LGPL License Option Added to Qt.
Nokia today announced that its Qt cross-platform User Interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. Previously, Qt has been made available to the open source community under the General Public License (GPL) license. more... and Nokia Qt LGPL switch huge win for cross-platform development.

Super fast Ext4 filesystem arrives in Ubuntu 9.04.
Ext4, the next generation of Linux's Ext3 filesystem, is now available in the latest Ubuntu 9.04 installer images. Ext4 was officially declared stable in version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel, which was released last month. more...

WiFi password cracking with ATI and NVIDIA.
WiFi encryption has just got even less secure now that the Russians reckon you can crack WPA and WPA2 passwords with both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards. Back in October last year I reported how a Russian software company had developed a product to accelerate the recovery of both WPA and WPA2 encryption passwords that are used for WiFi security. more...

Active Directory comes to Linux with Samba 4.
Enterprise networks now have an alternative choice to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) servers, with the open source Samba project aiming for feature parity with the forthcoming release of version 4 more...

Xara LX and the leading, bleeding edge of free software graphics.
The latest vector graphics package for GNU/Linux is a Linux port of a proprietary Windows application called “Xara Xtreme”, which is in the process of being converted to a GPL license. There are a number of sharp broken edges along this path, including non-free library dependencies that need to be free-licensed or replaced with free versions, and support for free graphics standards like SVG in order to interoperate with other packages. more...

NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform, Live From CES.
At the Consumer Electronics Show this past week, NVIDIA was demonstrating a new reference platform for an ultra small form-factor multimedia PC and we should underscore the word "ultra". more...

Netbooks Head for the $200 Range: Good News for Open Source.
At this year's CES show, there was no shortage of netbooks, which have become a surprisingly strong challenge to the whole traditional notebook market. I remain surprised that more people in the open source community don't herald this trend as extremely positive for Linux, because Linux is making its way onto millions of netbooks and pre-loaded open source applications arrive with them. more...

Applications.
Qucs is an integrated circuit simulator which means you are able to setup a circuit with a graphical user interface (GUI) and simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit.
Chandler Project, a Note-to-Self Organizer designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring. and Open Source Application Foundation.
Nathive is a libre software image editor, similar to Adobe Photoshop, Corel Photo-Paint or The GIMP, but focused on usability, logic and providing a smooth learning curve for everyone.

Misc.
Btrfs aims for the mainline.
The status of Sugar, post-OLPC.
Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?
Fantastic Contraption Flash Game.
Tools for Migrating from Windows to Linux.
ITTIA releases relational embedded database for Freescale i.MX processors.
Windows worm numbers 'skyrocket'.
Pictures of India.
Pictures of Brazil.

How To Tips.

How To Tweak Nautilus to display size of files under their name.
How To Host interface networking made easy in VirtualBox 2.1.0.
How To Bash script to find all of your indexed web pages on Google.
How To Cloning Linux Systems With CloneZilla Server Edition (CloneZilla SE).

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