Links 11/6/2012: Wine 1.5.6, Project Magenta Uses Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2012-06-11 16:21:18 UTC
- Modified: 2012-06-11 16:21:18 UTC
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In 2007, I became a good friend of Don Davis. Don has done much for the Free Software community, either initiating or participating in several films and documentaries about Linux and Open Source.
He is also the founder of REGLUE - Recycled Electronics and Gnu/Linux Used for Education.
Don's organization had almost exactly the same mission as HeliOS. Don is now a Doctoral Candidate at Texas State University and the requirements of his studies have left him little time to do little else.
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Desktop
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Server
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If you are wondering why IBM is all hot-to-trot with its new PowerLinux machines, which are Power Systems servers tweaked to only run Linux and with lower hardware and software prices than regular Power Systems iron that runs AIX and IBM i, then you need look no further than the latest server numbers from IDC. Sales of Linux-based machines shot up like a rocket, thanks to some big supercomputer and hyperscale cloud deals and are outpacing the market substantially.
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Well, probably not quite yet – just look at how long it’s taken Unix to die in the data centre. However I can’t but feel that Microsoft’s announcement this week, that they will now be supporting Linux under Azure, represents a fundamental shift in the balance of power of server operating systems.
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Kernel Space
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Applications
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Proprietary
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I have only recently discovered Netflix and signed up without thinking there may be issues playing back the streaming media on Linux. I have done many searches on the subject and found some interesting discussions and the only solution that seems to work.
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Instructionals/Technical
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Wine
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Desktop Environments
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GNOME Desktop
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this is my second update on my Summer of Code project.
As planned in the previous report, I spent the past two weeks implementing notification integration in the lock screen, and this is the result...
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New Releases
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€· Announced Distro: Kororaa 17 Beta
€· Announced Distro: Snowlinux 2 Cinnamon
€· Announced Distro: Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1
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Red Hat Family
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Fedora
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"This certainly gives me a bit of concern because it puts Microsoft in the position of controlling the hardware and being a gatekeeper on what can be installed," explained Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien. "IS there any evidence that they have ever had this kind of power and *not* used it to crush their competition?" O'Brien wondered. "I hope the anti-trust authorities look into this."
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Debian Family
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Derivatives
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Canonical/Ubuntu
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The MK802 is a tiny PC that looks like a USB thumb drive. While it ships with Google Android 4.0, it’s actually pretty easy to convince it to run an alternate operating system. In fact, if you have a properly prepared microSD card, all you need to do is insert the memory card, turn on the MK802, and it will boot Ubuntu 10.04 Linux.
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Phones
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Where most of the excitement exists today when it comes to operating system advancements is not in Windows and Mac. Nope, it’s within the intensely competitive space that contains Android and iOS. And just like any strong and exciting segment in the consumer electronics industry, this market is now the target of a new initiative that wants to push its way to the front of the pack.
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Media Explorer is a media center originally target for MeeGo, but also is the first real native GNOME 3 multimedia box powered by Clutter and Mx.
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Android
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COMPUTER engineer Musa Ngog has high hopes of winning funding from KTS Group’s inaugural Sarawak Youth Talent Discovery (SYTD) project with his plans to create public awareness of computer software piracy and educating users on better alternatives to getting much-needed software — for free.
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For those of you with a more philosophical best, Eric S. Raymond has posted an interesting essay, "Evaluating the harm from closed source".
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Web Browsers
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Openness/Sharing
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Open Access/Content
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Open education innovator Sal Khan, MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, gave the commencement address at MIT graduation ceremony on June 8, a speech that included both a nod to the power of open education as exemplified by MIT's OpenCourseWare program and Khan's own web site, and an homage to the importance of the unique academic community that is MIT.
Khan spoke eloquently of the inspiration he drew from MIT's 2001 announcement to make all of its courseware openly available on the web. "MIT announced ... that it was going to take knowledge and resources that used to be behind the wall of elite institutions and not charge for them but give them away for free to the world ... When I read that press release, I had never been so inspired. I had never been more proud to come from this community."
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Programming
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Many developers love to use open source software for the variety of benefits that come along with it. Some of the most popular open source languages used include C, PHP, Javascript, and C++. Although many people code using these languages, are there any major reasons not to use them? Let’s take a look and find out.
