Links 04/12/2008: GNU/Linux in China, ODF in Germany
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-12-04 13:00:42 UTC
- Modified: 2008-12-04 13:00:42 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Using Linux to Overcome Comcast's Policy of FUD
- Dell customer awarded Windows refund
Devir was not interested in the Windows Vista system on his Dell laptop, opting for Linux – an open source system – instead.
- Unix and Linux Troubleshooting E-Book
- You're Never Too Old For Linux!
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
- How Windows Users are Changing Linux and What We Should Do About It
- Metastasis
- Tux on a Groom's Cake
- Opengear Extends Console Server Product Line to Include Comprehensive Power and Environmental Management
China
Kernel
- Linux 2.6.28-rc7
- Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
In Nexuiz, World of Padman, and Unreal Tournament 2004 to represent gaming on the Linux operating system, the results were virtually identical. To the Linux gamer, switching to EXT4 or XFS will not really mean much in the way of improved frame-rates. If though you deal with compressing files often, of the four file-systems tested, the best appears to be EXT4 or XFS. When it came to multimedia encoding, we cannot call a decisive winner. In our GnuPG encryption test, EXT3 was the fastest followed by XFS. However, in the Bork encryption test, EXT4 was the fastest followed by EXT3. EXT3 does still appear to have some advantages.
Graphics
Desktop Environments
Compatibility
Video
Sub-notebooks
Phones
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Distributions
- DSL - Damn Small Linux 4.4.10 review
As part of a survival toolkit, Damn Small Linux could be something of a saviour. Earlier this year, this writer used a previous release of the distribution to excise a couple of gigabytes of files from an otherwise-locked-down Vista installation, and while it didn't save the machine concerned from complete reinstall, it did rescue an awful lot of data. It did it with no fuss, utter simplicity and earned a lot of appreciation as a result.
- Gentoo, build it like Lego.
- Excelixis 1.0: A new workbench
Red Hat + Clones
Debian
Ubuntu + Derivatives
F/OSS
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- GNU/Linux Grows at Windows' Expense and Microsoft Trolls Infest and Maliciously Target Articles About It
- Microsoft is - and has long been - organised crime
- They Say I'm Mr. Bombastic
- They didn't take good lawyers
- Linux Foundation is a Mediator for Microsoft et al, Not for Small Companies That Support Rather Than Attack the GPL
- Many people still wrongly assume that because it is called "Linux Foundation", then it is pro-Linux and represents the same mindset
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- BetaNews is a Plagiarism and LLM Slop Hub, the Chief Editor Isn't Addressing This Problem Anymore
- SS Fagioli is basically a parasite leeching off or exploiting other people's work
- Links 09/06/2025: Chaos in Los Angeles and Hurricane Season
- Links for the day
- Links 09/06/2025: Windows TCO and Many Data Breaches
- Links for the day
- Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VI: Political Stunts by Former President Edyta Demby-Siwek and the Connection to Profound Corruption at EUIPO
- it's like a money-laundering operation where one politician rewards another at taxpayers' expense
- Gemini Links 09/06/2025: Pipelines and Splitgate
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 08, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, June 08, 2025
- Links 08/06/2025: Tiananmen Carnage Censorship Persists, North Korean Goes Offline
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/06/2025: Love as an Ethnographic Method and Monitorix Gemini-Frontend v0.1
- Links for the day
- Links 08/06/2025: Exposure of More GAFAM Surveillance and Social Security Records Compromised
- Links for the day
- This Past Friday, Confirming What We Said All Along About Brett Wilson LLP: It's Shrinking, Has Considerable Debt, Loss of Net Assets Despite the Microsoft SLAPP Money
- The documents only became publicly available less than 2 days ago
- Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment
- perpetrators of harassment
- For 20 Years Many People Were Sharecropping for Canonical's Oligarch, Now He's Deleting All Their Contributions
- "Ubuntu has erased instead of archiving the trove of material at Ubuntu Forums"
- There Was Always Too Much 'Crazy Stuff' Going on Around Freenode
- What many IRC users lost sight of
- Exposing Crime is Not a Crime (It Never Was)
- In the eyes of rich and powerful people, those who speak about their crimes are the "criminals"
- GNU/Linux Distros Abandoning Microsoft GitHub
- Will curl be next to leave Microsoft GitHub?
- Expect More XBox Mass Layoffs Soon If the Rumours Are True
- From a Microsoft media operative
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, June 07, 2025
- Europe Needs to Move Away From GAFAM; The Sooner, the Better
- Europe - not just the EU - must abandon GAFAM as soon as possible
- The Issue Isn't GNOME's Promotion of Diversity But GNOME Corruption, Abuse, Censorship, and Worse
- So-called "Conservative" (republican, pro-Trump, bigoted) people want you to think the problem with GNOME is politics
- When the News Sources Become Scarce and Increasingly Full of Polluted/Contaminated 'Content' (With LLM Slop and Slop Images)
- Integrity matters
- "Linux" Sites That Spew Out LLM Slop
- We're lacking enough material for another "Slopwatch"
- Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part V: Breaking the Law, Just Like EPO
- We'll hopefully cover some of the pertinent details later this year
- Links 08/06/2025: Security Lapses, CISA Cuts, and More
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/06/2025: Mime Types and Geminisphere Introduction
- Links for the day
- Links 07/06/2025: Slop Companies Retain All Private Data, More Books Banned in the US
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 07/06/2025: "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" and "Wireless Earbuds"
- Links for the day
- Links 07/06/2025: More Rumours of Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's XBox Division, New COVID Variant
- Links for the day
- Drug Addiction is a Real Problem, It Destroys Families
- a rather sensitive matter
- Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part IV: Political Scrutiny and Errors/Inconsistencies in Official Documents
- When such organisations receive scrutiny they start focusing on cover-up and muzzling of facts (or crushing people who say the truth)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 06, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, June 06, 2025
Comments
stevetheFLY
2008-12-04 13:19:43
http://abisource.com/release-notes/2.6.5.phtml
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landofblind
2008-12-04 22:07:12
You should do more of that. Give it more space and importance. And less of the anti-Microsoft rhetoric.
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Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-04 22:13:45