Links 21/07/2008: New Pushes for Free Software in India, South America
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-21 10:09:11 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-21 10:11:56 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Welcoming Brian Proffitt (and looking forward to the LDN)
- The Wikipedia 'Naming Controversy' by Joshua Gay
On the English version of Wikipedia there is an article that discusses the naming controversy over whether one should call the operating system “GNU/Linux” or “Linux.” In that article, some contend that Linux is the more popular and common name for the system. But when writing an encyclopedia, neither popularity nor commonality are the paramount concerns. Calling the system “GNU/Linux” is more factually accurate, as the GNU project largely forms the base of all distributions of the operating system. For example, GNU packages accounts for 14.79% of the 16.5GB of source packages used to build the Main repository of the gNewSense GNU/Linux distribution (deltad). They also constitute 6.69% of the 27GBs of source packages from which the Universe repository is built. Linux weighs in at about 253MB and accounts for approximately 1.5% of the source code needed to build the Main repository. Furthermore, Linux itself is generally built using GNU libraries and GNU tools, and on many systems depends on them being there.
- Top 5 Awesome Linux Distro Upgrades Coming Out in Second Half of 2008
1. Debian Lenny 5.0 (around September)...
2. Fedora 10 (October)...
3. Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (October)...
4. Gentoo Linux 2008.1...
5. Puppy Linux 5.0....
- Former Delta Exec Whitehurst Riding High At Red Hat's Helm
"We have almost too many opportunities," he said in an interview. "We have to really focus hard."
Red Hat, with $523 million in sales last year, gets much attention for its size. It's long been the largest company focused on open-source Linux. It serves as an example for others that want to use open-source software to build a business worthy of Wall Street's attention.
- Linux at Lowes
I don't think the employee would have had a clue what Linux was or why I would be curious, but I was. I'm willing to bet that computer maintenance costs are extremely low at Lowes compared to Windows based businesses of the same size. I'm sure they have some Windows boxes somewhere, but on the floor, it looked Linux on almost every monitor I saw.
Curious about how long they had been using Linux, I did a quick Google search and found that I wasn't the only eagle eyed shopper spotting Linux at Lowes, the subject has been kicked around for at least three or four years.
- NComputing: Little Box, Big Aspirations
- Join the first Maemo Summit
- 10 things I’ve overheard about my Linux laptop while on public transportation
I’ve been taking the train to work for 4 years now. It’s a 45 minute rambling ride in which I usually either read a book, sleep, or grab my laptop loaded up with Ubuntu and get some stuff done. Over time, I’ve collected a few funny remarks I’ve either over heard, or that people have said directly to me. Here are the 10 best.
1. That’s not windows, it’s a Mac! (One teenager to another).
2. Where’s the start button? (Asked directly to me on a train).
- [KDE4:] Leaving the mockup phase
- Compiz Fusion - Unmatched 3D Environment in Linux
Think Aqua interface in Mac OSX and 3D Flip in Windows Vista was the best looking Operating system? Ever thought that the 3D effects on hacker’s desktop shown in movies are not for real? No need to think again, just read on because the freedom and flexibility Compiz Fusion provides is beyond imagination.
- Simplis GNU/Linux: A new face in GNU/Linux Town
For the first public release of Simplis it is almost a perfectly stable distribution with some small issues with package management which I think can be easily fixed.
- Look for the silver lining
Clamping down too hard on pirates may also encourage people to switch to free, open-source alternatives. “It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not,” Microsoft’s chairman, Bill Gates, told Fortune magazine last year.
- Mandriva - Linux 2008 Spring review
The latest Mandriva Linux distro includes the usual updates to the component parts plus a number of extras such as support for the Asus Eee PC and tools to synchronise data with Windows Mobile 5 and other handheld devices. Multimedia support is much improved in this release and parental controls added for home users. There's no server implementation but it's a good desktop for Linux learners.
- Azingo to raise Rs 200 cr
Azingo, a US-based company that offers a complete open Mobile Linux stack, will be raising $50 million (approximately Rs 240 crore) in a Series-B funding from US-based private equity firm Garnett Helfrich Capital and a few strategic partners by the end of the current financial year. The company, which has its research and development (R&D) centres in Hyderabad and Pune, had earlier received $30 million (Rs 125 crore) from Garnett.
Ubuntu
F/OSS
Rights
Microsoft
- Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
Yahoo Inc. received 19.62% of U.S. searches in June, down from 21.31% last year, while MSN Search received 5.46%, down from 9.85% in June 2007.
- Microsoft’s Windows 95 Architect Is a Happy Mac Convert
Based in Bellevue, WA — right next to Microsoft’s home turf of Redmond — Satoshi spent nearly 14 years at Microsoft, serving as the software architect of Windows 95 and 98. He also oversaw the development of Internet Explorer 3.0 and 4.0. While at Microsoft, he developed the third largest portfolio of intellectual property of any employee at the company, according to his bio.
- How I got a Windows Vista refund from HP
If you take the time to read the Microsoft EULA it is disturbing to say the least. But I won't get into that here - many others have bashed this EULA to bits. Notice that there is no option to not accept their terms - you agree, or else... Or else what? I stared at the screen, and decided it was time to take the leap to Linux.
