Links 27/11/2008: GNU/Linux Climbs to Virtually 94% Market Share in Supercomputers, KDE 4.2 @ Beta
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-11-27 11:39:47 UTC
- Modified: 2008-11-27 11:39:47 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Cisco Offers $100,000 Bounty to Linux Application Developers
- Reducing IT Costs with Linux
- Obvious Mistakes [Too Much Demand] Caused Europeana Site Failure
Europeana is built on a Linux Debian open-source operating system. The programming language is Java, and it uses Apache Tomcat web applications software.
- Google claims MapReduce sets data-sorting record
- Updated Prey Demo For Linux Released
- Silex Technology Announces SDK Enabling USB Device Networking
- Linux shows staying power on Top500
The latest list indicates growing Linux dominance. Linux is used in the top nine supercomputer systems in the world. When considered as the primary OS or part of a mixed-OS supersystem, Linux is now present in 469 of the supercomputer sites, 93.8% of the Top500 list.
IBM
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Ubiquity
- A future so bright Tux needs shades
“Everyone uses Linux. It’s in the TV, it’s in your TiVo, it’s in all the settop boxes, it’s in your Sony camera. Make a trade on the NYSE and it’s there, search on Google and it’s Linux. Linux owns 85% of the supercomputer market. I’ve seen Linux in a milking machine.”
If Linux were a corporate effort its CEO would be into champagne wishes and caviar dreams. As it is, however, Zemlin is just looking for steady growth next year.
- Numbers, Downloads and Straws
Don’t open up the champagne, folks; this is just the beginning….
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Distributions
- The Turkish Pardus Linux Distribution
Pardus provides a very important public good to be used by the whole FLOSS community, in Turkey and abroad. The Pardus GNU/Linux operating system is being deployed and used in many government and other public services including the Turkish military and defense sector, in radio and telecommunication, health and education, as well as private vendors. The use of Pardus in all these sectors and institutions will save several millions of Euro in taxpayers' money.
- Review: PC-BSD 7.0.1
Today’s distro has been described as the Ubuntu of the BSD world. PC-BSD is an easy to use version of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the behemoth in the BSD world and would probably have a much larger desktop presence if the BSDs hadn’t run into copyright and other proprietary problems right around when most of the GNU toolset was complete and Linus was releasing the Linux kernel. At least, that’s what most people claim. However, given the animosity (although that’s almost too strong a word) between the Free Software Foundation and the supporters of the BSD license.
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Red Hat
Ubuntu
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Desktop Environments
GNOME
- Redesign Gnome for a better looking desktop
Gnome typically comes with a bar across the top of the screen with the clock, notification icons and menu items and a second at the base of the screen containing window lists, workplace switchers and, in the Ubuntu incarnation, a trash can/recycle bin.
- The GNOME Journal
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KDE
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Devices
F/OSS
Suppression
Apple
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Lies have become the "business model" [...] More people ought to talk about it and explain to other people what LLMs really are
- Not a Security Expert If You Cannot Manage to Keep Online a Simple Two-User Mastodon Instance Somebody Else Built
- From uptime of ~99% to maybe 80%
- Microsoft Has All the Symptoms of a Dying Company (Mass Layoffs of the People Who Built the Company)
- the company's debt is going through the ceiling
- For Effective 'Finlandisation' (Not Digital Sovereignty) to Be Replaced by Autonomy Finland Needs to Think Like GNU (Software Freedom), Not Linux (Openwashing Source, Plus LLM Slop and Killswitches)
- What is 'Finlandisation'?
- IBM's Kyndryl in Trouble: Mass Layoffs, Payroll Problems, Buybacks (in Company Whose Debt is Almost Twice Its Total Value), and Soon $9 Per Share (Down Over 80%)
- Kyndryl is done. Stick a fork in it.
- ICYMI: GNU/Linux Did Not Start in Finland
- If we're honest/true to ourselves, we need to recognise history for what it is, not what some corporations (like GAFAM) want it to be
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- These are the sorts of things British taxpayers ought to talk about
- "AI" Became a New Name or Placeholder for Debt
- Because they will only ever lose money for this thing with "tokens" or "potential"
- "Microsoft Goodwill and Intangible Assets" Down Two Years in a Row, According to Microsoft
- Microsoft cannot sell these, so what is their real relevance?
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- According to IBM
- Microsoft LinkedIn Layoffs "Very Likely Higher" Than 1,000 People
- Microsoft is bleeding
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXIV - Luis Berenguer Giménez at the EPO (European Patent Office) Became the Punchline of EPO Staff
- "the fact that Luis was caught with cocaine causes laughter. The use of cocaine in itself is not the real shocking bit."
- IBM Keeps Culling Essential Linux, Fedora, GNOME, and GTK Staff
- Over a month ago IBM laid off over 400 Red Hat engineers
- Cisco Cuts Nearly 4,000 Jobs Because of Debt, Nothing to Do With Slop
- The media keeps talking about revenue, not profits
- Gemini Links 15/05/2026: UDP Game Forwarding Over SSH, Avoiding LLMs, and Alhena 5.5.9
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- A lot of people my age are just tired of the nonsense
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- IBM is Googlebombing the Media With Fake Numbers to Promote Fake Technology
- a classic example of why much of today's media cannot be trusted (anymore)
- Up to 10,000 Microsoft Layoffs in a Couple of Months
- Many ways to skin a cat
- Truth Hurts. People Hurt by Truth Aren't Entitled to Compensation.
- Family members aren't exempt
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 77 Out of 200: They Never Knew How to Handle Women (Except to Attack Them)
- The case against us was really quite simple
- Update on Sirius Open Source in 2026 (When Your Former Employer Commits Crimes and Nobody is Held Accountable)
- I did not envision myself spending several years (even 4 years after leaving that company) challenging the system for tolerating and even covering up corruption
- Codecs and Software Patents - Part VII - Entering Phase II, the Battle Against Companies That Normalise Taxed (by Patents on Mathematics) Codecs
- In the next few part we'll deal with the impact on Free software, including the GNU Project
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXIII - Cocaine Use at the EPO's Top-Level Management "Adds Up" and Worsens Things "Over Time"
- "cocaine use knocks the IQ down permanently a tiny bit with each use. Over time that adds up."
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- FSF Advertises the Father of Software Freedom Giving a Talk in Germany (a Digital Sovereignty Interest Hub, Sponsor of Free Software)
- Free Software vs malware and the need for reverse engineering
- Cybershow (UK) Shaping Up to be a Neat and Very Large Gemini Capsule
- If only more platforms did the same, plenty of energy would be spared, "old" machines would be totally suitable (even with 20 tabs open), as we'd focus on substance, not bells and whistles
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 76 Out of 200: The Problem With the United Kingdom Allowing Americans to File Lawsuits by Proxy (Relayed by "Hired Guns")
- Solicitors in UK warned not to act as ‘hired guns’ to silence critics of super-rich
- When Microsoft's LinkedIn Goes Offline All Your Fake Friends/Connections and Manufactured 'Status' Will be Gone
- Many people quit social control media because they recognise it for what it truly is
- Major Setback for IBM in the Courtroom, the Demolition of IBM is Proving Costly
- Kyndryl is a sign of how IBM ("mother ship") is run and where IBM is heading
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- What the science says
- European Patent Office (EPO) President, Mr. Campinos, Ignoring Its Staff While Protecting His Friends
- the President is covering up cocaine use while ignoring his own workers
- Slop Cannot Replace Everybody (the Story of Perl and Universities)
- Quantity where abundance exists is without merit; quality is what people opt for as they have limited time and patience
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