Video: What's So Great About GNU/Linux?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-01-04 11:39:37 UTC
- Modified: 2010-01-04 11:39:37 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Greener Pastures for Free Software Users
- This coming week we'll publish many articles about GNU/Linux and technical means of/for user empowerment
- Google News, Which We Call Gulag Noise, is Following the New York Times Into the Digital Graveyard
- It merely gives an illusion of volume and instead of giving readers more stuff to read it wastes people's time
- Over at Tux Machines...
- yesterday's posts
- Software Freedom is the Future and Microsoft is the Biggest Obstacle
- GNU/Linux, at its roots, was all about Software Freedom
- The GNU/Linux Revolution Ain't Here. Look at Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) Instead.
- The revolution won't be televised
- Chaffbot Effect: Microsoft Bing Falls to Lowest Share in Two Years (Amid Loads of Bing Layoffs This Year)
- Press outlets mostly failed to report that Bing is collapsing
- GNU/Linux Distributions as "Appliances" and DRM Platforms (the Case of ChromeOS and SteamOS)
- Is this what we envisioned in the 1980s and 90s?
- Fulfilling the Site's Full Potential
- We remain devoted to the aforementioned goal of posting more original material
- Over at Tux Machines...
- 2 days' worth
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- IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 02, 2023
- IRC logs for Monday, October 02, 2023
- Daily Bulletins Coming Soon (Hopefully as Early as Next Week)
- Today we finish testing IRC logs and their upload to Gemini, not just to IPFS
- Links 02/10/2023: NUC, GTK Themes, and More
- Links for the day
- New Union Syndicale Articles About the European Patent Office
- We'll probably get back to regularly writing about the EPO in the near future
- If WordPress Knows Well Enough to Self-Host Its Podcast, Why Can't GNU/Linux Shows Do the Same?
- For those who want videos and podcasts, here are today's latest additions from other sites
- Richard Stallman Can Outlive Many of His Prominent Haters
- M.J.G. tried hard to take our Web site offline, based on lies and repeated threats
- Forget VSCode (Microsoft's Proprietary Spyware), Use KATE Instead
- KATE is great
- Sometimes It's Time to Reboot
- No, not Android. KDE.
- Upcoming Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman: Large Language Models Are Not Artificial Intelligence
- LLMs aren't truly intelligent and cannot quite grasp what they spew out
- GulagTube is a Burning Platform (Exit YouTube, Invidious Won't Save Us From Google/Alphabet in the Long Run)
- Alphabet Agency (Google) sees the future of video as a "skinnerbox" (running Android) that indoctrinates you like TikTok does
- Microsoft's Demise in the Global News Cycle is Rather Telling
- It should be noted that Microsoft is, in general, no longer prominent or dominant in news headlines
- Gemini Migration and Backup Capsule (Archive)
- At the end we'll end up with something a lot better than before and latency should be massively reduced
- Links 01/10/2023: Science, Education, and pro-Russia Slovakia Leadership
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 01, 2023
- IRC logs for Sunday, October 01, 2023
- Links 01/10/2023: Climate, Patents, Programming, and More
- Links for the day
- Apple and Microsoft Problems
- half a dozen links
- Malware in the Ubuntu Snap Store, Thanks to Canonical Bloatware Mindset
- Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
- Gemini Rising
- There are 3523 capsules
- Richard Stallman Gave a Talk Yesterday, Will Give Another Talk Today, and Will Give Two More Talks in Germany Later This Week
- Those cover at least 2 different topics
- Beware the Microsoft Sharks
- We won't forgive and forget
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 30, 2023
- IRC logs for Saturday, September 30, 2023
- Don't be Afraid of the Command Line, It Might Even be a Friend
- There's a tendency to think that only graphical interfaces were made to simplify usage, and any declarative interface is by design raw, inherently unfit for usage
- One Positive Note About GNU/Linux Coverage in 2023 (Less Microsoft)
- GNU/Linux users do not want this, with very rare exceptions
- Snaps Were Never Good at Security, But the Media Coverage is Just Appalling
- The media should focus on culling Windows, not making a huge fuss over minor things wrongly attributed to "Linux"