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Source: Linux Today Midgard CMS: "The Midgard Project has released stable release of 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System. Midgard is a mature Free Software CMS package targeted for mid-to-high-end web services."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Apache Tuscany provides an easy-to-use open source infrastructure for the development and operation of SCA applications. This article shows you how to administer an SCA domain using a Tuscany Web-based domain manager UI and code, and how to use the domain administrative UI to deploy an SOA solution comprised of SCA components."

Source: Linux Today LinuxMedNews: "While fast-booting Splashtop desktops look promising, one killer application boldly going where Windows cannot go is languishing. That killer application is Multi-head, multi-user systems running off a single PC."
     
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynci: "While I find Wikipedia about as trustworthy as any random stranger at a pub, I can't deny that Wikipedia is incredibly popular. According to the Web traffic monitoring site Alexa on an average day 8.5% of the world's Internet users will visit the site."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "No use denying it. Parts of the open source industry are going to be sucked into Wall Street’s downdraft.:"
Source: Linux Today CIO: ""People typically don't care what operating system is on the netbooks, because they don't buy them to run a suite of applications like Microsoft Office, but to be on the Web using a Web browser," Nat Friedman said in an interview with IDG Applications Service."
      
Source: Linux Today 10 Things: "If you’re thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it — but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open. He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this big step."

Source: Linux Today Linux-Magazine: "Bottomley instead likened the OS X to a luxury jail and that Microsoft users are clearly finding themselves in one with dirty toilets in comparison. Mac users, he says, can't even see the cell bars for the plasma screens surrounding them. He emphasized that Apple might participate in Open Source, but that it gives little in return and doesn't disclose many of its components."
 
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "Chromium is an open-source browser project that is the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Right now, Chromium doesn't support Linux natively, but Codeweavers has created a Linux port called CrossOver Chromium that can be installed free of charge. This guide shows how to install CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu 8.04."
Source: Linux Today Techworld: ""One thing that Jabber allowed us to do was to provide server side rosters so that when a new user starts, they already had everyone else in their contact list," he said. "By looking at another user's profile, they can also get their mobile number and other contact information.""
 
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Using MultiView on Linux you can easily drive four, six, or even eight screens. In fact, up to 32 displays are theoretically supported on a single system (permitting you have enough graphics cards and PCI Express slots). MultiView also allows for OpenGL acceleration across all displays and does not rely upon Xinerama."
   
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Akkana Peck shows how you can speed up your Web searches with custom bookmarklets-- you don't need to be an ace coder to create your own; it's easy, fast, and powerful."
 
Source: Linux Today Tech Treasures: "when Richard Stallman, the Dean of the free software movement weighs in that it's actually stupid, it's going to make you stand up and take notice. So to get yet another view on all of this, I had a chat with Rishi Chandra, the product manager for Google Docs Enterprise."
Source: Linux Today Daily Artisan: "Linux is a secure and stable OS but is still vulnerable to bugs, security leaks and intrusion attacks specially if you are using it as a web server. To detect such attacks and security holes, security tools are needed. These can be used to patch up bugs, fix network leaks, prevent viruses, trojan horses and remote exploits."
Source: Linux Today Ars Technica: "750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft; the second is the annual dollar cost of IP infringement to the U.S. economy."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org if they use KDE."
  
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "eBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people - 10% of its workforce - redundant, it has had to own up to a serious breach of trust with its Internet telephony program, Skype."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "Yahoo could use a calendar, or 10 of them, to measure the time that's passed since the last time it updated its calendar offering. On Wednesday, though, Yahoo rolled out a beta version of its calendar app, complete with modern innovations such as CalDAV and iCal compatibility."
 
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "The first essays of the school year are coming due, and with the essays comes the need to outline and plan. GNU/Linux users are fortunate to have a number of outlining applications from which to choose."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "With Kernel 2.6 (default in recent releases of openSUSE & SuSE Linux), there are some fine tuning you can do to improve Network performance and get that extra out of your system."
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Kung Fu: "Wouldn't it be useful if you could add your own right-click option that performed a specific action on the file? For example, if you right-clicked a Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org document, how about if a Print document option appeared? If you right-click an image, how about if an option appeared to shrink the image or sharpen it?"

Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Or how about Cisco, with this impressive list of open-source licenses used for software embedded in Cisco's security appliances?"
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "The International Standards Organization (ISO) is up in arms over the fact that documentation for Microsoft's OOXML data format is now publicly available on the Internet."
 
Source: Linux Today Linuxworld: "David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, but lawyers watching the case say that the felony charge against him is a bit of a stretch."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "A Flash Player vulnerability could allow attackers to gain control of a user's webcam and microphone, according to a security advisory issued by Adobe. The company has issued a workaround; however a patch won't come until later."
 
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "Hacking into systems (albeit for testing purposes) is apparently getting easier with the upcoming open source Metasploit 3.2 framework, according to its creator."
     
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "If I had had SpeedCrunch or Qalculate! during high school, finishing homework really would've been child's play. From breaking down complex algebraic equations, to solving your calculus problems, to performing geometric computations and providing statistical answers, SpeedCrunch and Qalculate! are tools that offer quick solutions to difficult questions."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "In one of the biggest testaments yet of open source's security credentials, and of its ability to deliver security at lower cost, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has turned to open source to create part of the Tokeneer System."
    
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Forums: "The fix that has now been applied is the Debian fix, which purposely leaves the power management (and therefore the cycling) enabled when the laptop is working on battery."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "On one hand, as an implementation of Microsoft's .Net that's sponsored by Novell, it has been vilified both for the company it keeps and as a possible source of patent claims, should Microsoft choose to get nasty. On the other hand, Mono has been the platform of choice for such major projects as Second Life, which uses it to increase the efficiency of its servers."

Source: Linux Today Tech Broiler: "What is this, a freakin' Presidential debate when we conveniently leave critical facts out in order to support a highly flawed ideological position?"
   
Source: Linux Today Detector Pro: "nVidia released new binary linux drivers version 177.80. The new version has total 25 official changes and improvements. "
  
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "AMD's Barcelona launch was bumpier than a 737 departing Chicago into a storm off the Great Lakes. Plagued by delay after delay, then by a bug in the processor after it was supposed to ship, Barcelona was a lesson in how not to launch a new product."
Source: Linux Today Technacular: "Please find a list of links to quick reference guides/cheat sheets below. I will keep on updating this list as I find more."
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