Links 01/12/2008: FreeBSD 6.4 Released; City Moves to OpenOffice.org
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-12-01 13:47:59 UTC
- Modified: 2008-12-01 13:47:59 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Home Automation the Nokia Way
Nokia has opened a home automation project based around a Linux platform. They say you will be able to control your home from a browser or tablet or a cellphone. Direct to the project page.
- Why is Linux THE FASTEST operating system today?
Now that I mentioned supercomputers at the time of this writing the worlds fastest supercomputer runs Linux. In fact most of them run Linux as you will see here in the list of the top 500 supercomputers. Out of all of the operating systems on these supercomputers Linux is a whopping 87.8% with windows only (giggle) 1% as can be seen here. The current worlds fastest supercomputer runs..... Redhat Linux and Fedora. The exact same ones you can download and install on your personal computer.
- Macs, Linux to wait as ATO tenders e-tax
- Creating your perfect Linux system.
- The Best Gift This Christmas! Linux!
- On File Systems
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?
- KDE 4 Video Editor Kdenlive Released
The promising nonlinear video editor Kdenlive has made its first non beta for KDE 4, version 0.7 is on us. This closes another gap of the free desktop world: a usable open source video editor. Kdenlive has the potential to become the Amarok or K3b of video editors, offering comfort and elegance so far not available in alternative programs. The feature set looks amazingly complete and far exceeds the KDE 3 version already. Check the release announcement.
Distributions (Also BSD)
- OpenSuse, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris
- FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE Announcement
- #!CrunchBang Linux: Flash! Bang! Wallop! What A Distro!
The final thing I would like to remark on is the blazing speed of CB: The Openbox desktop loads in 3 seconds - honestly - and applications are not far behind, either loaded via the right-click menu or via the shortcut key combinations.
Red Hat
- Open Source 'Fundamentally Superior': Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst
Q: What can come from the collaboration with IBM?
A: We believe that open source will continue to take share away from proprietary alternatives, because it is a fundamentally superior development model. Open source develops better software faster and at a lower cost. Over time, this will pervade most areas of software.
Fedora
- Big Story: Fedora 10 Review
- Fedora 10 Review
Fedora is really aggressive about keeping up with bug fixes and security updates over the lifecycle of their products. With Fedora 9, they updated (and will continue to update) KDE every time the KDE folks did. As a result, the KDE that ships with Fedora 10 is very similar to the KDE that you have on a fully updated Fedora 9 system. This is a good thing. After KDE came out with the 4.1.x series I switched back to KDE and have been fairly happy ever since. That isn't to say that all KDE users are happy with KDE 4 but I find it to be quite usable now.
- Fedora 10 Comes Out With Five More Spins
Ubuntu
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Devices
- KELLNER: Netbook or notebook: Valuable portability
On the Linux side, and especially for the smaller computer users in your world, the OLPC, or One Laptop Per Child, XO model - which runs on electricity and a hand-cranked battery - is a great choice at just under $400 at Amazon.com. No, it's not the world's most sophisticated computer, but the only way you or I can buy one is to pay enough to let the OLPC folks give one to a child in the developing world. That alone makes it worthwhile.
- Thumbs up for Android and the G1
As much as I have lusted after an iPhone (my current plan would have been too expensive to dump) and longed to leave the clutches of T-Mobile (see my previous columns), having had the Android-based T-Mobile G1 in my sweaty hands for a couple of weeks has changed my mind about both staying with T-Mobile and wanting an iPhone.
F/OSS
Leftover
- Anti-DRM campaign calls for MacBook boycott
Each day for the next 35 days, the "Defective by Design" campaign by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) will name and shame a different product it says consumers should boycott because of the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM). The FSF has launched its campaign with an attack on Apple. Although Apple boss Steve Jobs spoke out against the use of DRM in iTunes Store in early 2007, most of the music sold through Apple's online shop still comes with Apple's FairPlay DRM. The iPhone and iPod Touch have been criticised by the FSF on a number of occasions for adding "even more layers of DRM". With its new MacBooks, Apple takes protection even further.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- They Want You To Talk About Trump or 'The Other Bill' in Relation to Trafficking of Underage Girls for Sexual Exploitation
- Just something we wanted to say...
