Links 10/07/2008: wattOS Introduced; Church Moves to Free Software
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-10 17:23:48 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-10 17:33:41 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Top 4 New Feature Proposed for Fedora 10
- Intrepid Ubuntu plans out
With Intrepid Ibex, the next version of Ubuntu Linux, just a few months away the development team has released details of the most pressing issues for the 8.10 release. Among these are better 3G integration, tighter Firefox integration in KDE, and faster boot times.
- Opinion: Year of the penguin
It’s taken the confluence of several disparate but connected events to create the perfect breeding ground for desktop versions of Linux to finally flourish.
- Introducing wattOS - A Lightweight Ubuntu!
wattOS... the last frontier, the lightweight Ubuntu-based operating system is now here! Faster than anything else out there, wattOS is not just another Ubuntu clone, it is powered by the Openbox window manager, a standards compliant, fast, lightweight and extensible window manager.
- Compiz Support For Multi-Pointer XI
n May we shared that Multi-Pointer X (or MPX for short) was entering the mainline X server. While it was merged to master that month, X Server 1.5 was already branched out and therefore it won't appear in X.Org 7.4, but it will appear in X Server 1.6 (X.Org 7.5) until next year.
- A Better Introduction to Linux User Interface
- Why I am Leaning Toward Debian
- Meet the People Who Have Trillions Riding on Linux this Fall
NYSE Euronext and its family of exchanges which include the NYSE, Euronext, Liffe, Alternext and NYSE Arca Options, operating in the US and Europe, now run on Red Hat Linux and look to Red Hat for support and services. Put it another way, over 4000 public companies and over $141 billion in daily stock transactions depend on Linux. The Chicago Mercantile exchange at last count traded 1.403 Billion contracts valued at $827 trillion annually.
- Red Hat's channel is a "multi-billion dollar opportunity"
- KDE 4 : The Lightest Desktop Yet ? My Experience with KDE 4.0.x
- Be super-productive with Linux
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eGovernment
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- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VII
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
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- BetaNews is Still 'Shitposting' About Trump and Porn (Two Analysers Say This 'Shitposting' Comes From LLMs)
- Probably some SEO garbage, prompted with words like "porn" and "trump" to stitch together other people's words
- Market Share of Vista 11 Said to be Going Down in Europe
- one plausible explanation is that gs.statcounter.com is actually misreporting the share of Vista 11, claiming that it's higher than it really is
- Fourth Estate or Missing Fourth Pillar
- "The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in explicit capacity of reporting the News" -Wikipedia on Fourth Estate
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- LLMs Are Not a Form of Intelligence (They Never Will Be)
- Butterflies are smarter than "chatGPT"
- Business Software Alliance (BSA), Microsoft, and AstroTurfing Online (Also in the Trump Administration Groomed by BSA and Microsoft)
- Has Washington become openWashington? Where the emphasis is openwashing rather than Open(Source)Washington?
- Windows at 1%
- Quit throwing taxpayers' money at Microsoft, especially when it fails to fulfil basic needs and instead facilitates espionage by foreign and very hostile nations
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- Sudan Has Reached a State of Android Domination (93% Market Share, All-Time High According to statCounter)
- countries at war buy fewer laptops?
- [Meme] Just Do It?
- 'FSF' Europe (Microsoft) and FSF
- Microsoft Front Groups Against the FSF, Home of GPL, GNU, and Free Software
- Much of the money (not all of it) comes from the criminals at Redmond
- Centralisation is Dooming the Web, RSS is One Workaround (But Not "Planets")
- At least Gemini Protocol rejects centralisation
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