open Web? More precisely, can Google do what makes sense as a business and not be (or be perceived as) anti-competitive?

Gedit as a Django IDE for Linux

  • MicahCarrick.com; By Micah Carrick (Posted by MicahCarrick on Sep 13, 2011 7:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: GNOME
That's right, gedit, the default text editor in GNOME, is actually a pretty bad ass IDE for Django web development. To those who have not really explored gedit it looks much like "Notepad" at first glance. Do not be fooled. gedit is incredibly fast, efficient, and stable. That makes it a great editor. Pair a great text editor with the right plugins and you got yourself a clean, lightweight, simple IDE.

How To Set Up SSL Vhosts Under Nginx + SNI Support (Ubuntu 11.04/Debian Squeeze)

This article explains how you can set up SSL vhosts under nginx on Ubuntu 11.04 and Debian Squeeze so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end. In addition to that I will show how to make use of SNI (Server Name Indication) to allow multiple SSL vhosts per IP address.

A crash course in PostgreSQL, part 2

In part 1, we learned important PostgreSQL fundamentals. Today, we'll learn how to populate a table with data, and about important concepts like schema, normalization, views, and transactions.

Acer Honeycomb tablet to ship with 4G, modest price

AT T will begin selling the 4G version of its 10.1-inch Iconia Tab Android 3.0 (& Honeycomb& ) tablet Sept. 18 for $480 outright, or $330 on contract. The Acer Iconia Tab A501 4G closely follows the typical Honeycomb script, from the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor to the five- and two-megapixel cameras, but it's significantly cheaper than most of its rivals.

Introducing Lubuntu Software Center

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 13, 2011 4:30 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
The upcoming Lubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system, due for release on October 13th, will introduce a new software center application.

10 Best Wallpaper Apps for Android

  • Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose (Posted by kiterunner on Sep 13, 2011 3:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Android is growing and so is the interest for Android platform among application developers. We have featured this awesome collection of top games for Android recently, now here are some really good wallpaper apps for Android which I think are among the best. Read on.

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