TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One's Government-funded Distribution, and Much More

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 1: Brandon from Fedora	TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)	1/11/2010
Episode 2: No guests	TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu's One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered	7/11/2010
Episode 3: No guests	TechBytes Episode 3: Games, Wayland, Xfce, Restrictive Application Stores, and Office Suites	8/11/2010
Episode 4: No guests	TechBytes Episode 4: Fedora 14 Impressions, MPAA et al. Payday, and Emma Lee's Magic	9/11/2010
Episode 5: No guests	TechBytes Episode 5: Windows Loses to Linux in Phones, GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share Estimations, and Much More	12/11/2010
Episode 6: No guests	TechBytes Episode 6: KINect a Cheapo Gadget, Sharing Perceptually Criminalised, Fedora and Fusion 14 in Review	13/11/2010
Episode 7: No guests	TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix	14/11/2010
Episode 8: Gordon Sinclair on Linux Mint	TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)	15/11/2010
Episode 9: Gordon Sinclair returns	TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb	17/11/2010
Episode 10: Special show format	TechBytes Episode 10: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux	19/11/2010
Episode 11: Part 2 of special show	TechBytes Episode 11: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux - Part II	21/11/2010
Episode 12: Novell special	TechBytes Episode 12: Novell Sold for Microsoft Gains	23/11/2010
Episode 13: No guests	TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat	28/11/2010
Episode 14: Patents special	TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General	29/11/2010
Episode 15: No guests	TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks	30/11/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 16: No guests	TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions	3/12/2010
Episode 17: No guests	TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, 'Open' Microsoft	5/12/2010
Episode 18: No guests	TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks	11/12/2010
Episode 19: No guests	TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming	16/12/2010
Episode 20: No guests	TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions	18/12/2010
Episode 21: No guests	TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site	20/12/2010
Episode 22: No special guests	TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year	27/12/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions	2/1/2011
Episode 24: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft's President Departure, and Privacy	10/1/2011
Episode 25: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More	14/1/2011
Episode 26: Tim and Roy	TechBytes Episode 26: €£98 GNU/Linux Computer, Stuxnet's Government Roots, and More	18/1/2011

