Links 01/08/2008: GNU/Linux Gains Momentum, More Software
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-01 12:53:14 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-01 12:53:14 UTC
GNU/Linux
- LinuxWorld: Community roots bolster Linux growth
Linux is beginning to find its legs as the foundation in many different technologies and in the process is fueling a feedback loop that is helping accelerate the operating system’s popularity.
As more and more people contribute from areas such as mobile, data center power management, and real-time technologies, innovations are coming rapid fire and when folded into the Linux kernel provide benefits across a wide spectrum.
For example, power management features for the data center are being tapped to help extend battery life in Linux-based mobile devices.
- eeebuntu: yet another Ubuntu-based build for the Eee PC
Another good tip from Robert found its way to my inbox: I'm sure there's Eee PC owner or two out there that will appreciate it. There's a new and "eeemproved" Ubuntu distro that's customized for the Eee called eeebuntu. You can go with the snazzy Compiz Fusion enabled gnome version or go plain-vanilla with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages. Performance looks pretty darn good on the original 701 4G model Eee PC too: just check it in the above vid and supply your own audio track. I made mine funny, but feel free to make serious commentary when you watch.
- Haiku running on Asus EEEPC!
- Acer Aspire One ZG5 (Linux)
- Linux tablets gain slick remote desktop tech
LogMeIn announced a beta plugin for Nokia's Linux-based N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. The LogMeIn Nokia N800/810 Browser Plugin enables Internet Tablet users to access and control their Windows PCs or Macs running the free or commercial versions of LogMeIn.
- Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux?
Not all Linux distributions are made with the same components, which can make it difficult for software developers to write applications for multiple Linux distributions. That's where the Linux Standards Base (LSB) comes into play.
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Zemlin noted that some people will always want to support one platform, be it Red Hat or otherwise, though he doesn't expect that will be the majority once LSB 4 is released.
- MontaVista Linux Now Supports Cavium OCTEON Processors
- PC/104 SBC bridges factory networks
- Is KDE back? 4.1 launches
As if to apologize for KDE 4.0, the project's release manager, Dirk Muller, released 4.1 along with the news that some 20,803 commits had happened since 4.0, not counting 15,432 translation check-ins, nor about 35,000 commits that went into "working" branches. That's a lot of hacking.
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The rest of the changes include library enhancements, improved applications and frameworks -- all the little things. It sounds promising!
- What’s next in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (part 2)
There’s even more where this comes from–new versions of Firefox, new firewire stacks, and more. If you want to know what’s down the road for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, check out Fedora 9– that’s where the innovation happens.
- Create your own web based personal desktop - eyeOS
ODF
F/OSS
Hypervisors
- Virtual Linux, coming to a desktop near you
Virtualisation is on the brink of turning operating systems into a commodity item. It may be realistic to see software applications shipped as virtual computer images in the near future. Linux has much to benefit from this, with a repeat of the phenomenal adoption rate it has enjoyed since the ASUS Eee PC.
[Roy: when Microsoft talks about virtualisation, its plan is to replace all the existing choice with just Microsoft/Citrix/XenSource, which it owns (VMWare too is now controlled by (formerly) Microsoft's Maritz). Then, virtualisation will only mean Windows under Windows or Microsoft-taxed SUSE under Windows. Microsoft won't allow GNU/Linux to be a host or permit 'untaxed' distros like Ubuntu.]
- VMware's Fusion 2.0 boosts Windows and Linux integration with Mac OS X
- CIO Reality Check: Linux and Virtualization
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Martina Ferrari & Debian, DebConf room list: who sleeps with who?
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Europe Won't be Safe From Russia Until the Last Windows PC is Turned Off (or Switched to BSDs and GNU/Linux)
- Lives are at stake
- Links 23/04/2024: US Doubles Down on Patent Obviousness, North Korea Practices Nuclear Conflict
- Links for the day
- Stardust Nightclub Tragedy, Unlawful killing, Censorship & Debian Scapegoating
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Microsoft is Shutting Down Offices and Studios (Microsoft Layoffs Every Month This Year, Media Barely Mentions These)
- Microsoft shutting down more offices (there have been layoffs every month this year)
- Balkan women & Debian sexism, WeBoob leaks
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 24/04/2024: Advances in TikTok Ban, Microsoft Lacks Security Incentives (It Profits From Breaches)
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/04/2024: People Returning to Gemlogs, Stateless Workstations
- Links for the day
- Meike Reichle & Debian Dating
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- [Meme] EPO: Breaking the Law as a Business Model
- Total disregard for the EPO to sell more monopolies in Europe (to companies that are seldom European and in need of monopoly)
- The EPO's Central Staff Committee (CSC) on New Ways of Working (NWoW) and “Bringing Teams Together” (BTT)
- The latest publication from the Central Staff Committee (CSC)
- Volunteers wanted: Unknown Suspects team
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Debian trademark: where does the value come from?
