Links 24/07/2008: Red Hat's Extended Support, Fedora Portables Coming
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-24 11:59:22 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-24 11:59:22 UTC
GNU/Linux
- SecuTech adds Mac, Linux support to UniKey security
- Industrial PCs support real-time Linux extensions
- Return of the InstallFest...It's Starting Here
So far, I have come away with several interesting realizations, the more important of which are these: That people are more ready and willing to distance themselves from Microsoft than I had originally anticipated, and translating that into getting them to use Free/Open Source Software will have a huge effect on the digital landscape in this area and elsewhere — and let me emphasize the elsewhere because if it can happen here, it can happen elsewhere.
So who’s ready to make history in their community?
Oh, and if you have Microsoft stock, I’d sell. Fast.
- Debian Linux installer for NAS devices goes beta
- Vista Adoption going no-where, IT considering Linux and Mac instead
- Jim Zemlin at OSCON: The Mysterious Work of the Linux Foundation
- Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators
Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.
Desktop Environments
Red Hat/Fedora
- Red Hat/Fedora
Red Hat on Wednesday said it is extending the first phase of its product lifecycle support for Enterprise Linux, when the most technical support resources are made available, from three years to four.
- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Improved Through Enhanced Product Life Cycle
- Re-jigged Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu
- Intel says Linux-based Moblin update coming soon
Intel is readying a second release of the Moblin open-source platform for mobile computing, with plans set for an alpha-level version in a few weeks, an Intel official said at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in the US on Wednesday.
- SELinux and Fedora
- Fedora launches OLPC group
- Developers Make a Good Call With Fedora Talk
While the rest of the world is knee-deep in webinars, Skype-based teleconferences, and other "Web 2.0"-ish forms of real time communication, most of the Linux community still relies on IRC, wikis, and opt-in email lists to get things done. At FUDCon last month, the Fedora community announced a new way of helping members and developers communicate with each other: Fedora Talk
- Linus Torvalds uses Fedora 9
F/OSS
Cloud Computing/Google
Leftover
- UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users
According to the BBC this week's deal takes the form of a Memorandum of Understanding between the ISPs and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR). Under it, ISPs are reported to have committed to achieving a significant reduction in illegal filesharing, and to educate their customers on copyright. They need only follow the shining examples of the RIAA and the BPI and lo, it will be done.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- When People Call a Best/Close Friend of Bill Gates a "Serial Rapist"
- Good thing that the Linux Foundation keeps the "Linux" trademark ("Linux Mark") clean
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- It seems possible that in 2025 alone Microsoft will have laid off over 50,000 workers
- What Matters More Than "Market Share"
- The goal is freedom, not "market share"
- Credit Suisse collapse obfuscated Parreaux, Thiébaud & Partners scandal
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- UK Media Under Threat: Cannot Report on Data Breach, Cannot Report on Microsoft Staff Strangling Women
- The story of super injunction (in the British media this week, years late)
- Under the Guise of "MIT Technology Review Insights" the Site MIT Technology Review Posts Corporate Spam as 'Articles'
- Some of the articles aren't even articles but 'hit pieces' against Free software and some are paid advertisements
- Brett Wilson LLP Has Track Record in Scam Coin Cases (e.g. Craig Wright and More), Now It Works for 'Crypto' Scam Purveyors
- But wait, it gets worse
- Will Brett Wilson LLP Handle Its Own Winding Up Petition or be Struck Off for Overt Abuse of Process?
- Today we sue not only the first Microsofter
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- CALEA / CALEA2 is the Real Problem, Not Chinese Operatives Exploiting CALEA / CALEA2 (as Any Other Nation Can)
- CALEA / CALEA2 is more of a front door than a back door
- 99.99% Uptime in First Half of 2025
- Since January there was only one noticeable outage
- Nils Torvalds and Anna "Mikke" Torvalds (née Törnqvis) Hopefully Use GNU/Linux by Now
- "Torvalds Family Uses Windows, Not Linus’ Linux"
- Attack of the Slopfarms
- FUD-amplifying bots with slop images, slop text (LLM slop)
- Not My Problem, I Don't Care
- Context/inspiration: Martin Niemöller
- Honest Journalism About the European Patent Office Ceased to Exist After SLAPPs and Bribes to the Media
- The EPO is basically a Mafia
- Life Became Simpler When I Stopped Driving and I Don't Miss Driving When I See "Modern" Cars
- Gee, wonder why car sales have plummeted...
