Links 31/05/2008: Quick-booting Debian, Siemens Taps Linux and Much More
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-31 11:15:33 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-31 11:15:33 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Touchpanel PC boots Linux in two seconds
Technologic Systems is readying a rugged WVGA touchpanel PC based on a fast-booting ARM9-based single board computer (SBC). The TS-TPC-7390 Touch Panel Computer incorporates the Debian Linux-based TS-7390 SBC, which is equipped with a 200MHz ARM9 CPU from Cirrus and a Lattice FPGA (field-programmable gate array).
- Siemens Develops PC-based Profinet IO Software Controller for Linux Systems
With the “Softnet PN-IO Linux” software controller from Siemens, it is possible to set up open control solutions on standard PC hardware.
- An Impressive Week with Ubuntu
- gNewSense distro frees Ubuntu
So why would someone want to install a less robust Ubuntu clone that most likely won't work with some widely used hardware? To be perfectly honest, most users won't want to use gNewSense on a daily basis, if at all. Yet, there are some benefits for developers. Putting the ideological benefits of free software aside (though they can be quite persuasive), gNewSense is the perfect distribution for developers to use to test their hardware for free software compatibility.
- This is release 1.0-rc3 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
- LGP Readies Sacred Gold Beta
Sacred is an action role-playing game originally released on the Windows platform in 2004 with Sacred Gold, which is made up of Sacred, the Sacred Plus expansion, and the Sacred Underworld expansion, in 2005.
- CentOS 5.2
So when can we expect CentOS 5.2 then, well using the same 3,5 weeks we end up with a date of around June 14th 2008. This is of course a estimate it can be later or earlier.
- Could the EEE 900 be the School Computer of the Future?
Despite my own reservations about the eee 900, since I started loaning it out to teachers last week it's gotten nothing but positive results.
- Dell’s Ubuntu 8.04 Plans
- Ubuntu desktop (LTS) 8.04
- SaxenOS goes PCLinuxOS
SaxenOS from Germany once based on Slackware and Zenwalk-based distribution with the Xfce desktop and designed for older, low-specification computers adopts PCLinuxOS as its base and Xfce desktop
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Recent Techrights' Posts
- EPO Examiners Point Out to the Heads of Delegations in the Administrative Council of the EPO That the "AI Policy" of the Office is Illegal
- "the Central Staff Committee (CSC) asks the Administrative Council to exert its supervisory role and instruct EPO management to enter into genuine dialogue with the staff representation on the AI Policy, to revise the “Leverage AI” target of 90% AI-automated classification in the SP2028 and to put in place the measures supported by staff in the resolution."
- French Cities Dumping Microsoft Because They Recognise Software Freedom, Open Standards, GNU/Linux Autonomy
- We hope that more French cities - maybe Paris - will follow Lyon.
- LWN is a Voice of GAFAM (Through Linux Foundation, Their Front Group or Occupying Force Inside Linux)
- remember who the chief editor works for and who sponsors many of the articles
- The 'Case' of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft is a Lot of Copypasta (Maybe Also LLM Slop) From the Matthew Garrett 'Case'
- 5RB deserves to know and the matter shall be properly reported in due course (when the time is right)
- EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part II - Office Breaks Rules, Ignores Courts, Defies Justice
- False promises everywhere
- IBM - Like Microsoft - is a Dying Company and Perishing Brand ("AI" is a Lie and Decoy)
- "Arvind is cutting costs (layoffs, PIPs, forced RTO, etc...) like crazy. IBM offices are closing all over the place in the US."
- "Code of Conduct" Invoked When Fedora and Red Hat Users (Since the 1990s) Don't Want to Use Wayland
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- Microsoft Layoffs Next Week: About 10% to be Laid Off in Microsoft Gaming (2 Days Before Independence Day), About 20%+ of XBox Staff
- Microsoft is rapidly collapsing
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- Keeping Things Accessible
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- Technical People Need Technical Lawyers
- Technical Litigants in Person (LIPs) have many real and concrete advantages
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- Looking at data from Taiwan (not China) and Maharlika (not Philippines, the king is dead and Spain is out), there are encouraging signs
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- it's basically another BetaNews
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- in 10 simple steps
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- what (or how) statCounter is measuring
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- The same is happening to Microsoft right now
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- If more people understood the underlying principles, more of them would flock to Free software overnight
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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- For the record, they sent me unjustified threats, repeatedly tried injunctions (censorship)
- EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part I - Burnout and Family Health
- more exceptional circumstances
- This Month's Mail (MX) Server Survey Shows Microsoft at 0.20% "Market Share"
- We need to remind people that desktops and laptops decline (in proportion to other client devices) and at the "back end" GNU/Linux is already dominant and has long been dominant
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- Wayland pushers are fast becoming like "Rust People"
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- The 'new' BetaNews won't be about journalism. It's trying to sell things.
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- Another new low and low blow
- Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms
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- Do not form on opinion on Wayland based on politics
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- My wife has long complained about "Linux bloggers" keeping quiet and thus passive about a growing problem: slop
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- Is Slashdot next?
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- Please avoid linking to WebProNews
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- A lot of people will grow suspicious of Wayland boosters/pushers if they persist and insist on using these tactics
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Comments
Shane Coyle
2008-05-31 17:04:18
I even tried to play a naughty file format, and just like ubuntu did once upon a time, I was presented a dialog explaining that codecs were required and their potential liabilities, then it offered to install them and then played my song (all on the live CD session).
Actually clearing space from that desktop machine now to install DeltaH permanently, and then some space to fiddle around with Builder and see what I can teach myself now.
Even if you just want to see what hardware is supported by current Free Software and not, the DeltaH Live CD is worth the download. It's truly impressive what a completely Free desktop can be; given the right hardware combinations, of course.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-31 17:10:16
LAC Now Shipping gNewSense 2.0 Systems (1 May 2008)
"gNewSense DeltaH was released today, and we are pleased to offer preconfigured Workstations, Portable Systems, ThinkCentres, Laptops, and Servers, as well as fully customized Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64, Xeon, and Opteron computers, preinstalled with the latest gNewSense GNU/Linux operating system. gNewSense is a GNU/Linux distribution that is listed as free by the GNU Project."
I'm not entirely sure if Joshua Gay is somehow behind the push for it.
Shane Coyle
2008-05-31 19:39:54
One thing I will note, since it comes up here often, is that Tomboy is in here and I believe it is a C#/Mono app, no? So, I'll assume that Mono is in here, and gNewSense is an FSF-approved distro.
Says something for the Mono project in terms of exposure to liability if the FSF is giving it the thumbs up for distribution, no?
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-31 21:07:42
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/16/mono-cleanup/
Shane Coyle
2008-05-31 21:44:22
Anyhow, in a few days of tinkering I'll have created my 'fork' with KDE4.1 beta 1 as the default DE. somehow.
And, I don't use beagle or tomboy, so no Mono for me anyway. Always loved that about Gentoo, just USE="-gnome -mono" and that was all.
I have KDE4 on here, just a few clicks, but it isn't the new 4.00.80 or whatever that new release is, which I want to try.
I was thinking of calling it FOSSForUs, because in the config file I have to call 'my' distro something. Shanix seems cheesy...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-01 03:48:03