Links 11/6/2012: Wine 1.5.6, Project Magenta Uses Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2012-06-11 16:21:18 UTC
- Modified: 2012-06-11 16:21:18 UTC
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In 2007, I became a good friend of Don Davis. Don has done much for the Free Software community, either initiating or participating in several films and documentaries about Linux and Open Source.
He is also the founder of REGLUE - Recycled Electronics and Gnu/Linux Used for Education.
Don's organization had almost exactly the same mission as HeliOS. Don is now a Doctoral Candidate at Texas State University and the requirements of his studies have left him little time to do little else.
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Desktop
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Server
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If you are wondering why IBM is all hot-to-trot with its new PowerLinux machines, which are Power Systems servers tweaked to only run Linux and with lower hardware and software prices than regular Power Systems iron that runs AIX and IBM i, then you need look no further than the latest server numbers from IDC. Sales of Linux-based machines shot up like a rocket, thanks to some big supercomputer and hyperscale cloud deals and are outpacing the market substantially.
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Well, probably not quite yet – just look at how long it’s taken Unix to die in the data centre. However I can’t but feel that Microsoft’s announcement this week, that they will now be supporting Linux under Azure, represents a fundamental shift in the balance of power of server operating systems.
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Kernel Space
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Applications
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Proprietary
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I have only recently discovered Netflix and signed up without thinking there may be issues playing back the streaming media on Linux. I have done many searches on the subject and found some interesting discussions and the only solution that seems to work.
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Instructionals/Technical
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Wine
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Desktop Environments
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GNOME Desktop
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this is my second update on my Summer of Code project.
As planned in the previous report, I spent the past two weeks implementing notification integration in the lock screen, and this is the result...
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New Releases
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€· Announced Distro: Kororaa 17 Beta
€· Announced Distro: Snowlinux 2 Cinnamon
€· Announced Distro: Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1
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Red Hat Family
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Fedora
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"This certainly gives me a bit of concern because it puts Microsoft in the position of controlling the hardware and being a gatekeeper on what can be installed," explained Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien. "IS there any evidence that they have ever had this kind of power and *not* used it to crush their competition?" O'Brien wondered. "I hope the anti-trust authorities look into this."
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Debian Family
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Derivatives
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Canonical/Ubuntu
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The MK802 is a tiny PC that looks like a USB thumb drive. While it ships with Google Android 4.0, it’s actually pretty easy to convince it to run an alternate operating system. In fact, if you have a properly prepared microSD card, all you need to do is insert the memory card, turn on the MK802, and it will boot Ubuntu 10.04 Linux.
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Phones
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Where most of the excitement exists today when it comes to operating system advancements is not in Windows and Mac. Nope, it’s within the intensely competitive space that contains Android and iOS. And just like any strong and exciting segment in the consumer electronics industry, this market is now the target of a new initiative that wants to push its way to the front of the pack.
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Media Explorer is a media center originally target for MeeGo, but also is the first real native GNOME 3 multimedia box powered by Clutter and Mx.
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Android
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COMPUTER engineer Musa Ngog has high hopes of winning funding from KTS Group’s inaugural Sarawak Youth Talent Discovery (SYTD) project with his plans to create public awareness of computer software piracy and educating users on better alternatives to getting much-needed software — for free.
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For those of you with a more philosophical best, Eric S. Raymond has posted an interesting essay, "Evaluating the harm from closed source".
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Web Browsers
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Openness/Sharing
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Open Access/Content
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Open education innovator Sal Khan, MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, gave the commencement address at MIT graduation ceremony on June 8, a speech that included both a nod to the power of open education as exemplified by MIT's OpenCourseWare program and Khan's own web site, and an homage to the importance of the unique academic community that is MIT.
Khan spoke eloquently of the inspiration he drew from MIT's 2001 announcement to make all of its courseware openly available on the web. "MIT announced ... that it was going to take knowledge and resources that used to be behind the wall of elite institutions and not charge for them but give them away for free to the world ... When I read that press release, I had never been so inspired. I had never been more proud to come from this community."
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Programming
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Many developers love to use open source software for the variety of benefits that come along with it. Some of the most popular open source languages used include C, PHP, Javascript, and C++. Although many people code using these languages, are there any major reasons not to use them? Let’s take a look and find out.
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Finance
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PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Two Risks to Companies: The Microsoft Culture and the Microsoft Tools
- Novell was killed by a form of "social engineering" by Microsoft
- It's Hard to Trust People Who Worked - Not Only Those Who Still Work - at Microsoft
- Bryan Lunduke is just what people would call an "arsehole of a person"
- Links 06/07/2025: Climate Change and "The Right to Criticise"
- Links for the day
- The Mainstream Media Took 4 Days to Realise Microsoft Shut Down Its Operations in Pakistan and Fired Everybody
- We estimate that Microsoft has had about 29,000 layoffs since January
- “Twibel” Actions Against Comedians (and Why It's a Truly Low Blow)
- they try to make up in quantities for a lack of merit or quality
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- [Video] "Copyleft Isn't a Bug."
