Links 03/12/2008: GNU/Linux Called Better Than Vista; Nokia Linux Phones Rumoured
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-12-03 11:24:20 UTC
- Modified: 2008-12-03 11:28:47 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Microsoft Should Worry Less About Live, More About Linux
With news yesterday that the U.S. is formally in a recession, and with broad economic strife around the world, the fact that Ubuntu doesn't cost anything to download, is easy to install, maintains higher performance numbers than Vista and is easy enough for kids to use could start to make a dent in Microsoft's desktop OS business in the PC space.
If that happens, even making Vista available for discounts on its Live Search Cashback site may not be enough to keep Ubuntu, and Linux, from getting beachhead.
- Linux and Mac OS X Killing Windows Bit by Bit
- Austrian Linux for the Administrator
- Older Linux kernel is updated
- Linux Gazette: December 2008 (#157)
- Welcome to the November issue of the Gentoo monthly newsletter!
Gaming
Distributions
Red Hat
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Ubuntu
- A perfect Ubuntu upgrade
In other Ubuntu news, I’m considering giving my dad one of my Ubuntu laptops. He’s 88 years old and not technical. If he can adapt to it, I imagine anyone can. He never was able to figure out Windows, so on the one hand that doesn’t bode well for computer skills potential, but on the other hand there’s nothing to unlearn, either. Stay tuned.
- Back in the Ubuntu saddle again!
- Why Ubuntu Now Beats Vista
Last month, Canonical launched Ubuntu 8.10 with significant new features and performance upgrades over previous versions. But what is becoming increasingly clear is that the free, downloadable operating system has in many critical ways caught or surpassed Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system -- and poses a significant threat to the software giant if the market catches on.
- eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex
- Vibuntu 1.0
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Embedded
- Concurrent Introduces Low-Profile ImaGen Real-Time Visual Server
- Nokia spins open Linux home automation gateway
Nokia announced a home automation system based on the open source OpenWrt Linux distribution. Due in late 2009, the Z-wave wireless radio-equipped Nokia Home Control Center will let users remotely control security, automation, and energy management applications via their mobile phones, says Nokia.
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Phones
- Nokia alludes to Linux phone plans
- Android phone launches in China
- Open source phone gains "fat" distro
Barcelona, Spain-based Tuxbrain has released an application-rich Linux distribution for the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner phone called Fat and Dirty OpenMoko (FDOM). In addition, Openmoko announced that both Tuxbrain and French design firm FaberNovel have joined the company's network of more than 20 distributors.
- Linux music phone boasts stereo mini-jack
Motorola formally announced its MotoRokr EM35, a slider version of the EM30 music phone that runs MontaVista Linux. The phone offers Bluetooth, USB, a 3-megapixel camera, and a haptic scroll interface, as well as music playback that is said to include virtual surround effects.
Hardware
Sub-notebooks
- Review: The Aspire One A110 Netbook
Just how does the A110 hold up against the regular laptops? Well, when used with pre-installed Linpus Linux, it does live up to its advertised claims. On a cold boot, the machine fully logs into the Linpus Desktop in about 20 seconds. Wi-Fi connection is about 10 seconds. You can access all your e-mail accounts from Acer's One Mail.
- Netbooks Dominate Cyber Monday on Amazon
F/OSS
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part V
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
- Microsoft's Acquisition of Activision (to Fake Revenue Growth by Buying Revenue) Was a Failure
- Of course the mass layoffs at Microsoft aren't just a Microsoft thing
- Stagnant, Shrinking Businesses and "IBM's Corporate Culture Since the Late 1980s... Over 35 Years."
- Recently, IBM was using share price as a talking point, insisting the company was doing OK while tens of thousands were being laid off
- SCO's Darl McBride Dead at Age 64
- There's hardly any information about it, except we know he reached bankruptcy and 3 years later he died at a relatively young age
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- Facebook's Debt Has Soared to All-Time High of Nearly 50 Billion Dollars
- But the corporate media pretends all is well (while mass layoffs continue and slop takes over the social control media)
- Geminispace Makes It Past 4,200 Capsules on November 1st
- At last!