- Why I Believe Brett Wilson LLP and Its Microsoft Clients Are All Toast
- So far our legal strategy has worked perfectly
- EPO Jobs Are Very Toxic and Bad for One's Health
- Health first, not monopolies
- Response to Ryo Suwito Regarding the Four Freedoms
- the point of life isn't to make more money
- Microsoft's Morale Circling Down the Drain
- Or gutter, toilet etc.
- Tech Used to be Fun. To Many of Us It's Still Fun.
- You can just watch it from afar and make fun of it all
- Links 17/07/2025: "Blog Identity Crisis" and Openwashing by Nvidia
- Links for the day
- Greffiers and the US Attorney of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft
- The lawsuit can help expose extensive corruption in the American court system as well
- The People Who Promoted systemd in Debian Also Promote Wayland
- This is not politics
- Victims of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Alex Balabhadra Graveley, Wanted to Sue Him But Lacked the Funds (He Attacked Their Finances)
- Having spoken to victims of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft
- Links 17/07/2025: Science, Hardware, and Censorship
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/07/2025: Staying in the "Small Web" and Back on ICQ
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, July 16, 2025
- Exclusive: corruption in Tribunals, Greffiers, from protection rackets to cat whisperers
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 16/07/2025: Chip Bans and Microsoft’s “Digital Escort” Program
- Links for the day
- Ubuntu Becomes Microsoft GitHub, Based on Decision Made by British Army Officer
- You're hopeless, Canonical
- Revolving Doors: One Day You're a Judge, the Next Day You're an Attorney Paying Public Officials and Working for Violent and Dangerous Microsoft Employees
- how the US justice system works
- Sharing Code and Recipes
- It helps explain the triviality of software freedom
- Slopwatch: Noise, Plagiarism and Even Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
- What are we meant to do to prevent a false association or misleading connotations? Game the LLMs? No. Boycott slopfarms.
- How Many Women Has Microsoft's Alex Balabhadra Graveley Already Strangled and Where Does That End?
- If you too are a victim of this man and wish to share information, contact us
- Gemini Links 16/07/2025: BaseLibre Numerical System and Simple Web Browsing with TLS
- Links for the day
- Links 16/07/2025: Fascist Slop Takes "Intelligence" Clothing, New Criminal Case Against MElon
- Links for the day
- "We Might Save Somebody's Life"
- I follow the example of my father
- Why I am Suing the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Alex Balabhadra Graveley, in the UK High Court This Week
- Out of respect to the process and to the Court, I shall not share any pertinent details about the case
- Links 16/07/2025: China’s Economy Grows Steadily, France Takes Action Regarding Harm to Children by GAFAM and Fentanylware (TikTok)
- Links for the day
- It is Not About Politics
- Beware the people who try to make this about politics
- Good Journalism Saves Lives
- a shocking number of women die or get seriously hurt every day due to violence from a partner
- Recognition of Women's Contributions to Free Software
- Being passive is not an option when bad things are happening
- Slopfarms Are Going to Perish Because Public Opinion is Changing
- Many slopfarms will simply go offline
- 19 Years of Standing Up for Justice, Equality, and Truth
- This week we shall take it up a notch
- Gemini Links 16/07/2025: Tmux and OCC25 Working TLS
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, July 15, 2025
- Links 15/07/2025: LLM Pollution and Pushback in Ukraine
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/07/2025: xkcd, New Cert, and Alhena Gemlog
- Links for the day
- Links 15/07/2025: Press Freedom at Risk and New Facebook Blunders
- Links for the day
- Reboots Should Never be Necessary
- "BUT WHAT ABOUT SECURITY!!"
- There's Still Hope for the World Wide Web
- Let's hope that the trajectory of the Web won't be leading us to over-reliance on Google, nor will it reward worthless slopfarms
- Gemini Links 15/07/2025: Smolweb and Alhena 5.1.7
- Links for the day
- The Danes Want GNU/Linux
- David Heinemeier Hansson recently moved to GNU/Linux
- Cory Doctorow Explains Why Software Freedom Matters, Whereas "Open Source" Misses the Point and Helps Monopolies
- It's a very long article
- BillPR (EpsteinGate-Bribed NPR) is Turning Into a Partial Slopfarm that Promotes Slop
- "I went on a date with a chatbot!"
- Two Weeks Passed Since Latest Large Wave of Microsoft Layoffs, More Expected Next Month
- Blaming the debt on "AI" is just self-serving storytelling
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 14, 2025
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- Gemini Links 15/07/2025: Gemini "Style Sheets" and Switching From Microsoft GitHub to Codeberg
- Links for the day
Comments
David Gerard
2008-07-24 19:44:12