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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- We're far from done
- Expect GNU/Linux to Rise Sharply in China
- But Red China won't trust Red Hat (IBM), which works for the Pentagon and keeps the "secret sauce" for its OS secret (just what Americans accused China of doing with its distros)
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- It would be a CRIME to read it
- Illuminating Microsoft's Code of Conduct (CoC) Hypocrisy
- Oppressor victimhood? Leadership claimed by the worst offenders?
- Planet Ubuntu - or Ubuntu Planet - Has an LLM Slop Problem (Called Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU)
- Does investigative reporting have any future at all?
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- Many Reports About Microsoft Layoffs Are LLM Slop Based on Other LLM Slop (From Microsoft-controlled LLMs That Downplay the Layoffs or Give Badly Outdated Data)
- The LLM slopfarms also dilute/derank actual news about Linux by pushing Microsoft Azure instead; it's a spamfest!
- When You Expose Corporate Crimes, Misconduct and Lies They Harasses and Troll You. Then You Write About the Harassment and Trolling and They Allege It's "All Personal".
- protect women's safety
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- Sierra Leone: Android Up to Record Highs, Windows Falls to Record Lows of Almost 5% (15 Years Ago It Was 100%)
- This is what happens when about 83% of Web requests come from mobile
- Margarita Manterola (marga, Google) & Debian DebConf13 Swiss venue intrigue
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- 'India Today' is a Slopfarm, Sometimes 'Covering' "Linux" With Slop Images
- New example of pure BS
- Gemini Links 14/03/2025: Grizzy Bear and Prime Beats
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- Links 14/03/2025: ProPublica Admitting That It Uses Slop (Foolish Move), RIP Mark Klein
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- Windows is Fast Becoming Insignificant to Zimbabweans
- based on this survey, less than 1 in 6 Web requests may originate from Windows
- Rumours of IBM Layoffs Again, This Time Marketing
- It's "bad marketing" to talk about layoffs
- The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Does Not Speak For You, OSI Staff Speaks for GAFAM/Microsoft (the Paymasters)
- they speak for proprietary software companies, but they wear "open" on their sleeve
- Microsoft Money Used for Abuse of Women and Against Journalism in Support of Women (the Victims)
- "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
- Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com and hamradio.my (in Planet Ubuntu) Are at It Again With LLM Slop About "Linux"
- LLM slop does not save time
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- Antisemitic Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) in Wikipedia This Week
- Did the man strike a nerve or what?
- Bluewashing Ends DEI at IBM and at Red Hat (HR or Hiring Become Gender- and Race-Neutral)
- All that "whitelist is racist" stuff is likely a thing of the past
- Links 13/03/2025: Intel Rotates Figurehead and South Korea Imports Karen People From Myanmar
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- Meanwhile at Microsoft Canonical...
- Promoting proprietary surveillance by a company that actively attacks Linux in a lot of ways
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