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
DSL
eGovernment
F/OSS
Mozilla/Firefox
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Chatbots Are Not Data-Driven, They're Human-Censored and Rely on Wage Slaves (and Sometimes Unpaid Volunteers)
- This is the Microsoft wage slavery
- Gemini Links 12/01/2025: No Country For Old Men, Burned Homes, and "Planet P is Clean"
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Brittany Day and Brian Fagioli Are Still at It, Googlebombing "Linux" With LLM Slop (Taking Away Traffic From the Articles They're Plagiarising)
- Some more sites that used to cover GNU/Linux have turned into slopfarms
- [Meme] Being High on Drugs Isn't Happiness (Likewise, Being a "Star" in Social Control Media is Temporary)
- Many entities - or people - will regret telling everybody "follow me on Twitter"
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- Links 13/01/2025: GitLab Enshittification and Minimalism and Efficiency with Gemini Protocol
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- Links 13/01/2025: Hardware, Health, and Conflicts
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- Microsoft Appears to Have Fallen to Only 15% in Maldives
- This is a problem for Microsoft
- Rumours of IBM Canada Layoffs
- We'll keep a vigilant eye on this
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, January 12, 2025
- Bots Covering Debian Releases
- It would be quite safe to guess that chatbots were at least partly leveraged for that text
- Links 12/01/2025: Microsoft Admits It's Laying Off Staff Only Where Staff is "Expensive" (Race to the Bottom)
- Links for the day
- [Meme] They Say That RMS Says the "F" Word (Freedom) Too Much...
- About 32.7k US dollars are now left for the FSF to raise (in 6 days)
- Links 12/01/2025: More Sanctions Against Russia, SCOTUS Signals Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban Will Stay
- Links for the day
- [Meme] A Jihad Against Servers the User Controls
- We need to strive for and work towards greater control by users over "their" servers
- Microsoft Azure-Only Bugs in "Linux" Can "Compromise the System."
- From ubuntu.com and linux.org a few days ago
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 11, 2025
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- Gemini Links 12/01/2025: DHL Express Does Not Deliver, Oddmuse Update
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- Links 11/01/2025: Social Control Media Facing Sanctions, Carter Respected at Funeral
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- If TikTok (China) Has the Rights of American Persons, Then ByteDance Can be Sentenced to Death
- TikTok - like Julian Assange - does not enjoy any protections of the First Amendment and since it's not a person it would lack these protections as an American company, too
- After a Year of Layoffs in Microsoft Nigeria (and Microsoft in Africa at Large) Windows Falls to New Lows and Bing Falls to 0.46% "Market Share"
- Of course Microsoft gave bribes in Nigeria to suppress GNU/Linux adoption
- An Important Lesson About Patents and Patent Maximalism (They Drive People and Companies Away)
- This previously happened in Texas, where companies perceived their presence (in any form) to be a liability as patent trolls could drag them to friendly courts and win "damages"
- When It Comes to Fentanylware (TikTok), a Digital Weapon of a Hostile Entity, Common Dreams is Jumping the Shark Again (Years After It Ran Out of Steam or Money)
- Or maybe it likes the agenda promoted (curated) by Fentanylware (TikTok) and its parent company, Bytedance or Chinese Community Party (CPP)
- BetaNews is Now Officially a Spamfarm With Phantom Authors and Fake Text (SPAM and Linkspam Made With LLM Slop)
- That's it, the site is virtually dead now (maybe that was the plan all along)
- Hazem Abbas of medevel is Ruining His Site With LLM Slop
- Some of his articles are original, but now everything is suspect
- [Meme] Real and Fake (or "several influential "open source" organizations [which] have come to be dominated by large companies")
- The Free Software Foundation has not sold out
- Free Software Foundation: Anchoring the FSF in its values
- Original by Free Software Foundation
- GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time Highs in Greenland, Windows Sinks to All-Time Lows
- a lot of GNU/Linux gets detected there lately
- Microsoft's "Donald Trump First" Doctrine
- national deficits growing
- Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon)
- No wonder many people who got trapped inside Azure quit Azure, which keeps bleeding (losses and layoffs)
- Gemini Links 11/01/2025: Wildfire, Militia and the Mole, IRC vs Social Control Media
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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