Links 24/07/2008: Another Victory for the GPlL, More Ubuntu-based Del in the UK
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-24 21:27:18 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-24 21:27:18 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Dell UK launches systems with preinstalled Ubuntu Linux
- PC with Windows XP can shift to Ubuntu
Ubuntu might be something that I may be interested in using, but I have Windows XP SPII and I was wondering if I would need to remove that from my computer in order to gain an advantage from Ubuntu, or if I could keep Windows on my computer.
- A Windows, Linux and OSx86 Capable Desktop Computer?
- The open source jobs boom
Demand for Linux server skills grew by only 18 percent -- but as you'd expect that segment has far more postings than any other. Similarly, JavaScript and Perl, which have been popular for some time, grew slowly but from a large base.
- Building an HPC Linux cluster has gotten simpler, Beowulf leader say
Donald Becker, an MIT grad who in the 1990s pioneered high-performance computing (HPC) with commodity components, returned to his alma mater recently to update the Boston Linux & Unix User Group (BLU) on the state of HPC and his work to make Linux clusters more powerful, more user-friendly and easier to manage.
- Review: Think small with Linutop 2
Shipped from Paris, the Linutop 2 costs $440 plus $40 for delivery and arrives in about a week. Linutop 2 will never be a performance PC for video editing, CAD or gaming, but is perfect for most office and personal uses that don't require Windows software. Neither too big, nor too small, Linutop 2 is just right.
- Ottawa Linux Symposium 10, Day 1
- Ubuntu Classroom #1 at Engineering Faculty
Saturday 19th, 7pm at Engineering Faculty Jember universty we made basic training about ubuntu. we made class in the night because many student have another class in the morning. in this clas we have 2 mentors, me and Ashadebi (from Debian Indonesia).
- Kernel Log: Centrino 2 WiFi driver iwl 5000 and webcam driver gscpa in Linux 2.6.27
- Happy 10th birthday, Mandriva Linux
Fedora
UNIX
Applications/Free Software
- Consonance: A lightweight GTK+ music player
- SuperTux, the Greatest Linux Game of All Time
If you ask my 3 year old son what's his favorite Linux game of all time, he would start hopping and say SuperTux in a loud and superhero-like voice.
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SuperTux is a highly addictive game that both young and old can truly enjoy. Kids will love it for its colorful graphics, easy game controls, and super cute penguin. The not-so-old will like SuperTux for its fast-paced action, secret levels, and super cute penguin. So why wait? Fire up that package manager of yours and go get SuperTux now!
- Introduction to Linux: Desktop Environments
You undoubtedly notice that, although the functionality seems to overall be similar (with a few minor exceptions), everything seems to use a different name and/or is in a different place. If you've explored more than one distribution, this may even seem to be the case between Linux distributions. I'll be covering the more mainstream desktop environments, as well as suggested programs to replace the ones you've come to rely on in Windows.
- 30 Gnome themes to enhance your Ubuntu experience
- Giving love to the Previewer
GPL
OSS
Symbian Failures in Wooing FOSS/Linux Developers
OSCON
Microsoft
- Microsoft's Online Woes Hint at Larger Vulnerability
"For the past two years, I've been totally confused about [the difference between] Windows Live, MSN and Windows," said Charlene Li, an independent technology industry analyst. "The messaging and product features don't pull together."
- Ballmer upset by Apple cart
He added that Microsoft “must continue to compete against Linux in key workloads such as web servers and high performance computing” in the business and enterprise space.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, linuxconfig.org, and Plagiarised Phoronix
- Many articles out there are nowadays fake
- European Patent Office Illegally Gutting and Outsourcing Its Functions, Acting Like an Above-the-Law Commercial Business (It Won't Stop at Formalities Officers (FOs) and Classification Slop at the EPO)
- breaking/violating laws and conventions
- Links 19/09/2025: Lobbyist of American GAFAM Becomes Data Protection Commissioner in Europe
- Links for the day
- The Right to Punch People (Apparently)
- At Brett Wilson, Brett's job title is "Head of Crime" and Wilson normalises calls for violence
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- Rust People: Drain the Swap, You're Holding It Wrong
- Does Rust make sense?
- Techrights the Name Turns 15
- About 6 weeks from now we turn 19
- Microsoft is Running Out of Time and Floating Fake Figures, Fake Projects, Fake Narratives, Fake Excuses
- Also, a lot of Microsoft's "revenue" claims are circular financing (i.e. Microsoft buying from itself, which means Ponzi-like fraud)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, September 19, 2025
- Gemini Links 20/09/2025: Navigating the Pressures of Modern Life and SpellBinding Accidentally Wrote Another Gemini Server
- Links for the day
- Links 19/09/2025: Press Freedom Dying in US, Anti-Austerity Strikes in France, and Alan Rusbridger to Leave 'Prospect'
- Links for the day
- Offloading to the Sister Site
- In the interest of not overwhelming readers
- Links 19/09/2025: Coffee Club and "SpellBinding is Now Absurdly Fast"
- Links for the day
- Links 19/09/2025: Media Freedom Ceases to Exist in US, "Consider Dropping Twitter/X"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/09/2025: Thinking and Insect Bites
- Links for the day
- Microsoft E.E.E.: Git Will Now (or Very Soon) Fully Depend on Rust, Which is Controlled by Microsoft
- Microsoft now makes Git dependent on Rust, or making Git dependent on GitHub, which is proprietary
- Slop or Fake Articles Have Turned Linux Journal From a Pioneering/Trailblazing "Linux" Magazine Into a Nuisance
- some sites with former reputation - good reputation - turn into cesspools
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, September 18, 2025
- Brett Wilson LLP Seem to Have Had Only One Litigation Client in 2025, He Was Previously Charged, Just Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (Whom They Now Represent)
- Karma is superstition, regulators are not
- Project 2030 to Cover How "Project 2025"-Styled Anti-Media Zealots From America Targeted Techrights and Tux Machines
- The common denominator is also their attacks on women
- Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Meet Deadlines Set by Judge 7 Months Earlier, Tried to Ruin Our Holiday, Then Had the Audacity to Ask Us for Over 3,000 Pounds for Its Own Lateness
- As a matter of principle we will never respond to assassin while we are on holiday
- On Claims That After Bluewashing Red Hat Will Increasingly Become an Indian Company
- Discussed this week (long and detailed)
- Americans Attacking British Sites Only Months After They Leave America
- We find it kind of funny if not ironic that this site, originally an American site, got legal harassment only from Americans and only months after it had moved to the UK
- Despite Losing Over a Quarter Million Dollars a Year Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Gives Helping Hand to Libreboot
- SPI's financial state depends a lot on its public image or its reputation
- Slopwatch: Google Helps Plagiarism and Sends Traffic to Ripoff Artists
- That Google as a company helps spamfarms is noteworthy
- If You Want to Know the Future, Listen to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Andy Farnell
- We're sure the FSF will have plenty of its own output
- Links 18/09/2025: A Taliban Ban on Internet Access and Troubled US Job Market
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/09/2025: Computer Literacy and Accessing Alhena's Database
- Links for the day
- Links 18/09/2025: US War on Media (Truth Banned, Cancel Culture by the Hard Right), NYT Chief Executive Warns Cheeto is Deploying ‘Anti-press Playbook'
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Comments
Virginia
2008-07-25 09:36:03