- How to Quadruple Your "Goodwill" Value and Grow Your (Wall) Street "Value" From $152B to $4000B Without Producing a Single Successful Product/Service
- The longer it goes on for, the bigger the implosion will be
- Staying Productive
- Two very reputable institutions recently told us they now reckon Microsoft is somehow funding those SLAPPs against us
- 66 Countries Where More People Use iPhones (or iPads) Than Microsoft Windows, According to statCounter Data
- a list of countries where iOS now exceeds Windows
- Windows All-Time Lows, Android All-Time Highs in Kuwait
- New lows for Windows can be found in many countries this month
- The Register is Desperate for Money, According to The Register
- I decided to check how they're doing as a business
- Some Cola Formulas Aren't Secret, But the Barrier is the Branding
- That's the power of the channel/distribution, marketing, and brand recognition (accomplished through endless marketing)
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- Links 06/08/2025: Faked Values of Slop Companies and Government Bailouts
- Links for the day
- FOSSY 2025 Conference Safety
- The GAFAM-funded FOSSY 2025 is over
- Microsoft's Favourite Pay-to-Say 'Analyst' Firm Has Just Collapsed
- 'Analysts' that helped propel Microsoft to fictional values akin to Ponzi schemes
- Ask Google (Jeeves)
- What does Google "know", not know, or would rather forget (or embellish)?
- A Blow for Patent Ambitions of Bill Epsteingate
- It's about money
- Apple's iOS Bigger Than Microsoft Windows in Many Countries
- This ought to alarm Microsoft
- The Mainstream Media Talks About Spotify Share Price and Price Hikes, Not Its Debt Increasing by About 33% in Just 12 Months
- Spotify isn't a company in good shape
- New "US Editor for The Register" is 80% Microsoft and Windows
- they typically just treat Microsoft like the "Holy Grail" of "IT"
- Microsoft is Apparently Sending Gag Orders or NDAs to Staff That Got Laid Off (“We were told not to post on LinkedIn. Not to say anything.”)
- The main lies we keep seeing
- Richard M. Stallman Has Published AI Memos Since 1980 (45 Years Ago)
- Back when the term AI actually meant something
- Gemini Links 06/08/2025: BitTorrent and Feedly Bots
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 05, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, August 05, 2025
- Openwashing Slop... Using Slop!
- So get ready for "open" "hey hi" with its proprietary models to engage in openwashing, helped by serial sloppers who use the LLMs to produce fake 'articles'.
- On "Tragedy of the Commons in the Production of Digital Artifacts"
- There's a better way to do things. None of that should involve GAFAM.
- Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and Alhena 5.2.5
- Links for the day
- The Inflammatory Influence of Social Control Media Giants
- CPC's ByteDance says it's cool
- Microsoft v Planet Earth
- Is Microsoft profitable?
- IRC Turns 37
- Internet Relay Chat (short: IRC), which started in 1988, turns 37 this month
- Shortly After a Microsofter Took Over The Register as Editor in Chief Microsoft Tim (Tim Anderson) is Back and It's Still Microsoft Propaganda, Sometimes Funded by Microsoft
- Notice his focus
- Stricter Enforcement of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is Sorely Needed
- Who's keeping track anyway?
- Calling Plagiarism "Intelligence" is Pure Genius, Brilliance!
