Links 30/09/2008: Telematics on Linux, Red Hat Beats UNIX
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-09-30 23:53:04 UTC
- Modified: 2008-09-30 23:53:04 UTC
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- MEPIS Linux 8.0 nears release
- Zen and the Art of the Six-Figure Linux Job
- Linux and FOSS in a Slowing Economy
- New Linux Distribution, Linpus, Goes Global
- HUGHES Telematics selects Wind River for auto electronics
HUGHES Telematics is developing an advanced end-to-end telematics solution that will embrace a next-generation telematics architecture, which will be largely enabled by Wind River’s open operating system and hypervisor technology. Wind River’s solution will reduce development and hardware costs and increase the system’s functionality. HUGHES Telematics will begin rolling out its telematics solution in 2009.
- Red Hat Linux trumps Unix on TPC price/performance test
In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million transactions per minute -- and at 22% lower cost than its next closest competitor.
- Linux SDIO stack targets ARM SoCs
Chennai, India-based EmbWise has ported its Linux SDIO stack to two ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs). Its SDIOWorx stack is now available for Freescale's i.MX31 and i.MX27 multimedia SoCs, which are primarily targeted at the personal media player (PMP), personal navigation device (PND), and video surveillance camera markets, says EmbWise.
- Devil-Linux distro bundles router/firewall and server in one live CD
- Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution, not an easy task
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- Richard Stallman's Talk in Helsinki is Done. Tomorrow Göteborg.
- There are scarce details in Finnish about Dr. Stallman's talk
- New XBox Leaks Probably Serve to Confirm XBox's Collapse (Many More Layoffs)
- It's very much consistent with what many other sites have reported lately
- The Slop Song
- The train wreck marches on
- LLM Slop/Advanced Plagiarism Flooding the Zone With Capital That Does Not Exist
- Many publishers out there still participate in this bubble instead of calling it what it is
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- "Happy Hacking Day" Richard Stallman Talk This Afternoon (From 14:00 to 16:00) at Haaga-Helia University in Pasila
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- Slopwatch Appreciated by Real Authors of GNU/Linux Articles
- We do try to keep on top of those things
- Upgraded R.R.R.R.R.R. Today
- The Web of 2025 is full of garbage, not limited to slopfarms
- Freedom From Proprietary Prisons
- Forking always an option
- IBM's Watson Died in 1956, Now Watson Dies Again
- IBM is becoming just a reseller of GAFAM and other stuff
- Microsoft Says That Constant Mass Layoffs Are Success, the Media Isn't Buying This Microsoft Narrative Anymore
- If people in the media feel an obligation to repeat whatever lies Microsoft tells, what point will there be to the media?
- Links 08/10/2025: "Mali Puts Free Speech on Trial" And Apple Enforces Dictatorship
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- Links 08/10/2025: Y2K38 Bug is a Vulnerability, Chat Control in Europe a Threat
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- Microsoft Windows is No Longer an Operating System, It's Surveillance Project
- Why is this even legal to preload on PCs outside the US?
- How and Why Once-Legitimate Sites Turn Into Slopfarms
- Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop
- UbuntuPIT Became a Slopfarm and Gnoppix Tarnishes Its Own Brand With Slop
- It fits all the characteristics of mildly-edited (if at all) slop
- Slopwatch: Linux Journal and Other Slopfarms
- GAFAM needs to go the way of the dodo
- Gemini Links 08/10/2025: "Seek Seek Revolution" and Gradient Backgrounds
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- Qualcomm Arduino Takes Aim at Raspberry Pi
- Qualcomm is a Microsoft partner
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 07, 2025
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- Stagnation of the Economy and What Free Software Can (or Could) Do For It
- If your economic model is based on a pyramid of lies, it won't last very long
- Social Control Media is Sinking
- it would rightly seem like the era of centralised "social" sites (they're not social, they're about controlling the users) is ending, not overnight but gradually
- Participation in Cancel Culture Detrimental to One's Career
- A cautionary tale
- Passion Wins
- we've increased the number of birds we feed to 100+
- How Solderpunk and Sean Conner Started Gemini Protocol (and, Collectively, Geminispace) Back in 2019
- Based on the "official" history
- Arduino is Now a Patent Bully (Qualcomm)
- Qualcomm has just bought Arduino
- Many Years of Microsoft Cancellations and Faked (Acquired) Revenue "Growth"
- XBox is basically the "next Skype"
- The Comment TheLayoff.com Has Just Censored for Criticising a Ridiculous Puff Piece of IBM Management
- If comments get censored for their "style" rather than their substance, then society will be worse off
- The Power of Writing Down Facts
- The more we write and publish, the more people will know what happened
- Microsoft's Non-Denying Denial About XBox's Death is Already Being Shattered to Pieces
- Like Microsoft's 'open' 'hey hi', heralding meaningless non-committing agreements with AMD is little more than vapourware
- Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT Joins the Slopfarms Club
- Slopfarms gonna slop
- Links 07/10/2025: Privacy at Risk, GAFAM Remains Off the Hook
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- Links 07/10/2025: International Criminal Court (ICC) Convicts Ali Kushayb; Moroccan Imprisoned for 'Offensive' Shirt
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- Links 07/10/2025: EU' Chat Control is Back, US Cracks Down on Democracy
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- Techrights Pursues Justice and Truth Because, Without Those, Society Descends Into Chaos
- most people reject dogma and pseudoscience
- Upcoming Talks by Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Göteborg, and Rome
- Join with him and share the software
- Something Bad is Happening in the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- The latest OSI blog post is from a Microsoft operative and a few weeks ago the Executive Director left
- TLS 1.3 Dominates Geminispace (99% of Known Capsules)
- it's nowadays safe to assume almost every capsule can handle TLS 1.3
- Why soylentnews.org Has Been Having Technical Difficulties Lately
- The network has been going up and down quite a lot this past week
- A Statement Against Violence
- The facts are on our side
- They've Run Out of Things to Rebrand or Label as "AI"
- The next few years will be interesting because if Microsoft lays off tens of thousands of workers each year, there won't be much left except mountains of debt and dying brands
- The Register MS is Still Being Paid to Participate in the "AI" Ponzi Scheme Which Will Crash the Economy
- The Register MS is hoping to get lucky by tricking people into a scam
- Richard Stallman Confirms His Talk in Göteborg This Coming Friday
- "The hosts say that the list will not be given to the state"
- Most of the "Linux" Results This Morning in Google News Are LLM Slop From the Same Slopfarm, Plagiarising Phoronix
- The main question is, does Google even care at this point?
- Gemini Links 07/10/2025: Civil War and "Goodbye Web"
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