Time for Microsoft to Rebrand to Fit the Vapourware (Ponzi Scheme): something between Meta and Alphabet
The Real GNU Anniversary (Not Manifesto or Announcement) is Today: the development, not the manifesto
GNU/Linux Usage Said to Have Doubled in Oceania: it's hard to discount or dismiss Oceania as a bunch of "coconut islands"
No, Writing Isn't in Decline, Some of the Large and Centralised Platforms Are: Slop isn't really competition, just a passing fad and pure noise
The Reputation Issue Is Not Our Fault: Trying to squash words (and people) merely diverts more attention to them
From GNU/Linux Boosting to Slop-Boosting Career: It is sad to see someone who devoted many years of his life producing GNU/Linux stories stooping down to this "AI" boot-licking
IBM Buys, Then Disposes/Sacks, the Staff (That It Paid For): Any money gained is spent buying some more companies to add/join up their revenue, even if the debt surges and there's little integration going on (misfits absorbed)
Links 05/01/2026: Slop Ruining Children's Minds, "Complicity of the Press in US Violence": Links for the day
Microsoft's Windows Falls Below 20% in the UK: After a lot of years of advocacy and hard work
There's No Such Thing as "AI Godfather", Stop Repeating This Pure Nonsense!: Infantile or corruptible media that plays along with slop or uses slop will perish
IBM's CEO Makes No Sense: "IBM CEO Aravind Krishna on what’s really driving tech layoffs"
Gemini Links 05/01/2026: "Poverty and Hunger", "Entrepreneurial Family", "Abandoning Obsidian for Logseq": Links for the day
Links 05/01/2026: A Shrinking Canadian Economy, Brigitte Bardot's Environmentalism Recalled, Unredacted Epstein Files: Links for the day
Microsoft Allegedly Uses Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) to Hide the Massive Scale of Company-Wide Layoffs: Just like IBM; they meanwhile talk a bunch of nonsense about "AI" to distract from their commercial calamity
Battles Are Won in the Court of Public Opinion: Many "systems" rely on the mere perception or appearance of legitimacy
GNU/Linux Share in Mongolia More Than Doubles: they probably lack any genuine excitement for "hey hi PCs"
Whistleblowing is About Understanding Boundaries and Risks: The bottom line is, people typically find out the truth at the end
EPO People Power - Part XXV - While EPO Managers Snort Cocaine the Staff Compiles 'Insurance Files' to Expose EPO Corruption: In this increasingly authoritarian world we need more whistleblowers
"The European Patent Reform" That Represents a Gross Violation of Laws, Constitutions, and Conventions (in Order to Make the Rich Even Richer, Mostly Outside Europe): How far and how long will EPO corruption go?
GNU/Linux Distribution "Ultimate Edition" Fixes Its Web Site (Apparently Compromised Months Ago): they dealt with the issue before media shame and a catastrophe of trust
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 04, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, January 04, 2026
Gemini Links 04/01/2026: 64-bit Addressing and 39th Chaos Communication Congress: Links for the day
Windows Was Always the Punchline: What did we count to calculate taxes?
GNU/Linux Surges to About 4% in Peru This Year: one of the poorest counties in America
This Year Our Adoption of IRC Turns 18: We have used IRC for this site since 2008
The Doors Are Closing, Windows Closing Too: Microsoft wants more vendor lock-in, but at risk that this desire will simply alienate and drive away many users
The FSF's Program Manager, Dr. Miriam Sabrina Bastian, Left in October to Lead Climate School: We are not sure why Miriam Bastian decided to leave the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Outline of Slop, LLMs, IBM, and Things to Come: This coming week and weekend will be very productive irrespective of how much "news" gets published by other sites
Links 04/01/2026: War Without Borders, "Large Hadron Collider Being Shut Down": Links for the day
Links 04/01/2026: US Imperialism in Greenland and Venezuela, "Climate Protesters Face Greater Risk of Crackdown Amid Rising Authoritarianism": Links for the day
2026 Should be the Year We All Stop Saying "AI" and Call Things What They Really Are: Don't give anyone the satisfaction of this misguided belief there's any intelligence there
Ponzi Schemes Are Useful (to Corrupt CEOs): Pathetic, corruptible so-called 'media' is bagging bribes to perpetuate the lies about "AI" (slop)
GNU/Linux at All-Time High in Algeria: In 2026 it hit a new all-time high
Online Mobbing (and Worse) Disguised as 'Free Speech': People who say they believe in "free speech" have been trying hard to silence RMS and squash the FSF
A 'Cancer That Attaches Itself' to Bulgaria?: "Cancer" is what Microsoft called GNU/Linux
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 03, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, January 03, 2026
Body-Shaming Using Fakes: a lot of the people who casually claim "defamation" are themselves defaming loads of people every day
GNU/Linux "Market Share" in Switzerland More Than Doubled Last Year, Based on statCounter: GNU/Linux continues its considerable growth
EPO People Power - Part XXIV - Today or Tomorrow You Should Write to National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO in Your Country: Keep up the pressure!
Red Hat and IBM Layoffs, Staff Kept Quiet About it, WARN Act Skirted/WARN Notices Avoided: What a terrible company to be in
XBox Layoffs Imminent, More Appalling Sales Figures Published: Expect many layoffs in the gaming division
Slop Still Rare: So far a good start for 2026
Gemini Links 03/01/2026: Climbing, Waking Up, and Social Control Media Woes: Links for the day
Links 03/01/2026: Growing Censorship, Another US Invasion, and Will Smith 'Cancelled': Links for the day
Links 03/01/2026: Twitter Turns From Disinformation Powerhouse to Production and Dissemination of Child Pr0n, "New China Cybersecurity Law Becomes A Reality In 2026": Links for the day
Gemini Links 03/01/2026: Formatting Text for Gopher and Text-only Websites: Links for the day
Unverified Claim: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft to Start Around Week 3 (or 4) of This Month: Let's wait and see if the claim above is from an insider who has inside knowledge
Firefox Fell Below 1% in Asia: less than 1 in 100 Web users is detected/assumed to be using Firefox
Links 03/01/2026: Ryanair Fines and Facebook Misleads Regulators: Links for the day
New Record High for GNU/Linux in Benelux in 2026: If the above trends stand (throughout the year), then we can begin talking more seriously about a post-GAFAM Europe
In the Search Engine Market, Microsoft is Falling Behind Russia's Yandex: The so-called 'AI industry' is a boy that cries wolf
A Year of Relaxation, But Also of Hardcore Whistleblowing: Expect industrial action some time soon
The More Influential Richard Stallman (RMS) Becomes, the More Aggressive Attacks on Him (and the FSF) Will Get: We've meanwhile noticed disinformation being spread in social control media
GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High of 5% in Indonesia (Not Counting Chromebooks and Android): There are also related events in Indonesia and SUSE in particular seems to have been popularised there
EPO People Power - Part XXIII - António Campinos Knows He's Extremely Vulnerable at This Time: Campinos should never have been put in charge
Gemini Links 03/01/2026: New Organisation System (Notebooks) and "2026 Already Off to an Amazing Start": Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 02, 2026: IRC logs for Friday, January 02, 2026

TechBytes Episode 27: Linux Phones, Pardus, Trusting One's Government-funded Distribution, and Much More

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