Links 30/06/2008: More GNU/Linux Laptops, Windows XP's End Marks Trouble
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-30 12:20:02 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-30 12:20:02 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Hands on With ECS's G10IL Mini-laptop With 3G
ECS representatives said. Both the G-series and J-series come with options for a Linux OS from Linpus Technologies.
- Asustek to launch new Eee PCs with bigger keyboards
- MSI Wind Mini-desktop With Intel's Atom to Debut in July
Last month, Asustek revealed the Eee Box, a mini-desktop PC that has an Atom microprocessor, will come with either a Linux or Windows XP OS, and will begin selling in July for around US$300. The machine takes its name from the popular mini-laptop, Eee PC, by Asustek.
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 97
- Playing with Fluxbox
- from Windows to Ubuntu
But after the past couple of years as I got more into web development, I started to experience some pain as a WinXP user because it seems like most of the interesting web technologies are optimized for Linux or Mac users, and for Windows users there’s usually a short appendix in the doc that says “If you are unfortunate enough to use Windows, the following has been said to work…”
- How Linux Can Take The Marketshare Microsoft Throws Away
As an average PC user looking to buy a Mac, you would most likely be surprised by the high prices.
- Cognos Ships BI Software For IBM's System Z Mainframe
Cognos, which IBM acquired in January for $4.9 billion, is now shipping a version of its IBM Cognos 8 BI software for Linux running on IBM's System z10 mainframes.
- High Tower's SIEM strength lies in its simplicity
The product is delivered as an appliance that is Intel-based, includes a crypto accelerator in hardware (for high-volume event signing) and runs Linux under the hood.
- Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables
- The FSF needs a new approach to advertising
Obviously that isn’t possible, so my suggestions are as follows:
* Answer posts relating to proprietary software on UbuntuForums.org and LinuxQuestions.org, and talk to these people about the benefits of Free Software
* Create media, including videos, music, etc that people would enjoy listening to (that means this doesn’t count) that they would enjoy sharing with others
Releases
- Myah OS 3.0 Dragon [Released]
For all current fans of Myah OS and all those soon to be, we give you Myah OS 3.0 Dragon. Dragon is the code name for Myah OS built around the KDE 3 desktop. We chose KDE 3.5.9 since it's still considered the most stable and best supported version of KDE.
- Scientific Linux release 5.2 i386 and x86_64 has been released.
Scientific Linux 5.2 has been released in record time. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without your help this release couldn't have come out as quickly and smoothly as it has.
- Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola' has been released
After a two-week delay, we proudly announce the immediate availability of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola'. Parsix Viola brings several new features, contains a new kernel, updated software packages, updated documentation, improved installer system and several fixes for the reported defects.
- Finnix 92.0 Released
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 92.0 for the x86/AMD64, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms.
F/OSS
Microsoft
- Ghostly threat to Internet Explorer users
Microsoft certainly never imagined anything like this. A talk given behind closed doors at the Microsoft BlueHat Security Briefing revealed a huge security problem in Internet Explorer.
- Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
The number of malware detections has grown by almost half a million since the end of the year, jumping from 500,000 total detections to 900,000.
"I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better", says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor.
- Great job, great girl – but Microsoft just wasn’t enough for John Wood
- Windows XP: the beginning of the end
- Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air
A MONOLITHIC operating system like Windows perpetuates an obsolete design. We don’t need to load up our machines with bloated layers we won’t use.
- Tevanian: Does Microsoft have the guts to slim down Windows?
Actually, Avie was referring to an atmosphere of desperation, as the Times calls it, just before Apple started the Mac OS X project. Microsoft, possibly, hasn't hit "rock bottom" yet, and therefore doesn't feel a need to build something from scratch.
Personally, I thought "Windows 7" was going to be a leaner, less-backward-compatible build, but I was wrong (as I frequently am): "Our approach with Windows 7 is to build off the same core architecture as Windows Vista," said Bill Veghte, a Microsoft VP. Hello, Windows Me 2.0.
- Yahoo Was Right to Turn Down Microsoft Offer
Despite what the market may suggest, Yahoo was wise to reject the Microsoft offer. Microsoft's interest in Yahoo was, for the most part, to acquire its market share in search and online advertising - a segment currently dominated by Google.
[...]
Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo is akin to taking the drumstick, your favorite piece of the chicken, and then throwing out the rest because it's not really tasty to you. You're interested only in ensuring that your archrival doesn't get the drumstick before you do.
- Battle of egos at Yahoo, Microsoft
- Gates Says Yahoo Deal 'not Likely'
- How Microsoft plans to teach us some manners
Professor Chris Johnson, from the computing science department of Glasgow University, said: "There are lots of devices that don't run Microsoft software these days, and just like that, a lot of devices wouldn't use digital manners.
"Unless Microsoft makes it in the interest of people to buy a device with this technology, nobody's going to bother buying things that use it. I can't see a huge marketplace for digital manners at the moment."
- Microsoft Introducing DRM Tool for 360
- Microsoft strong-arms sports fans: Olympic Games online coverage only for Vista users
Loyal XP users are not alone in their exclusion from NBC's online coverage, the partnership also excludes Mac users, as well those that do their web surfing from a phone.
- Ballmer Tells Seattle Times Microsoft Stock Has Been `Volatile'
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Comments
max stirner
2008-06-30 19:03:39
couple of days old, nonetheless hilarious
best wishes :)