Links 23/05/2008: GNU/Linux Deployments, Two Expansions to Korea, Sugar Steps Forward
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-23 10:08:38 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-23 10:22:05 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Linux opens London's Oyster
Open-source software helped London's Oyster card system move past a proprietary roadblock, an open-source conference in London was told last week.
- Fedora 9 tools demystify installation and upgrades
The Fedora project has always offered installation options. The best known of these options are the Fedora spins -- roll-your-own install images that emphasize a particular desktop or purpose, such as providing the distribution's complete repository on DVD.
- Review: Everex gPCmini with gOS Linux
- Ubuntu landed on Berlin metro system
The guys from “Berliner Fenster”, a company responsible for the content of the television system installed inside underground vehicles (more than 3.700 displays) were so kind (thank you!) providing us with a spot for our release party this Saturday for free.
- Linux start-up Sugar Labs in informal talks with four laptop makers [Watch photo]
- no more desktop icons in [KDE] 4.1
- Linux Foundation Opens Korean Office
- A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks
Few details are available yet, but Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview with the Guardian that a version of Ubuntu customized for the netbook market would be released in early June.
- Linux phone design house opens Korean office
A French company that designs mobile phones based on Linux and the LiMo Platform has announced the opening of a sales office in Seoul, Korea. The new Purple Labs office will be run by Grant Jang, reporting to Gordon Tsang (pictured), the company's SVP for Asia.
- Sub-$4k MicroTCA system comes with Carrier Grade Linux
It comes with a trial installation of NexusWare, PT's own Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 distribution.
- Linux-friendly MicroTCA and ATCA systems to demo
- Puppy Linux 4.0 on a Dell Inspiron 1150 Review
In conclusion, if you are looking for something different I would give Puppy a try. This version is all built from source to maximize speed. Every program on my machine seems to open instaneously. Even with Compiz functionality turned off in Gnome, my Ubuntu install is no where near as fast.
- Asus Eee PC 900 Laptop
- Linux after one year
- Ubuntu Linux Boot CD - don’t leave home without it
Come presentation time his Powerpoint slides didn’t display properly. After each click he had to wait up to 30 seconds for the next slide to appear. Very disconcerting to him and his audience. He tried putting the setting back to the way they were, but to no avail.
If he had a Ubuntu boot CD with him, he could have recovered this situation in about 2 minutes. All he had to do was insert the boot CD in the CD drive, ensure that his notebook’s BIOS was set to boot from CD, then go for it.
- Ubuntu, women, men, children, and the digital divide.
- DSP dev board supports uClinux
Analog Devices (ADI) is shipping a new development board based on its Blackfin digital signal processor (DSP). The ADSP-BF548 EZ-KIT Lite board incorporates a 600MHz ADSP-BF548 Blackfin processor, and ships with a GNU toolchain said to support uClinux development.
- 30 days without Windows, and with Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"
- Windows-Linux Integration
- Marketing Linux in libraries
- 50 Reasons Why I Love Linux
1. I can extract something with one command without opening a separate program.
2. I can print a document without opening it.
3. I can update all applications with two magical words, apt-get upgrade.
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F/OSS
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Recent Techrights' Posts
- Instant Bluewashing at Confluent: Mass Layoffs Alleged at IBM
- So the main question is, did IBM just fire 800 people?
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- A Step Close to Shutting Down the European Patent Office (EPO)
- Not going to work all month long
- EPO Staff Demonstration Today
- The demonstration will be live-streamed for those thousands of colleagues who don't live in Munich
- Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Brazilian SYN Attacks and BGP
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- LibreLocal Also Coming to Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain
- It helps raise awareness of Software Freedom
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- Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: Men Who Strangle Women (and Worse) Trying to Force Us to Write Public Apologies to These Men
- For those who never before saw a SLAPP, they basically make many demands
- "Vibe-forking" and Why It'll Ultimately Fail (Hype on Top of Hype)
- Code made with LLMs sucks; converting solid, human-tested code into slop only complicates matters and increases risk
- Updates About Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation
- After all those years (a decade) and in spite of phony scandals many people out there still respect him
- LLM Slop With "Linux" in the Domain Names
- This is becoming a pain and a problem also in the arts and in software engineering
- The EFF Has a Bug, Fixing This Bug is Likely Not Possible Anymore
- "the EFF's continued existence impairs the arrival of a replacement organization, one which will actually champion digital rights."
