Links 24/07/2008: Red Hat's Extended Support, Fedora Portables Coming
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-24 11:59:22 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-24 11:59:22 UTC
GNU/Linux
- SecuTech adds Mac, Linux support to UniKey security
- Industrial PCs support real-time Linux extensions
- Return of the InstallFest...It's Starting Here
So far, I have come away with several interesting realizations, the more important of which are these: That people are more ready and willing to distance themselves from Microsoft than I had originally anticipated, and translating that into getting them to use Free/Open Source Software will have a huge effect on the digital landscape in this area and elsewhere — and let me emphasize the elsewhere because if it can happen here, it can happen elsewhere.
So who’s ready to make history in their community?
Oh, and if you have Microsoft stock, I’d sell. Fast.
- Debian Linux installer for NAS devices goes beta
- Vista Adoption going no-where, IT considering Linux and Mac instead
- Jim Zemlin at OSCON: The Mysterious Work of the Linux Foundation
- Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators
Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.
Desktop Environments
Red Hat/Fedora
- Red Hat/Fedora
Red Hat on Wednesday said it is extending the first phase of its product lifecycle support for Enterprise Linux, when the most technical support resources are made available, from three years to four.
- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Improved Through Enhanced Product Life Cycle
- Re-jigged Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu
- Intel says Linux-based Moblin update coming soon
Intel is readying a second release of the Moblin open-source platform for mobile computing, with plans set for an alpha-level version in a few weeks, an Intel official said at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in the US on Wednesday.
- SELinux and Fedora
- Fedora launches OLPC group
- Developers Make a Good Call With Fedora Talk
While the rest of the world is knee-deep in webinars, Skype-based teleconferences, and other "Web 2.0"-ish forms of real time communication, most of the Linux community still relies on IRC, wikis, and opt-in email lists to get things done. At FUDCon last month, the Fedora community announced a new way of helping members and developers communicate with each other: Fedora Talk
- Linus Torvalds uses Fedora 9
F/OSS
Cloud Computing/Google
Leftover
- UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users
According to the BBC this week's deal takes the form of a Memorandum of Understanding between the ISPs and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR). Under it, ISPs are reported to have committed to achieving a significant reduction in illegal filesharing, and to educate their customers on copyright. They need only follow the shining examples of the RIAA and the BPI and lo, it will be done.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide
- Links for the day
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) Resists Software Freedom, Even by Attacking Its Own
- The OSI is compromised
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- Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Will be Remote
- This past week RMS received lots of accolades online
- The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives): Free Software is Putin, Hence Evil and Dangerous
- The current editor in chief is an American Microsofter, the previous one went to work for Google (US)
- Gemini Links 28/08/2025: Back in Japan and Why "Hacker News" Sucks
- Links for the day
- A Much-Needed Wake-up Call to Users of Wordpress.com, Blogspot, Substack and All Those Other Outsourced (and Centralised) Platforms
- There are several lessons in there
- The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
- In dictatorships, humour serves an important role. It's tragic.
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, August 27, 2025
- Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, Slopfarms in Google News, and More
- Some readers of ours end up sending us links that are from slopfarms, not realising those are slopfarms
- Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Katrina Memories and Google Versus Software Freedom
- Links for the day
- Links 27/08/2025: Police Against Media Freedom in the UK, Energy-Hungry Countries Targeted by China
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Windows Fell to All-Time Lows in Egypt This Summer, Vista 11 Adoption Decreases While GNU/Linux Increases
- Vista 11 is going down rather than up
- Links 27/08/2025: Microsoft Demoralises Staff With Slop Demands, Leaving Mastodon Explained
- Links for the day
- 12 Hours Ago The Register MS Published a Fake (Paid-for) Article, But This One for a Change Did Not Promote a Ponzi Scheme
- There are also Free software alternatives, but they don't pay The Register MS for "synthetic" so-called 'journalism'
- More People Need to Call Out and Put a Stop to Serial Sloppers
- Unless slopfarms are stopped, people will read and share Microsoft propaganda made by chatbots
- Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Headphones and Tartarus
- Links for the day
- Morale at Microsoft is Terrible (Proprietary Plagiarism Machines Have No Future, LLM Slop is a Bubble)
- The slop sceptics/critics are going to have lots of "told you so" moments
- GNOME "governance issues, staff reduction, etc." amidst Albanian whistleblowing and women trafficking
- Notice the connection to Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and GNOME
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, August 26, 2025
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Was Right About "Sideloading" in 1996
- We now have computers that treat booting GNU/Linux like an act of "Sideloading"
- Panama: Windows Down From 97% "Market Share" to Less Than 30%
- In 2009, Windows was measured at 97.24% (compared to 62.32% right now or less than 30% if one also counts Android)
- The UEFI 9/11 - Part I - Introduction to Impending Catastrophe (Microsoft Preventing People From Booting Non-Windows Systems)
- eight-part series
- Why Techrights is Slow Today (Bot Floods)
- We don't know if those bots are connected to LLMs (we have not checked), but that is a possibility
- Slopwatch: DDoS Slop, LinuxBSDos.com Spam, and Slopfarms in Google News, Including webpronews.com
- Among the news we also found fakes, albeit not so much today
- Links 26/08/2025: "Ballooning Debt" in France and "Transnational Repression in the UK"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 26/08/2025: Listening to Alcest and Google Doing Evil (Users Installing Software is "Sideloading" and Prohibited)
- Links for the day
- Links 26/08/2025: DNS Tampering and TikTok Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's Windows "Market Share" Overestimated
- Microsoft's income sources are shrinking
- We Shall See...
- My wife and I are hardly the first victims of Brett Wilson LLP
- This New Determination on a Case Echoes the Modus Operandi of Microsoft's Serial Strangler vs Techrights (Its Online Decision/Judgment Says Truth and Public Interest Defend the Publisher)
- Noel Anthony Clarke hopefully has enough money left to pay his victims, which include the publishers
- Going Offline
- There was life before the Net
- The Register MS Has Apparently Shut Down Its Office
- It is basically a fake address on the face of it
- There Are Also Expectations of IBM Layoffs Very Soon With "Narrative Control."
- Some of them mention Red Hat and how IBM failed to achieve anything substantial with that acquisition
- After at Least Two Rounds of Mass Layoffs in August Microsoft Said to Have "September Layoff Confirmed - Performance Based"
- Those "M5 level meetings" sound plausible
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 25, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, August 25, 2025
Comments
David Gerard
2008-07-24 19:44:12