Issue #120 / Nov 2010

Cover Theme: Tuning MySQL: Build a smarter and faster database

DVD: 10th Anniversary Edition: Complete Linux Magazine Archive on DVD!

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COMMUNITY: Cache

Community Notebook: 10 year anniversary

A look back at 10 years ago... and at 2010.

COMMUNITY: Doghouse

Remembrance of Things Past

maddog reflects on events from the early days of Linux and why you can’t always trust your memory.

COMMUNITY: Free Software Projects

TinyHeb, Liquid Feedback, and SparkleShare

Midwives battling bureaucracy, parties fighting against the general public’s lack of interest, and users needing to synchronize their data – here are three open source tools that attempt to solve the problems of the world.

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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal

Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
Debian 7.0 Debuts

The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released

Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
ack 2.0 Released

ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
SUSE Studio 1.3 Released

SUSE

New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

AMD , Citrix , google , Intel , Oracle

The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode

Android , linux , Mac , Windows

Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
OpenDaylight Project Formed

Citrix , IBM , Microsoft , Red Hat , VMware

OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.
Gnome 3.8 Released

Gnome , ownCloud

The new Gnome release includes privacy and sharing settings, allowing more user control over access to personal information.
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on New Browser Engine

Mozilla , samsung

Mozilla is collaborating with Samsung on a new web browser engine called Servo.