Links 20/05/2008: More GNU/Linux Servers, Handhelds, Points of Sale
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-20 06:27:53 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-20 06:27:53 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Open source in Japan: Q&A with the President of Plat'Home
- Android Developer Challenge: Early Apps Lookin' Sharp
Google has just wrapped up the Android Developer Challenge that it announced back in November. Android, of course, is Google's Linux-based mobile platform, slated to show up in a wave of new mobile phones later this year.
- JP Morgan Tech Show: Palm Sees Software Lifting its Fortunes
Well, on the way to that Linux software, Palm hopes to return to increasing sales and return to profitability a couple of ways, said Brown: one, the Centro, is available at 10 carriers now and will be spreading to more carriers globally.
- Die-shrunk Cell processor, blade run Linux
Big Blue touts the openness of Linux as helping data center managers improve power efficiency. The AS22 ships with a newly upgraded Software Development Kit (SDK) for Multicore Acceleration v3 based on Red Hat's forthcoming Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2.
- Red Hat Summit Invades Boston
- The Demographics of i Sales and Shipments
While Linux is nowhere near as popular at i shops, spending came to $200 million, with 36 percent of midrange shops having Linux somewhere in their data centers and 35 percent of large enterprises having Linux. HP has the biggest piece of the Linux pie within the IBM OS/400-i5/OS-i installed base--a bit embarrassing considering that the iSeries got native support for Linux eight years ago--followed up by IBM's own 19 percent spending share, Dell's 14 percent share, and Sun Microsystems' 5 percent share.
- POS systems run uClinux
- Announcing Exherbo!
- 2.6.26-rc3, "Another Week, Another -rc Release"
- Ubuntu - 8.04 (Review)
- Hands on: The changing face of Fedora
Ubuntu may be the most popular desktop distribution, but Fedora support is strong
F/OSS
Security and Crime
Microsoft
- Prime minister Brown backs Google
In a speech that read like a tacit disapproval of convicted monopolist Microsoft, Brown banged on before an audience of business bigwigs about the stupidity of protectionism.
- Google mulls Microsoft response
Speaking at the Google Zeitgeist conference in Hertfordshire, hosted by the internet company's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, chief executive, said: "After this press conference the three of us will meet and decide what our response is."
- Users Report More Trouble With Windows XP SP3
- Microsoft: Don't Misunderstand UAC, Other Vista Features
In its continued attempt to convince business customers to adopt Vista, Microsoft has outlined and tried to explain some of what it calls the OS's most "misunderstood" features in a document posted to -- then mysteriously removed from -- its Web site this week.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Amid Online Reports of XBox Sales Collapsing, Mass Layoffs in More Teams, and Windows Making Things Worse (Admission of Losses, Rumours About XBox Canceled as a Hardware Unit)...
- Windows has loads of issues, also as a gaming platform
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- Consent & Debian's illegitimate constitution
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The Time Our Server Host Died in a Car Accident
- If Debian has internal problems, then they need to be illuminated and then tackled, at the very least in order to ensure we do not end up with "Deadian"
- China's New 'IT' Rules Are a Massive Headache for Microsoft
- On the issue of China we're neutral except when it comes to human rights issues
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- WeMakeFedora.org: harassment decision, victory for volunteers and Fedora Foundations
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 27/03/2024: Terrorism Grows in Africa, Unemployment in Finland Rose Sharply in a Year, Chinese Aggression Escalates
- Links for the day
- Links 27/03/2024: Ericsson and Tencent Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Links 27/03/2024: BBC Resorts to CG Cruft, Akamai Blocking Blunders in Piracy Shield
- Links for the day
- Android Approaches 90% of the Operating Systems Market in Chad (Windows Down From 99.5% 15 Years Ago to Just 2.5% Right Now)
- Windows is down to about 2% on the Web-connected client side as measured by statCounter
- Sainsbury's: Let Them Eat Yoghurts (and Microsoft Downtimes When They Need Proper Food)
- a social control media 'scandal' this week
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Windows/Client at Microsoft Falling Sharply (Well Over 10% Decline Every Quarter), So For His Next Trick the Ponzi in Chief Merges Units, Spices Everything Up With "AI"
- Hiding the steep decline of Windows/Client at Microsoft?
- Free technology in housing and construction
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- We Need Open Standards With Free Software Implementations, Not "Interoperability" Alone
- Sadly we're confronting misguided managers and a bunch of clowns trying to herd us all - sometimes without consent - into "clown computing"
- Microsoft's Collapse in the Web Server Space Continued This Month
- Microsoft is the "2%", just like Windows in some countries
- Links 26/03/2024: Inflation Problems, Strikes in Finland
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 26/03/2024: Losing Children, Carbon Tax Discussed
- Links for the day
- Mark Shuttleworth resigns from Debian: volunteer suicide and Albania questions unanswered, mass resignations continue
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 26/03/2024: 6,000 Layoffs at Dell, Microsoft “XBox is in Real Trouble as a Hardware Manufacturer”
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 26/03/2024: Microsofters Still Trying to 'Extend' Gemini Protocol
- Links for the day
- Look What IBM's Red Hat is Turning CentOS Into
- For 17 years our site ran on CentOS. Thankfully we're done with that...
- The Julian Paul Assange Verdict: The High Court Has Granted Assange Leave to Appeal Extradition to the United States, Decision Adjourned to May 20th Pending Assurances
- The decision is out
- The Microsoft and Apple Antitrust Issues Have Some But Not Many Commonalities
- gist of the comparison to Microsoft
- ZDNet, Sponsored by Microsoft for Paid-for Propaganda (in 'Article' Clothing), Has Added Pop-Up or Overlay to All Pages, Saying "813 Partners Will Store and Access Information on Your Device"
- Avoiding ZDNet may become imperative given what it has turned into
- Julian Assange Verdict 3 Hours Away
- Their decision is due to be published at 1030 GMT
- People Who Cover Suicide Aren't Suicidal
- Assange didn't just "deteriorate". This deterioration was involuntary and very much imposed upon him.
- Overworking Kills
- The body usually (but not always) knows best
- Former Red Hat Chief (CEO), Who Decided to Leave the Company Earlier This Month, Talks About "Cloud Company Red Hat" to CNBC
- shows a lack of foresight and dependence on buzzwords
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 25, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, March 25, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Discord Does Not Make Money, It's Spying on People and Selling Data/Control (38% is Allegedly Controlled by the Communist Party of China)
- a considerable share exists
- In At Least Two Nations Windows is Now Measured at 2% "Market Share" (Microsoft Really Does Not Want People to Notice That)
- Ignore the mindless "AI"-washing
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Still Has Hundreds of Thousands of Simultaneously-Online Unique Users
- The scale of IRC