Links 21/07/2008: More Large Companies Sidle with GNU/Linux, X Snubs NVIDIA BLOBs
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-21 20:42:15 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-21 20:43:16 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Intel snubs Microsoft; offers Linux certification
Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.
- Intel UMPC chip enters service as server CPU
Yes, we're talking Intel's Atom, specifically the 1.6GHz 230, which Bytemark's now using as the basis for what it claimed were its lowest-cost dedicated Linux-running servers yet.
- Alitheia Online Demo Available
- Why do GNOME people always play the man?
- RS: Ministry backs localised GNU/Linux distribution and CMS
The Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society last month presented Cp6Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution translated into Serbian, based on the GNU/Linux distributions Debian and Ubuntu.
The localisation of the GNU/Linux distribution was carried out by the School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Belgrade. Its name is derived from the Cyrillic writing of 'Serbian Linux', "ÃÂÃâ¬Ã±-ûøýÃÆúÃÂ".
- Stuff That Works With Linux #1
- Review: Sabayon Linux 3.5S
abayon 3.5 is a definite step up from 3.4a, despite only being a single subversion higher. The improvements and changes allow for a very complete, complex, yet simple and easy to use Linux distribution that can serve the needs of everyone from the UMPC and older PC users to those with the latest, greatest hardware. Sabayon Linux 3.5 really has a something for everyone, and it does an excellent job of fulfilling their motto of "Dreams we can believe in." And Sabayon 3.5 is more than a dream I can believe in, it's a reality I can use and trust.
- Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC
Out of the many distributions that work on the Eee PC, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring (or 2008.1) is one that works exceptionally well. It can be installed to the built-in SSD or onto an external SD card.
- Brazilian Federal Court Unifies IT Infrastructure With Red Hat Solutions
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Distrito Federal Justice Court (TJDFT) has implemented Red Hat solutions across the IT systems of its 16 courts and is leveraging the performance, security and cost-effective benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite.
- Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks.
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Windows’ memory usage went up by 0.07GB, or 71.68MB. The CPU still fluctuated madly but hung around 20%. Under Fedora, memory usage increased by only 50MB and with a maximum processor utilisation of 4%, shortly resuming to 1% while sitting idle (with Windows still jumping all about.)
Ubuntu
Devices
- Linux-powered CherryPal uses just 2W
The CherryPal mini-desktop runs an embedded version of Debian on a Freescale processor running at 400MHz, with 256MB of RAM and 4GB of internal flash storage.
- Towards using the FreeRunner as my primary phone
First of all, having a phone that you can SSH into and do all the usual Linux-y stuff on is very, very, cool. When you plug the phone into your GNU/Linux computer it appears as a device on the other end of a new network interface usb0. An SSH server is configured and works out of the box. You need to do a small amount of configuration to let your FreeRunner use your computer's connection to get to the internet.
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I installed a PDF reader and downloaded a couple of e-books to the phone. Astonishingly I can (pretty comfortably) read pages formatted for printed books on the FreeRunner's screen.
- Jailbreak for iPhone 3G released: how to use
- Q5 interview - John Bruggeman, Wind River
How important is Linux and move to open-source environments?
Growth of Linux went faster than anyone thought it would. For us the Linux business has grown from zero to $50m in 24 months. Most of our Linux customers originally experimented with free software and then they discovered the hidden costs.
- Automotive Linux drives innovation
There are vendors developing embedded operating systems for the automotive infotainment market but they do not have the scale to bring all the new and exciting capabilities to the equipment quickly. Well established real-time operating systems such as Wind River’s VxWorks can have around 50,000 developers and still can’t provide all the required drivers and interfaces in the time needed.Because of this, a number of large car and equipment manufacturers have been working on ways to provide innovative new equipment designs.
- Timesys Announces Embedded Linux Support for TI OMAP(TM) 35x
- Linux-friendly SBC is cool, rugged type
F/OSS
Security
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Estimated or Educated Guess at Number of Desktops and Laptops With GNU/Linux: 112,500,000
- What is 4.5% of 2.5 billion? It is about 112,500,000
- New Record High for Android in Mozambique
- Next week Microsoft will have to admit (but hide) that Windows revenue sank again, possibly at the rate of over 10% per year
- Old Does Not Mean Bad and Older is Not Always Worse
- The quality of the sound is still the same as it was 30 years ago
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- [Meme] Russia Having a Field Day Seeing How Microsoft Bricks Its own Computer Systems
- Russia didn't even have to do a thing
- Why We Need to Make Time for More Videos
- Videos are neither out of style nor have fallen out of grace/fashion
- GNU/Linux+ChromeOS in Africa: Reaching Record Levels for This Year and Soon 4% on Desktops/Laptops
- So says statCounter this month
- Links 27/07/2024: Russia's Central Bank Raises Key Interest Rate to 18%, Many More Journalists Laid Off
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 27/07/2024: Donut Stop and Wayland Concerns
- Links for the day
- linuxsecurity.com Classified as 100% Slop (LLM Spam)
- How long can they carry on like this?
