Links 30/06/2008: More GNU/Linux Laptops, Windows XP's End Marks Trouble
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-30 12:20:02 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-30 12:20:02 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Hands on With ECS's G10IL Mini-laptop With 3G
ECS representatives said. Both the G-series and J-series come with options for a Linux OS from Linpus Technologies.
- Asustek to launch new Eee PCs with bigger keyboards
- MSI Wind Mini-desktop With Intel's Atom to Debut in July
Last month, Asustek revealed the Eee Box, a mini-desktop PC that has an Atom microprocessor, will come with either a Linux or Windows XP OS, and will begin selling in July for around US$300. The machine takes its name from the popular mini-laptop, Eee PC, by Asustek.
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 97
- Playing with Fluxbox
- from Windows to Ubuntu
But after the past couple of years as I got more into web development, I started to experience some pain as a WinXP user because it seems like most of the interesting web technologies are optimized for Linux or Mac users, and for Windows users there’s usually a short appendix in the doc that says “If you are unfortunate enough to use Windows, the following has been said to work…”
- How Linux Can Take The Marketshare Microsoft Throws Away
As an average PC user looking to buy a Mac, you would most likely be surprised by the high prices.
- Cognos Ships BI Software For IBM's System Z Mainframe
Cognos, which IBM acquired in January for $4.9 billion, is now shipping a version of its IBM Cognos 8 BI software for Linux running on IBM's System z10 mainframes.
- High Tower's SIEM strength lies in its simplicity
The product is delivered as an appliance that is Intel-based, includes a crypto accelerator in hardware (for high-volume event signing) and runs Linux under the hood.
- Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables
- The FSF needs a new approach to advertising
Obviously that isn’t possible, so my suggestions are as follows:
* Answer posts relating to proprietary software on UbuntuForums.org and LinuxQuestions.org, and talk to these people about the benefits of Free Software
* Create media, including videos, music, etc that people would enjoy listening to (that means this doesn’t count) that they would enjoy sharing with others
Releases
- Myah OS 3.0 Dragon [Released]
For all current fans of Myah OS and all those soon to be, we give you Myah OS 3.0 Dragon. Dragon is the code name for Myah OS built around the KDE 3 desktop. We chose KDE 3.5.9 since it's still considered the most stable and best supported version of KDE.
- Scientific Linux release 5.2 i386 and x86_64 has been released.
Scientific Linux 5.2 has been released in record time. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without your help this release couldn't have come out as quickly and smoothly as it has.
- Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola' has been released
After a two-week delay, we proudly announce the immediate availability of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola'. Parsix Viola brings several new features, contains a new kernel, updated software packages, updated documentation, improved installer system and several fixes for the reported defects.
- Finnix 92.0 Released
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 92.0 for the x86/AMD64, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms.
F/OSS
Microsoft
- Ghostly threat to Internet Explorer users
Microsoft certainly never imagined anything like this. A talk given behind closed doors at the Microsoft BlueHat Security Briefing revealed a huge security problem in Internet Explorer.
- Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
The number of malware detections has grown by almost half a million since the end of the year, jumping from 500,000 total detections to 900,000.
"I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better", says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor.
- Great job, great girl – but Microsoft just wasn’t enough for John Wood
- Windows XP: the beginning of the end
- Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air
A MONOLITHIC operating system like Windows perpetuates an obsolete design. We don’t need to load up our machines with bloated layers we won’t use.
- Tevanian: Does Microsoft have the guts to slim down Windows?
Actually, Avie was referring to an atmosphere of desperation, as the Times calls it, just before Apple started the Mac OS X project. Microsoft, possibly, hasn't hit "rock bottom" yet, and therefore doesn't feel a need to build something from scratch.
Personally, I thought "Windows 7" was going to be a leaner, less-backward-compatible build, but I was wrong (as I frequently am): "Our approach with Windows 7 is to build off the same core architecture as Windows Vista," said Bill Veghte, a Microsoft VP. Hello, Windows Me 2.0.
- Yahoo Was Right to Turn Down Microsoft Offer
Despite what the market may suggest, Yahoo was wise to reject the Microsoft offer. Microsoft's interest in Yahoo was, for the most part, to acquire its market share in search and online advertising - a segment currently dominated by Google.
