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
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 30, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, August 30, 2025
- Representing and Speaking for Animals
- If I ever choose to take this matter to tribunal with animals-centric NGOs on my side, it'll get some press coverage for sure
- The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
- In dictatorships, humour serves an important role. It's tragic.
- How Not to Build Software
- code forges that need a Web browser perhaps fill some 'niche' demand
- GAFAM and "MATA"
- The use of dark humour there hopefully helps illuminate what a lot of "modern" technology became like and how it interacts with human civilisation (to what ends and whose gain)
- Flying in 2025
- worse than ever before
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- Links 31/08/2025: Google Gmail Data Breach and LF Puff Pieces for Pay
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- This is What Google News Has Become
- Moments ago
- The Slopfarm WebProNews Has Turned Google News Into a Laughing Stock Full of Plagiarism by Slop
- If Google News dies of neglect, that's one thing. It's starting to seem like active neglect by Google is a form of participation.
- Do What is Moral, as What's Legal Isn't Always Moral
- Do what's objectively moral, no matter the costs and the risks
- Slopwatch: Google News Assisting Plagiarism and Anti-Linux FUD, Serial Slopper Rips Off Linux-Centric Journalists
- This makes the Web a much worse place and lessens the incentive to do journalism
- Links 30/08/2025: NVIDIA Fakes Results to Hide a Bubble Already in Implosion Phase, Data Breaches Galore, Important Win for Workers' Union in Canada
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- In Kazakhstan, Yandex Estimated to be 20 Times Bigger Than Microsoft
- Bing is measured as down this month
- Shutterstock Not Enough? The Register MS Uses Slop Images in Articles (Seemingly More and More Over Time)
- Cost-saving trajectory amid office shutdown?
- Gemini Links 30/08/2025: Games, PostmarketOS, and Slop
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- Links 30/08/2025: Imgur Uproar and Many Ukraine Updates (Mediazona Reports Over 200,000 Russians Died for Putin)
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- Birds Are Not "Pests and Vermin", Privacy is Not a Crime, and GNU/Linux is Not 'Hacking Platform'
- I could not help but think of Free software analogies
- The Sites Should Be Very Fast Again
- That issue is now resolved
- Activists, Including Technical Activists, Need Not Pursue Affirmation
- Techrights doesn't play or participate in a "popularity contest"
- The UEFI 9/11 - Part III - Chaos is Scheduled to Happen Second Thursday of September (No Matter What the Microsofters Tell You)
- The clock is ticking
- Downplaying the Impact of "UEFI 9/11" is a Losing Strategy
- we won't publish much whilst on holiday
- Government Sites Should Run Free Software
- Not proprietary bloatware with buzzwords
- LLM Slopfarms Take No Breaks
- When people run sites by bots they don't need to worry about "breaks"
- GNOME Having a Meltdown Again
- Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald
- Gemini Links 30/08/2025: Low Tech and Hunchbin 1.0.6
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 29, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, August 29, 2025
- Financiers and Sponsors of the Slop Hype (Pyramid Scheme Waiting to End, Bubble That Will Inevitably Implode)
- It's also burning the planet
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Google Helps Ponzi Schemes and Slopfarms in Google News
- Slopfarms are a real pain
- Gemini Links 29/08/2025: Retiring at 62 and URL Filtering HTTP(S) Proxy on Qubes OS
- Links for the day
- Links 29/08/2025: Lisa Cook Sues Convicted Felon and Backdoor Mandate in UK Resisted
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- Links 29/08/2025: Arti 1.5.0, War on Public Health (CDC), and Slop 'Bros' Made to Pay for Their Mass Plagiarism
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- No, 4Chan is Not Fighting for You by Lawyering Up Against Ofcom (UK)
- Don't mistake proto-fascists for people who "fight for you". They don't.
- In Many Places in the World Vista 11 "Market Share" is Going Down, Not Up
- In some countries Windows is already down to third place or lower
- More Microsoft-Connected Layoffs, at Least Third Time This Month! (Also Another Death on Campus)
- Microsoft as a "gaming" company is where studios, projects, games, and even developers come to die
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Slop Images in VentureBeat, Linux Foundation Spam Made With LLM Slop and Slop Images
- The only relief or upside - if any exists - is that the pace of slop was down a bit this week
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Gemini Links 29/08/2025: Poems, Games, and Java 25 Performance
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