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Finance
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PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The Right to Punch People (Apparently)
- At Brett Wilson, Brett's job title is "Head of Crime" and Wilson normalises calls for violence
- Brett Wilson LLP Seem to Have Had Only One Litigation Client in 2025, He Was Previously Charged, Just Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (Whom They Now Represent)
- Karma is superstition, regulators are not
- Project 2030 to Cover How "Project 2025"-Styled Anti-Media Zealots From America Targeted Techrights and Tux Machines
- The common denominator is also their attacks on women
- Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Meet Deadlines Set by Judge 7 Months Earlier, Tried to Ruin Our Holiday, Then Had the Audacity to Ask Us for Over 3,000 Pounds for Its Own Lateness
- As a matter of principle we will never respond to assassin while we are on holiday
- Americans Attacking British Sites Only Months After They Leave America
- We find it kind of funny if not ironic that this site, originally an American site, got legal harassment only from Americans and only months after it had moved to the UK
- Despite Losing Over a Quarter Million Dollars a Year Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Gives Helping Hand to Libreboot
- SPI's financial state depends a lot on its public image or its reputation
- If You Want to Know the Future, Listen to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Andy Farnell
- We're sure the FSF will have plenty of its own output
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- Links 19/09/2025: Lobbyist of American GAFAM Becomes Data Protection Commissioner in Europe
- Links for the day
- Links 19/09/2025: Media Freedom Ceases to Exist in US, "Consider Dropping Twitter/X"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/09/2025: Thinking and Insect Bites
- Links for the day
- Microsoft E.E.E.: Git Will Now (or Very Soon) Fully Depend on Rust, Which is Controlled by Microsoft
- Microsoft now makes Git dependent on Rust, or making Git dependent on GitHub, which is proprietary
- Slop or Fake Articles Have Turned Linux Journal From a Pioneering/Trailblazing "Linux" Magazine Into a Nuisance
- some sites with former reputation - good reputation - turn into cesspools
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, September 18, 2025
- On Claims That After Bluewashing Red Hat Will Increasingly Become an Indian Company
- Discussed this week (long and detailed)
- Slopwatch: Google Helps Plagiarism and Sends Traffic to Ripoff Artists
- That Google as a company helps spamfarms is noteworthy
- Links 18/09/2025: A Taliban Ban on Internet Access and Troubled US Job Market
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/09/2025: Computer Literacy and Accessing Alhena's Database
- Links for the day
- Links 18/09/2025: US War on Media (Truth Banned, Cancel Culture by the Hard Right), NYT Chief Executive Warns Cheeto is Deploying ‘Anti-press Playbook'
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles, Fake Text, Fake Images, Negative Slant on "Linux"
- Google News has lost its value; the signal-to-noise ratio has fallen off a cliff
- Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Relax-and-Recover on Proxmox and New Smolweb File Transfer Service
- Links for the day
- Fact: EFF Got Corrupted by Corporate Money. Microsoft Lunduke (Political Noise): The Issue With EFF is, It Kills Babies.
- Microsoft Lunduke - as usual - finds a way to make it about abortions
- Pacing Publication Up a Bit
- The news cycles have gotten rather light and slow
- Links 17/09/2025: Power Outages, Digital Controls, and Attacks on the Mainstream Media (by Insecure and Corrupt Dictators)
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Flashing LineageOS and ROOPHLOCH
- Links for the day
- Links 17/09/2025: Long COVID Study, "Exposing Pegasus", and Chatbots Exposing Sensitive Data
- Links for the day
- Links 17/09/2025: Secret Settlement for Internet Archive and Google’s LLM Slop Summaries Attracting Lawsuits
- Links for the day
- The True Cost of 'Generative Models'
- Funded and promoted by the companies that profit from the waste
- 'Big Slop' Attacks Contemporary Information/Knowledge and Creative Works, 'Big Copyright' (Cartel) Attacks the Old
- Someone at IA will hopefully "blow the whistle" on what they actually agreed
- Why We Find It Difficult to Trust Rust
- A comparison between C/C++ and Rust
- Slop Nihilism is Funded by Big Oil
- Eventually human civilisation will destroy itself
- Watching the OSI: Our Series Will Carry on Irrespective of the Chief's 'Resignation'
- the OSI isn't even the real guardian of the term "Open Source"
- Professor Eben Moglen Recovering From Open Heart Surgery
- From his public pages (this is not secret)
- Just What LibreOffice Needs? Another Language? (Rust)
- what's all this concern about memory safety?
- Many Microsoft Managers Are Leaving
- "Hey hi" chaff or chaff about "hey hi" cannot eternally distract from the difficulties inside the company
- There Are Red Hat (IBM) Layoffs, But Google News is Infested With Slopfarms
- It contributes a lot to misinformation and it encourages plagiarism
- Tomorrow, Microsoft's Tim Anderson's 'The Register MS' Offshoot Will Have Been Inactive for 2 Months (There's Also a Slop Problem)
- We've already caught The Register MS using LLM slop for articles
- Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer Leaves Microsoft After Nearly 30 Years
- And not retiring
- Even Windows Users Are Having Problems With "Secure Boot"
- When it comes to security - Microsoft strives for the very opposite
- Another Competition Crime of Microsoft, Long Facilitated and Advocated by a Bad Actor, Who is Funded by a Third Party to Commit Extortion Against People Who Have Correctly and Repeatedly Warned About It for Over 13 Year
- We must always go back to the core issues
- 3 More Reasons to Replace Mozilla Firefox With LibreWolf
- Thankfully there are de-enshittified versions of Firefox
- USA Not a Place for Free Speech
- In America, as in the US, the attacks seem more enhanced or advanced these days
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- Links 17/09/2025: Google Layoffs in "Hey Hi" (AI), Perplexity Hit With More "Hey Hi" (Plagiarism) Lawsuits
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Reclaiming Things in a Digital Age and Moon Phases in CGI
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