Links 01/07/2008: Lindependence 2008 to Start, H-P to Offer Non-Microsoft/Novell Option (FreeDOS)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2008-07-01 17:50:58 UTC
Modified: 2008-07-01 17:50:58 UTC
GNU/Linux
'Lindependence 2008' aims to Free Felton from Microsoft Windows
"We're trying to get as many people as possible to switch to Linux, because the main thing is most people don't use computers for fancy things, so they're wasting money," said Ken Starks, a Linux advocate and owner of HeliOS Solutions in Austin, Texas, which strives to create technologies and provide cost effective products to its customers.
Road warrior's weapon
...HP intends to offer the option of Vista Home Basic, FreeDOS or SuSE Linux Enterprise desktop.
The Six Kinds of Anti-FOSS Trolls
The Vandal - The most dangerous troll of all. Capable of literally destroying FOSS projects just by flaming them online. The vandal always takes the tactic of attacking the interface. It's almost always a graphics program, too.
Research and Markets: Mobile Linux in China Will Find Its Way in TD-SCDMA
A Symphony For Viola: Parsix 1.5r0 Review
I can't praise Parsix 1.5r0 enough: It's stable while being cutting edge, stylish while being practical and is certainly in my top five favourite distributions, which is saying something given how low-profile it remains (it's still only at No 57 on the Distrowatch page-hit ranking list, which is ridiculously low).
On sidux 2008.02 Xfce
SMPlayer Review - One of the Most Powerful Video Players for Linux
Audio/Visual Synthesis For Linux: The New Art, Part 1
Seven Reasons to Move to Linux
Three reasons why GNU/Linux is better for Web servers than OS X
Updates and software installation can be a pain, and you're likely to find a cheaper, more flexible, better-working, and better-performing solution with GNU/Linux at a lower price.
Converting any window into plasmoid
Despite all current limitation, I think this approach still has its own use-cases, for example when you want quick access to some of your applications from Dashboard (for example Konsole) or if you want something not-yet-available as plasmoid on your desktop (for example video player, advanced calculator, web-browser with your webmail, a game from kdegames, googleearth, ...).
Support for 100+ webcams in Linux 2.6.27 (USB Video Class Driver)
New: Ubuntu YouTube Channel
Ubuntu Video Tutorials For People Just Starting Out
Why enterprise still cannot accept Linux.
Debian teams survey results
Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 June 2008
Big Buck Bunny builds a better Blender
Review: EeePC 900 with Ubuntu 8.4
F/OSS
Leftovers
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Recent Techrights' Posts
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Resists Software Freedom, Even by Attacking Its Own
The OSI is compromised
Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide
Links for the day
Gemini Links 28/08/2025: Back in Japan and Why "Hacker News" Sucks
Links for the day
A Much-Needed Wake-up Call to Users of Wordpress.com, Blogspot, Substack and All Those Other Outsourced (and Centralised) Platforms
There are several lessons in there
The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
In dictatorships, humour serves an important role. It's tragic.
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, Slopfarms in Google News, and More
Some readers of ours end up sending us links that are from slopfarms, not realising those are slopfarms
Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Katrina Memories and Google Versus Software Freedom
Links for the day
Links 27/08/2025: Police Against Media Freedom in the UK, Energy-Hungry Countries Targeted by China
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Microsoft Windows Fell to All-Time Lows in Egypt This Summer, Vista 11 Adoption Decreases While GNU/Linux Increases
Vista 11 is going down rather than up
Links 27/08/2025: Microsoft Demoralises Staff With Slop Demands, Leaving Mastodon Explained
Links for the day
12 Hours Ago The Register MS Published a Fake (Paid-for) Article, But This One for a Change Did Not Promote a Ponzi Scheme
There are also Free software alternatives, but they don't pay The Register MS for "synthetic" so-called 'journalism'
More People Need to Call Out and Put a Stop to Serial Sloppers
Unless slopfarms are stopped, people will read and share Microsoft propaganda made by chatbots
Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Headphones and Tartarus
Links for the day
Morale at Microsoft is Terrible (Proprietary Plagiarism Machines Have No Future, LLM Slop is a Bubble)
The slop sceptics/critics are going to have lots of "told you so" moments
GNOME "governance issues, staff reduction, etc." amidst Albanian whistleblowing and women trafficking
Notice the connection to Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and GNOME
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Richard Stallman (RMS) Was Right About "Sideloading" in 1996
We now have computers that treat booting GNU/Linux like an act of "Sideloading"
Panama: Windows Down From 97% "Market Share" to Less Than 30%
In 2009, Windows was measured at 97.24% (compared to 62.32% right now or less than 30% if one also counts Android)
The UEFI 9/11 - Part I - Introduction to Impending Catastrophe (Microsoft Preventing People From Booting Non-Windows Systems)
eight-part series
Why Techrights is Slow Today (Bot Floods)
We don't know if those bots are connected to LLMs (we have not checked), but that is a possibility
Slopwatch: DDoS Slop, LinuxBSDos.com Spam, and Slopfarms in Google News, Including webpronews.com
Among the news we also found fakes, albeit not so much today
Links 26/08/2025: "Ballooning Debt" in France and "Transnational Repression in the UK"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/08/2025: Listening to Alcest and Google Doing Evil (Users Installing Software is "Sideloading" and Prohibited)
Links for the day
Links 26/08/2025: DNS Tampering and TikTok Layoffs
Links for the day
Microsoft's Windows "Market Share" Overestimated
Microsoft's income sources are shrinking
We Shall See...
My wife and I are hardly the first victims of Brett Wilson LLP
This New Determination on a Case Echoes the Modus Operandi of Microsoft's Serial Strangler vs Techrights (Its Online Decision/Judgment Says Truth and Public Interest Defend the Publisher)
Noel Anthony Clarke hopefully has enough money left to pay his victims, which include the publishers
Going Offline
There was life before the Net
The Register MS Has Apparently Shut Down Its Office
It is basically a fake address on the face of it
There Are Also Expectations of IBM Layoffs Very Soon With "Narrative Control."
Some of them mention Red Hat and how IBM failed to achieve anything substantial with that acquisition
After at Least Two Rounds of Mass Layoffs in August Microsoft Said to Have "September Layoff Confirmed - Performance Based"
Those "M5 level meetings" sound plausible
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 25, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, August 25, 2025