Links 25/01/2014: GNU/Linux News Roundup
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-25 20:05:12 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-25 20:05:12 UTC
Summary: Various articles from the past week, focusing primarily on GNU/Linux
Careers
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In this article, we present the findings of the January’s update of IT Skills Watch. Additionally, we study the whole data gathered in the last year to explain some fluctuations in the demand for some IT skills of interest. As a highlight of this article, we identify three IT skills, whose demand has clearly risen during the past year. This may give you an indication for the IT skills you need to gain knowledge of to stay ahead in the Linux job market.
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As scheduled, on the 14th of January 2014, we have launched LinuxCareers.com: a new niche job board, which allows recruiters of Linux talent to post their job offers to the targeted audience of Linux professionals. LinuxCareers.com specializes in Linux based careers and covers the US job market.
Migration
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Arista spent the last nine years building a switch operating system based on Linux, including nearly six years of field experience. Here are five lessons we learned along the way.
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Doubtless you've heard of Linux, free software, and open source software. It's important for small business owners to understand the finer points of these, because knowing what they are, and what role they play, is crucial to developing a smart business strategy.
Roundups
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Linus Torvalds released the first new Linux kernel of 2014 this week with the debut of Linux 3.13. As always with any given kernel release there are a lot of driver updates included in the new kernel.
HighPoint
Misc.
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Wolf is correct — I did find him via UberWriter, a beautiful Markdown editor. There are lots of Linux tools that work well and there are lots of Linux tools that look great, but there’s not always a lot of overlap between the two. UberWriter looks great and works great. Wolf uses Synapse, an application launcher, within GNOME, which has some built-in launcher functionality, but that lacks the depth and finesse Synapse offers. Wolf’s other ideas for how to enhance GNOME are very interesting, too.
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TweakTown is reporting that the US Army has purchased Linux-powered rifles from TrackingPoint.
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If there is only one message you take away from reading this, let it be this: Linux and FOSS do not need more glamorous elite uber-rockstar coders. We need more ordinary, dedicated individuals from all walks of life contributing however they can. Just plain ordinary people with whatever they have to offer.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- NVIDIA's Crisis Has Only Just began
- NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA) is set to open in the red tomorrow
- IBM Has Destroyed Red Hat and Hashicorp, Insiders Say It's the Usual From IBM:
- Bluewashing is a death wave
- Techrights Was Right About Slop Destroying Development Communities and Projects
- Slop does not improve your project. It kills the community. Without community, what is left? A 'botfarm'?
- Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXXI - Harassment Law and "Things Are Unfairly Asymmetric" (Exploring the Boundaries of Death Threats and Various Threats From America)
- the sort of "technofascism" that our country must learn to confront rather than facilitate
- Ethics in Perspective, Free Software and Morality
- top clients of Jeffrey Epstein are one happy family
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- In the UK, GNU/Linux Usage Soared During Microsoft Downtime
- since the massive outage GNU/Linux usage soared to over 10%
- Google Slop About Richard Stallman Shows Stallman Was Right, LLMs are BS Generators
- Google slop is the "new Google"
- Spouse of Garrett Needs to Get "Several Firearms" to Feel Safe Amid Divorce (Garrett Has a "Girlfriend" Now)
- Seems like Isis and my wife have a lot in common when it comes to Garrett
- Vista 11 is Small
- Can Microsoft survive the fall of Windows?
- Six Richard Stallman and FSF Talks This Month (FSF Staff at Ohio State University)
- Dr. Stallman's talks in Ecuador are well timed because of the collapse of the LLMs (slop) pyramid scheme
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 14, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, November 14, 2026
- Gemini Links 15/11/2026: "The Bastards Can Never Win" and "The Last Low-Tech Generation"
- Links for the day
- Links 14/11/2026: Wuhan Corruption and "Aid Isn’t Reaching Ebola’s Epicenter"
- Links for the day
- Rahul Kumar Has Turned tecadmin.net Into a Slopfarm That Promotes Slop and Microsoft (as Usual)
- Slop promoting slop - a death knell of once-active "Linux" sites
- Large-Scale Layoffs - Not Just PIPs - at Red Hat and IBM This Month
- Mainstream media has quit covering mass layoffs
- Links 14/11/2026: "The Claude Delusion" and "The Microsoft Outage is a Warning for the World"
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman (RMS) at Universidad Central del Ecuador (Guayaquil), Cuenca, Campus Sur Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (Quito), and Ohio State University
