06.10.08

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Links 10/06/2008: More Migrations to GNU/Linux and More New Distributions

Posted in News Roundup at 3:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Success Stories

Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops

Open source software is set to play an increasingly important role at Australia’s sixth largest bank, according to Smith, who said that Suncorp will look to use open source “wherever we can”.
Italian Ministry of Justice Adopts Red Hat Solutions
Open source tour of Europe: Austria
Open source tour of Europe: Switzerland

Distributions

Press Release – 64 Studio 2.1 ‘A Minha Menina’ released!

64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools.
Release Notes for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa

This is Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories.
[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09

It has been a busy week for Sugar Labs.

1. Sucrose: On behalf of the Release Team, Simon Schampijer announced Sucrose 0.81.2 (Development Release). Features of this new release include elimination of some platform dependencies, an improved activity-list view, a graphical user interface to the Sugar control panel (including settings for Frame activation delays), and expanded internationalization of Etoys. The next development release is scheduled in two weeks. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!
DSL 4.4 Released
Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition : Breath Of Fresh Air

Mandriva always stands one step ahead of other distribution in terms of overall experience.. Though ranked #6 in Distrowatch.. Mandriva features and utilities makes it one of the best newbie friendly distro out there.. The best feature of Mandriva is that the developers try to re master the new release from the scratch..
How’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Doing?

As I reported two weeks ago, Red Hat expects to get an updated to RHEL 4–the 4.7 release, to be precise–out the door on July 21, which will include updates for hardware, bug fixes, and security patches. Red Hat hopes to have RHEL 5.3 ready in January 2009 or so.
Debian Weekly News – June 9th, 2008
Debian news : Debian Weather is back

Experiences

Standing On The Edge

First off, I have been asked by Christian not to name the school. Microsoft is terribly sensitive to the loss of any school in California, as they have to pay for millions in replacement equipment and software due to a court order.
Flipping the Linux switch: Linux web tools and HTML editors, Pt. 1
Linux – A Social Justice Issue

Laptops

Computex 2008 – Linux ultra-portables galore
ASUS Eee PC 4G (701)
Add multitouch gesture support to a TouchPad-equipped laptop
Trying Out Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix

Mobile

Smartphones, Linux gaining share
Nokia: Linux role growing, not yet mainstream

Nokia’s Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson last month called Linux’s role “terribly important” at an investor conference, saying Nokia had been developing the next generation of Linux-based products, which are starting to come to the market.
The Happy Collision of Collaboration and Competition in the Mobile World

LiMo’s transparent governance model and a critically important intellectual property (IP) safe harbor to refine the Foundation’s common, Linux-based middleware platform — while remaining entirely free to deliver their own compelling and differentiated services to mobile customers.

Kernel/Embedded

F/OSS

GPL: why can’t a lawyer understand it?
GNewSense, the Present and the Future
Tuxpaint is fun for kids and adults
Who Will Rule The New Internet?

In many ways, these companies are technology’s standard-bearers, though their guiding philosophies differ. Google, for instance, advocates an “open” Web and tends to push for open standards and alliances among developers.
Boy Scouts of America look to open-source community for help
Video: Firefox 3 Screencast
Firefox 3: Past, Present, and Future
Mozilla’s open source phone system
Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel
Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor

“The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools.” Thus argues John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, which creates and provides UNA, a source code editor.
BJP to launch ambitious tech initiative to gain edge in elections
Opengear Adds Open Source Network UPS Tools to Range of Console Servers
Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures
Walking Three Tightropes
Rowgen the full package, IRI CoSort says
Sun Java CAPS chugs down SOA open source track
Compiere Releases Open Source ERP Solution Upgrade
Etelos Adds Open-Source Hosting

Gaming

Microsoft

Security

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2 Comments

max stirner said,

June 10, 2008 at 8:31 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7444116.stm
PitaGuy said,

June 11, 2008 at 2:36 am

Are we witnessing the end of Microsoft. The giant crumbles under its own weight….

What Else is New

[Meme] [Teaser] More to Life Than Patents

Greedy sociopaths oughtn’t be put in charge of patent offices; this is what’s dooming the EPO in recent years (all they think about is money
Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part II — The Campaign Against GPL Compliance and War on Copyleft Enforcement

Microsoft contemplated buying GitHub 7.5 years ago; the goal wasn’t to actually support “Open Source” but to crush it from the inside and that’s what Microsoft has been doing over the past 2.5 years (we have some details from the inside)
Links 18/10/2021: Linux 5.15 RC6 and 7 New Stable Kernels

Links for the day
[Meme] The Austrian School of Friedrich Rude Liar

With reference to the Austrian School, let’s consider the fact that Friedrich Rude Liar might in fact be standing to personally gain by plundering the EPO‘s staff by demonising them while helping Benoît Battistelli crush them
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 17, 2021

