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
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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
- Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year
- Do not wait for some announcement from redhat.com - it's already covered by IBM
- Dr. Andy Farnell on a Death to Efficiency and Cash
- Cash is not the same as "digital cash", which isn't even remotely the same
- A Gift That Keeps on Giving: Microsofters Reveal a Campaign of SLAPP, Seeking to Censor Critical Information About Lawsuits Against Microsoft
- All they can get here or mockery and ridicule
- LLM Slopfarms: LinuxSecurity.com and FUDZilla Doing 'Linux' (Fake Articles)
- It's 2025. Everything on the Web is getting worse, except SPARTAN.
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- Zizian, transgender, Google & Debian open source extremist cult phenomena
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 19/02/2025: The Forgotten USB Competitor and Pope's Bilateral Pneumonia
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/02/2025: AuraRepo and Offpunk
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Wayne Williams is Making Up for His Workers' Slop Party, LinuxSecurity.com Still Publishes Fake Articles
- We must identify and call out the culprits
- “Open Source” Really Does Miss the Point, We Can Do Better Than That
- We need to reject groups of people who promote Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) and call that "Open Source"
- Links 19/02/2025: Organisations Quitting Social Control Media, Windows TCO Illustrated Some More
- Links for the day
- The Free Software Foundation is More Financially Independent From Large Corporations Right Now
- Money that comes with strings attached to it is always problematic
- The Free Software Foundation's Position on IBM Taking Red Hat Enterprise Linux 'Private' is Articulated Almost 2 Years Late
- The Free Software Foundation finally spoke out about this issue
- Techrights Publication Topics
- One thing we'd like to do more of is Software Freedom advocacy
- Springtime Layoffs at IBM (2025) and Statement From IBM European Works Council
- It's about cost-cutting, even if such cuts doom the company
- Microsoft Paying People Who Harass and SLAPP Techrights, Demanding Censorship
- At this point the money trail leads directly to Microsoft
- It's Not Even Hidden Anymore: Microsoft is Passing Bribes for Media to Publish Puff Pieces About Itself
- GeekWire is paid by Microsoft to publish many puff pieces (even outright lies) about Microsoft
- Links 19/02/2025: Political Roundup and Halifax Wants to Dump Twitter ("X")
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Beginning Meditation, Poison as Praxis, and Blogging
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Two Years After Issuing Ridiculous Threats and Choosing a Law Firm in Debt (Probably Desperate for Clients) Matthew J. Garrett Gets Help ('Bailout') From Microsofters
- The karma won't be good
- How Americans View 'Free Speech' in Practice
- "No good deed goes unpunished"
- Threats Against Techrights Always Come From Outside Britain
- Over the coming days we shall write about an example of our own and we'll show how Americans have the audacity to bully people using a foreign (to them) court
- Links 18/02/2025: More DeepSeek Bans and Supreme Court Patent Challenges
- Links for the day
- Links 18/02/2025: FAA Layoffs and EU Betrayed
- Links for the day
- On Technical Contracts of Employment and Why People Must Read Before Signing
- The wave of layoffs under MElon will worsen prospects of finding alternate/better employment
- Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Reading Books and Oneiric Monk
- Links for the day
- Swiss corruption, Greens, Liip & Debian human rights violations
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Swiss police TIGRIS unit, World Cat Day, Swiss-corruption.com & Debian
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 18/02/2025: “Hey Hi Video Surveillance” and YouTube at 20
- Links for the day
- LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About Linux
- The timing of this lie/fiction is curious because Torvalds is being brigaded for defending C
- FUDZilla Has Turned Into LLM Slop and Machine-Generated FUD (New York Times Has Also Just Admitted Moving in That Direction)
- Failing news sites, instead of calling it quits with some remaining dignity, are handing control over to LLM slop (pretending to still be active)
- By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels
- "the top level politicians make the egregious mistake of trying to treat Xitter as if it were a communications medium"
- The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos) Dies in Darkness
- spread it on
- How to 'Sell' Software Freedom to People
- In my experience, it helps when one speaks about control, not freedom, including confidentiality
- Gemini Links 18/02/2025: Downloading Gemini Files with Emacs and Elpher, Gopher on Devuan
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
- He could already advertise this more than a week ago
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, February 17, 2025
- IBM's Chronic Neglect Won't Save Anything and It Might Even Get IBM Sued
- The problem is likely a lack of manpower, not deliberate shoddiness
- Gemini Links 17/02/2025: Ideal OS, AuraRepo Alpha, and Simple Code
- Links for the day
- The "Cool Kids" Are Already Using GNU/Linux, Microsoft is Just Cheating
- The future and the present are Linux
- Links 17/02/2025: War on Dissent and Bloggers, Nationalism a Growing Theme
- Links for the day
- IBM Going International (and India)
- It's Monday and a national holiday
- GeekWire: Microsoft Bribes Us While We Cover Microsoft Affairs (Spin Doctoring), Hence We Are "Independent"
- What good is a "journalist" sponsored by the very same company he or she writes about?
- The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org
- Going to Clownflare only worsens the problem
- The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 Next Month
- The guardian of Free software (definition, licences, philosophy, hosting and so on) has managed to endure and persevere for 40 years. Very few others can say the same.
- Microsoft Lunduke Belongs in 4Chan
- Assuming Microsoft Lunduke is aware of the full context, he is now trolling not one but two decent organisations
- In Europe and in India Richard Stallman Need Not Duck Anymore, People Trying to Cancel His Talk Have No Sway
- the last time a talk by Dr. Stallman got canceled was about a year ago
- Back From a Short Break
- We can now resume and try to stick to the usual pace
- Links 17/02/2025: LLMs Failing and Patreon Support Becoming a Burden to Bloggers
- Links for the day
- Links 17/02/2025: Blogroll Conundrum; Research, Scientists Under Siege
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, February 16, 2025
Comments
David Gerard
2008-08-06 20:32:15