Links 14/07/2008: New Version of Linux, Mandriva Reviews
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-14 15:40:32 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-14 15:41:34 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Linux 2.6.26 [Released]
- Exaile — versantile audio player for GNOME
- 10 Awesome Linux T-shirt
- 10 Iconic Linux Logos
- Early Fedora 10 Artwork
Since I did a look at Ubuntu’s early concept art and since I am usually very impressed by Fedora’s final art, I decided that it would make sense to take a look at what has appeared on the Fedora Art Team wiki. I have actually been waiting a few days to do this, since, as of just a few days ago, there were not enough submissions that I liked to talk about.
- Xfe Review - Wonderful File Manager
In my opinion, Xfe is just awesome. If you never tried it until now, you really should take it for a spin, no matter what desktop environment you are using. Themes will make it fit well in any of them, it's fast, it provides powerful enough features, it has a great clean and intuitive interface, and in my opinion it's the simplest to learn from all the file managers I tried up to date. A great piece by all means, which can surprisingly become the file manager of choice after one single try.
- Tux comes to Felton, California
It's one thing to to change someone over from Windows to Linux. That in itself is a gratifying experience. Then, you get your second defection from the chained-down world of Microsoft Windows, then the third...
- Alcatel-Lucent Adds Laptop Disk-Encryption Support
- Linux Thin Client:Considering the Network
Mandriva
F/OSS
Security
Recent Techrights' Posts
- IBM Misleads and Gaslights Investors With Slop Sold as "AI" (the Business is Waning, Mass Layoffs Continue)
- People who do this are dishonest. They should not be put in charge.
- Submit Your Suggestions for EU's Embrace of Software Freedom by Tomorrow
- Time to leave GAFAM (US) hegemony behind
- Slopless Weekend
- This is not sustainable
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- Gemini Links 02/02/2026: Stages of Age, Workflows, and Counting Capsules
- Links for the day
- Oracle's Debt Rose Over 20 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months
- Is "hey hi" becoming a synonym for debt?
- Oligarchs' 'Speech Zones' Are Not the "Public Square"
- The apologists of social control media, including press that got "addicted" to such fake "media", are helping dictators and oligarchs grab the public attention away from the real press
- Links 02/02/2026: 'Melania' a Horror Movie "Will They Inherit Our Blogs?"
- Links for the day
- Doing More Detailed Series (Long-Form Works)
- Long readings or book-like reading binges are only possible when parts are suitably labeled (name and numbers) if not interlinked
- Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part II - Racism, Cocaine Use and White-Collar Corruption
- When you hire people illegally, to work for cocaine users and keep quite about the cocaine use, what will be the impact on the reputation of an institution?
- A Can of WORMS - Part II - Darkening the Name of RMS, Associating It With Crime
- Beware projection tactics
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 01, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, February 01, 2026
- Gemini Links 01/02/2026: Fossil Heating Installations and Some FOSDEM Coverage
- Links for the day
- The State of Memory Leaks in GNU/Linux
- The issue won't be solved by adding more memory
- Links 01/02/2026: Nvidia's Jensen Talks Down Microsoft 'Open' 'Hey Hi' and Britain's Starmer Makes Friends With China, Japan
- Links for the day
- Why Microsoft Accenture Has So Many Layoffs in Recent Years
- The debt of Accenture doubled a year ago
- Links 01/02/2026: Public TV Gutted by Cheeto, Billionaires Fund a Cheeto Propaganda Movie in 'Documentary' Clothing
- Links for the day
- The New Site ("New Techrights", SSG Since 2023) Exceeds the Old Site in Requests
- The "New Techrights" gets about twice as many requests as the "old" (WordPress) "Techrights", the site of 2006-2023
- 20 Years Ago
- Some time soon all this slop frenzy will become like yesterday's "blockchain" or "metaverse"
- Gemini Links 01/02/2026: Zdzisław Beksiński and Disconnected Git Workflow
- Links for the day
- Talks About Nadella's Microsoft Exit After Chatter About Tim Crook Leaving Apple (Years Ahead of Retirement Age)
- Mass layoffs and record debt do not represent a company's health.
- We Still Cover the Same Problems We Spoke of 20 Years Ago
- We're not easily seduced by "novelty" (new things), we try to judge them critically
- Patents Standing in the Way
- They also cause environmental harm
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 31, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, January 31, 2026
- IBM, a Microsoft Company
- Microsoft and IBM as a pair go a long way back
- A Lot Less GAFAM in Scandinavia
- Are they reacting to geopolitics and risks from the US?
- IBM Kills Companies It Bought (Neudesic Seems Like Latest Casualty)
- Why isn't even a single publisher investigating those things?
- Fake "Linux" Articles
- Just because some platform has "Linux" in the domain name and/or site name does not imply that it is a news/Linux site
- Gemini Links 31/01/2026: "Proof Without Content" and "Technology Connections"
- Links for the day
- Links 31/01/2026: Microsoft "OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands", Its Proprietary Chaffbot Faces More Lawsuits
- Links for the day
- Links 31/01/2026: "Introducing Encrypt It Already" and "Huge Cache of Epstein"
- Links for the day
- A Can of WORMS - Part I - Trying to Throw RMS Under the Bus at MIT and Everywhere Else
- This series won't give air to online 'trolls'
- Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part I - An Introduction
- When the series ends, some time around the second or third EPO strike of this year, we'll contact the relevant authorities and plead for intervention
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part I - Who Regulates This Regulator? (Only Itself!)
- We won't self-censor or prematurely terminate this series
- Norway Almost Trusts Russia More Than the Bill Gates (Sleeping With Young Russian Girls) Company, Microsoft
- Microsoft represents crime
- Riddle Us This... (Jim Zemlin and Bill Gates)
- Do these people even understand the literal meaning of "safe space"?
- Is "Nobel Prize for Peace" a Sick Person's 'Code Word' for Gangbanging Now? Ask Bill Gates.
- Watch all the Gates apologists getting all silenced/silent
- BBC Gaslights Women Sexually Exploited (Many Under Legal Age) for Its Rich Sponsor, Bill Epsteingate (Gates)
- Is this a national broadcaster or a propaganda tool "For Rent"?
- Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' Reportedly About to Become Bankrupt, Seeking Emergency Cash Infusion (Loans)
- the money promised to Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' failed to arrive
- Gemini Links 31/01/2026: Deep Ice and Slide Rules
- Links for the day
- Writing About Abuse
- Never ever allow misogynists to get their way if you strive to live in a decent society
- MIT DEDP MicroMasters online learner's blog post about cover-up linked to resignation of Swiss financial regulator
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Salary Erosion Procedure (SAP) as the Primary Reason for EPO Strikes
- They focus on financials, as the corruption aspects are un-sayable or unspeakable, except in private
- IBM Bluewashing: Feels Like IBM is Scuttling Neudesic (and Some of Red Hat)
- We recently saw some Red Hat staff joining a Microsoft proxy
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 30, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, January 30, 2026
- Microsoft Stock Collapsing Due to the Slop Bubble and Microsoft is Hiding Budget 'Black Holes'
- Microsoft does not perform like it tells "the media" and "the market"
Comments
Al Roberts
2008-07-14 20:19:28
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3560
"Writing Plasma Applets in C#"