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Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo is akin to taking the drumstick, your favorite piece of the chicken, and then throwing out the rest because it's not really tasty to you. You're interested only in ensuring that your archrival doesn't get the drumstick before you do.
- Battle of egos at Yahoo, Microsoft
- Gates Says Yahoo Deal 'not Likely'
- How Microsoft plans to teach us some manners
Professor Chris Johnson, from the computing science department of Glasgow University, said: "There are lots of devices that don't run Microsoft software these days, and just like that, a lot of devices wouldn't use digital manners.
"Unless Microsoft makes it in the interest of people to buy a device with this technology, nobody's going to bother buying things that use it. I can't see a huge marketplace for digital manners at the moment."
- Microsoft Introducing DRM Tool for 360
- Microsoft strong-arms sports fans: Olympic Games online coverage only for Vista users
Loyal XP users are not alone in their exclusion from NBC's online coverage, the partnership also excludes Mac users, as well those that do their web surfing from a phone.
- Ballmer Tells Seattle Times Microsoft Stock Has Been `Volatile'
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Generation Chaff - Phase V: Censorship of Dissent (Painted as Harassment or Terrorism)
- Censorship is all around us now
- Generation Chaff - Phase IV: Apps Only Few Companies Decide On
- Tools are being collectively confiscated, under the premise or false prospect of "security"
- Why We Support Richard Stallman and You Probably Should Too
- It's not about being "Richard Stallman fan", it is about maintaining the right to hold positions (on technology) like his
- Some Large German Media Covers Richard Stallman's Talks in Germany Earlier This Week
- LLM-based chatbots are just "bullshit generators" (as he has long called them)
- Trouble in Red Hat/IBM and a Retreat to Ponzi Economics in Search of Wall Street Market Heist
- Would you invest your life savings in this kind of crap?
- Who Asked Software in the Public Interest (SPI) for a Refund? ($100,000, Resulting in Losses of $267,201 in 12 Months, Highest-Ever Losses)
- The IRS does not reveal who or what's tied to this refund (or the cause/reason)
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- Coping With the Site Going More Mainstream
- Fame is no laughing matter
- They Never 'Put Down' Corporations
- There are "pests" that are traded in Wall Street
- 21 Pages in Less Than 7 Hours is No Joking Matter
- We've become a lot more effective and efficient
- Correct Information is a Valued Asset in the Age of Slopfarms and Public Relations (PR) or Spin
- Publishing suppressed facts is never easy
- The Register MS Continues to Bag Money to Promote a Ponzi Scheme, Even Money From China
- Today in the front page
- analytics.usa.gov: The Only Supported Version of Windows (This Past Week) is Only Used by About 13.9% of People in the US, the Home Base of Windows
- Even Vista 7 is still used more
- Rust is Very Secure
- If only Rust itself is secure
- Who Will be Held Accountable for Breaking Ubuntu by Imposing Rust on Otherwise-Functional Programs, in Effect Replacing GNU With Proprietary Microsoft (GitHub)?
- they're practical people who merely point out that a bunch of buffoons not only ruin Ubuntu but also every future distro based on Ubuntu
- Generation Chaff - Phase VIII: In Summary
- Like "Science" with a capital "S", what we see here commercial interests usurping everything
- Generation Chaff - Phase VII: Curtailing Alternative Media
- There was always an obligation - a collective duty of sorts - to uphold independent journalism
- Generation Chaff - Phase VI: Centralisation of Information (X, Cheetok/Fentanylware)
- Would you trust information when controlled by such people?
