Links 20/04/2008: Solaris Dumped for Better Performance with GNU/Linux; Many New Debian Developers Added
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-04-20 07:40:06 UTC
- Modified: 2008-04-20 07:40:06 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IX
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
- Many Geeks' Achilles Heel: They Don't Take Computer Breaks
- Life can get longer if you stay healthy
- In Asia, Microsoft's Bing Became Smaller Than Yandex and It Shrinks Every Month
- How long before Microsoft pulls the plug on Bing?
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- Techrights is Officially an Adult
- this site's eighteenth anniversary
- [Meme] Silicon Valley's "Successful Businessmen"
- Debt is not a currency
- Visualising About 0.7 Trillion Dollars of Debt in Supposedly "Successful" Tech Companies
- If they're doing so well, how come they borrow so much money (which some would struggle to pay back or never manage to pay back)?
- Single-Digit Microsoft: Windows Finally Falls Below 10% in Angola
- it's only a matter of time before Windows is down to 5%
- Coming Up With Topics to Cover and Issues to Comment on
- Socialising is a big part of it
- [Meme] Far From What Was Originally Intended
- Makes site about RMS; Deletes his own 'site'
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 03, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, December 03, 2024
- Illuminating Microsoft's Dirty Tactics
- Criticising illegal things that Microsoft does can be classified as "Microsoft bashing" or "hatred"
- Proof That Drew DeVault Vanished From Mastodon After the RMS Attack Site Was Linked to Him (and People Pointed Out DeVault's Fascination With Animated CP, Drawings of Naked Kids)
- We assume he just wanted to vanish from Mastodon
- Maybe Bill Gates is Getting Demented Like His Late Father (He Says Things That Are True But He's Not Supposed to Say in Public)
- It happened in a podcast with Reid Hoffman
- We've Clearly Struck a Nerve
- Microsofters and Microsoft proxies have meanwhile lost their temper
- The Userbase of GNU/Linux is Growing, Investments in the FSF Grow Too (in Spite of Microsofters Inciting and Slandering It)
- The FSF's expenses are close to 2 million dollars a year
- Links 03/12/2024: Pat Gelsinger's Firing Spun as 'Retirement', US Exports Land Mines
- Links for the day
- Links 03/12/2024: GrapheneOS, Raspberry Pi 4, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 03/12/2024: Googlebombing "Windows 12", Games Preservation, and Public Domain Game Jam
- Links for the day
- It's FOSS? No, It's SPAM.
- Another sellout
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) 'Works' for Linux Foundation (LF) on SPAM Campaigns, Just Like Spamnil's TFiR (Swapnil Bhartiya)
- How can he publish something like this under his name?
- Microsoft's Debt Ratio is Awful
- It owes almost 150% of what it can give
- Microsoft Has Already Laid Off Tens of Thousands of Workers, "Headcount" is Misleading Spin From Microsoft-Funded Sites
- Expect Microsoft to suck up to Trump, looking for more bailouts (those typically manifest themselves in the form of "defence" contracts)
- South America: GNU/Linux Grew to 8.15% Venezuela, Steadily Over 3% Overall
- holding steady above 3%
- Clownflare (Cloudflare) Debt Grows, Losses Continue
- debt of nearly $400,000 per employee
- Gemini Links 03/12/2024: December Adventure and Social Justice Gone Wild
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Windows Falls to 12.5% in Cuba, Android Soaring
- Windows isn't even doing too well on desktops/laptops
- [Meme] GAGAM: Google, Apple, Gulag, Amazon, Microsoft, and the Rest
- The Web has never been more dangerous and hostile
- ChromeOS Isn't Freedom, But It's Killing Microsoft's Ability to Profit From Windows
- ChromeOS has shot up to 22% in Sweden
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 02, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, December 02, 2024
- The L Word (Not Linux)
- Championing Software Freedom is "dangerous"
- Did IBM Layoffs Stop? Ask Dr. Krishna, The 'Genius' of IBM...
- Trust AK to solve all the problems of IBM by creating bigger problems
- It's Easy to Snyk in Marketing SPAM (and FUD) Into BetaNews
- The latest marketing piece (disguised as information, not shameless self-promotion)
- [Meme] Sportwashing vs Code of Censorship (CoC)
- Expectation of censorship (censor for me... or else!)
