Links 14/07/2008: New Version of Linux, Mandriva Reviews
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-14 15:40:32 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-14 15:41:34 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Linux 2.6.26 [Released]
- Exaile — versantile audio player for GNOME
- 10 Awesome Linux T-shirt
- 10 Iconic Linux Logos
- Early Fedora 10 Artwork
Since I did a look at Ubuntu’s early concept art and since I am usually very impressed by Fedora’s final art, I decided that it would make sense to take a look at what has appeared on the Fedora Art Team wiki. I have actually been waiting a few days to do this, since, as of just a few days ago, there were not enough submissions that I liked to talk about.
- Xfe Review - Wonderful File Manager
In my opinion, Xfe is just awesome. If you never tried it until now, you really should take it for a spin, no matter what desktop environment you are using. Themes will make it fit well in any of them, it's fast, it provides powerful enough features, it has a great clean and intuitive interface, and in my opinion it's the simplest to learn from all the file managers I tried up to date. A great piece by all means, which can surprisingly become the file manager of choice after one single try.
- Tux comes to Felton, California
It's one thing to to change someone over from Windows to Linux. That in itself is a gratifying experience. Then, you get your second defection from the chained-down world of Microsoft Windows, then the third...
- Alcatel-Lucent Adds Laptop Disk-Encryption Support
- Linux Thin Client:Considering the Network
Mandriva
F/OSS
Security
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Hiring for Tech Roles Based on Perceived Loyalty is No Better Than Hiring to Meet Diversity Quotas
- What we're seeing right now is a national security disaster and it is almost purely about technology
- S.E.O. SPAM by Serial Sloppers With L.L.M. Garbage is Hurting Linux
- We continue to run Slopwatch
- IBM Says That Half of Its "Assets" is Basically Pure Fiction ("Goodwill")
- It times get tough, IBM can sell "Goodwill" at the local pawn shop and pay back the lenders, right?
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- Links 02/02/2025: Union-Busting and Censorship by Executions
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/02/2025: Limits Pushing, Free Software Absolutism, and Why Gemini Matters
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: BetaNews and linuxsecurity.com Have Just Published More Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"
- There's probably more "Linux" slop out there, but we do our best to identify it on a daily basis
- Richard Stallman Has Another Talk in India Tomorrow, at Least Fourth India Talks in Recent Days
- In the past month he has given at least half a dozen talks
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, February 01, 2025
- Links 01/02/2025: Chinese and American Censorship, Cloud-[sic]Native Targeted by Software Patents
- Links for the day
- Links 01/02/2025: Belated Happy New Year 2025 and Gabbro 0.1.2
- Links for the day
- Links 01/02/2025: Administrative Chaos and Aviation Disasters Persist
- Links for the day
- Arrested: Albanian Outreachy whistleblowers, Sonny Piers GNOME & Debian connections
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 1/2/2025: LLM Hype Revisited, Linuxwashing by Oumi
- Links for the day
- Growing Evidence That the Patent Industry Has Become a Major Scam
- Seeing that the patent "industry" has turned to serious crimes (sometimes to cover up corruption) and seeing that the net negative is clearer for all to see, people who argue for abolition of all patents will have a field day
- Planet Ubuntu Overrun by LLM Slop? Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU Seems to be Publishing Fake Articles About "Linux"...
- Maybe it is "assisted" by LLM slop, but slop is slop and it introduces many problems
- Gemini Links 01/02/2025: LLMs, Analog Computer, and BorgBackup
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 31, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, January 31, 2025
- Links 31/01/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Microsoft, Sweden Again Fails to Protect Critics of Violence
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux" and More (Latest Roundup Featuring BetaNews, Janus Atienza, and Brittany Day From Guardian Digital, Inc)
- LLM slop season
- Microsoft Staff Explains How Microsoft Swindled Employees and Avoided Paying Out Severance Pay (Microsoft Hasn't Much Money Left in the Bank)
- This is a classic way to avoid paying workers
- "Not one of us" by Dr. Andy Farnell
- Elon Musk has brought embarrassment to nerds and technologists
- Gemini Links 31/01/2025: "Bulletin Buble" and "Why Blog?"
- Links for the day
- Static Site Generators (SSGs) Pay Off: Vastly Faster Sites, Much Smaller Hosting Bills
- success story for SSGs
- Of Note: Linux Foundation Has Already Let Linux.com Rot for About 4 Months (No Activity)
- there's no campaign aside from marketing spam there
- Techrights Should be Even Faster Now
- We're now better off
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 30, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Gave 3 Talks in India in Less Than a Week
- In India this month we've not seen a single negative comment about RMS
- Indian Data Biases statCounter For or Against "Linux"
- In statCounter, the GNU/Linux increases and decreases are deeply tied to what it does with data collected in India
- The Corporate Media Pretends That Facebook ("Meta") Has Performed Well, But Its Debt Doubles Every 2 Years Despite Mass Layoffs
- That same media also helps parrot misleading financial claims
- Microsoft's Debt Surged by More Than 6,000,000,000 Dollars in Just 3 Months
- numbers released hours ago
- The Sheer Irony of Microsoft Proxy Accusing Others of 'Stealing'
- Wherever DeepSick's data came from, Microsoft (or its proxy) is in no position to issue criticism.
- The Difference a Decade (and GAFAM Money) Makes
- Credibility cannot be purchased
- [Meme] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Critics Because Its Message is Effective
- Applying to others the same standards one is willing to violate?
Comments
Al Roberts
2008-07-14 20:19:28
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3560
"Writing Plasma Applets in C#"