Links 01/08/2008: GNU/Linux Gains Momentum, More Software
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-01 12:53:14 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-01 12:53:14 UTC
GNU/Linux
- LinuxWorld: Community roots bolster Linux growth
Linux is beginning to find its legs as the foundation in many different technologies and in the process is fueling a feedback loop that is helping accelerate the operating system’s popularity.
As more and more people contribute from areas such as mobile, data center power management, and real-time technologies, innovations are coming rapid fire and when folded into the Linux kernel provide benefits across a wide spectrum.
For example, power management features for the data center are being tapped to help extend battery life in Linux-based mobile devices.
- eeebuntu: yet another Ubuntu-based build for the Eee PC
Another good tip from Robert found its way to my inbox: I'm sure there's Eee PC owner or two out there that will appreciate it. There's a new and "eeemproved" Ubuntu distro that's customized for the Eee called eeebuntu. You can go with the snazzy Compiz Fusion enabled gnome version or go plain-vanilla with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages. Performance looks pretty darn good on the original 701 4G model Eee PC too: just check it in the above vid and supply your own audio track. I made mine funny, but feel free to make serious commentary when you watch.
- Haiku running on Asus EEEPC!
- Acer Aspire One ZG5 (Linux)
- Linux tablets gain slick remote desktop tech
LogMeIn announced a beta plugin for Nokia's Linux-based N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. The LogMeIn Nokia N800/810 Browser Plugin enables Internet Tablet users to access and control their Windows PCs or Macs running the free or commercial versions of LogMeIn.
- Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux?
Not all Linux distributions are made with the same components, which can make it difficult for software developers to write applications for multiple Linux distributions. That's where the Linux Standards Base (LSB) comes into play.
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Zemlin noted that some people will always want to support one platform, be it Red Hat or otherwise, though he doesn't expect that will be the majority once LSB 4 is released.
- MontaVista Linux Now Supports Cavium OCTEON Processors
- PC/104 SBC bridges factory networks
- Is KDE back? 4.1 launches
As if to apologize for KDE 4.0, the project's release manager, Dirk Muller, released 4.1 along with the news that some 20,803 commits had happened since 4.0, not counting 15,432 translation check-ins, nor about 35,000 commits that went into "working" branches. That's a lot of hacking.
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The rest of the changes include library enhancements, improved applications and frameworks -- all the little things. It sounds promising!
- What’s next in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (part 2)
There’s even more where this comes from–new versions of Firefox, new firewire stacks, and more. If you want to know what’s down the road for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, check out Fedora 9– that’s where the innovation happens.
- Create your own web based personal desktop - eyeOS
ODF
F/OSS
Hypervisors
- Virtual Linux, coming to a desktop near you
Virtualisation is on the brink of turning operating systems into a commodity item. It may be realistic to see software applications shipped as virtual computer images in the near future. Linux has much to benefit from this, with a repeat of the phenomenal adoption rate it has enjoyed since the ASUS Eee PC.
[Roy: when Microsoft talks about virtualisation, its plan is to replace all the existing choice with just Microsoft/Citrix/XenSource, which it owns (VMWare too is now controlled by (formerly) Microsoft's Maritz). Then, virtualisation will only mean Windows under Windows or Microsoft-taxed SUSE under Windows. Microsoft won't allow GNU/Linux to be a host or permit 'untaxed' distros like Ubuntu.]
- VMware's Fusion 2.0 boosts Windows and Linux integration with Mac OS X
- CIO Reality Check: Linux and Virtualization
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Another new low and low blow
- What is "MATA"?
- Think of it as GAFAM or "Meta"
- WebProNews is a Slopfarm
- Please avoid linking to WebProNews
- Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected
- With mass layoffs at Microsoft the world would be much better
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- 5,600 Pages/Articles Per Year
- So far this year we've kept all the promises
- BetaNews Beginning to Show What Its True Goals Are
- The 'new' BetaNews won't be about journalism. It's trying to sell things.
- Microsoft Has Lost "The War"
- We'll soon see the 9th or 10th wave of Microsoft layoffs in 2025 alone
- Slopwatch: A Wreck and a Dreck, "Flooding the Zone With Dreck" or Flooding the Web With Junk
- "Slopwatch" continues today because we have many new examples
- Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU
- Links for the day
- Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms
- Mr. Fagioli even had slop about a dead Torvalds (hypothetical) as clickbait
- Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not)
- Do not form on opinion on Wayland based on politics
- Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop
- My wife has long complained about "Linux bloggers" keeping quiet and thus passive about a growing problem: slop
- In Recent Hours Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed Linux Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them)
- Google is circling down the drain and Google News too is hopeless
- Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors'
- Is Slashdot next?
- Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way
- LinkedIn is just a failed acquisition of Microsoft. It causes losses and debt.
- Gemini Links 25/06/2025: Combinatorial Music and Self Hosting
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks
- His last talk in Europe attracted about 400-450 people
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Tuesday, June 24, 2025
- Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)?
- The world needs to know what happened
- The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop
- BetaNews is basically defunct. Nobody writes there anymore.
- statCounter Estimates Only 1 in 300 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Search
- Iranians don't quite trust Microsoft
- Gemini Links 24/06/2025: ftpd on FreeBSD and Online Small Web Magazine
- Links for the day
- Google News Does Great Harm by Promoting Slopfarms as Legitimate News Sites
- Slopfarms are sites which are 100% LLM slop
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- When the Microsoft Aggressors Rely on Several Law Firms ('Attack Dogs', 'Guns for Hire'), Not Just One, Lawyering Up Against Techrights (Acting on Behalf of Americans Against UK Publishers)
- From serving customers at some restaurant he has moved on to bullying people with demand letters
- Links 24/06/2025: OpenAI [sic] May Soon Die (Too Much Debt) and Social Control Media Accused of Being Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda Amplifier
- Links for the day
- Nirbheek Chauhan in Planet GNOME Explains Why Wayland Pushers Are Losing
- "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
- Polygamy, from Catholic Synod on Synodality to Social Control Media & Debian CyberPolygamy
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Only a Third of or 1 in 3 Web-Connected Devices is a Desktop or Laptop, According to statCounter
- we can expect Android to widen its lead
- The Days Are Getting Shorter, the First Half of 2025 is Almost Over
- We're gratified to see significant increase in traffic and also positive feedback on the work we do
- Turning GNU/Linux Into a Political Football
- X (not the site) is Free software
- X Server Still Works for Many People
- A lot of people will grow suspicious of Wayland boosters/pushers if they persist and insist on using these tactics
- Exactly a Week Ago "BetaNews Staff" Said "Betanews Is Growing Alongside You". Since Then Every Article (All by "Camila Nogueira") Has Been LLM Slop.
- BetaNews is basically a slopfarm
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, June 23, 2025
- The "Tarzan Effect" in Compilers and Software
- What happens when you forcibly make things 'work', either by hacks or by disregarding warnings (like those that compilers tend to issue)?
- Gemini Links 23/06/2025: Mass Tourism, Hair Love, and Google Gemini as a Googlebomb
- Links for the day
- Law Firm Burgess Mee Does Not Fully Deny Participating in Abusive Litigation for Serial Strangler From Microsoft
- I am not unfamiliar with these tactics
- The Modus Operandi of Wayland Pushers: Make It Political
- do what I say or you're a nazi...
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- Links for the day
- Brett Wilson LLP Solicitors (M): Over 99.9% of Our E-mail is Self-Marketing, We Send You 3.5MB E-mails for Less Than 1KB of Text
- Why would tech people entrust legal matters to such people?
- Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman
- Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds
- At What Point Does Outsourcing Constitute Malpractice?
- Brett Wilson LLP's new staff page is misleading
- United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sailing to GNU/Linux, According to statCounter
- countries in that region will quickly learn the price of neglecting digital sovereignty
- From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search
- The Web is full of garbage; search engines amplify this garbage
- More People Moving to Geminispace?
- at age 6+ Gemini Protocol seems to have gained some maturity and it seems like more people use it
- Permutation in LLMs Does, Inevitably, Change Meanings and Therefore LLMs Cannot Properly Rephrase or Summarise Texts
- LLMs lack actual grasp or comprehension of what they spew out
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Pure Dove
- Different means different, and sometimes those who "deviate" from "the norm" have a point
- Censorship is a Sign of Weakness Which Invites More Censorship Attempts
- revolutionaries don't succumb to pressure from bullies
- Why It's Unlikely That LLM Slop Will Dominate the Web in the Long Run
- Slopfarms will eventually perish (they have no actual value) and "survivors" on the Web will be sites that never depended on search engines and social control media
- GNU/Linux in Argentina Now Measured Near 5%
- Like in central Europe, they must be seeing an increasingly hostile US
- BetaNews is Fake News, Composed by LLM Slop
- nothing in BetaNews is written by humans anymore