- One thing to "like" (or dislike) about LLMs is how they're falsely marketed using various buzzwords
- Geminispace Promises Simplicity But Also Provides a "bunch of forums that get flood-filled by agitation against the very essence of Gemini itself"
- claims of stagnation in Geminispace started because of a person who spent a long time agitating against GNU/Linux as well
- Zimbabweans Aren't Into Windows or Microsoft
- This cannot be good news for GAFAM
- Microsoft's Washington Layoffs Aren't Everything, They're Definitely Not Happening in Just One State in the US
- Washington is just more strict with WARN notices
- Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Lagrange v1.18.6, No Stagnation in Geminispace, and Fake Coding (Slop)
- Links for the day
- The Register's Editor in Chief (Who Left for Google) Told Me "AI" Was a Bubble, But Now The Register Gets Paid to Participate in Inflating This Bubble
- A lot of the online media is a scam
- Introducing Mission:Libre and FreeXR (and BreakXR)
- efforts that accompany the foundations put there by the Free Software Foundation in 1985
- Slopwatch: WebProNews, LinuxSecurity, and Some Success Stories
- Google News still has a slopfarm issue
- Links 05/08/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Passing Fads and GAFAM "Embracing the Military"
- Links for the day
- Links 05/08/2025: Samsung and Microsoft Layoffs
- Links for the day
- Rumours of Mass Layoffs at Red Hat Next Week (August 11th, 2025)
- The eleventh means next Monday
- IBM is Shutting Down (Piecewise)
- IBM is basically being liquidated
- The Debian Language Police Department (PD)
- "there has never been complaints about anyone that was offended by this -off package"
- Tesla's Debt More Than Doubled in 2 Years and the Company Will Operate in the Red (at a Loss) Quite Soon
- If your first-quarter net income is $409 million and you borrow billions from banks, plus interest to pay on those loans, then you're not far from returning to losses
- When The Register MS Says "Linux Backdoor" It Actually Talks About Malware
- The leading story in The Register US/MS this morning is Microsoft
- Microsoft Windows Fell to 19% "Market Share" in Montenegro
- Microsoft must be well aware of this trend
- Why We Also Include Gopher Links in Our Gemini (Protocol) Links
- There are still many people who use Gopher to relay their messages (like blog posts). They're mostly technical people.
- Shouting is an Indication of a Lack of Convincing Argument
- Beware what they are attempting to distract from
- Mongolia: Microsoft Windows at All-Time Low
- in 2009 when Windows was at 99.45% in Mongolia the company was "worth" less than 200 billion dollars
- About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm
- Not kidding!
- Gemini Links 05/08/2025: Zombie Threat and Switching to NixOS
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 04, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, August 04, 2025
- ChatGPT in Trouble
- Watch out for the newer buzzwords
- The Register MS Links to the Wrong statCounter Page
- They link to older data
- Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look
- Google was always a lousy librarian
- Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025
- If Microsoft is doing so well, how come about 10 rounds of layoffs in about 7 months in 2025?
- Microsoft and Windows Have Many Back Doors, But LLM Slop Keep Claiming That Linux Has "Backdoor"
- It's another example of LLM slop as FUD amplifier, via slopfarms as well
- In Many Countries Vista 11 Adoption Stalled or Became Negative
- Not just because people move to GNU/Linux
- Microsofters' Lawyers Are Name-calling and Insulting Microsoft Critics, Even Their Spouses
- How not to win arguments
- Flagging or Tagging Slop That We Find Online
- Right now we use ImageMagick
- Links 04/08/2025: Very Bad Weather and Travel Restrictions in China
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/08/2025: Misiamisia and Mobile Linux
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's Stock is Like a Religion, Microsoft Goes Into 'Hiding' (From Shareholders)
- like a religious person or devout believer, the media just parrot anything Microsoft says
- Links 04/08/2025: 80 Years Since Last Nuclear War, IPv6 in China
- Links for the day
- Groklaw Static Site Relaunches With New Theme, But Many Pages and All the Comments Are Missing
- We suppose that's still a lot better than the site being offline, as it was for several months
- "For Five decades; For freedoms; For all users" (Original EMACS Turns 50 Next Year)
- Linus Benedict Torvalds was only 6 when EMACS started
- In Spain, Microsoft's Search Engine Market Share Fell to 2%
- 16 years have passed since Bing was introduced
- Protecting GNU/Linux-Centric Journalism From Serial Sloppers
- Unoriginal slop is taking away traffic from the people who did all the real work
- It Looks Like Managers at Oracle Now Use LLM Slop to Write Blog Posts
- Did he cheat by prompting LLMs for mindless text "filler"?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 03, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, August 03, 2025
- Gemini Links 04/08/2025: Qubes OS and Curious crypto case of certificates (CCCC)
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