IRC logs for Sunday, October 17, 2021
How (Simple Technical Steps) to Convince Yourself That DuckDuckGo is Just Spyware Connected to Microsoft, Falsely Advertised as 'Privacy'

In recent days we published or republished some bits and pieces about what DuckDuckGo really is; the above reader dropped by to enlighten us and demonstrate just how easy it is to see what DuckDuckGo does even at the client side (with JavaScript); more people need to confront DuckDuckGo over this and warn colleagues/friends/family (there’s more here)
Austria's Right-Wing Politicians Displaying Their Arrogance to EPO Examiners

The EPO‘s current regime seems to be serving a money-hungry lobby of corrupt officials and pathological liars; tonight we focus on Austria
[Meme] Friedrich Rödler's Increasingly Incomprehensible Debt Quagmire, Years Before EPO Money Was Trafficked Into the Stock Market

As it turns out, numerous members of the Administrative Council of the EPO are abundantly corrupt and greedy; They falsely claim or selfishly pretend there’s a financial crisis and then moan about a "gap" that does not exist (unless one counts the illegal gambling, notably EPOTIF, which they approved), in turn recruiting or resorting to scabs that help improve ‘profit margins’
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XV: Et Tu Felix Austria…

Prior to the Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos regime the EPO‘s hard-working staff was slandered by a corrupt Austrian official, Mr. Rödler
Links 17/10/2021: Blender 2.93.5, Microsoft Bailouts

Links for the day
Links 17/10/2021: GhostBSD 21.10.16 and Mattermost 6.0

Links for the day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 16, 2021

IRC logs for Saturday, October 16, 2021
[Meme] First Illegally Banning Strikes, Then Illegally Taking Over Courts

The vision of Team Battistelli/Campinos is a hostile takeover of the entire patent system, not just patent offices like the EPO; they’d stop at nothing to get there
Portuguese Network of Enablers

Instead of serving Portuguese people or serving thousands of EPO workers (including many who are Portuguese) the delegation from Portugal served the network of Campinos
In Picture: After Billions Spent on Marketing, With Vista 11 Hype and Vapourware, No Real Gains for Windows

The very latest figures from Web usage show that it’s hardly even a blip on the radar; Windows continues bleeding to death, not only in servers
[Meme] [Teaser] Double-Dipping Friedrich Rödler

As we shall see tomorrow night, the EPO regime was supported by a fair share of corrupt officials inside the Administrative Council
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIV: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Portugal

How illegal “Strike Regulations” and regressive ‘reforms’ at the EPO, empowering Benoît Battistelli to the detriment of the Rule of Law, were ushered in by António Campinos and by Portugal 5 years before Campinos took Battistelli’s seat (and power he had given himself)
Links 16/10/2021: SparkyLinux Turns 10 and Sculpt OS 21.10

Links for the day
“Facebook Whistleblowers” Aside, It Has Been a Dying Platform for Years, and It's Mentally Perverting the Older Generation

Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission
[Meme] Microsoft Has Always Been About Control Over Others

Hosting by Microsoft means subjugation or a slavery-like relationship; contrary to the current media narrative, Microsoft has long been censoring LinkedIn for China’s autocratic regime; and over at GitHub, as we shall show for months to come, there’s a war on information, a war on women, and gross violations of the law
EFF Pushes for Users to Install DuckDuckGo Software After Being Paid to Kill HTTPS Everywhere

Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission
The Reign in Spain

Discussion about the role of Spain in the EPO‘s autocratic regime which violates the rights of EPO staff, including Spanish workers
[Meme] Spanish Inquisition

Let it be widely known that Spain played a role in crushing the basic rights of all EPO workers, including hundreds of Spaniards
Why You Shouldn’t Use SteamOS, a Really Incompetent GNU/Linux Distribution With Security Pitfalls (Lutris is a Great Alternative)

Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission
IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 15, 2021

IRC logs for Friday, October 15, 2021
Links 16/10/2021: Xubuntu 21.10 and DearPyGui 1.0.0

Links for the day
DuckDuckGo’s HQ is Smaller Than My Apartment

Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission
Post About Whether Vivaldi is a GPL violation Was Quietly Knifed by the Mods of /r/uBlockOrigin in Reddit

Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIII: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Spain

The EPO‘s António Campinos is an ‘Academy’ of overt nepotism; what Benoît Battistelli did mostly in France Campinos does in Spain and Portugal, severely harming the international image of these countries
From Competitive (Top-Level, High-Calibre, Well-Paid) Jobs to 2,000 Euros a Month -- How the EPO is Becoming a Sweatshop by Patent Examiners' Standards

A longish video about the dreadful situation at the EPO, where staff is being ‘robbed’ and EPO funds get funnelled into some dodgy stock market investments (a clear violation of the institution’s charter)