Dell's 'BlackTop' is Based on SLED 10: Does Dell Pay Microsoft for GNU/Linux?
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-14 11:49:22 UTC
Modified: 2008-08-14 11:49:54 UTC
Dell has begun booting GNU/Linux 'by default' on many of its new laptops. However, it was disappointing to find this information in an article which looks at Dell's exciting new technology:
The OS itself is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10...
That's not how GNU/Linux is supposed to happen and its adoption come about. As the Infinite Hands song goes, there's no room for Microsoft, for SCO, or for anybody else to control, to charge and to manipulate GNU/Linux. They sure will try. It's a form of market distortion. Novell welcomes this distortion. Maybe it's part of a plan. ⬆
All signs indicate that Microsoft wants to "exit" the XBox business (not brand), but it does not want to publicly admit this as it would alarm staff and shareholders
Considering the huge proportion of Web requests that come from LLM bots (more so this past year or two), statCounter may struggle to justify the operating costs
The corporate media is projecting or signalling its own dishonesty when it tells us that Microsoft is a very "valuable" company while the data shows Microsoft is also a "market leader" in layoffs
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
