Links 06/08/2008: IBM Gives Boost to Proprietary GNU/Linux€® Desktops, HPC Source Code
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-06 10:39:47 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-06 10:39:47 UTC
IBM
- IBM targets Microsoft with desktop Linux initiative
- IBM to open source supercomputing code
The company said its HPC Open Source Software Stack, which includes IBM's Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit, was its first ever contribution of open source code for supercomputing.
- Virtually Speaking: IBM Goes High on Linux
None of this is terribly surprising. Today, for many enterprises, Linux is just another operating system choice. In a clear case of be-careful-what-you-wish-for, it is as viable an option as some of the Unix heavyweights or Microsoft Windows, depending on the situation.
The other wrench is the possibility that virtualization's gain is the operating system's loss, although given the hypervisor's potentially commodity status, it's gain may well be negligible.
Cloudââ¢
Wireless
Devices
- Sonos refreshes Linux audio gear
Sonos has chosen LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week as the place to unveil updated hardware and new Linux-based firmware. The vendor says its whole-house audio products are carried by 3,000 retailers in 55 countries, putting them among the most popular Linux-based consumer electronics products yet.
- Cortex-A8-based SOM gains Linux support
Phones
Fedora
- Red Hat, community release Fedora 10 alpha
Red Hat and project contributors have released alpha code for Fedora 10, the next version of the community-sponsored, free and open source Linux distribution that will include enhancements to the audio, security and wireless-connection features of the operating system.
- Fedora on a stick
Fedora 9 now lets you create a bootable Linux distribution on a flash drive with persistence. In other words, you can not only boot any PC that will accept USB drive booting into Linux, you can even boot into your own personal desktop. Now, that can be useful.
Mini PCs
- Google Pushing Software to Low-Cost Linux PCs
With an eye for larger adoption of Linux, Google is actively working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in the OS, a Linux developer said on Tuesday.
- Atom-based tablet runs Linux
Arbor Technology has announced a seven-inch tablet PC that uses Intel Atom processors and runs Linux. The ruggedized Gladius G0710 has a touchscreen display, gigabit Ethernet and 802.11b/g networking, a two megapixel camera, and survives multiple four-foot drops, according to the company.
- Linux set to dominate MIDs
Debian/Ubuntu
GNU/Linux: General
F/OSS
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The "Luddite" Complex
- Sometimes simplest is best and sometimes "modern" is designed not with the buyers' interest in mind
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- [Meme] Debt of About $20 Per Active User
- Facebook isn't laying off tens of thousands for "efficiency" but for survival
- What Social Control Media Really Is
- Social Control Media, in a nutshell, isn't just bad if its controller is some foreign or hostile nation
- Taking Ethics Lectures From Drew
- Projection tactics
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- Facebook's Debt Has Soared to All-Time High of Nearly 50 Billion Dollars
- But the corporate media pretends all is well (while mass layoffs continue and slop takes over the social control media)
- Geminispace Makes It Past 4,200 Capsules on November 1st
- At last!
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- The October 2024 Web Server Survey Shows a Further Collapse for Microsoft in the Servers Market
- Microsoft experienced the next largest loss of 699,464 sites (-3.45%)
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- By Dr. Andy Farnell
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- R.T.O. is Another Name (or Acronym) for Voluntary Layoffs
- Amazon is trying to get many workers to leave on their own
- Microsoft's Acquisition of Activision (to Fake Revenue Growth by Buying Revenue) Was a Failure
- Of course the mass layoffs at Microsoft aren't just a Microsoft thing
- Stagnant, Shrinking Businesses and "IBM's Corporate Culture Since the Late 1980s... Over 35 Years."
- Recently, IBM was using share price as a talking point, insisting the company was doing OK while tens of thousands were being laid off
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- [Meme] Probably the Worst Possible Time to Get Information From Social Control Media
- Musk does not want to prevent disinformation from spreading and the same is true for Facebook and TikTok; they have their own interests
- SCO's Darl McBride Dead at Age 64
- There's hardly any information about it, except we know he reached bankruptcy and 3 years later he died at a relatively young age
- Update on Litigation Against the European Patent Office (EPO) at the ILO Administrative Tribunal (ILOAT)
- Rewards and compensation for staff have long fallen, resulting in many experienced colleagues leaving and causing further declines in quality and compliance
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- Links 31/10/2024: Supermicro Plummets 33%, Block and Dropbox Mass Layoffs
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- Links 31/10/2024: Environmental Anxiety, Profound Changes in Hardware Market
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- Links 30/10/2024: TSMC Concerns and North Koreans in Ukraine War
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- Facebook is for Zombies
- Social control media is for fools
- Microsoft Now Has $235,290,000,000 in Liabilities, They Grow Over Time in Spite of Mass Layoffs (So Expect More Layoffs)
- expect more mass layoffs
- Links 31/10/2024: DST Woes, War Updates, Amazon RTO Backlash
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- Gemini Links 31/10/2024: Attention Economy and Gemlogs
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- Happy Halloween
- October is nearly over
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- For the Record: Linux is Controlled by the United States of America
- "This is going to make many question the openness and inclusivity of the work done by Linux Foundation"
- Microsoft: XBox Hardware Revenues Down About 30% (Ignore the Buzzwords and Activision Activity Dressed Up as "XBox")
- For context, in a previous quarter XBox hardware sales were down by about 50%
- Cooking the Books With "Cloud" And "AI" Was Not Enough to Fool Microsoft Investors
- "Microsoft Shares Drop on Disappointing Azure Growth Forecast"
Comments
David Gerard
2008-08-06 20:32:15