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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- Some months ago Microsoft openly admitted that it had lost (shed off) hundreds of millions of Windows users
- Dealing With Online Pogroms
- lawfare funded by third parties
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- Somebody has just added my identity (name, mugshot etc.) to a "hitlist" site of a political nature, pandering to violent people
- Misunderstood Weapons of Censorship
- It's cruel world out there. One needs to be aware of these shady activities, including "censorship-as-a-service".
- Google Confidently Wrong, Nowadays Defaming People Too
- I can relate as people did this to me and to my wife
- What Happens When Americans Are Out of Office (Away From Work) for a Week? Vista 11 "Share" Falls to Just 10%.
- How's that for slow adoption?
- 2026 Will Have EPO Focus, People Will See What the EPO is Trying to Hide
- We certainly hope people will be held accountable
- EPO People Power - Part XVII - Drugged, Stoned, and Drunk at the Office During Working Hours (Campinos Friend and Propaganda Chief Has Long Done This)
- It's a total disgrace that press all over Europe is still trying to cover this up!
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- Another day has passed with no LLM slop found in our RSS feeds
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- XBox is dead/dying
- Raffles for the Immaterial: Unauthorised Bingo for Red Hat "Vouchers"
- This is IBM and some slop images
- Andy Farnell on Standing Up Against Technological Oppression
- some portions from it
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- No lessons learned, eh?
- Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' Linux
- Like it 'protects' women
- New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense)
- Windows is at an all-time low, GNU/Linux... all-time high
- Fighting Over Whose Pockets Are Deeper (or Who Borrows More Money)
- When processes favour those who are more wealthy (or more willing to go into infinite debt or steal money of other people) those processes match the attributes of lawfare rather than law
- You Know Your Critics Are Jealous and Have Inferiority Complex When...
- One day we'll write about all this in great depth
- Starting a Book With a Flawed Premise or Weak Hypothesis
- To me, Schneier is a sort of "RMS of sec"
- Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (30,000+ in 2025) Not About "AI", Just Business Failure
- "AI" is replacing... the old excuses for mass layoffs
- "But Corruption is Everywhere"
- "We'll always have Polio..."
- EPO People Power - Part XVI - Berenguer Does Not Speak German, So What Did He Tell German Police That Busted Him?
- based in Germany and does not speak the language
- Challenges for EPO Insiders to Try to Tackle in 2026
- Nothing will get solved as long as the circus that runs this show tries to keep the circus going
- Days Without Slop About "Linux"
- It's time to move on
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