Links 20/05/2008: More GNU/Linux Servers, Handhelds, Points of Sale
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-20 06:27:53 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-20 06:27:53 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Open source in Japan: Q&A with the President of Plat'Home
- Android Developer Challenge: Early Apps Lookin' Sharp
Google has just wrapped up the Android Developer Challenge that it announced back in November. Android, of course, is Google's Linux-based mobile platform, slated to show up in a wave of new mobile phones later this year.
- JP Morgan Tech Show: Palm Sees Software Lifting its Fortunes
Well, on the way to that Linux software, Palm hopes to return to increasing sales and return to profitability a couple of ways, said Brown: one, the Centro, is available at 10 carriers now and will be spreading to more carriers globally.
- Die-shrunk Cell processor, blade run Linux
Big Blue touts the openness of Linux as helping data center managers improve power efficiency. The AS22 ships with a newly upgraded Software Development Kit (SDK) for Multicore Acceleration v3 based on Red Hat's forthcoming Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2.
- Red Hat Summit Invades Boston
- The Demographics of i Sales and Shipments
While Linux is nowhere near as popular at i shops, spending came to $200 million, with 36 percent of midrange shops having Linux somewhere in their data centers and 35 percent of large enterprises having Linux. HP has the biggest piece of the Linux pie within the IBM OS/400-i5/OS-i installed base--a bit embarrassing considering that the iSeries got native support for Linux eight years ago--followed up by IBM's own 19 percent spending share, Dell's 14 percent share, and Sun Microsystems' 5 percent share.
- POS systems run uClinux
- Announcing Exherbo!
- 2.6.26-rc3, "Another Week, Another -rc Release"
- Ubuntu - 8.04 (Review)
- Hands on: The changing face of Fedora
Ubuntu may be the most popular desktop distribution, but Fedora support is strong
F/OSS
Security and Crime
Microsoft
- Prime minister Brown backs Google
In a speech that read like a tacit disapproval of convicted monopolist Microsoft, Brown banged on before an audience of business bigwigs about the stupidity of protectionism.
- Google mulls Microsoft response
Speaking at the Google Zeitgeist conference in Hertfordshire, hosted by the internet company's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, chief executive, said: "After this press conference the three of us will meet and decide what our response is."
- Users Report More Trouble With Windows XP SP3
- Microsoft: Don't Misunderstand UAC, Other Vista Features
In its continued attempt to convince business customers to adopt Vista, Microsoft has outlined and tried to explain some of what it calls the OS's most "misunderstood" features in a document posted to -- then mysteriously removed from -- its Web site this week.
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- Two talks in Switzerland
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- Outdoor time, officially...
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- Engadget writes for bots now, not for humans
- Richard Stallman's Talks in Switzerland This Week
- We need to put an end to 'cancer culture'; it's trying to kill people and it is even swatting people
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- [Meme] EPO's New Ways of Working (NWoW), a.k.a. You Don't Even Get a Desk at Work and Cannot be Near Known Colleagues
- Seems more like union-busting (divide and rule)
- Hiding Microsoft's Culpability in Security Breaches and Other Major Blunders (in the United Kingdom, This May Mean You Can't Get Food)
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is vast
- Giving back to the community
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Open letter to the ACM regarding Codes of Conduct impersonating the Code of Ethics
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- With 9 Mentions of Azure In Its Latest Blog Post, Canonical is Again Promoting Microsoft and Intel Vendor Lock-in, Surveillance, Back Doors, Considerable Power Waste, and Defects That Cannot be Fixed
- Microsoft did not even have to buy Canonical (for Canonical to act like it happened)
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- Consent & Debian's illegitimate constitution
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The Time Our Server Host Died in a Car Accident
- If Debian has internal problems, then they need to be illuminated and then tackled, at the very least in order to ensure we do not end up with "Deadian"
- China's New 'IT' Rules Are a Massive Headache for Microsoft
- On the issue of China we're neutral except when it comes to human rights issues
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- WeMakeFedora.org: harassment decision, victory for volunteers and Fedora Foundations
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Amid Online Reports of XBox Sales Collapsing, Mass Layoffs in More Teams, and Windows Making Things Worse (Admission of Losses, Rumours About XBox Canceled as a Hardware Unit)...
- Windows has loads of issues, also as a gaming platform
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- Android Approaches 90% of the Operating Systems Market in Chad (Windows Down From 99.5% 15 Years Ago to Just 2.5% Right Now)
- Windows is down to about 2% on the Web-connected client side as measured by statCounter
- Sainsbury's: Let Them Eat Yoghurts (and Microsoft Downtimes When They Need Proper Food)
- a social control media 'scandal' this week
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Windows/Client at Microsoft Falling Sharply (Well Over 10% Decline Every Quarter), So For His Next Trick the Ponzi in Chief Merges Units, Spices Everything Up With "AI"
- Hiding the steep decline of Windows/Client at Microsoft?
- Free technology in housing and construction
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- We Need Open Standards With Free Software Implementations, Not "Interoperability" Alone
- Sadly we're confronting misguided managers and a bunch of clowns trying to herd us all - sometimes without consent - into "clown computing"
- Microsoft's Collapse in the Web Server Space Continued This Month
- Microsoft is the "2%", just like Windows in some countries