- "Copyleft isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. GNU GPL forced the world to treat code like a public good."
- Being in Social Control Media Means Exposing Oneself to Heckling
- Richard Stallman does not (either himself or directly) post to any social control media
- Links 06/07/2025: Airlines Perils, Scams, and Breaches
- Links for the day
- For the Second Time, Bryan Lunduke From Microsoft is Siccing Racist Trolls and Vandals at Me
- You're only reinforcing the point we made yesterday
- Links 06/07/2025: End to End Encryption at Risk, Reuters Twitter ("X") Account Withheld in India
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 06/07/2025: Tinylog and Certification Rotation
- Links for the day
- PCLinuxOS Sites Coming Back, Gradually
- let's just be patient
- Social Control Media, Even If Based on Free Software, Still Has Many Problems
- a distraction from what actually mattered and still matters
- IBM is Not Your Master
- IBM makes friends with people who exclude the majority of the population: women
- Help Fund the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- If you have some dollars to spare, go support the FSF
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 05, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, July 05, 2025
- A Short History of Attacks on Techrights (and Boycott Novell Before That)
- good opportunity to tell again the story of several (not all) attempts to silence us
- Leadership in Free Software
- Don't let IBM lead. It's a terrible flag bearer.
- Linux Foundation Apparently Flirting With Slop (Marketing by LLM-Generated SPAM)
- The Web is in a really bad state!
- COVID-19 Sped Up Site Improvements in Techrights
- A few months later we created our very own IRC network
- Gemini Links 05/07/2025: Negative Questions and 'Touching Grass' (Going Outside)
- Links for the day
- Links 05/07/2025: Dalai Lama Succession as 90th Birthday Approaches, 40 deg C in China
- Links for the day
- Links 05/07/2025: Hungary and US Defecting to Russia, "Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 05/07/2025: 4th of July 2025 and "Zig Roadmap 2026"
- Links for the day
- How to Combat the Exploitation and Abuse by Microsoft GitHub
- Not to mention corruption and crimes against women
- Bryan Lunduke is Actually Sending His Audience to Attack People
- "[Lunduke] is actually sending his audience to attack people."
- Even The Right Wing is Rejecting Bryan Lunduke
- no wonder he became so irrelevant and marginal
- Microsoft's MSN Helps Microsoft Spread Lies About the Layoffs' Scale (Well Over 25,000 People Laid Off This Year)
- There seem to be monopolies on lies and on truth
- The Death of X Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (by Compromised Media)
- X.Org Server is alive and well
- Rewriting Things in Rust
- How far would you go?
- In 2025 Everything is "AI". Remember Blockchains?
- Talk about what companies and things (services, products, software) actually do, not the labels they use
- Julian Assange Has Been Free for a Year
- Julian Assange and I disagreed on some things
- Monopolies and Scalping
- Monopolies gravitate towards price hikes
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 04, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, July 04, 2025
- Microsoft's August Layoffs Wave: "August is Confirmed for Additional Performance Based Cuts"
- "August is confirmed for additional performance based cuts from the recent connects along with additional organizational cuts."
- What Microsoft Reputation Laundering (With a Weaponised Law Degree) Looks Like in a Foreign Continent
- You would expect this in uncivilised and primitive countries
- Slopwatch: LLMs 'Write' Fake or Distorted 'News' About "Linux"
- LLM slop disguised as news
- Links 04/07/2025: Google Replaces the Web With Slop, "AI Might Kill Us All"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/07/2025: Mindfulness and F1
- Links for the day
- Weeks After Microsoft Bankruptcy in Russia the Company Shuts Down in Pakistan, Too
- Last month Windows' share in Pakistan fell to an all-time low
- Rob Musial's June 2025 Additions of Malware in Proprietary Software
- Via the GNU Web site this week
- Links 04/07/2025: Microsoft's H-1B Visa Applications Show Another Crisis Unfolding, Many More Deep Cuts and Shutdowns Revealed, Complete Microsoft Exits
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/07/2025: A Day To Remember and "Stop Killing Games"
- Links for the day
- Crime and Corruption at Microsoft GitHub Cannot be Covered Up by SLAPPs in Another Continent
- We'll write about this for a long time to come
- Slop Videos Are Disappointing Garbage, Nothing New, Just Brute Force up on Display or a Pedestal of Slop
- Slop videos aren't a new thing
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 03, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 03, 2025
- The War on Local Storage (People Hosting Their Files Locally and Privately)
- There's nothing wrong with controlling one's computing
- What Digital Independence Means
- Independence in the digital realms means abandoning platforms like GitHub, not just rejecting proprietary software
- NVidia is a Bubble
- they temporarily see fortunes and wrongly assume perpetuity thereof
- Fedora Does Not Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It's About Optics (Corporate Image)
- any notion of inclusion is superficial and misleading
- Don't Buy the Excuses for Microsoft's Mass Layoffs
- Back in the 90s, Microsoft bought a lot of companies to get and stay ahead