- GNU/Linux at 4% in Algeria
- So it more than doubled since last year
- With 4 Weeks to Go (Before the End of 2024) the FSF Has Already Raised Close to 100,000 Dollars
- The FSF must be doing something right
- "Linux on the Desktop" (Less Than a Third of Web-connected Computers Still a Desktop or Laptop)
- It's like we're chasing a goal that's 2 or 3 decades in the past
- [Meme] The Failure of Microsoft Rebranding Campaigns
- market share down, costs soared, back to basics
- 2 Years Have Passed Since ChatGPT Vapourware and Bing Gained Nothing, Yandex is About to Overtake Microsoft in Search
- A cause for concern at Microsoft?
- GNU/Linux Rises to 4% in Ireland, ChromeOS Grows and Android Takes Windows' Lunch
- Windows down to 22%
- [Meme] Meanwhile at Intel (Where the CEO Got the Boot)
- Well, if taxpayers pay to save Intel, then Intel should be publicly owned (by those taxpayers)
- A Cult of Fake Security
- It's almost as if there's a coordinated effort to weed out and drive away people who are passionate about security for the users, as opposed to the financial security of companies like Google and Microsoft
- Why Your Web Site Should Also Support HTTP (Without 'Secure')
- sites which force everybody to use HTTPS have an inherent accessibility problem
- Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Long Hair and Spirituality, Technology and Nature
- Links for the day
- Windows Not Even a 'Thing' Anymore... in North America (Where It Originally Came From)?
- StatCounter shows Windows isn't even listed as a leading platform in any country in North America
- Links 02/12/2024: Obesity Crisis to Worsen, Syrian Coups Rebound
- Links for the day
- Months After Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Nigeria Windows "Market Share" Collapses (Now Measured at 5%)
- Of course the winner is Android (new all-time high of 77.3%)
- Microsoft Windows is Technically at 0% in Some Countries
- It's not an important platform to target anymore
- Windows Measured at 5.7% 'Market Share' in Philippines, GNU/Linux Rose to 5%
- It was 3.62% last month
- South America Has Made It (Android Majority Everywhere) and in North America New Records for GNU/Linux Usage
- Windows monopoly rents cannot be salvaged
- Windows Down to Only One in Six Internet- or Web-Connected Devices in Asia
- it's not looking good for Microsoft
- Microsoft Windows Market Share in the United Kingdom Has Fallen to About 20%
- Microsoft knows the true numbers, but it would rather not tell
- statCounter: GNU/Linux Up to 4.6%, Windows Down Sharply This Month (Almost 22% Worldwide)
- Let's see it the figures stay stable throughout the month
- Figures of Note: Tesla's Debt Has More Than Doubled in Two Years and It's a Symptom of a Fake Economic Order
- Cash infusions by taxpayers can create "billionaires" who aren't "job creators" (see what happened to Twitter) and bring no benefits to these taxpayers, only poverty
- Linux Foundation Let Linux.com Rot for Two Months and Now It Posts Ridiculous Spam
- Mindless shopping site
- Links 02/12/2024: Journalists Arrested, Tesla Factories Destroying the Planet and Public Health
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Adventures With Bevy, Google Very Evil, Jumping Into Gemini
- Links for the day
- BetaNews is Still a Shrine of Microsoft, and Casually Also an LLM Slop Factory
- Fake articles, anti-Linux FUD, and Microsoft propaganda make a sound "business model"?
- [Meme] Cyber Monday is Not a Thing; There's No Such Thing (It's a Corporate SPAM Campaign Plaguing the Web)
- Enough with these fake 'holidays' that billionaires (business oligarchs) keep inventing to make more money at other people's expense (debt)
- Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and Linux Foundation: Same Mentality of Revisionism and Plunder
- Lie about history and then 'cash in'
- [Meme] Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Begs You for Donations
- How does one even spend 20,000 dollars per month???
- Why Software Freedom Conservancy Does Not Deserve Money (Karen Sandler is Already a Millionaire and Her Organisation Attacks Free Software Leaders)
- These people speak for "Big Money" interests, not for freedom
- On the internet [sic] (Lowercase), They Spread Misinformation About the Internet
- Hugh Grant remembers what happened before he was born
- Richard Stallman Was Getting Honorary Doctorates Almost Every Year Until 'Cancel Culture' Stepped in, Distracting From Jeffrey Epstein's Ties to Bill Gates
- This finally ended... earlier this year (October)
- Self-Deprecating Attacks on RMS
- Drew DeVault seems to have deleted all of his social control media accounts
- When Bills Are Rising, Whereas the Demand Isn't (OpenAI is Insolvent)
- Latest month on record shows traffic fell about 3 times lower than earlier this year
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 01, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, December 01, 2024
- Links 02/12/2024: Climate, Sportwashing, and Software Patents
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Words and Apologies, Being Rude, and Geminauts 0.1.0 Release
- Links for the day