Links 30/07/2008: Mandriva 2009 Reaches Beta; Windows May End
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-30 17:45:33 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-30 17:45:33 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Is Linux currently at a fundamental disadvantage owing to how computers are set up?
Dell offers full blown computers with Linux installed, presumably, with the engineering I'm talking about done. And over time we can expect to see a full range of different levels of offerings in between. I think when out of the box Linux computers start to become the default Linux for the average end user, and the engineering issues become backgrounded for Linux like they are now for Windows, that we may start to see more momentum in the direction of Linux to the exclusion of Windows. And, for a special breed of user, we'll see Linux being chosen over Mac.
- Companies in Desperate Need of Embedded Linux Developers
- NASA launches online historical image gallery
Internet Archive, founded in 1996 to create an Internet-based library, will manage and host NASA's new interactive image gallery on the cluster of 2,000 Linux servers at its San Francisco headquarters, said John Hornstein, director of the NASA images project for the group. The non-profit currently runs 2 petabytes of storage, Hornstein said.
- [Mandriva] 2009.0 Beta 1
- What’s next in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (part 1)
This is the first in a two-part series from Summit presenter and Red Hat/Fedora engineer Bill Nottingham. It is based on the talk he gave at this year’s Red Hat Summit. Part two will be published later this week.
- Integrating Linux into Active Directory keeps getting easier
Kernel
- Kernel space: no shortage of tracing options
Three weeks ago, LWN looked at the renewed interest in dynamic tracing, with an emphasis on SystemTap. Tracing is a perennial presence on end-user wishlists; it remains a handy tool for companies like Sun Microsystems, which wish to show that their offerings (Solaris, for example) are superior to Linux. It is not surprising that there is a lot of interest in tracing implementations for Linux; the main surprise is that, after all this time, Linux still does not have a top-quality answer to DTrace - though, arguably, Linux had a working tracing mechanism long before DTrace made its appearance.
- Plumbers Conference Featured Speakers Announcement
ASUS
KDE4
- KDE 4.1 delivers a next-gen desktop Linux experience
- How to Install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.04
KDE 4.1 is finally out today, as you probably already know, and it comes with a lot of innovations for the Linux desktop. KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment, which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy-to-use desktop, for both personal and enterprise computing. The new version provides increased stability over the first KDE 4 version and more eye candy!
- Lancelot alpha 2 screenshots
Vijay Patil asked me to explain the application browsing component, so here it is:
At first, you get a panel with two columns - Favourites on the left, and application categories on the right.
F/OSS
Mozilla/Firefox
Microsoft
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft Has Not Much Left to Show Investors, Shares Fall Almost 20%
- It's not even clear how Microsoft makes money anymore
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Election is Rigged, Biased Against People Who Oppose the Openwashing of GPL-Violating Bots Operated by Microsoft for Profit (OSI Gets Paid to Promote This)
- they reckon that pretence of calm would serve them best, helped by puff pieces
- In Vietnam, statCounter Sees Microsoft Windows Falling Below 7% "Market Share"
- Can Microsoft still demand $500 or more per Windows licence?
- Fresh IBM Layoffs Reported in Europe and North America, Jobs Allegedly Moved to South Asia (Low Salaries)
- As usual, IBM does not talk about this
- The Ludicrous Mythology of Commonality as Signal of Value, Merit, Popularity
- Devalue what's true, promote marketing?
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- EPO Central Staff Committee: "The Strategy of the Office Lacks Transparency and Cannot be Understood"
- Microsoft and the EPO violate data protection laws
- Links 11/03/2025: Spring and Misfin Server
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 10, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, March 10, 2025
- Latvia (and Lithuania) Stepping Away From GAFAM, Microsoft
- Windows becomes unessential as Android and GNU/Linux rise
- Microsoft Layoffs Are Infectious (Don't Get Acquired or Become a Partner)
- It seems like companies choosing to become "buddies" with Microsoft are dooming themselves and their products
- A Closer Look Inside the EPO, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli's Submissive Lapdogs Roberta Romano-Götsch and Elodie Bergot
- new report comes from the Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN)
- Links 10/03/2025: Staff Strikes, Mass Layoffs in Gaming Industry
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 10/03/2025: "Eat The Rich" and Two-Year Anniversary of the 'Space Elevator' Orbit (Like 'Webring')
- Links for the day
- Links 10/03/2025: Small Web Praised, LLM Chatbots Exposed as Worse Than Useless Again
- Links for the day
- A Call for GNU/Linux and BSD Developers to Unite Against GAFAM and the Regime They Empower
- We have long encouraged and continue to encourage people who value Software Freedom to altogether boycott GAFAM
- [Video] Richard Stallman on the Four Essential Freedoms (Manuel Cuda News, 2025)
- Added to a channel several days ago by Manuel Cuda News
- Gemini Links 10/03/2025: Realisation About Young People, Punks, and Discord IPO
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 09, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 09, 2025
- [Video] Richard Stallman on Understanding the Misconception of So-called 'Artificial Intelligence'
- to "know and understand"
- FSF's Defective by Design (DBD): Amazon Tightens the Digital Handcuffs
- Reproduced verbatim
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Plenty of Issues, Plenty of Censorship
- The OSI is abusive on many levels!
- EPO Staff Appraisals Apparently Benefit Kakistocracy, Including Cheaters Who Grant Illegal Patents and Punish Good Patent Examiners (Who Find Valid Reasons for Denials)
- In prior reports the staff representatives said that rewards typically went to people who granted many patents, i.e. didn't do proper examination and instead just allowed many fake patents get enshrined as EPs, causing fiasco (from which some patent attorneys could profit)
- As The Web Gets Drowned Out, Sinking in a Pool of LLM Slop, Real News Sites With Real News Become Increasingly Rare If Not Extinct
- This is a real problem
- Links 09/03/2025: Moderna Patents Thrown Out, Climate United Sues E.P.A.
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 09/03/2025: Lagrange 1.18.5 and Writing Mannerisms
- Links for the day
- Links 09/03/2025: FiveThirtyEight Killed by Disney, Nature (Journal) Chooses Suicide by Slop
- Links for the day
- Links 08/03/2025: International Women's Day, Software Patents Being Squashed
- Links for the day
- Hiding Problems Doesn't Work
- transparent organisations will be more stable and sustainable
- The Harder They Try to Censor, the Bigger the Scandal (and the Impact) Will Be
- We don't plan to self-censor our coverage; sometimes we just delay publication a little
- Gemini Links 09/03/2025: Leasehold Derangement Syndrome, Raspberry Pi, and More
- Links for the day
- All-Time Low for Microsoft in Africa
- it helps show how irrelevant Microsoft is becoming
- French woman (frontaliere) trafficked to promote unauthorised cross border Swiss insurance
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- New York Times & Guardian reporting on Modern Slavery Act prosecution of Glodi Wabelua
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Diana & Adrian von Bidder-Senn, EVP, Palm Sunday & Debian death on wedding day
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The RTO (Return-to-office) Layoffs or 'Soft' Layoffs at IBM and Red Hat
- There are certainly many layoffs going on there, but many are described as "resignations" or "retirements" after RTO or some other form of relocation
- Under the Pen Name "John O'Donnell" (LLM Slop, Not Real Article or Author) LinuxLinks Pushes Spammy Page
- it happened some hours ago.
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 08, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, March 08, 2025