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Detecting suspicious transactions in the Wikimedia grants process
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gunnar Wolf & Debian Modern Slavery punishments
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- On DebConf and Debian 'Bedroom Nepotism' (Connected to Canonical, Red Hat, and Google)
- Why the public must know suppressed facts (which women themselves are voicing concerns about; some men muzzle them to save face)
- Several Years After Vista 11 Came Out Few People in Africa Use It, Its Relative Share Declines (People Delete It and Move to BSD/GNU/Linux?)
- These trends are worth discussing
- Canonical, Ubuntu & Debian DebConf19 Diversity Girls email
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 23/04/2024: Escalations Around Poland, Microsoft Shares Dumped
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/04/2024: Offline PSP Media Player and OpenBSD on ThinkPad
- Links for the day
- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre, Holger Levsen & Debian DebConf6 fight
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- DebConf8: who slept with who? Rooming list leaked
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Bruce Perens & Debian: swiping the Open Source trademark
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Ean Schuessler & Debian SPI OSI trademark disputes
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Windows in Sudan: From 99.15% to 2.12%
- With conflict in Sudan, plus the occasional escalation/s, buying a laptop with Vista 11 isn't a high priority
- Anatomy of a Cancel Mob Campaign
- how they go about
- [Meme] The 'Cancel Culture' and Its 'Hit List'
- organisers are being contacted by the 'cancel mob'
- Richard Stallman's Next Public Talk is on Friday, 17:30 in Córdoba (Spain), FSF Cannot Mention It
- Any attempt to marginalise founders isn't unprecedented as a strategy
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 22, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, April 22, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Don't trust me. Trust the voters.
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Chris Lamb & Debian demanded Ubuntu censor my blog
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Ean Schuessler, Branden Robinson & Debian SPI accounting crisis
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- William Lee Irwin III, Michael Schultheiss & Debian, Oracle, Russian kernel scandal
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Microsoft's Windows Down to 8% in Afghanistan According to statCounter Data
- in Vietnam Windows is at 8%, in Iraq 4.9%, Syria 3.7%, and Yemen 2.2%
- [Meme] Only Criminals Would Want to Use Printers?
- The EPO's war on paper
- EPO: We and Microsoft Will Spy on Everything (No Physical Copies)
- The letter is dated last Thursday
- Links 22/04/2024: Windows Getting Worse, Oligarch-Owned Media Attacking Assange Again
- Links for the day
- Links 21/04/2024: LINUX Unplugged and 'Screen Time' as the New Tobacco
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 22/04/2024: Health Issues and Online Documentation
- Links for the day
- What Fake News or Botspew From Microsoft Looks Like... (Also: Techrights to Invest 500 Billion in Datacentres by 2050!)
- Sededin Dedovic (if that's a real name) does Microsoft stenography
- Stefano Maffulli's (and Microsoft's) Openwashing Slant Initiative (OSI) Report Was Finalised a Few Months Ago, Revealing Only 3% of the Money Comes From Members/People
- Microsoft's role remains prominent (for OSI to help the attack on the GPL and constantly engage in promotion of proprietary GitHub)
- [Meme] Master Engineer, But Only They Can Say It
- One can conclude that "inclusive language" is a community-hostile trolling campaign
- [Meme] It Takes Three to Grant a Monopoly, Or... Injunction Against Staff Representatives
- Quality control
- [Video] EPO's "Heart of Staff Rep" Has a Heartless New Rant
- The wordplay is just for fun
- An Unfortunate Miscalculation Of Capital
- Reprinted with permission from Andy Farnell
- [Video] Online Brigade Demands That the Person Who Started GNU/Linux is Denied Public Speaking (and Why FSF Cannot Mention His Speeches)
- So basically the attack on RMS did not stop; even when he's ill with cancer the cancel culture will try to cancel him, preventing him from talking (or be heard) about what he started in 1983
- Online Brigade Demands That the Person Who Made Nix Leaves Nix for Not Censoring People 'Enough'
- Trying to 'nix' the founder over alleged "safety" of so-called 'minorities'
- [Video] Inauthentic Sites and Our Upcoming Publications
- In the future, at least in the short term, we'll continue to highlight Debian issues
- List of Debian Suicides & Accidents
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Jens Schmalzing & Debian: rooftop fall, inaccurately described as accident
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Teaser] EPO Leaks About EPO Leaks
- Yo dawg!
- On Wednesday IBM Announces 'Results' (Partial; Bad Parts Offloaded Later) and Red Hat Has Layoffs Anniversary
- There's still expectation that Red Hat will make more staff cuts
- IBM: We Are No Longer Pro-Nazi (Not Anymore)
- Historically, IBM has had a nazi problem
- Bad faith: attacking a volunteer at a time of grief, disrespect for the sanctity of human life
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Bad faith: how many Debian Developers really committed suicide?
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 21, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, April 21, 2024
- A History of Frivolous Filings and Heavy Drug Use
- So the militant was psychotic due to copious amounts of marijuana
- Bad faith: suicide, stigma and tarnishing
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- UDRP Legitimate interests: EU whistleblower directive, workplace health & safety concerns
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock