Links 29/05/2008: Migrations to GNU/Linux and More Success Stories
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-29 08:40:58 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-29 08:40:58 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Linux server sales continue to grow
HP and IBM share the market lead in overall server sales
- Microsoft Exchange dumped for Linux-based clone
After conducting an evaluation of alternatives, the hospital decided not to upgrade to a newer version of Exchange. Instead, it went with a Linux-based Exchange clone that it felt could meet the needs of its 700 users without forcing them and IT to learn a whole new system.
- Ulteo Virtual Desktop: Letting Linux Do Windows
- Controlling desktop applications with six degrees of freedom
Six degrees of freedom (6DOF) devices allow for movement in three axes, tilt in two axes, and rotation in the third. Some of these devices look like small joysticks -- for example, the SpaceNavigator.
- Gaming With The Open-Source R500 Driver
From the release of Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 1 to Multi-Pointer X being merged to master to the R500 3D milestone, it's been an exciting past 24 hours for the X.Org community.
- The Skinny on Linux for Thin Client Computing
"Linux makes sense in thin-client computing for a number of reasons. First, when you're cutting costs on the hardware and resources required for thin clients, you probably don't want to see savings eaten up by licensing costs for the [operating system]. Linux is free and now supports almost all of the user applications required in typical settings," said Jay Lyman, an analyst with The 451 Group.
- Configurable $6 65nm ARM9 chip runs Linux
- Report from Open Mind 2008
Earlier this month KDE Italia attended Open Mind 2008. A Free Software event organised by Roberto Dentice in San Giorgio near Naples. There were KDE talks and KDE demonstrations. Read on for the report.
- Can Seanodes' Linux solution replace pricey arrays?
Google
F/OSS
Rumours and Vapourware
Leftovers
- Information, Globalization and Democracy: The Utopian Moment?
- Private Copying Levy: Hardware Makers Ready For Europe-Wide ‘iPod Tax’?
- Five reasons to fire Ballmer
1) The Vista Technology Flop. Technically, Vista was crap.
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2) The Vista Business Failure: Microsoft has managed to sell junk before but this time it had set itself an impossible job.
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3) The Yahoo Fiasco: If Microsoft had pulled off the hostile takeover of Yahoo...
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4) The Fall of Microsoft Office. Remember when Microsoft was talking up how great the initial sales of Office 2007 were? A year later, in Microsoft's third quarter results, we see that Office's operating income has dropped from $3.4 billion, to $3.1 billion.
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5) Who doesn't love you baby? The stock market that's who. Today, Microsoft's stock is wobbling just over $28. The 52-week high was $37.50. What do you think will happen to Microsoft's stock when Bill officially retires? It won't be pretty.
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- Those who don't fake look unpopular and unimportant
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- The future of the Web does not look bright at all
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- Thankfully Gemini Protocol has nothing like JavaScript
- 'Tech' is Not Technology
- Some people use terms like 'Old Tech'
- IBM's Debt Rose by Almost 10 Billion Dollars in the Past 6 Months Alone
- The "hey hi" circus is coming to an end
- Yes, Master
- Gaslighting by actual racists
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- Microsoft: we speak for the thing that we are attacking! Follow the money...
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- Bobby Borisov got lazy
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- In Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston
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- A Nadella Memo Distracts From Microsoft's Cheapening Of the Workforce
- Right now the "MSM" (mainstream media) is flooded/overwhelmed by garbage pieces that relay lies for Nadella
- Vanishing Faces of GNU/Linux
- Free software projects do not depend on any one person or company to still exist
- Microsoft Says It Lost 400 Million Windows Users, Now It's Waiting for GNU/Linux to Stop Booting on 'Old' PCs
- When it comes to Windows, Microsoft is fully aware of the issue and statements it made earlier this summer suggest it lost 400 million Windows users
- Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, LinuxIac, and More
- Also: The Register's Microsoft agenda (new editor)
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- Misinformation is Not Intelligence
- It's low-grade plagiarism and it fails to show any signs of intelligence
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- Links for the day
- Bobby Borisov (LinuxIac) Has Apparently Begun Experimenting With LLM Slop, So We Cannot Trust LinuxIac Anymore
- So did LinuxIac become a slopfarm? Maybe not yet, but it's getting there
- Informa TechTarget's ITProToday is Becoming a Slopfarm Generated by Microsoft Chatbots
- Busted.
- 'Tech' Gimmicks Are for Advertising, Not for Usability
- In the case of Microsoft, they latched onto slop
- BetaNews Sacked Brian Fagioli and Deleted His Comments, But He Still Tries to Use the "BetaNews" Brand for Self-Affirmation
- Fagioli takes the work of other people
- [Meme] Hard to Be a Better Person?
- Sooner or later they'll realise that for each pound I spend they need to spend about 1,000 times more
- The LLM Con Artists Are Highly Destructive
- Who will ever be held accountable for this scam?
- Too Bribed by Microsoft to Move to Free Software?
- Microsoft lies and Microsoft bribery (in politics)
- New US Editor for The Register is a Microsoft Booster
- "Avram Piltch has served as US editor for The Register since July 2025."
- Microsoft Hiring European Politicians is Another Form of Bribery; There Should be a European Investigation
- When Microsoft bribed people in Europe for OOXML (there's no denying this!) a European government delegate said that Microsoft operated like a cult
- Reda Demanded That FSF Removes Its Founder, Now Reda Works Directly for Microsoft
- A sellout and a traitor, first working for GAFAM, now Microsoft
- PCLinuxOS is Raising Money to Support Development After Fire Incident at the Host
- PCLinuxOS has not had announcements lately
- Speed of the Site Should be Better Now
- The "bot attacks" impact the speed of the sister site too
- Getting More From AnalogNowhere
- Recently we used many images from AnalogNowhere
- Microsoft, Microsofters and 'Secure' Boot Shills Already Storming the LWN Report About Expiring Certificate, Shooting the Messenger
- LWN has clearly stuck a nerve
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
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- IRC logs for Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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- Don't trust anything Red Hat tells you about security
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- Links for the day
- Freedom Generally Wins at the End, History Shows (But It's Constantly Attacked, Too)
- At the moment people realise "Linux" (e.g. Android) isn't enough to guarantee any freedoms
- Over 3 Months Later Brett Wilson LLP Still Unable to Recruit a Media Lawyer?
- "Immediate start", but not found... still unfilled
- “Inhumane” and “Disgusting” Mass Layoff Execution, According to Microsoft Staff
- The workers are looking for other places to work
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has a New Slogan for Its 40th Anniversary
- The freedoms are what's most important
- Microsoft is Trying to "Pull a Nokia" on GNU/Linux as Desktop/Laptop Platform
- We all remember that rather well, don't we?
- LLM Slopfarms gbhackers.com, "Cyber Press" and CyberSecurityNews Are Drowning Google News (and Shame on Google for Feeding and Facilitating Them)
- All are run by the same people
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- Our Three Lawsuits Against Microsofters Are About to Become a Lot More Relevant to GNU/Linux
- The Master will easily understand why Garrett has been attacking me since 2012
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- New and Old
- On Ageism in Tech
- Slop Is Not Intelligence and It Does Not Enhance Productivity
- Like voice dictation, which cannot tell the difference between "sheet" and "shit"
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- Society is now paying the price for failing to tackle crimes at the EPO
- It's Time to Dump SharePoint and Here's What to Use Instead
- Nextcloud, ownCloud, Bookstack, MediaWiki, and MediaGoblin
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Tuesday, July 22, 2025
- Brett Wilson LLP Has Gone Silent
- Sometimes silence says more than nothing at all
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Planet Ubuntu, and LinuxTechLab
- some slopfarms show no remorse and they don't value their reputation at all
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Comments
Uncle_Sam
2008-05-29 11:49:11
WinFS, MinilalaWinblowSuperKernel... out the door !!
OMFG !! LOL !!!!
Ubuntu is going to slaughter Winblows even before it ever comes out.
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2008-05-29 12:18:50
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-29 12:22:39
pingpong
2008-05-29 13:41:55
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-29 13:46:05
peace
2008-05-29 13:56:59
They are very helpful there any questions you have they can help you! Which is why I suggested freenode!
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-29 16:03:38