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
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'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
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Recent Techrights' Posts
Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 22x) 'Bought' by Microsoft and Microsoft Exceeded Sponsorship Limits by Giving Double the Maximum Permitted Amount When people get bribed they tend to forget how to utter a simple word: "No."
EPO Examiners Point Out to the Heads of Delegations in the Administrative Council of the EPO That the "AI Policy" of the Office is Illegal "the Central Staff Committee (CSC) asks the Administrative Council to exert its supervisory role and instruct EPO management to enter into genuine dialogue with the staff representation on the AI Policy, to revise the “Leverage AI” target of 90% AI-automated classification in the SP2028 and to put in place the measures supported by staff in the resolution."
French Cities Dumping Microsoft Because They Recognise Software Freedom, Open Standards, GNU/Linux Autonomy We hope that more French cities - maybe Paris - will follow Lyon.
LWN is a Voice of GAFAM (Through Linux Foundation, Their Front Group or Occupying Force Inside Linux) remember who the chief editor works for and who sponsors many of the articles
The 'Case' of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft is a Lot of Copypasta (Maybe Also LLM Slop) From the Matthew Garrett 'Case' 5RB deserves to know and the matter shall be properly reported in due course (when the time is right)
EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part II - Office Breaks Rules, Ignores Courts, Defies Justice False promises everywhere
IBM - Like Microsoft - is a Dying Company and Perishing Brand ("AI" is a Lie and Decoy) "Arvind is cutting costs (layoffs, PIPs, forced RTO, etc...) like crazy. IBM offices are closing all over the place in the US."
"Code of Conduct" Invoked When Fedora and Red Hat Users (Since the 1990s) Don't Want to Use Wayland That is IBM "DEI"
Microsoft Layoffs Next Week: About 10% to be Laid Off in Microsoft Gaming (2 Days Before Independence Day), About 20%+ of XBox Staff Microsoft is rapidly collapsing
What Linux Foundation 'Research' is: Paid Marketing What is Linux Foundation 'Research'?
No, IBM Does Not Care About People With Disabilities "Aktion T4" did not seem to bother Watson
Microsoft's Financial Problems Mean Shutdowns, Not Just Mass Layoffs If the original rumour is true, then expect almost 30,000 Microsoft workers to be let go this year
Over at Tux Machines... GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 26, 2025 IRC logs for Thursday, June 26, 2025
The Netherlands: GNU/Linux Measured at All-Time High Are any Dutch cities going to announce dumping Microsoft?
Gemini Links 27/06/2025: "Interstitial Existence" and Autocorrect Links for the day
Keeping Things Accessible Gemini Protocol seems to be growing
Technical People Need Technical Lawyers Technical Litigants in Person (LIPs) have many real and concrete advantages
10,000+ Articles in About 20 Months (and How We Got Here) More bloat does not beget efficiency and "bells and whistles" tend to have a hidden cost
Links 26/06/2025: Illegal Kangaroo Court (UPC) Failing Scandinavia, K-Pop Agencies Abuse People Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/06/2025: AuraGem Twitch Proxy is Back and UI Sluggishness Links for the day
Links 26/06/2025: Noise Pollution Considered High in Europe, Mass Layoffs Next Week in Microsoft Confirmed, Very Large in Scale and Scope Links for the day
No, I Don't Want Your Latest XYZ, ThankYouVeryMuch... Wayland is finally ready?
China Keeps Breaking Into Microsoft Systems, So for True Sovereignty, Nations Wary of China Need to Dump Microsoft Looking at data from Taiwan (not China) and Maharlika (not Philippines, the king is dead and Spain is out), there are encouraging signs
Linux Journal Wants Ads on Its LLM Slop or Ads as 'Articles' it's basically another BetaNews
How to Kill a Monopoly in 10 simple steps
Mozambique: GNU/Linux Rose From 0.5% Last Year to 3% This Year what (or how) statCounter is measuring
Next Month Marks 11 Years Since Our In-Depth EPO Coverage The same is happening to Microsoft right now
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Campaigns Against Vista 11, Adds 4 New Associate Members Per Day If more people understood the underlying principles, more of them would flock to Free software overnight
Canonical Seems to Have Culled Some Sources of LLM Slop From Planet Ubuntu It's like "junk food", it's not information
Over at Tux Machines... GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 IRC logs for Wednesday, June 25, 2025
On "Weak Claims" For the record, they sent me unjustified threats, repeatedly tried injunctions (censorship)
EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part I - Burnout and Family Health more exceptional circumstances
This Month's Mail (MX) Server Survey Shows Microsoft at 0.20% "Market Share" We need to remind people that desktops and laptops decline (in proportion to other client devices) and at the "back end" GNU/Linux is already dominant and has long been dominant
Links 26/06/2025: Filespooler Guide and Learning to Code Links for the day
Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People) Attack dogs are all "bark"; because they have no actual "bite"
Austrian GNU/Linux Usage Up to About 5% as More of Europe Abandons Microsoft Since inauguration day the Austrian people have adopted more and more of GNU/Linux
Why the "Wayland People" and "Rust People" Will Lose Hearts and Minds (Same Reasons) Wayland pushers are fast becoming like "Rust People"
5,600 Pages/Articles Per Year So far this year we've kept all the promises
BetaNews Beginning to Show What Its True Goals Are The 'new' BetaNews won't be about journalism. It's trying to sell things.
Microsoft Has Lost "The War" We'll soon see the 9th or 10th wave of Microsoft layoffs in 2025 alone
Slopwatch: A Wreck and a Dreck, "Flooding the Zone With Dreck" or Flooding the Web With Junk "Slopwatch" continues today because we have many new examples
Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU Links for the day
Links 25/06/2025: Elon Musk’s Lawyers Caught Lying, WhatsApp Faces More Bans Links for the day
Wayland Pushers Lose the Argument, Use LLM Slop and Chatbots to Make Up Arguments for IBM Another new low and low blow
Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms Mr. Fagioli even had slop about a dead Torvalds (hypothetical) as clickbait
Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not) Do not form on opinion on Wayland based on politics
What is "MATA"? Think of it as GAFAM or "Meta"
Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop My wife has long complained about "Linux bloggers" keeping quiet and thus passive about a growing problem: slop
In Recent Hours Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed Linux Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them) Google is circling down the drain and Google News too is hopeless
Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors' Is Slashdot next?
WebProNews is a Slopfarm Please avoid linking to WebProNews
Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way LinkedIn is just a failed acquisition of Microsoft. It causes losses and debt.
Gemini Links 25/06/2025: Combinatorial Music and Self Hosting Links for the day
Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks His last talk in Europe attracted about 400-450 people
Over at Tux Machines... GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 IRC logs for Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)? The world needs to know what happened
The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop BetaNews is basically defunct. Nobody writes there anymore.
Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected With mass layoffs at Microsoft the world would be much better
