Links 26/05/2008: Red Hat Comes to South Africa, GNU Software Lands on Mars
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-26 17:26:27 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-26 17:26:27 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Red Hat to open SA office
Linux vendor Red Hat is to open an office in South Africa. Starting Monday Red Hat will have an SA-based country manager who will be responsible for the Southern Africa market on behalf of the company.
- AMD Releases Stream SDK For Linux
NVIDIA's competition for Stream computing is CUDA, which is the Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA for short. CUDA has been supported on Linux now for some time and NVIDIA is in the process of bringing PhysX to CUDA, for physics acceleration thanks to their acquisition of AGEIA. Intel's competition is Ct, or C for Throughput Computing.
- A look at OpenSolaris 2008.05 (by John Frey)
- RedPost Launches Wicker: A Customized Ubuntu for Digital Signs and Photo Frames
- Google to give Sydney demo of Android platform
- Musix GNU/Linux 1.0R4 Released - Everything from sound editing to graphical design
- Fedora 9: Drumrolls with Linux Hydrogen
- Making that old PC useful
So then, why do it? Why jump through so many hoops to make a Linux desktop look like some other operating system, instead of just installing XP or Vista, or even a different, easier Linux distribution? Well, I mentioned the answer at the beginning of this article: speed. While looking like Vista (and I do believe it’s close enough to fool the normal pc user), it behaves nothing like it. Vista wouldn’t even install on this machine. XP would be slow.
- Run Native Linux Applications in Windows Vista - Via Ulteo Virtual Desktop
- Korean Government Writes Digital Textbook on Linux
The government-led Korean digital textbook project will adopt Linux. The Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea announced their decision to choose the open software for digital textbook, the key project for the government's digital education policy.
- Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 26 May 2008
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 92
F/OSS
Microsoft
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Traf-O-Data, the Company That Jeffrey Epstein's BFF (Bill Gates) (Co)Founded 53 Years and Went Out of Business Due to Heavy Losses
- Who will die first, Bill or Microsoft?
- A Note on SimilarWeb
- Or why SimilarWeb is meaningless for more than 99% of the sites on the Web
- IBM Said to be Shutting Down Offices or Sites in the United States
- the press can no longer avoid admitting that IBM moves many jobs to India
- LLM Slop as Attack Vector on the Reputation of Linux
- The attacks on Linux have escalated to information warfare
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- Links 04/04/2025: LLM Slop Bubble Bursting and Korea Music Copyright Association Bans Slop 'Music'
- Links for the day
- Why Microsoft's Shares Sank Almost 20% in Recent Months (the Bubble is Imploding)
- verified press reports from the past 24 hours
- GNU/Linux Rises to Almost 5% in Algeria While Windows Sinks to All-Time Low
- GNU/Linux grew tenfold
- Where to Get More Gags
- A valued reader recommended that to us
- Links 04/04/2025: Tech Stock (Inc. GAFAM) Fall, Google Pretends to Do End-to-End Encrypted Emails (With Google in Control)
- Links for the day
- To Participate in Fedora Diversity You Must Use Proprietary Software
- Not for the first time either
- Yandex About to Be Three Times Bigger Than Microsoft (Bing) in Asia
- That's about 60% of the world's population
- Gemini Links 04/04/2025: Decoupling Updates, Elaho as Gemini Client
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 03, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 03, 2025
- Microsoft's Trouble in Africa and Asia
- A new all-time high for GNU/Linux
- Brett Wilson LLP Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- The saddest thing in all this is that law firms can maintain high standards shall they wish to
- Links 03/04/2025: Tariff Pains and C.D.C. Cuts
- Links for the day
- StatCounter: Microsoft is Masking a Disaster, It's Way Behind DeepSeek Already and Interest in LLMs Has Waned
- it turns out the money "raised" for "Open" "AI" may not even exist at all
- Links 03/04/2025: SoftBank Money for Microsoft "Open" "AI" Probably Doesn't Even Exist, Wikimedia Foundation Blasts LLM Nuisance While Microsoft Admits Demand Has Shrunk
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 03/04/2025: Patch Panel and Pictures
- Links for the day
- Islamic Republic of Iran: GNU/Linux at All-time High This Month, Windows Falls to 12%
- Vista 10 is up this month despite being "end of life" (EoL) soon
- Indonesia: All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux
- What's noteworthy right now is the growth of GNU/Linux
- statCounter Says GNU/Linux Usage is Up Again (Internationally)
- some preliminary April data
- Only on April 1st Can the Free Software Foundation Associate With Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- We saw some pranks that day linking the FSF to Microsoft (e.g. "endorsing" Windows)
- Confirmed in the Mainstream Media: A Lot of Microsoft "Workloads" Were Just LLM Slop (Helping to Fake Growth for Years, as Microsoft Had Paid "Open" "AI" to Become a "Client") and Demand is Rapidly Waning, Datacentres Canceled and/or Shut Down
- Anything to facilitate further accounting fraud
- Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble
- Earlier this week we showed that mostly Asian media had the 'nerve' to mention Microsoft silently shutting down its 'AI' lab
- IBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft
- IBM Consulting has been in disarray lately
- More Gains for GNU/Linux, Based on Web Surveys
- the Steam site shows rapid growth for "Linux" this month
- Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles, Not Even Written by Humans
- Why aren't Web sites more vocal about this problem?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 02, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, April 02, 2025
- Links 03/04/2025: Apple Fined Over Secret Surveillance, "Elegant Writer For A More Civilized Age"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/04/2025: Books and Cold Tea
- Links for the day
- Links 02/04/2025: More Layoffs, Nokia Again Takes Advantage of Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court With Nokia Staff as 'Judges'
- Links for the day
- Links 02/04/2025: Seizures and Returns to Windows of 24 Years Ago
- Links for the day
- LLM Slop Helps Obscure and Distort News About Layoffs (IBM, GAFAM)
- It's hard to find accurate information
- Links 02/04/2025: Microsoft Developers Are Threatening to Go on Strike, World Backup Day Noted
- Links for the day
- Gemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop)
- For any "data plan" with bandwidth limits or "tiers" it would be cheaper to use/browse Geminispace
- The Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers
- Doing nothing ought not be a possibility
- Amid Secret Shut-downs and Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (4 Waves of Layoffs in 3 Months of 2025) Some Microsoft Staff Expected to Go On Strike
- workers going on strike
- Gemini Links 02/04/2025: No more on Mastodon and Gemini Mention Script in Go
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, April 01, 2025
- My Motion Disbarring or “Striking Off” Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs
- "Guns for hire" (for Microsoft people who received Microsoft salaries)
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hijacked Again by Patent Litigation Industry, as President Cheeto Prioritises Aggressors
- The "mafia" has taken over the "industry" and the Federal system (justice and constitutions trampled upon)
- Ubuntu Slop and FUD Manufactured With LLMs and Funded (by Oneself) 'Studies'
- Slop and FUD are ruining the Web