Links 25/01/2014: GNU/Linux News Roundup
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-25 20:05:12 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-25 20:05:12 UTC
Summary: Various articles from the past week, focusing primarily on GNU/Linux
Careers
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In this article, we present the findings of the January’s update of IT Skills Watch. Additionally, we study the whole data gathered in the last year to explain some fluctuations in the demand for some IT skills of interest. As a highlight of this article, we identify three IT skills, whose demand has clearly risen during the past year. This may give you an indication for the IT skills you need to gain knowledge of to stay ahead in the Linux job market.
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As scheduled, on the 14th of January 2014, we have launched LinuxCareers.com: a new niche job board, which allows recruiters of Linux talent to post their job offers to the targeted audience of Linux professionals. LinuxCareers.com specializes in Linux based careers and covers the US job market.
Migration
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Arista spent the last nine years building a switch operating system based on Linux, including nearly six years of field experience. Here are five lessons we learned along the way.
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Doubtless you've heard of Linux, free software, and open source software. It's important for small business owners to understand the finer points of these, because knowing what they are, and what role they play, is crucial to developing a smart business strategy.
Roundups
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Linus Torvalds released the first new Linux kernel of 2014 this week with the debut of Linux 3.13. As always with any given kernel release there are a lot of driver updates included in the new kernel.
HighPoint
Misc.
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Wolf is correct — I did find him via UberWriter, a beautiful Markdown editor. There are lots of Linux tools that work well and there are lots of Linux tools that look great, but there’s not always a lot of overlap between the two. UberWriter looks great and works great. Wolf uses Synapse, an application launcher, within GNOME, which has some built-in launcher functionality, but that lacks the depth and finesse Synapse offers. Wolf’s other ideas for how to enhance GNOME are very interesting, too.
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TweakTown is reporting that the US Army has purchased Linux-powered rifles from TrackingPoint.
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If there is only one message you take away from reading this, let it be this: Linux and FOSS do not need more glamorous elite uber-rockstar coders. We need more ordinary, dedicated individuals from all walks of life contributing however they can. Just plain ordinary people with whatever they have to offer.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and How to Prepare for Next Week's
- We have some revelations to share in a few days
- Microsoft's "AI CEO" (Slop Propagandist) is Projecting, Many Microsoft "Jobs to be Replaced With All-Indian Low-Paid Staff in 12 Months"
- Windows is perishing
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- In Africa's Second-Largest Nation, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Opera 10 Times Bigger Than Firefox (and GNU/Linux Now at 5%)
- This will become an accessibility problem
- Links 19/02/2026: "A.I.pocalypse" Inevitable and "Butlers to LLMs"
- Links for the day
- An Inherently Royal (Monarchs') Legal System Where Size Matters (Big Capital Eats the Small)
- This reinforces the notion that justice is only for those who can afford it
- These Statistics Should Keep Microsoft Shareholders Awake at Night
- Windows is, in general (all versions collectively), declining over time
- Economic Failure and Other Harsh Realities Have Nothing to Do With Slop 'Innovation'
- Advanced propaganda, not advanced 'AI' [...] They attack workers while insulting their intelligence
- Spaniards Shutting Down MElon's Digital Weapon of "Smart Mobs"
- Are the Spanish people already acting based on gut feeling and shunning/shutting out the provocation vector?
- Bitcoin: government engagement contradictions
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Richard Stallman in the United States - Part II - "Haters Gonna Hate"
- we shall carry on with this series at the right pace
- Typical! Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Tells Victims of Fraud to Wait 10 Weeks
- justice delayed is justice denied
- statCounter: Only One in 350 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Web Search
- Microsoft is trying to fake "demand"
- Slides Shown a Week Ago by the EPO's Staff Committee Ahead of the Second Very Large Strike
- This coming weekend we'll drop a 'bombshell' of sorts
- EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II - Illegal Drug Addicts Mobbing the Wrong People, This Will Definitely Backfire
- This year may well be the last year of Team Campinos. Nobody will hire them after that.
- Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act)
- the layoffs are definitely happening
- Very Little Slop
- We are not finding much slop anymore
- Links 19/02/2026: Illegal Kangaroo Court for Patents Attracts Aggressive Firms, Public Domain Review Grows
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/02/2026: Taxing the Rich, Raspberry Pi 4 Tinkering
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- Links 18/02/2026: DMCA Weakened, Anna’s Archive Still Thriving
- Links for the day
- Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions
- Links for the day
- Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria)
- About 15 years ago the regime in Egypt got toppled (and others had been too) partly because of social control media such as Twitter
- "How Many Friends Do You Have?"