- Links 27/07/2024: Quicket Scooped up by Ticketmaster, Microsoft Uses Windows' Global Outage as Excuse to Loosen Antitrust Enforcement
- Links for the day
- European Governments Shift Towards Mandating Free Software in the Public Sector
- Dutch government officials, however, let Microsoft moles decide on policy [...] Microsoft isn't about technology but about bribery
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 26, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, July 26, 2024
- Our Static Site Generator Has Just Turned 2, It'll Turn 1 in Techrights in Two Months' Time
- Our Static Site Generator (SSG), which is written from the ground up in Perl, had an anniversary this past week
- Slashdot is Acting as a Spamming Service for Microsoft, Apparently in Service of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (E.E.E.)
- Renting out the "trusted brand" to Microsoft
- Links 26/07/2024: Hamburgerization of Sushi and GNU/Linux Primer
- Links for the day
- Links 26/07/2024: Tesco Cutbacks and Fake Patent Courts
- Links for the day
- Links 26/07/2024: Grimy Residue of the 'AI' Bubble and Tensions Around Alaska
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 26/07/2024: More Computers and Tilde Hosting
- Links for the day
- Links 26/07/2024: "AI" Hype Debunked and Elon Musk's "X" Already Spreads Political Disinformation
- Links for the day
- A Week After a Worldwide Windows Outage Microsoft is 'Bricking' Windows All On Its Own, Cannot Blame Others Anymore
- A look back at a week of lousy press coverage, Microsoft deceit, and lessons to be learned
- "Why you boss is insatiably horny for firing you and replacing you with software."
- Ask McDonalds how this "AI" nonsense with IBM worked out for them
- No Olympics
- We really need to focus on real news
- Nobody Holds the GNOME Foundation Accountable (Not Even IRS), It's Governed by Lawyers, Not Geeks, and Headed by a Shaman Crank
- GNOME is a deeply oppressive institutions that eats its own
- [Meme] The 'Modern' Web and 'Linux' Foundation Reinforcing Monopolies and Cementing centralisation
- They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
- 'Boiling the Frog' or How Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is Being Abandoned at Short Notice by Let's Encrypt
- This isn't a lack of foresight but planned obsolescence
- When the LLM Bubble Implodes Completely Microsoft Will be 'Finished'
- Excuses like, "it's not ready yet" or "we'll fix it" won't pass muster
- "An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs"
- The lesson of this story is, if you do evil things, bad things will come your way. So don't do evil things.
- When Wikileaks Was Still Primarily a Wiki
- less than 14 years ago the international media based its war journalism on what Wikileaks had published
- The Free Software Foundation Speaks Out Against Microsoft
- the problem is bigger than Microsoft and in the long run - seeing Microsoft's demise - we'll need to emphasise Software Freedom
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 25, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 25, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Links 26/07/2024: E-mail on OpenBSD and Emacs Fun
- Links for the day
- Links 25/07/2024: Talks of Increased Pension Age and Biden Explains Dropping Out
- Links for the day
- Links 25/07/2024: Paul Watson, Kernel Bug, and Taskwarrior
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Microsoft's "Dinobabies" Not Amused
- a slur that comes from Microsoft's friends at IBM
- Flashback: Microsoft Enslaves Black People (Modern Slavery) for Profit, or Even for Losses (Still Sinking in Debt Due to LLMs' Failure)
- "Paid Kenyan Workers Less Than $2 Per Hour"
- From Lion to Lamb: Microsoft Fell From 100% to 13% in Somalia (Lowest Since 2017)
- If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it
- Microsoft Windows Became Rare in Antarctica
- Antarctica's Web stats still near 0% for Windows
- Links 25/07/2024: YouTube's Financial Problem (Even After Mass Layoffs), Journalists Bemoan Bogus YouTube Takedown Demands
- Links for the day
- Gemini Now 70 Capsules Short of 4,000 and Let's Encrypt Sinks Below 100 (Capsules) as Self-Signed Leaps to 91%
- The "gopher with encryption" protocol is getting more widely used and more independent from GAFAM
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- Techrights Statement on YouTube
- YouTube is a dying platform
- [Video] Julian Assange on the Right to Know
- Publishing facts is spun as "espionage" by the US government and "treason" by the Russian government, to give two notable examples
- Links 25/07/2024: Tesla's 45% Profit Drop, Humble Games Employees All Laid Off
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 25/07/2024: Losing Grip and collapseOS
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