- Long live the message and mission of RMS
- They Paid Workers in 'Shares' (That Lost Almost Half Their Value in One Month)
- Welcome back 1999 or 2007
- The Register MS Made Millions of Pounds by Participating in the Slop Hype Campaign (It's Still Doing It), Now It Admits That It's Just a Bubble
- the slop frenzy played a role in the Microsoft meltdown
- Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXX - Pyramid Schemes (Planned Plunder) and Canceled/Botched Surgeries Aren't "Funny", They Cause Serious Harm and Distress
- We were right about Microsoft
- Links 14/11/2026: "OpenAI Is Sustaining Enormous Losses" and Slop "Loses the Popular Vote"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 13, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, November 13, 2026
- Gemini Links 14/11/2026: Code of Conduct, Back to Gemini, and Gemlog to Inbox
- Links for the day
- Slop Promotion, Including Paid-for Slop Promotion for So-called 'Linux' Foundation (Its Clients Are Slop Companies)
- We've noticed a lot of this lately in "It's FOSS" and to a lesser degree in "FOSS Force"
- Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Productivity Metrics and Antenna Outage
- Links for the day
- The Real Issue With The Register MS is Not the Politics of Some Staff's "Tweets", It's That The Register MS Publishes Fake Articles for Sponsors (50,000 Pounds Minimum)
- AWS and Google each pay millions for fake articles which beget journalistic bias too (they literally pay the salaries of the 'reporters')
- Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): We Need Accountability Because Many People Die and It's Because of Microsoft Diehards or People Bribed by Microsoft to Deploy Microsoft Where Lives Are at Risk
- They're trying to save face right now
- What the Media Misses: It's Not an NVIDIA Issue, Super Micro Computer Inc Also Fell From $45 to $26 in the Period NVIDIA Lost 33% of Its Faked 'Value', NVIDIA is Collapsing Like Intel
- History goes in circles
- It's Not About China or Sex, It's About Corruption at NVIDIA and a Pyramid Scheme Perpetrated Under the Guise of "Hey Hi Revolution" (That Wasn't, It's Manufactured and Hyped by Bribes, Subsidised by Multi-Trillion-Dollar Loans, People's Pension Funds and More)
- What's at stake here is a lot bigger than the "Ponzi hub" of Jensen Huang
- No, You're Not a "Most Valuable Company" When Everything is Down for Half a Day in the Entire Planet
- Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
- Waste of Money: Giving More Money to Toothless Regulators That Don't Even Examine Evidence
- Shame in SRA
- "Techrights Statement on Phoronix" Still Valid Five Years Later
- Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
- Vista 11's 'Growth' Has Stalled, It's Measured at Only 17.9% in the US This Year
- That helps put in perspective Microsoft's attempt to discard almost 30% of its remaining workforce
- "NVIDIA is Enron" (Subsidising the Pyramid Scheme That It Profited From), Microsoft is Next to be Down for the Count
- Microsoft increasingly looks like the "next NVIDIA"
- Richard Stallman Travels to South America to Give Talks About Free Software in Spanish, FSF Raises Money
- The FSF is raising money (goal is $400,000) and the FSF has just mentioned the upcoming talks by the FSF's founder
- United States Adding ~300 Billion in Government Debt Per Month, Wall Street Shaves Off Trillions in 'Value' in Less Than One Week
- cushioning "assets" by helping them fake "value"
- Microsoft: Pay Us for the Stuff That's Offline and We Cannot Fix
- Learn to take control of the technology that you rely on
- Links 13/11/2026: "Copyright-Strike-for-Hire" and "Stevie Wonder Photo Lawsuit"
- Links for the day
- The Slop Bubble (or Pyramid Scheme) Relied on Trust and Patience (Being Patient as Losses Grow and Debt Explodes, Trusting the Roadmap of Cheaters and Frauds)
- Remember that it all began with trust
- Anthropic's IPO Depends on $895.4 Billion in Debt (Money It Doesn't Have, It Loses Over 100 Billion Dollars Per Reporting Period), NVIDIA Has Just Lost Almost 2 Trillion Dollars In Value and Its Debt Trebled in Three Months
- This coming week will be very, very entertaining for slop critics/sceptics to watch
- At Microsoft, "Buyouts" or "Global Voluntary Separation Agreement" (GVSA) Not Much Different From Layoffs (Severance Shockingly Low)
- From what we are able to gather, many people are leaving Microsoft 'voluntarily'
- Is Microsoft the Next Fake-Valued Corporation to Lose 35% in "Market Value"? Is Slop Bringing Microsoft Down?
- Will NDAs prevent people talking or journalists finding out the true cause?
- Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) the Latest of Many to Quit Linux Development Over Linus Torvalds' Obsession With Slop (Linus Wants to Work With Bots, Not Humans Who Understand Whatever Code They Write)
- Linus caught the 'brain virus'
- Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Continue in November 2026
- IBM's CEO is "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides [IBM] Gently Into the Night"
- Microsoft Asks 60,000 Workers to Leave, Some Leave, Services Go Down
- Microsoft laid off about 40,000-50,000 people in past years
- Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Roku Exits the Smart Home Market and Poor Reporting/Journalism Regarding Slop Plagiarism
- Links for the day
- Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 12, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, November 12, 2026
