Links 23/06/2008: GNU/Linux Notebooks, Reviews, Call for Free (Libre) Drivers
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-23 20:37:39 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-23 20:37:39 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Acer Aspire One
Many of us will be familiar with Linux-based operating systems, but relatively few of you will have seen the particular 'Linpus' implementation in the One.
- Should you buy an Asus Eee 901 PC?
The reason why the Eee 701 was so popular to begin with is because it transformed the cheap subnotebook into an appliance, especially when loaded with Linux which, generally speaking, doesn’t require massive Internet Security programs to slow everything down.
- Crystal Ball Sunday #6: Desktop Virtualization and the Common Desktop Environment
- Parallels - Two Divergent Paths for Macs & Windows
- Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source kernel code.
We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- A look at Ubuntu Netbook Remix
- The Ubuntu Project: Is Linux Right For Word Workers?
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 96
- MGE Office Protection Systems' Linux power management suite receives Ubuntu IHV certification
- Stop the press: Watch the news with Linux!
I don't know which stars aligned to cause this, but every single news website that I tested with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS now has a correctly working video feed! I wasn't expecting this great of an improvement when I began this series of tests. I always knew that it would happen eventually, but never this quickly.
- Pardus 2008 RC2
I love finding fault when reviewing products, services and software, so consider this my standing ovation to Pardus for being nigh on faultless. They've got a top notch operating system on their hands and I'm willing to say this might be one of the best releases of 2008.
- SliTaz -- 25 MB Live Distro.
- Why I Use Gentoo?
Fight Against Evils
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The EPO, Europe's Largest Patent Office, Admits Outsourcing to Microsoft Slop
- Their sole goal is to make more money
- The Better the Understanding or the More Nations Understand the Threat Posed by Microsoft, the Faster It'll be Eradicated
- We believe that the thing to advocate is self-hosting and Free software... A lack of simplicity or absence of alternatives is a form of vendor lock-in
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- BetaNews Has Just Deleted Its Latest 'Article' or Got Cracked Again and Restored From Outdated Backup Again
- BetaNews seems to be in some serious trouble right now
- Microsoft's "FUD-as-a-Service" (Against Linux) Not Functioning Well
- This is the kind of contribution companies like Microsoft and Google have to offer to society
- Software Freedom is "Activism" Because the Corporate Agenda Revolves Around Bribery, Deceit, and Betrayal
- At the end Software Freedom will win because it's on the same side as truth and lawfulness
- Links 16/06/2025: EchoLeak and NASA Teaming up With India
- Links for the day
- A Week of Sunlight
- They say transparency is like sunlight to a vampire
- "Linux" Sites That Went Astray
- there are even worse things than shutdowns
- Links 16/06/2025: Climate, Wildfires, Breaches, and Monopolies
- Links for the day
- Links 16/06/2025: Summer in Finland and Misunderstandings
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, June 15, 2025
- Gemini Links 15/06/2025: Rainy Season and OpenDocument Format (ODF)
- Links for the day
- Links 15/06/2025: Military Games, Parade, and Actions
- Links for the day
- Links 15/06/2025: Windows TCO, Openwashing, and Wars
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/06/2025: "AI Fatigue and Crappiness"
- Links for the day
- When Abusive Law Firms (Working for Microsofters Against Us) Assert That Someone Writing in Social Media About Himself is Confidential Information
- There was no reason to throw "GDPR" into 2 SLAPPs; they know it, but the goal was to increase the cost of a Defence and lessen the incentive to challenge the SLAPPs
- Microsoft Attack Dogs Against Watchdogs and Guard Dogs in Software
- Last year Microsofters hired attack dogs or "guns for hire"
- Slop Cannot Replace Domain Expertise
- All this "AI" hype (it's not even intelligence, it's all a misnomer, as many of us have insisted all along) will fizzle and be written off as a failed experiment
- IBM's Fresh 'PIPs' (Action Before Layoffs)
- At times like these, even once-reputable employers resort to PIPs and other procedures/tricks for denial of workers' rights
- Microsoft is a Problem Not Just for Denmark
- Every country should consider what Denmark is doing, why Denmark is doing it, and then do the same
- The Slopfarms' Self Detonation
- If more sites like BetaNews go under, then maybe we can still salvage some of the Web
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, June 14, 2025
- Links 14/06/2025: FDA Changes Priorities, Cassette Data Storage From The 1970s
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Steam Next Fest and Thoughts on Gemini
- Links for the day
- Site/Datacentre Maintenance Next Week
- speed things up
- Bulgaria: GNU/Linux Near 10%
- The Bulgarian market seems to be changing
- I Never Spoke to BetaNews. But BetaNews Wants to Ensure I Never Will, Either.
- Sometimes just the reluctance to talk about it can say a great deal
- Throwing Money at Lawyers Can't Stop Us (It Never Did)
- Even just trying to censor things can result in the opposite of the desired outcome
- Online Search or Large Search Engines Aren't Working Anymore
- business models that directly compete with interests of Web users
- Holidays and Breaks
- I've hardly taken any long breaks since I got married
- Danish OpenDocument Freedom
- "year of Linux"
- Links 14/06/2025: Wars and L.A. Distortion Effect
- Links for the day
- BetaNews Has More or Less Died After Experiments With LLM Slop, Is Linuxsecurity Next?
- It doesn't seem like BetaNews knows what it's doing, let alone what it talks about
- Gemini Links 14/06/2025: Historic Ada Design and GeminiSpace.Club to Expire
- Links for the day
- Links 14/06/2025: India Plane Crash and Middle-Eastern War
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, June 13, 2025
Comments
PitaGuy
2008-06-24 08:07:20
I suppose he is the egg thrower ?
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-24 08:36:15