- Sophie Brun, Raphel Hertzog & Debian sexual conflicts of interest
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 17/03/2026: Microsoft Windows Broken by Samsung, Afghanistan-Pakistan War Escalation
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 17/03/2026: Newcomers and False-Positive 'Slop'
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- Héctor Orón Martínez & Debian shadow candidate pressure on Sruthi Chandran
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- For Third Time in a Week The Register MS Runs Google SPAM That Paints Google as an Ally of Women (Which is False, They're Womanisers)
- What does that make The Register MS to women?
- British Justice Minister Sarah Sackman Blasts Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- The "legal industry" is due for "some reckoning"
- GAFAM Deprecating Old Videos ("Content") by Removing the Support for Their Format for No Good Reason
- "Security" is not a valid excuse
- Credit/Debit Cards Have Long Been Called Plastics, Over Time They're Becoming More Like Pure Plastics
- They cost less than a dollar to manufacture
- The European Patent Office (EPO) Holds a Public Demonstration Tomorrow and It'll be Live-streamed
- The EPO's workforce was meant to be capable of speaking many languages and have extensive experience in the sciences
- People Who Attacked Techrights Also Attacked My Mother
- Picking on old ladies because you don't like Free software advocates is never OK
- Little Community Element Left in CentOS
- CentOS, unlike Fedora, was meant to be long supported and solid
- Social Control Media is Cancel Culture (Companies Like Facebook Also Punish/Ban Accounts for Mentioning "Linux" and Lobby for Anti-Linux Legislation)
- The masters of Social Control Media decide what ideas can and cannot be expressed
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 16, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, March 16, 2026
- Someone at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is Censoring the Birthday Greetings to Richard Stallman
- Some people remember
- The European Patent Office (EPO) Illegally Transitioning Into 'Gig' 'Economy' Equivalent (a Shop for Patent Monopolies in Europe)
- for scabs aka SEALs
- At Least Six EPO Strikes Next Month (Yes, Six!)
- The pressure intensifies over time
- Several MPs Blast Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Inaction and Ineffective Action This Week
- "Four MPs have written to the SRA"
- Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: The Abusive Cases of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft and His Litigation Buddy Garrett Did Cause "Serious Harm"
- claims were de facto abandoned at the trial
- Today's Discussions About How IBM Pushes Workers Out
- The corporate media keeps trying - baselessly and in vain - to paint everything that happens with the "hey hi" brush
- Linux Teck (linuxteck.com) and Ubuntu PIT (ubuntupit.com) Are Botspam
- now they just keep experimenting by trashing their sites and reputation
- Links 16/03/2026: Moscow Experiencing Cellphone Internet Outages, "Salman Rushdie Is Tired of Talking About Free Speech"
- Links for the day
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- Gemini Links 16/03/2026: KN95 Skins and CSS Surprises
- Links for the day
- Debian is Dying for Some of the Same Reasons IBM's Fedora is Rapidly Dying
- Prioritising CoC censorship, not communities
- The Register MS is Again Femmewashing GAFAM (Which Makes Widows) in Exchange for Money
- This is a moral issue because they betray or harm women and prop up authoritarian regimes
- Gemini Links 16/03/2026: AB 1043, Lagrange Android Beta 47, and Poetry
- Links for the day
- "Slop-forking" or "Vibe-forking" as the New 'Noble' Plagiarism
- New Cloudflare Slop Project?
- EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part VII - Cult Mentality, Mobbing, Nepotism
- Does the EPO actually believe in the law?
- 2026 Microsoft Layoff Rumours
- Surely if we had properly-functioning media, then someone would investigate this rather than rely on official statements from Microsoft and WARN notices
- EPO Strike This Week
- contact your national representatives about it
- Gemini Links 15/03/2026: "Create Opportunities for Good Things to Happen", DOSbook, and Bitcoin Criticism
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 15, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 15, 2026
- Pirate Praveen Arimbrathodiyil & Debian denouncing volunteers, hiding romances
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