- Microsoft shifts its search to AOL
- A Cloudy Future for Microsoft Partners
- 10 Great Microsoft Technologies That Failed
Newer candidates include:
- SPOT watches, R.I.P.: 2004 - 2008
- GameStop to Stop Zune Sales
- The Xbox 360 is dead
- Windows Live Expo set to expire next month
- Microsoft Burns Down Book Search
- EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers
- Microsoft Closing Live Search Books and Academic Projects
- Microsoft confirms OneCare zaps Outlook, Outlook Express e-mail
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Recent Techrights' Posts
- Traf-O-Data, the Company That Jeffrey Epstein's BFF (Bill Gates) (Co)Founded 53 Years and Went Out of Business Due to Heavy Losses
- Who will die first, Bill or Microsoft?
- A Note on SimilarWeb
- Or why SimilarWeb is meaningless for more than 99% of the sites on the Web
- IBM Said to be Shutting Down Offices or Sites in the United States
- the press can no longer avoid admitting that IBM moves many jobs to India
- LLM Slop as Attack Vector on the Reputation of Linux
- The attacks on Linux have escalated to information warfare
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- Links 04/04/2025: LLM Slop Bubble Bursting and Korea Music Copyright Association Bans Slop 'Music'
- Links for the day
- Why Microsoft's Shares Sank Almost 20% in Recent Months (the Bubble is Imploding)
- verified press reports from the past 24 hours
- GNU/Linux Rises to Almost 5% in Algeria While Windows Sinks to All-Time Low
- GNU/Linux grew tenfold
- Where to Get More Gags
- A valued reader recommended that to us
- Links 04/04/2025: Tech Stock (Inc. GAFAM) Fall, Google Pretends to Do End-to-End Encrypted Emails (With Google in Control)
- Links for the day
- To Participate in Fedora Diversity You Must Use Proprietary Software
- Not for the first time either
- Yandex About to Be Three Times Bigger Than Microsoft (Bing) in Asia
- That's about 60% of the world's population
- Gemini Links 04/04/2025: Decoupling Updates, Elaho as Gemini Client
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 03, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 03, 2025
- Microsoft's Trouble in Africa and Asia
- A new all-time high for GNU/Linux
- Brett Wilson LLP Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- The saddest thing in all this is that law firms can maintain high standards shall they wish to
- Links 03/04/2025: Tariff Pains and C.D.C. Cuts
- Links for the day
- StatCounter: Microsoft is Masking a Disaster, It's Way Behind DeepSeek Already and Interest in LLMs Has Waned
- it turns out the money "raised" for "Open" "AI" may not even exist at all
- Links 03/04/2025: SoftBank Money for Microsoft "Open" "AI" Probably Doesn't Even Exist, Wikimedia Foundation Blasts LLM Nuisance While Microsoft Admits Demand Has Shrunk
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 03/04/2025: Patch Panel and Pictures
- Links for the day
- Islamic Republic of Iran: GNU/Linux at All-time High This Month, Windows Falls to 12%
- Vista 10 is up this month despite being "end of life" (EoL) soon
- Indonesia: All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux
- What's noteworthy right now is the growth of GNU/Linux
- statCounter Says GNU/Linux Usage is Up Again (Internationally)
- some preliminary April data
- Only on April 1st Can the Free Software Foundation Associate With Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- We saw some pranks that day linking the FSF to Microsoft (e.g. "endorsing" Windows)
- Confirmed in the Mainstream Media: A Lot of Microsoft "Workloads" Were Just LLM Slop (Helping to Fake Growth for Years, as Microsoft Had Paid "Open" "AI" to Become a "Client") and Demand is Rapidly Waning, Datacentres Canceled and/or Shut Down
- Anything to facilitate further accounting fraud
- Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble
- Earlier this week we showed that mostly Asian media had the 'nerve' to mention Microsoft silently shutting down its 'AI' lab
- IBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft
- IBM Consulting has been in disarray lately
- More Gains for GNU/Linux, Based on Web Surveys
- the Steam site shows rapid growth for "Linux" this month
- Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles, Not Even Written by Humans
- Why aren't Web sites more vocal about this problem?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 02, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, April 02, 2025
- Links 03/04/2025: Apple Fined Over Secret Surveillance, "Elegant Writer For A More Civilized Age"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/04/2025: Books and Cold Tea
- Links for the day
- Links 02/04/2025: More Layoffs, Nokia Again Takes Advantage of Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court With Nokia Staff as 'Judges'
- Links for the day
- Links 02/04/2025: Seizures and Returns to Windows of 24 Years Ago
- Links for the day
- LLM Slop Helps Obscure and Distort News About Layoffs (IBM, GAFAM)
- It's hard to find accurate information
- Links 02/04/2025: Microsoft Developers Are Threatening to Go on Strike, World Backup Day Noted
- Links for the day
- Gemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop)
- For any "data plan" with bandwidth limits or "tiers" it would be cheaper to use/browse Geminispace
- The Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers
- Doing nothing ought not be a possibility
- Amid Secret Shut-downs and Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (4 Waves of Layoffs in 3 Months of 2025) Some Microsoft Staff Expected to Go On Strike
- workers going on strike
- Gemini Links 02/04/2025: No more on Mastodon and Gemini Mention Script in Go
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, April 01, 2025
- My Motion Disbarring or “Striking Off” Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs
- "Guns for hire" (for Microsoft people who received Microsoft salaries)
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hijacked Again by Patent Litigation Industry, as President Cheeto Prioritises Aggressors
- The "mafia" has taken over the "industry" and the Federal system (justice and constitutions trampled upon)
- Ubuntu Slop and FUD Manufactured With LLMs and Funded (by Oneself) 'Studies'
- Slop and FUD are ruining the Web