- "Do bots count?" "Friends in Facebook?" "Does a girlfriend chatbot count as a friend?"
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late
- The SRA does not do its job. The new chief's job is face-saving PR in the media.
- The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster
- The infrastructure is already fast
- Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan
- Mozilla has been a complete disaster
- Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo
- Links for the day
- Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day?
- The same "chefs" that cooked up Kyndryl Holdings Inc are still in charge of the IBM kitchen
- France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media
- French people lost interest in Social Control 'Media' (or Networks)
- "Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes?
- Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica is having a serious credibility issue right now
- Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com
- More of the same then
- The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again
- If it's true that The Register MS is resorting to these marketing tactics, will they later delete the evidence (as they did months ago)?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, February 17, 2026
- Microsoft Had Mass Layoffs Every Month Last Year, This Year It's Delaying a Lot to "Prove" Rumours That Crashed Its Stock... 'Wrong'
- Building a bigger snowball for later
- Red Hat Is Not a Company Anymore, Amid Bluewashing and Mass Layoffs It's Merely IBM "Division" or "Brand" or "Product"
- systemd at this point is sort of like IBM/Microsoft thing
- IBM suffers "worst weekly drop in six years", Microsoft's MSN calls it "buying opportunity"
- Ask Cramer what to do
- Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux"
- That's a total of at least 4 in Google News today, coming from 3 sources
- Gemini Links 17/02/2026: 3D-Printed Stainless Steel Smartwatch and Gopher Bay Offline
- Links for the day
- Links 17/02/2026: Machine Rage and Microsoft Kills XBox Social Clubs
- Links for the day
- EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules
- The EPO's "Cocaine Communication Manager" would hate to see the next "productivity" metrics
- The Problem is Not Technology, the Problem is Really Bad Things Sold or Imposed as "Tech" (Like a Religion Built Around Technology)
- Don't hate technology, hate the corporations that abuse it to promote coercion, exploitation etc.
- Resisting IBM and EPO Corruption
- Rise up against EPO dictatorship next week
- Where Slop Meets Ghostwriting: It's a False Analogy
- It's a false analogy
- Links 17/02/2026: Why OpenClaw is Very Sleazy and Ars Technica Exposed as Hub of LLM Slop (Credibility Destroyed Overnight)
- Links for the day
- Benj Edwards (Ars Technica) Used Fake Articles to Promote Ponzi Scheme for Conde Nast and Its Client (Marketing)
- What Ars Technica and Conde Nast do here helps defraud the general public
- Slop Technica: Ars Technica Seems Like Repeat Offender, a Part-Time Slopfarm
- The culprits are repeat offenders, but the publisher will never admit this in public
- Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex
- If statCounter is to be trusted
- Microsoft's "AI" Concerns Are All Indian (or Low-Paid Workers Who Work Extra Hours Unpaid)
- portraying charlatans and frauds like they're some kind of visionaries and luminaries
- Microsoft Turned Bing Into Censorship Machine of China, But Bing Is Pegged at a Mere 2% in Asia, Yandex is Bigger
- Expect many Bing layoffs some time soon (like in past years)
- Just Like The Register MS, Conde Nast's Ars Technica Has Just Publicly Admitted That It Published Fake Articles (Slop) Made by LLMs About Serious Subjects
- Conde Nast might shut Ars Technica down to escape the bad publicity/association
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Way Too Slow to Respond to Financial Fraud at Law Firms, in Effect Helping Those Law Firms Defraud Many More People (Fleecing Clients)
- Who will hold the SRA accountable for this?
- Techrights Became a Hub for News That IBM/Red Hat Doesn't Want You to See (and Pays Mainstream Media to Distract From)
- the more viciously the notorious organisation attacks the reporter, the greater the interest in what the reporter has to say
- EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution
- “future orientations on the salary adjustment procedure”
- IBM's Collapse Continues, Half of EU Countries to Have Mass Layoffs, "IBM Clearly Disinvests From Europe" Says IBM European Works Council
- Recent publication
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 16, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, February 16, 2026
- Gemini Links 17/02/2026: Alpenglow Industries' Closure and Gemini Server Issues
- Links for the day
