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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- OSI has gone "full Microsoft"
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- Microsoft Isn't on the Map in USSR
- To them, it's either Google or Yandex
- In Central America Windows Became a Small Force
- These are countries where Windows used to have well over 95% of the "market"
- Site May be Even Faster Now
- It basically takes less than a tenth of a second to serve the page
- Many of the Scandals Are Interconnected (Overlapping People and Corporations)
- We're only getting started
- More Copyright Lawsuits Against LLM Slop Providers and Suppliers of LLM Slopfarms Would Benefit Society
- It's not just bad for the Web and for society; it's also legally dangerous
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- In defence of JD Vance, death of Pope Francis
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- Three Years in Prison for Disney Employee’s ‘Menu Hacking’: The Economic Fallout of Digital Menus
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- Approaching 10,000 Articles/Pages Since Going Static
- Trying to silence or derail the site was always a dumb strategy
- Windows Falls to New Lows in Nicaragua, Now Below a Quarter (It Used to be Almost 100%)
- Another all-time low for Windows
- Microsoft is Shedding Off Loads of Staff and That Can be Dangerous Too
- Working for Microsoft is a choice; nobody forces you to do it
- Richard Stallman and the Unix Philosophy
- When asked about systemd people must remember that RMS speaks as an active Board member of the FSF and also the founder of the FSF
- The Cost (to Linux) of LLM Slop
- Slop 'artists' like Fagioli are far from harmless
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- Gemini Links 25/04/2025: Food Forest Update and Facebook Destroying the Net
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- Get Rid of Back Doors, Don't Obsess Over Bounties and Other Corporate PR Stunts (or Needless Reboot Rituals)
- Security as a term has mostly lost its meaning due to repeated misuse for many years
- Serial Sloppers Are Killing the Web (They Probably Don't Care, Either)
- Slop is a disease on the Web
- Streaming Apps Are “Investor Fraud” That Kills the Planet
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Things Get Increasingly Nasty at Microsoft Ahead of the Fake Results and May's Mass Layoffs Wave
- They try to get people to 'resign' so that they won't count as layoffs and the company's 'wellbeing' will seem better
- IBM's Debt Ballooned by 8.5 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months!
- Hallmark of a company in a state of disarray, trying to spend its way out of trouble
- Big Trouble in GNOME
- even GNOME people admit the CoC went wrong
- Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America
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