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IP attorney Edward J. Naughton is repeating his arguments that Google's use of Linux kernel header files within Android may be in violation of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), and tries to discredit Linus Torvalds' thoughts on the matter along the way. Naughton, or the clients he may be representing, seems intent on trying to cast doubt on the legal framework upon which Google's Android platform rests. To that end, Naughton has released a detailed whitepaper containing what he claims are more examples of the kind of problems he's been pointing out. Here's the basic premise of Naughton's arguments:

Fabio Erculiani proudly announced last evening, November 9th, the immediate availability for download of three new Sabayon Linux 7 editions, for the LXDE, Enlightenment 17 and Awesome desktop environments.

The Wine development release 1.3.32 is now available.

BitTorrent Inc. promised last year, when they released the uTorrent Server for Linux, a client version of the extremely popular uTorrent torrent downloader.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache, and this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx instead of Apache. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx and Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

This is how I generally setup a new debian server or vps. This process normally only takes a few minutes to have a nice, secure, production worthy lamp setup and running quickly. This is one of the main reasons I love debian so much. In this I assume that you have a bare newly rented server without any prior installations and I cover a few of my common practices that make my life as a sysadmin a little bit easier. We will forget for now that some of their policy decisions seem to be motivated by to much coffee and estrogen.

An Australian retailer is defying Apple and the courts by continuing to sell Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Aussies, despite the temporary injunction.

It's been a year of new developments for open source. 2011 began with open source web content management system Drupal announcing Drupal 7 and the addition of native support for RDFa, a technological building block for the semantic web. And just last week, DotNetNuke said it would use CSS and HTML5 to ensure websites adapt automatically to an array of mobile devices.

KDE's Aaron Seigo has a new blog post to share about improvements to Plasma Workspaces in the forthcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.8...

OpenStack provides an easy-to-use GUI front end and a command line front end for all major cloud platforms and all major VM formats

Currently the CentOS 6 packages need to be supplemented from other repos in order to install many perl modules for example. Unfortunately, the RpmForge repo is behind so you will need to add the Epel repo as well. If you do this be sure to use yum priorities to help sort it all out.

Fedora 16 GNOME3 is as good as GNOME3 system can be. It is stable, solid and has good reputation. If you like interface of "new wave" desktop environments (GNOME3, Unity), then you should be able to use Fedora without many issues.

Yes, I know: why another webserver tutorial when there are so many good Apache howtos on the Internet? Because this is about what we've been saying for a while: use the right tool for the right job. And while we don't want to badmouth Apache, which is indeed a quality webserver, it offers lots of capabilities that aren't needed on a small scale machine. That's like using a Hummer for commuting, when a Smart would do just fine, if not better. So, if you need to quickly be online and offer services with a small website, Monkey might be for you.

LXer Feature: 10-Nov-2011

I never knew I needed a tablet the same way I did not know I needed a cell phone. Once that first cell phone landed in my pocket, I never looked back. The transition was purely natural. It increased my productivity by allowing me access to hundreds of previously physically-based things. My phone now scans my receipts (no paper, no saving and stashing), tracks my tasks (no To Do lists floating around), takes photos (no extra camera), and a hundred other backpack-lightening life upgrades.

GNOME 3 has become something of a polarising moment for the popular Linux desktop. In chasing visions of tablets, touchscreens and the mythical "everyday user", the GNOME 3 Shell has left many Linux power users scratching their heads, wondering why the GNOME developers decided to fix a desktop that wasn't broken.

The last stable release Mozilla Firefox 8 is now available for Linux, Android, MAC OS X, and Windows. Firefox 8 for desktop and mobile devices which known as Fennec as well, both brings many enhancements, performance improvements and new features.

Need to make some changes to your iptables rules running on one of your servers? Don't worry. While iptables can be a bit risky in that it'll let you add rules without checking your logic there are a few steps that can make your life much easier. Also, as just a general tip: Whenever you are working with modifying network access to a machine or just managing a server in general it pays to have local and/or remote console access to the machine.

A full review of Kubuntu 11.10, including a gallery of images.

Been 7 years since the first release of Mozilla Firefox version 1. Since the first release of Firefox web browser become one of the most usable web browser by many users. Firefox comes in the second place and has 25% approx of web browsers usage share. Latest version of Mozilla Firefox 8 become 32 times faster than the first release of Firefox, and always brings the newest features, security improvements and more stability with every release. Now Mozilla Celebrates the 7th birthday of Firefox web browser.

As newer distributions appear, older ones have to retire. Therefore, we are sorry to announced today that the Fedora 14 (Laughlin) operating system will reach End of Life (EOL) next month, on December 8th, 2011.