- Generation Chaff - Phase III: Slop and Plagiarism
- A lot of the current so-called 'economy' is built upon false valuations
- Generation Chaff - Phase II: "Cloud", Blockchains and Other Hype
- For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
- Generation Chaff - Phase I: Social Control Media
- IRC predates the Web
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 23, 2025
- More Clues Shed on Collapse of Microsoft XBox
- XBox is basically circling down the drain as Microsoft implements 2-3 waves of layoffs each month
- 'Vibe Coding' Doesn't Work
- In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
- Links 24/10/2025: Microsoft's Killing of XBox Connected to Revenue/Profit Problems, "How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/10/2025: 86,400 Seconds and "Society's Task"
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Google News and Slopfarms That Relay Nonsense From LLMs
- Google News, which once prioritised or used to care about provenance and quality, is feeding slopfarms
- Links 23/10/2025: More Health Concerns Over Dumb Chatbots (LLMs) and "Talking Cars" as Latest Buzz
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/10/2025: Daylight Savings Time and Duration Shorthand
- Links for the day
- Links 23/10/2025: LLM 'Hallucinations' (Defects) in Practical Code 'Generation', China Becomes More Economically and Technologically Independent
- Links for the day
- Linux Foundation Uses LLM Slop to Promote Microsoft in Linux.com (Again), Rendering It a Linux-Hostile Slopfarm
- Openwashing with slop by "Linux.com Editorial Staff", which basically seems to be a bot
- Links 23/10/2025: Windows TCO Galore and "The Internet Is Going to Break Again"
- Links for the day
- Social engineering attack: Debian voted to trick you on binary blobs
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Techrights Will Always Stand for Women's Rights
- We even invest money - personal savings that it - in our principles
- Certified Lawyers Should Know Better (Than to Intimidate Us With Man Who Drives on Motorcycle Through a Really Bad Storm Between Distant Cities, Then Collects Photos of Our Home)
- Mentioning someone was in prison for bad things isn't a crime, it's a public service
- The "AI" (Slop) Bubble is Already Imploding
- "ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds"
- The So-called "Sexy" Buckets (AI, Quantum) Cannot Save IBM From Reality, Shares Tank
- "No matter how much financial hocus-pocus they use to reclassify revenues to land in the "sexy" buckets (AI, Quantum), it still smells old and musty - just like this company."
- Paul Krugman is Wrong About the Scope of Mass Layoffs in the United States
- A few years ago society was accelerating its journey towards feudalism, boosted by COVID-19
- Links 23/10/2025: Proprietary Blunders and CISA's Latest Disclosure of Holes
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/10/2025: Fast Past (F1), 99.9% Uptime
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 22, 2025
- Slopwatch: Google News is Promoting Fake 'Articles' About Fake Xubuntu, Fake Articles About Replacing Windows With GNU/Linux
- The quality of the Web deteriorates and unless someone cleans up the mess, real sites will lose an incentive to produce anything
- When "AI Layoffs" Mean Layoffs Due to the "AI" Bubble Popping
- many people that are laid off by Microsoft claim to be specialists in "AI"
- Mysterious grant forfeited, $100,000 from Software in the Public Interest accounts 2023
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Evidence: bullying, student union behaviour: Armijn Hemel's FSFE resignation
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Evidence: psychological abuse, stalking, Galia Mancheva, Susanne Eiswirt ignored by FSFE judgment for Matthias Kirschner
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Helping FSFE scam victims and conference organisers
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Nigerian fraud in FSFE constitution
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Worrying and Amusing Stories of "Clown Computing" Gone Awry
- Many of these disasters could be avoided
- Links 22/10/2025: Amazon Plans to Replace Workers With Robotics, AWS and Clown Computing in General Ridiculed
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 22/10/2025: Niri Completely Changes Multitasking and Overview of Diff-ers
- Links for the day
- Links 22/10/2025: Study on Misinformation by Slop and Heavily Debt-Sabbled Microsoft OpenAI (ClosedSlop) Uses "Browser" as Gimmick/Distraction
- Links for the day
- They've Already Spent Close to a Million Dollars on Lawyers and Sent Us About 50 KG of Legal Papers (Sponsored by Mysterious Third Party) to Try to Censor Techrights, Without Success
- They try to overcompensate with sheer volume for a lack of solid, clear arguments (we are the victims here)
- 12 Months Ago the 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Officially Went 'Tag-Team'
- We're actually sort of flattered or proud that such despicable people are so desperate to censor us
- "Cloud Computing" Was Always a Joke, But This Week Was the Punchline
- Maybe stop following tech trends and fashions
- "Cloud Computing" Does Not Mean Safety
- Fault tolerance is related to the notion of software freedom
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- The Fall of Windows: From Something to Nothing
- Of course Microsoft will pretend everything is fine and "just trust the hey hi" (AI)
Comments
max stirner
2008-06-30 19:03:39
couple of days old, nonetheless hilarious
best wishes :)