Links 14/06/2008: FreeSoftwareModeBuntu, GNU/Linux Conquers Internet Devices
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-14 11:54:53 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-14 11:54:53 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Gobuntu Changes Going Back Into Ubuntu
The news coming out of the Canonical camp is that developers will be trying to merge as many of Gobuntu's changes back into the mainline Ubuntu code-base as possible. By default though, Ubuntu will continue to ship with firmware, binary-only drivers, and the rest.
- Grassroots OLPC Jam scheduled for this weekend
- LGP's "X3: Reunion" Nears Completion
- Linux top OS in MIDs
Linux will be a top OS in MIDs (mobile Internet devices), suggests a report from Forward Concepts. The report, aimed at quantifying MID-related opportunities for chip makers, identifies TI and Qualcomm as well-positioned in an emergent market expected to reach 40 million unit shipments globally within four years.
- When Desktop Disaster Strikes, Linux Rides To The Rescue
A friend in need, the saying goes, is a friend indeed. And the next time your Windows PC goes belly-up at the worst possible time, your new best friend just might turn out to be a Linux rescue CD.
- Linux Pros - Reasons to Use Linux
The BECTA Scam
Open Source
Open Access
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft May Already Be Shutting Down More Gaming Studios
- the writings are on the wall: XBox is in disarray.
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- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: An Advisor to the President
- he had recently advanced to membership of the "inner circle" of Team Campinos.
- Two Weeks Ahead of July Three Studios Microsoft Plans to Shut Down Already Named
- This is what happens when companies try to establish themselves on a mountain of promises and false assumptions, kicking the can down the road until payroll becomes hard to complete
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 15, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, June 15, 2026
- IBM Works for Microsoft
- Hours ago in IBM.com
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO's Brussels Liaison Officer
- It would appear that in January 2020, Pellegrino was induced by Campinos to jump ship from the EUIPO and take up his current position as Brussels Liaison Officer for the EPO
- European Patent Office (EPO) Receiving Section (RS) and Elimination of Many Roles
- Open letter to Mr Rowan (VP1) and Mr Aledo Lopez (COO) [...] Does the EU leadership intend to tolerate this?
- Microsoft's XBox is Disintegrating, Executives Are Quitting
- We're basically witnessing the slow-motion "end of XBox"
- Gemini Links 15/06/2026: Slop Code Benchmarked, Wireguard on NixOS and Guix
- Links for the day
- Links 15/06/2026: More Own Goals for the Slop Industry, Palantir Trouble in UK
- Links for the day
- Apple Wants Everybody to Forget About "Vision Pro" Because It Was a Giant Flop
- worthless gadgets with no obvious use case/s
- The Cyber Show is Adopting 'Book Form' (or Long Form Publications)
- Andy and Helen nowadays invest more time in making their site faster
- Richard Stallman's Software Freedom/Digital Sovereignty Tour in Europe
- As things stand at present, the vast majority of people have their interactions controlled/policed by GAFAM
- Estimates of Scale of Microsoft Layoffs, Will Likely Happen "in Batches"
- "Heard 10 to 15 percent eventually but idk date."
- IBM Has Put Red Hat on a Poor Diet of Slop, Now Fedora and Red Hat Suffocate or Choke on It
- Over the weekend we saw more people leaving the company
- Estimates of Microsoft Layoffs: 3,000 Staff to be Culled Just in Gaming, How Many in Other Divisions?
- Now the XBox division has its own "fall guy", but it is a woman
- Straw Man Arguments Against Rust
- If anything, it teaches the importance of auditing packages
- Tesla Debt Rose Sharply, Sales Declined, Wall Street's Claim of Tesla "Value" is Merely a Fairytale (and Not Just Tesla)
- We would gladly sell land on Mars to anyone who honestly believes a company that loses money is somehow "worth" trillions in Wall Street
- Stop Calling Losses "Investment"
- XBox is losing money, it is a sinkhole
- For Justice We Need More Speech, Not Less Speech
- When you attack something you are just giving that something a bigger platform
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 107 Out of 200: Keeping Law Accessible to Everybody
- We'll have stories related to this in the future
- Links 15/06/2026: Slop "Beg Bounties", Wall Street Fakes 'Worth', and Arkansans Saved PBS
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/06/2026: Dating Oaks, Simulation, and Theremin
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 14, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, June 14, 2026
- Links 14/06/2026: Energy Cost and Reality Strikes at Heart of Slop Bubble, 75 Data Center Build-outs "Successfully Blocked"
- Links for the day
- Microsoft CEO Says XBox is Not a Sustainable Business
- "Now, we have to turn this into a sustainable business," he said about XBox
- MElon (MUSK, Elon) is a Trillionaire Like Penguins Are Mammals
- Have media outlets told the truth?
- Unlikely Heroes
- One personal hero who is not alive (anymore) is Navalny
- Bruce Schneier Was Probably Wrong About Slop
- Right now politicians who openly speak in favour of slop are committing "political suicide"
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 106 Out of 200: 100 Kilograms of Legal Papers
- When one party's communications and filings weigh at about 3 KG of paper and another's... at about 100 KG of paper
- Links 14/06/2026: More Google Layoffs, Wall Street Deems Companies That Lose Money "Worth" Trillions
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/06/2026: "The Universe is a Hologram", "Matrix Brain Download", and "Happy 0th Year"
- Links for the day
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Battistelli's "Baltic Crusader"
- Gilles Requena, Battistelli's erstwhile "Baltic Crusader" and the loyal servant of his successor Campinos
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 13, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, June 13, 2026
Comments
Giovanni Spoto
2008-06-15 01:24:14
Best Regards, Giovanni Spoto