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
F/OSS
Web
Apple's No-no
Security
Lefotovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- X.Org is Still Not Dead
- Oracle still developing it
- Microsoft is getting ready to cause many employees to resign
- Having already laid off many workers earlier this month, it now tries another approach
- "Maybe the Problem is You"
- they probably felt like they had no choice because they really needed this Microsoft money
- GNU OS, Powered by Hurd
- Choice is good, as long as choices exist that respect the users' freedom
- European Patent Office (EPO) Reformation Project
- It's a stain on the EU's reputation
- Slopwatch: Google News and Other Slopfarms
- Google News is rewarding sites that misuse LLMs and cheat the Web
-
- Links 15/08/2025: German Government Falls Short on Free Software, Russians Breach EU Systems
- Links for the day
- Microsoft is Still Losing Cyprus
- The market share goes down, so share prices go up
- Microsoft Accenture is in Trouble
- For one thing, its debt doubled in a matter of months
- News Will Slow Down and Slop Will Contribute to the Slowdown
- In recent years every time there was some holiday or major break the number people who "came back" shrank
- Upgrading IRC Network of Techrights
- a new version of the daemon we've used since 2021 was released very recently
- "Register Debate Series" About Microsoft in the UK is Controlled by Microsoft (US)
- The Register is run by Microsoft "Analysts", so the debate is doomed from the get-go
- IBM is a Terrible Model for Red Hat
- "Most likely caused by laying off too many people"
- Microsoft Problems in Palestinian Territory and Israel
- Microsoft stock (share price) goes up when market share goes down
- Slave is Not a Bad Word, We Need to Use It Sometimes
- Who does such exclusion of words benefit? What sort of expression will be deemed impermissible and subjected to CoC enforcement?
- National Day of Action
- "This Friday, August 15th, there is an organized, petition-based, protest of Wells Fargo in major cities across the US," Richard Stallman wrote
- Our Gemini Editions Now Contain 100,000+ GemText Pages
- Our Gemini Editions aren't small, even if Gemini Protocol is still the 'underdog'
- The Relations Between the United States and Europe Deteriorate, Should Europe Continue to Rely on American Tech Giants?
- The shallow notion that made-in-USA software is fairly safe for Europe to rely to is coming to a standstill
- Techrights and Tux Machines Running as Usual During Vacations
- No interruptions, maybe temporarily slowdowns
- Gemini Links 15/08/2025: ADHD and "Random Weird Things"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, August 14, 2025
- "Article 52. PATENTABLE INVENTIONS" in the European Patent Convention
- Some time tomorrow we'll have a complete local copy of the EPC
- Serial Slopper (SS) Still at It, Still Misusing Plagiarism Tools and Cheatware for Images and Text About "Linux"
- All the slopfarms are a very big problem
- Reddit Deletes Stuff, But Not for Being False or Misleading
- Yet another one of those articles that speak of a man in his 50s as if he's terminally ill
- Times of India and India.com Are Clickbait and LLM Slop
- Google continues to reward bad actors
- The More "Market Share" Microsoft Loses, The Higher the Shares Go
- People joke about the same sort of thing in relation to IBM
- To OIN, Software Patents Are Not a Problem
- Had software patents ceased to exist, OIN too would cease to exist and its staff would be unemployed.
- Microsoft's Bankruptcy in Russia is Only the Beginning
- Due to politics it mostly makes sense that Windows is being phased out, also in part due to policy changes
- Microsoft-Funded Publishers Lied to Us About Vista 10 and Now Advocate Us Owning Nothing
- They want you to own nothing, but they also want you to buy a PC on which to become Microsoft's slave and they make it harder if not practically impossible to remove Windows
- Articles Promoting and Celebrating Wayland Are LLM Slop
- New example (100% slop)
- The Register MS, Dominated by American Editors, Says UK Should be Run (Digitally) by Microsoft US
- The Register MS is sponsored by American money, run by Americans, and its chief editor is a Microsofter from the US
- Gemini Links 14/08/2025: Drought, Climate Experiments, and LLM Slop Considered Detrimental
- Links for the day
- Links 14/08/2025: Second-hand ThinkPad and Enhanced Surveillance on Chipsets from the United States
- Links for the day
- Moral Standards From the Masters of Linux
- They get hung up on minor language issue and promote this crazy theory that racism will go away if only everyone spoke a little differently (no matter where he or she came from)
- Links 14/08/2025: Data Brokers Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google, "Fight Chat Control"
- Links for the day
- FSF Infrastructure Under Constant Attack
- The disconnect (literally) has had an effect on credibility
- Feels Like The Register MS is Trying to Diversify a Bit
- If The Register MS goes back to being The Register US (or UK), that will be a nice improvement
- Gemini Links 14/08/2025: Reading Journal and LLM Fatigue Revisited
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- Hopping From One Set of Buzzwords to the Next
- Rotating hype and vapourware
- Currys PCWorld Hates GNU/Linux Even Though It Runs the World
- If more and more people choose to remove Windows, then Currys PCWorld will feel the financial impact of its dumb policies
- Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era
- The kids were alright
- The Register MS Takes More Money to Boost Slop Hype, This Time From Snyk, a Notorious FUD Source
- At some stage or at some point they might even decide to stop doing so
- "GPT-5" is Another Microsoft Dead Cat Trying to Bounce
- The hype, the momentum (or the inertia) is wearing off
- Microsoft Windows Losing Its Grip Near Turkey and Russia
- The 'corridor' nations connecting Iran to Europe
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Google News, and Serial Slopper (SS)
- The slop, the bad, and the ugly
- Links 13/08/2025: The “Incriminating Video” Scam and Corruption in South Korea
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 13/08/2025: Movie Memories and Mystery Machine Bus
- Links for the day
- "AI" Hype or LLM Slop is Not About Efficiency, It's About Lowering Standards
- It does not seem like IBM is genuinely committed to the same goals (or commitments) as the original Red Hat
- Links 13/08/2025: GitHub Trouble and Openwashing by Microsoft OSI With the Typical Buzzwords
- Links for the day
- If Free/Libre Software is Adding Trillions in Value to the European Economy, Then the European Commission Must Crush Software Patents
- Further to what we wrote yesterday
- Microsoft Swallows GitHub Losses
- Only Microsoft knows how much money it has already lost on GitHub
- Gemini Links 13/08/2025: Climate, Coffee, and Deploying Troops in Washington DC After Pardoning 1,000+ Insurrectionists in Washington DC
- Links for the day
- The Register MS Lowered MS Focus This Week
- We hope The Register recognises its errors and tries to make up for them
- Learning Ethics From Jeffrey Epstein's Enabler/Client/Ally, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft Accenture
- Whatever merits vocabulary changes initially had are being tainted or obscured by later iterations, which tell us to avoid word like "normal", which apparently offend some people (so they argue)
- Personal Attacks From Rust People Serve to Confirm They Have Lost the Argument
- "The discussion I find around the net so far has no technical merit and centers around ad hominem"
- Physical Meters and Purely Mechanical Meters Aren't Dumb; It's Dumb to Mock or Dismiss Them as Antiquated
- I've learned a lot this week, both online and over the telephone
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
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