Links 14/06/2008: FreeSoftwareModeBuntu, GNU/Linux Conquers Internet Devices
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-14 11:54:53 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-14 11:54:53 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Gobuntu Changes Going Back Into Ubuntu
The news coming out of the Canonical camp is that developers will be trying to merge as many of Gobuntu's changes back into the mainline Ubuntu code-base as possible. By default though, Ubuntu will continue to ship with firmware, binary-only drivers, and the rest.
- Grassroots OLPC Jam scheduled for this weekend
- LGP's "X3: Reunion" Nears Completion
- Linux top OS in MIDs
Linux will be a top OS in MIDs (mobile Internet devices), suggests a report from Forward Concepts. The report, aimed at quantifying MID-related opportunities for chip makers, identifies TI and Qualcomm as well-positioned in an emergent market expected to reach 40 million unit shipments globally within four years.
- When Desktop Disaster Strikes, Linux Rides To The Rescue
A friend in need, the saying goes, is a friend indeed. And the next time your Windows PC goes belly-up at the worst possible time, your new best friend just might turn out to be a Linux rescue CD.
- Linux Pros - Reasons to Use Linux
The BECTA Scam
Open Source
Open Access
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- More Information About Public Talks That Richard Stallman Gave This Week in Europe
- Two talks in Switzerland
- SoylentNews Grows Up, Registers as a Business, Site Traffic Reportedly Grows
- More people realise that social control media may in fact be a passing fad
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- Links 29/03/2024: Fentanylware (TikTok) Fines and UK High Court Makes It Seem OK to Assassinate People Wrongly (Falsely) Associated With "Russia"
- Links for the day
- Garden Season Starts Today
- Outdoor time, officially...
- Engadget is Still a Spamfarm, It's Just an Amazon Catalogue (SPAM/SEO), a Sea of Junk Disguised as "Articles" With Few 'Fillers' (Real Articles) in Between
- 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...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 28, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, March 28, 2024
- [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
- Links 28/03/2024: Sega, Nintendo, and Bell Layoffs
- Links for the day
- 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)
- Links 28/03/2024: GAFAM Replacing Full-Time Workers With Interns Now
- Links for the day
- 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
- Links 27/03/2024: Terrorism Grows in Africa, Unemployment in Finland Rose Sharply in a Year, Chinese Aggression Escalates
- Links for the day
- Links 27/03/2024: Ericsson and Tencent Layoffs
- Links for the day
- 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
- Links 27/03/2024: BBC Resorts to CG Cruft, Akamai Blocking Blunders in Piracy Shield
- Links for the day
- 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
Comments
Giovanni Spoto
2008-06-15 01:24:14
Best Regards, Giovanni Spoto