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- Links for the day
- The October 2024 Web Server Survey Shows a Further Collapse for Microsoft in the Servers Market
- Microsoft experienced the next largest loss of 699,464 sites (-3.45%)
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- Links for the day
- Links 01/11/2024: Few Things Are Cheaper Than This Antenna and "Nothing Lasts Forever"
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 31, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 31, 2024
- R.T.O. is Another Name (or Acronym) for Voluntary Layoffs
- Amazon is trying to get many workers to leave on their own
- Links 01/11/2024: World News, Political Catchup
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Probably the Worst Possible Time to Get Information From Social Control Media
- Musk does not want to prevent disinformation from spreading and the same is true for Facebook and TikTok; they have their own interests
- Update on Litigation Against the European Patent Office (EPO) at the ILO Administrative Tribunal (ILOAT)
- Rewards and compensation for staff have long fallen, resulting in many experienced colleagues leaving and causing further declines in quality and compliance
- Gemini Links 31/10/2024: NNCP, Declutter the Web, Cost of Community
- Links for the day
- Links 31/10/2024: Supermicro Plummets 33%, Block and Dropbox Mass Layoffs
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- Links 31/10/2024: Environmental Anxiety, Profound Changes in Hardware Market
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- Links 30/10/2024: TSMC Concerns and North Koreans in Ukraine War
- Links for the day
- Facebook is for Zombies
- Social control media is for fools
- Microsoft Now Has $235,290,000,000 in Liabilities, They Grow Over Time in Spite of Mass Layoffs (So Expect More Layoffs)
- expect more mass layoffs
- Links 31/10/2024: DST Woes, War Updates, Amazon RTO Backlash
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 31/10/2024: Attention Economy and Gemlogs
- Links for the day
- Happy Halloween
- October is nearly over
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- For the Record: Linux is Controlled by the United States of America
- "This is going to make many question the openness and inclusivity of the work done by Linux Foundation"
- Microsoft: XBox Hardware Revenues Down About 30% (Ignore the Buzzwords and Activision Activity Dressed Up as "XBox")
- For context, in a previous quarter XBox hardware sales were down by about 50%
- Cooking the Books With "Cloud" And "AI" Was Not Enough to Fool Microsoft Investors
- "Microsoft Shares Drop on Disappointing Azure Growth Forecast"
- [Meme] It Irritates Them That FSF Still Promotes Software Freedom
- "An open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman"
- At the End, Facts Typically Win, Liars Walk Away
- very recent Stallman talk
- Gemini Links 30/10/2024: Mind-Seeing and Heart-Knowing, Views on Perspective
- Links for the day
- IBM Has Collapsed This Past Week, thelayoff.com Deletes Rumours of Mass Layoffs in the United States
- Visa is having a crisis right now
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/10/2024: Death Notes, Mindfulness, and More
- Links for the day
- The Role of Publishers on the World Wide Web (and Gemini Protocol, Among Other Digital Transmission Protocols)
- social control media is a cesspool that spreads disinformation and hate, in turn fuelling wars and conflict
- More Than a Week Has Passed, DeVault Has Declined to Deny Serious Accusations Against Him
- The whole "Stallman Report" thing backfired very spectacularly
- IBM's Silent Mass Layoffs to Last Another Month, Rumour That Another Wave is Happening Right Now
- A special Halloween for some families
- W3Schools Says "Statistics Are Important Information", But Abandons Them After More Than 20 Years
- No update for over half a year
- Preserving Information
- Those who seek destruction of information tend to be evil people, whose evildoing they strive to delete
- Volkswagen Cheated Us and Created Cars We Didn't Ask For
- just like "smartphones", they don't last very long and they diminish in value very fast
- "All Systems Operational"
- We can now devote more time to writing articles and maybe some time soon making more videos
- [Meme] Good Books Don't Give You "Likes"
- But they give you information
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- [Meme] Microsoft's CoC Downtime
- "Your system is down"
- Manchester United 'Sacks' Microsoft?
- United's relationship with Microsoft hasn't (or won't) last long
- [Meme] 16 Years to Hire a Black Person (in the US)
- After having close to 1,000 employees
- StatCounter's Shortcomings and More
- So while GNU/Linux and Android continue to grow at Windows' expense there will be other operating systems growing. They're not controlled by GAFAM (e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft).