Links 10/06/2008: More Migrations to GNU/Linux and More New Distributions
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-10 20:37:13 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-10 20:37:13 UTC
Success Stories
Distributions
- Press Release - 64 Studio 2.1 'A Minha Menina' released!
64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools.
- Release Notes for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa
This is Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories.
- [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09
It has been a busy week for Sugar Labs.
1. Sucrose: On behalf of the Release Team, Simon Schampijer announced Sucrose 0.81.2 (Development Release). Features of this new release include elimination of some platform dependencies, an improved activity-list view, a graphical user interface to the Sugar control panel (including settings for Frame activation delays), and expanded internationalization of Etoys. The next development release is scheduled in two weeks. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!
- DSL 4.4 Released
- Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition : Breath Of Fresh Air
Mandriva always stands one step ahead of other distribution in terms of overall experience.. Though ranked #6 in Distrowatch.. Mandriva features and utilities makes it one of the best newbie friendly distro out there.. The best feature of Mandriva is that the developers try to re master the new release from the scratch..
- How's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Doing?
As I reported two weeks ago, Red Hat expects to get an updated to RHEL 4--the 4.7 release, to be precise--out the door on July 21, which will include updates for hardware, bug fixes, and security patches. Red Hat hopes to have RHEL 5.3 ready in January 2009 or so.
- Debian Weekly News - June 9th, 2008
- Debian news : Debian Weather is back
Experiences
Laptops
Mobile
Kernel/Embedded
F/OSS
- GPL: why can't a lawyer understand it?
- GNewSense, the Present and the Future
- Tuxpaint is fun for kids and adults
- Who Will Rule The New Internet?
In many ways, these companies are technology's standard-bearers, though their guiding philosophies differ. Google, for instance, advocates an "open" Web and tends to push for open standards and alliances among developers.
- Boy Scouts of America look to open-source community for help
- Video: Firefox 3 Screencast
- Firefox 3: Past, Present, and Future
- Mozilla's open source phone system
- Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel
- Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor
"The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools." Thus argues John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, which creates and provides UNA, a source code editor.
- BJP to launch ambitious tech initiative to gain edge in elections
- Opengear Adds Open Source Network UPS Tools to Range of Console Servers
- Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures
- Walking Three Tightropes
- Rowgen the full package, IRI CoSort says
- Sun Java CAPS chugs down SOA open source track
- Compiere Releases Open Source ERP Solution Upgrade
- Etelos Adds Open-Source Hosting
Gaming
Microsoft
Security
Privacy
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part V
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
-
- Taking Ethics Lectures From Drew
- Projection tactics
- Links 02/11/2024: Facebook Stock Falls (Soaring Debt), Apple’s Quarterly Profit Down
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/11/2024: Burnout, Emacs Bookmarks, and Smooth Migration
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 01, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, November 01, 2024
- Facebook's Debt Has Soared to All-Time High of Nearly 50 Billion Dollars
- But the corporate media pretends all is well (while mass layoffs continue and slop takes over the social control media)
- Geminispace Makes It Past 4,200 Capsules on November 1st
- At last!
- Links 01/11/2024: Election Interferences by X/Twitter/Musk, Strava as Espionage Tool
- Links for the day
- The October 2024 Web Server Survey Shows a Further Collapse for Microsoft in the Servers Market
- Microsoft experienced the next largest loss of 699,464 sites (-3.45%)
- Gemini Links 01/11/2024: TLS Sucks, twytere.com Announced
- Links for the day
- Links 01/11/2024: Few Things Are Cheaper Than This Antenna and "Nothing Lasts Forever"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 31, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 31, 2024
- R.T.O. is Another Name (or Acronym) for Voluntary Layoffs
- Amazon is trying to get many workers to leave on their own
- Microsoft's Acquisition of Activision (to Fake Revenue Growth by Buying Revenue) Was a Failure
- Of course the mass layoffs at Microsoft aren't just a Microsoft thing
- Stagnant, Shrinking Businesses and "IBM's Corporate Culture Since the Late 1980s... Over 35 Years."
- Recently, IBM was using share price as a talking point, insisting the company was doing OK while tens of thousands were being laid off
- Links 01/11/2024: World News, Political Catchup
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Probably the Worst Possible Time to Get Information From Social Control Media
- Musk does not want to prevent disinformation from spreading and the same is true for Facebook and TikTok; they have their own interests
- SCO's Darl McBride Dead at Age 64
- There's hardly any information about it, except we know he reached bankruptcy and 3 years later he died at a relatively young age
- Update on Litigation Against the European Patent Office (EPO) at the ILO Administrative Tribunal (ILOAT)
- Rewards and compensation for staff have long fallen, resulting in many experienced colleagues leaving and causing further declines in quality and compliance
- Gemini Links 31/10/2024: NNCP, Declutter the Web, Cost of Community
- Links for the day
- Links 31/10/2024: Supermicro Plummets 33%, Block and Dropbox Mass Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Links 31/10/2024: Environmental Anxiety, Profound Changes in Hardware Market
- Links for the day
- Links 30/10/2024: TSMC Concerns and North Koreans in Ukraine War
- Links for the day
- Facebook is for Zombies
- Social control media is for fools
- Microsoft Now Has $235,290,000,000 in Liabilities, They Grow Over Time in Spite of Mass Layoffs (So Expect More Layoffs)
- expect more mass layoffs
- Links 31/10/2024: DST Woes, War Updates, Amazon RTO Backlash
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 31/10/2024: Attention Economy and Gemlogs
- Links for the day
- Happy Halloween
- October is nearly over
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- For the Record: Linux is Controlled by the United States of America
- "This is going to make many question the openness and inclusivity of the work done by Linux Foundation"
- Microsoft: XBox Hardware Revenues Down About 30% (Ignore the Buzzwords and Activision Activity Dressed Up as "XBox")
- For context, in a previous quarter XBox hardware sales were down by about 50%
- Cooking the Books With "Cloud" And "AI" Was Not Enough to Fool Microsoft Investors
- "Microsoft Shares Drop on Disappointing Azure Growth Forecast"
Comments
max stirner
2008-06-11 01:31:17
PitaGuy
2008-06-11 07:36:03